OPEN CALL for the dance project within CST: Social Animations: the process is led by Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska

The project is aimed at women aged 18+ (with no upper age limit) who are interested in:
- movement and vocal improvisation;
- learning various methods of working with the body that will increase their self-awareness in movement;
- sharing their story about something seemingly insignificant in their life that has taken on the significance of something greater;
- meeting other women – different, but equally open to others as they are;
- engaging in rehearsals and meetings that will take place regularly for three months;
- performing on stage as one of the outcomes of the rehearsals.

OPEN CALL: until December 20, 2024
APPLICATIONS TO: olabomu@gmail.com
The application should include a letter of motivation to participate in the project.

NOTE
The project starts on January 9, 2025, and will last until April 10, 2025. As part of the process, we will meet every Thursday from 5:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the ballet studio at the Mazovian Institute of Culture in Warsaw (ul. Elektoralna 12).
Those who express their willingness to participate in the project declare 80% attendance at rehearsals/meetings and presence at the public show closing the project.
The social animation project is free for participants thanks to co-financing from https://m.st/Warszawy.

ABOUT THE PROJECT
'Guma do życia' (working title)
How is it that something seemingly insignificant can be given value depending on the context? How can something trivial be our connection to something greater, spectacular, or even legendary? How can an individual story, inserted into something completely unnoticed by others, grow to the level of poetry, song, book, or performance?
The inspiration for this project was the book titled 'Nina Simone's Gum' by Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer Warren Ellis, known for his collaboration with Nick Cave.

LEADER
Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska – improviser, choreographer, performer, contemporary dance instructor, business trainer, philologist. For over a decade, she has been conducting improvisation classes, gymnastics for seniors, and creating original choreographies, and she is active in the Polish dance and performance scene.
A scholarship holder of the MKiDN (2024), Alternative Dance Academy (2015-2017) implemented by Art Stations Foundation by Grażyna Kulczyk, participant of the Intensive Course at the School For New Dance Development in Amsterdam, and a beneficiary of the Global Practice Sharing program at Movement Research in New York. A graduate of the Experimental Choreography II course organized by the Warsaw Center in Motion. In 2022, she completed a several-month course in BODY–MIND CENTERING® organized by the Somatische Akademie in Berlin.
Since 2007, she has been associated with the Warsaw theater Mufmi of Anna Piotrowska, where until 2021 she was the coordinator for artistic matters, instructor, and choreographer. Winner of numerous awards in choreography and dance competitions. She is the creator of several original choreographies, and her works have been presented, among others, in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw, and Vienna.
In 2017, together with Hanna Bylka-Kanecka, she founded the Holobiont collective, aimed at interdisciplinary intergenerational projects. One of her recent choreographies 'Goździk w pustej muszli' was awarded in the category 'Best Dance Performance of the 2021/22 Season' by the monthly 'Teatr'. In 2022, she created choreography for the play 'Rodzina' (TR Warszawa, Teatr 21).
In her works, she explores the boundaries between simplicity and naivety, presentation and facilitation, as well as finding patterns and breaking them. The visual aspect and a unique sense of humor are characteristic of her works. Her body responds very well when she can do what she loves.
https://www.olabomu.com
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project: Central Dance Scene in Warsaw, edition V 2024
organizer: Mazovian Institute of Culture, Artistic Foundation PERFORM
Department: CST: SOCIAL ANIMATIONS
curator: Paulina Święcańska
co-financing: m. st. Warsaw