Year-long contact improvisation training

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This year, starting in September, I will once again lead a regular group for advanced dancers. I invite you to a year-long contact improvisation training, where we will strengthen our bodies, deepen our skills, open ourselves to the unknown, build trust in our bodies, and explore the potential hidden in shared improvisation. My adventure with contact improvisation has lasted for 10 years. During this time, I observe how I change under its influence, how I change as a person, but also how my body changes. I also see the difference in how I danced in the past, when I was starting out, and how I dance now. Contact improvisation can be a form that is easy to enter because (as it seems, and perhaps it truly is) it does not require the skills of an athlete to begin exploring it. Such were my beginnings with dance and movement. However, from the perspective of time, I see how much richer, more interesting, and more improvisational this form can be when we have trust in our bodies and a certain level of physical skills, as well as a body that is efficient and prepared for challenges. This provides the foundation for freer exploration of the unknown, thus opening up to what is improvised, what is danced, what dances itself. It is also safer because improvisation can be a space of risk. Therefore, during weekly two-hour meetings, the first hour will be a solid warm-up and a set of technical exercises aimed at developing, strengthening, and preparing the body for dance, gradually building trust in our bodies and skills, which will then translate into freer risk-taking, allowing ourselves to embrace the unknown and explore new possibilities that were previously inaccessible to us. The second hour will be an exploration of various possibilities of what shared dance can be and where it can lead. Through various scores and tasks, we will examine how body qualities influence shared dance, how we can let the dance lead us, how to seek the unknown, and how to seek nothing at all. We will open horizons and look at things from different perspectives, exploring somatic and performative areas of contact improvisation. 📅 When: Wednesdays 5:45 PM – 7:45 PM 📍 Where: Zimba on Skaryszewska 15 💰 Price: 200 PLN/month ✉️ Registration: [email protected] Classes start on September 3rd. The group is intended for people already dancing contact improvisation, who want to develop their skills and explore various possibilities within this dance form. Due to the nature of the classes, I want the group to be closed and fixed starting in October. Have questions? Write to: [email protected] Limited spots available. About me: Tomasz Domański, dancer, performer, educator. Teaches contact improvisation and partnering, facilitates jams, conducts workshops for adults and youth. For many years, he co-created the performative collective Szur-Sure, with which he performed on stage and in urban spaces in site-specific performances, and was part of the partnering group Oddaj Ciężar led by Karolina Kroczak. He is interested in exploring the infinite possibilities of movement and the elements that influence it: relationship with a partner, intention, body awareness, attention, and building deeply rooted trust in one's body.