MORNINGS IN MOTION | Movement Toward the Future | Open Movement Classes with Maria Stokłosa
About the event
Meetings invite working with dance and movement as practices of self- and environmental care — to analog, non-productive being together. Shared activities aim to exercise imagination, improve mood and ease the effects of everyday stress.
The starting point will be methods originating in experimental choreography, somatic education and contemporary dance. We will get to know our body from a different perspective — as an inexhaustible source of sensations and forms, full of contradictions and ambiguities. We will generate movement in many ways: through metaphors, touch and music. We will focus on our own bodies while learning to notice the bodies of other people around us. We will explore how movement influences the perception of reality and the flow of thoughts, what we experience in dance, whether dance can support empathy and what fantasies the moving body activates.
WHEN:
- Wednesdays, 10:00–11:30
- Dates: 4, 11, 18 and 25 February and 4, 11, 18 and 25 March
PLACE:
- CSW Zamek Ujazdowski, ul. Jazdów 2, Warsaw
- 18 February – Education Room: entrance through the main entrance from 9:30
- 25 February – Laboratory, W. Krukowski Room
REGISTRATION FORM:
Registration and limited places apply only to the class in the Education Room (18 February). Please come with your registration confirmation on your phone.
ENTRY:
Free, no prior registration required (except 18.02.). We encourage treating the workshops as a process and participating regularly.
ABOUT THE SERIES:
“Mornings in Motion” are regular movement-awareness classes based, among others, on contemporary dance, improvisation and related methods of working with body awareness and perception. They are directed to people over 16, regardless of experience. The classes mix individual, partner and group exercises.
The meetings aim to broaden movement experiences, increase self-awareness and provide knowledge about contemporary dance and new choreography. The workshops take the form of open lessons.
ABOUT THE LEADER:
Maria Stokłosa – graduated in choreography from the School for New Dance Development (SNDO) in Amsterdam and the contemporary dance department at London Contemporary Dance School at The Place. She combines choreography with dance improvisation practice. She is the author of performances such as “Publika” (Nowy Teatr in Warsaw), “Królowa Wody” (as part of the exhibition “Inne Tańce” at U-jazdowski in Warsaw), as well as “Wychodząc od działania”, “Złote Demony”, “Wylinka” and “Mama Perform”. She is the initiator of educational projects, a teacher and the president of the Burdąg Foundation. She runs an annual Choreography course at the Centre and numerous workshops and lectures, e.g. at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg, at Tanzhaus in Zurich and LaSalle College of The Arts in Singapore. She was the chair of the Program Council of the Institute of Music and Dance.
The project is funded by the City of Warsaw.
Photos: Marek Zimakiewicz, Improgeneration show at CSW Zamek Ujazdowski.
