In the 22nd edition of the Improvised Dance Stage [sic!] Saute, the following performers will appear: - Małgorzata Haduch: improviser, choreographer, performer - Sylwia Nosarzewska: performer, choreographer, dancer, and musician - Wojtek Kurek: drummer, improviser And the curators of the stage: - Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska: improviser, choreographer, dancer, and performer - Ilona Trybuła: dancer, improviser, choreographer, and performer 🎟️ Free admission Project as part of the competition: Warsaw Culture - works, projects, events Organizer: Artistic Foundation PERFORM in partnership with Centrum Łowicka Co-financing: City of Warsaw The Improvised Dance Stage [sic!] Saute takes the form of cyclical evenings involving individuals connected to the Polish improvisation scene. It is an emanation of the international dance improvisation festival, which since its first edition in 2007 has introduced and showcased methods of creation, presentation, and education through improvisation that were little known in Poland at the time. Now the situation has changed, and we can confidently say that this art form exists and is developing. Therefore, we need regular and consistent presentations! And this is precisely what the Improvised Dance Stage [sic!] Saute offers. “Saute” is a process that is raw and uncovered. The essence and form of saute. We have the body, the thought, the imagination, the floor. We have the entire external and internal world, contexts, and reasons to create. And we use the resources of the “queen” of creativity - improvisation, which demands a lot and offers even more. It is a process that never ends, with inexhaustible creative possibilities, and by definition, it is 100% life within life. It encompasses many methods and techniques of precise creation, where the process is equivalent to the final action. Małgorzata Haduch “Improvisation - a fascinating form of composition, gives me permission to reach for stage forms I never even dreamed of. I owe this practice the activation of my voice and forcing me to change the way I build stage relationships. I believe it is an art form that best responds to the social situation and the lost body of contemporary humans.” A Krakow-based dancer, choreographer, and improviser connected for many years with the Dutch music and dance scene. She directs performances, activates the Krakow scene, teaches with passion, and creates. Among her most significant artistic events is the solo “oŚĆ!” directed especially for Marta Mandaryna Wiśniewska, where the pop star surprises with an absolutely unknown presence and expression. Another key event was receiving the Mexican Government Scholarship for Outstanding Foreigners, during which Haduch worked in Mexico, the country of her childhood, creating two performances with Mexican dancers. Currently, she focuses on her most heartfelt performance, “Brzask,” where she creates a moving stage image with individuals over 70 years old, including her beloved mother. Sylwia Nosarzewska “I improvise because I like when things slip out of control and when the body steals the show. For me, it’s a way to experience life in its purest, rawest form — and to be all the versions of myself that I can’t be anywhere else.” Performer, choreographer, dancer, and musician. She creates at the intersection of movement, sound, and somatics, enjoying when movement speaks louder than words. She is fascinated by the ephemeral, the non-obvious, and the corporeal. Founder of Your Studio Yoga Art – a space for those who want to move, stir something within themselves, and perhaps even untangle something. A teacher of yoga, meditation, and somatic practices, she is an active participant in Warsaw’s improvisation and contact improvisation scene. By education, she is a choreographer and lawyer. By nature – a seeker of peculiar paths of expression. Wojtek Kurek “I just love to improvise.” Improviser, drummer, composer - https://www.wojtekkurek.com Stage curators Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska “In improvisation, I allow myself a stream of thoughts, scribbles of movements, catching a wave and abandoning it - it doesn’t have to be linear, it can go in different directions.” In her practice, she combines movement, sound, and words. Meaning is as important to her as sound. Both in improvisation and in the choreographies she creates, she works intuitively. She works solo, in collectives, and creates choreographies for other dance and theater groups. The social aspect is the driving force behind her actions. Her works have been presented in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Melbourne, Warsaw, and Vienna. She is a scholarship holder of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the Alternative Dance Academy 2015-2017 ASF, and a beneficiary of Global Practice Sharing at Movement Research in New York. Ilona Trybuła “When I am in a state of improvisation, I am in an absolutely honest and real state of being. ‘I don’t know’ tastes different there. One movement opens a world and triggers an avalanche of events. Precise and transparent, just as it should be.” Dancer, choreographer, lecturer, creator, and organizer of many artistic and educational events. Author of performances. She created the International Dance Improvisation Festival (sic!), Melba Collective, Improvisation Laboratory, and the Improvised Dance Stage [sic!] Saute. Improvisation as a creative method and stage language in contemporary dance and choreography is a field she practices, discovers, and explores. She places it in the philosophy of being, where the ordinary and everyday become extraordinary.
