I invite you to practice movement, experiment with composition, and explore relationality in dance. The classes combine improvisation and composition with expanding technical, motor, and somatic abilities in dance improvisation practice. The classes are an opportunity for: - creative and intuitive exploration of the body in motion, - developing listening skills and contact improvisation technique, - expanding artistic sensitivity through work with composition and improvisation tools, - versatile movement practice increasing body awareness, mobility, strength, and flexibility, - co-creating group performative activities. ℹ️ When: Thursday, 17:45–19:45 📍 Where: Centrum Łowicka, ul. Łowicka 21, Warsaw (Metro Racławicka), room 28, 170 m² https://lowicka.pl 💰 Cost: 220 PLN / month 📝 Registration from September 1: Strefa Zajęć https://www.strefazajec.pl/course/view/id/76418 If the cost is a financial challenge, write – we will find a solution together. FOR WHOM? - For adults, regardless of experience. - For those just starting their adventure with improvisation, and for those already practicing dance, yoga, martial arts, or movement. Advanced practitioners will also find space for themselves. Contact: angelikamizinska@gmail.com Tel.: +48 535-631-437 Classes conducted in Polish and/or English. What exactly does the annual program include? TECHNIQUE AND MOTOR DEVELOPMENT We will expand stability, mobility, and range of locomotion, including work with inverted positions. We will use the Body-Mind Centering® approach, developing body awareness, proprioception, and kinesthesia, as well as working with reflexes and developmental patterns. In solo and partnering work, we will embody the laws of physics: falling, sharing the center of gravity, listening to weight, inertia, acceleration, and disorientation in spherical space. IMPROVISATION AND COMPOSITION Through movement scores and real-time composition, we will learn to become comfortable with the unknown. We will recognize impulses, expand the spectrum of attention, and allow the relationality of practice to lead us to unknown, exciting places in dance. We will also use tools drawn from the practices of Barbara Dilley, Nina Martin, Mary Overlie, Lisa Nelson, Deborah Hay, and Nancy Stark Smith. EXPLORATION AND CURIOSITY Contact improvisation at its source is a practice of experiment. We will nurture the ability to ask questions through movement – e.g., what happens when we direct attention to gravity, the Earth, and the partner? We will check how questions and sensitivity can stimulate practice and quiet ambition. CULTURE OF CONSENT Classes will include work with touch and physical contact, grounding CI practice in the context of a culture of consent, mindfulness, and safety. Group work will also include creating and exploring choreographic scores. As a group, we will decide on the potential performative character of our practices. INSTRUCTOR Angelika Mizińska – I work with movement, contact improvisation, real-time improvisation, somatics, and body-self awareness. I am a certified somatic movement educator in the Body-Mind Centering® approach and continue my studies in this approach as part of the BMC® Practitioner program. I am a member of BMCA (BMC® association). I graduated in dance and performing arts in the UK, Estonia, and the USA. I am a certified yoga teacher in the ashtanga tradition (RYT-200). Using my skills in these areas, I lead educational processes focused on developing body awareness, nonviolent communication, and social skills. I co-create artistic processes in the field of expanded choreography. I trust the body and nature as the best teachers, and I support this relationship through continuous searching and participation in trainings, workshops, and festivals.
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