When: Wednesdays from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM,

January 8, 15, 22, 29 and February 5, 12, 19, 26

Place: Centrum w Ruchu at the Wawer Cultural Center at Żegańska 1a in Warsaw

Admission: free, no prior registration required, however, we encourage treating the workshops as a process and regular participation

We invite you to a shared practice of building bodily creativity, agency, and resilience. During Wednesday meetings, we will develop body awareness in movement and adaptation skills in dance. We will look at how cycles of engagement – releasing, pushing away, reaching, and pulling – build our endurance, strength, and mobility. Collectively, we will explore how controlled falling is a primal potential for movement, and landing is an integral life skill. We will focus on elongating, expanding ourselves, developing our mindfulness, and our range of possibilities.

We will move with meaning and without meaning, for a purpose and for no reason, uninterestingly, but with curiosity. Perhaps we will experience collective bouncing, shaking, and jostling – creative and emotional? Our entry points into dance will be grounding and giving weight to the earth, and our sense of safety in the movement community will be supported by rounding, softening, condensing, rolling, and rolling. Together, we will direct our attention to the innate intelligence of the body – the instinctive wisdom of our imagination and the ability to react, allowing for self-observation and creative play with movement.

The classes will be based on the BMC approach, experiential anatomy, release techniques, and movement and improvisation practices. We will explore different states of presence in the ecosystems of our bodies and in relation to the environment.

*The classes are suitable for people at any level of experience in movement and dance.

**The classes will include work with touch and contact with other people in the culture of consent.

***The classes will support the value of individual experience and the possibility of creating choreography of diversity.

ABOUT THE LEADER

Angelika Mizińska — educator, dance artist, producer. She conducts classes and workshops in contact improvisation, dance improvisation, and body awareness. She co-creates artistic and educational projects that develop self-awareness, communication, and social skills, using somatic, choreographic, and dance improvisation practices. Her approach to creative, research, and collaborative work is shaped by approaches such as movement improvisation, Body-Mind Centering®, (eco)somatics, Nonviolent Communication. She graduated, among others, in dance and performing arts in the UK and the USA. She is a certified educator of somatic movement according to the Body-Mind Centering® approach and a yoga teacher in the Ashtanga tradition.

ABOUT THE CYCLE

'Morning in Movement' is a regular class in movement awareness based on contemporary dance, improvisation, and related techniques and strategies for attracting attention to the body. It is aimed at all individuals over 16 years of age, regardless of fitness, abilities, and experience. During the classes, individual, partner, and group exercises may be interwoven.

The meetings serve to develop movement experiences, increase self-awareness, and knowledge of contemporary dance and new choreography. The meetings are conducted in the format of 2-month cycles by artists associated with the informal Warsaw association Centrum w Ruchu.

The workshops are open lessons. They are free and do not require registration.

The project is funded by the capital city of Warsaw.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The Burdąg Foundation received a three-year grant from the capital city of Warsaw for the project 'Body – My Home. Cultural Education through Movement Practice.'

This means that for three years, free morning choreographic classes, monthly weekend movement workshops for families, and socially engaged choreographic projects culminating in a performance will take place at the Centrum w Ruchu, aimed at various groups.

The curators of the project are Maria Stokłosa, Weronika Pelczyńska, and Justyna Czarnota, and all classes will be conducted by artists associated with Centrum w Ruchu, as well as invited guests.