THREE-MONTH COURSE IN MOVEMENT COMPOSITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE and THERAPEUTIC DANCE with Alicja Miszczor in Krakow
We cordially invite you to the autumn-winter edition of the course:
October 9, 2024 – December 20, 2024
This is a great edition, because then we are charged with the sun after the summer, then we collect the golden juices of autumn, and for dessert we enter the festive-moody winter climates. Such magical three months. : )
Before you read the description, we invite you to watch the video reviews of the course participants:
https://www.facebook.com/interartdance/videos/1113373469562835
And interviews with the course leader:
(1) How do movement, senses, and fine arts combine into play? – YouTube
Written opinions of participants:
https://www.facebook.com/interartdance/reviews
And the leader in action:
https://www.facebook.com/interartdance/videos/437247151864414
And a recording of the classes (open group):
https://fb.watch/oRCTMVAw5Y/
DETAILED INFORMATION ABOUT THE COURSE:
THE MOST IMPORTANT INFO (goal and methods)\;
This course is a land of caloric creativity and a celebration of expression, but also a mindful journey for the body and soul. A journey in which you not only discover and deepen your skills, including dance, but also get to know yourself anew, receive support and strengthening, and have the opportunity to see your potential. All this through: fun, authentic expression, deep experience of yourself through the body, as well as reflection and stopping.
The course also provides an opportunity to: rediscover yourself, grasp new perspectives of perceiving yourself and your body, and a powerful training of imagination, thinking out of the box, getting out of your head and back to your body and returning to feeling, as well as renewing your relationship with yourself and the world.
Here you will receive primarily tools from the fields of: broadly understood contemporary dance (mainly from dance improvisation and floor bag), therapeutic dance, meditative dance, physical theatre, elements of movement composition. You will also familiarize yourself with or deepen such methods as: Authentic Movement, Dr Detlef Kappert method, Anna Halprin method, Dry Brush method, elements of Skinner Releasing Technique. There will also be elements of Yoga, Qi Gong and relaxation techniques.
In this course, dance intertwines with other fields of art, and movement expression techniques with mindfulness training. The course program is unique, rich and very eclectic. It is also characterized by interdisciplinarity and taking into account the needs of participants.
So that you feel safe, know that the course is led by a person with twenty years of experience and love for what he does, and the grounding in specific methods of working with the body gives a balanced and conscious approach to both the subject of dance and personal development.
Additional strong points of the course are: stationary mode, regularity, at which you have a chance to actually learn the proposed topics and go from point A to point B, and a competitive price – taking into account the implemented program.
MORE INFORMATION:
The course is a process and takes place in a CLOSED FORM, i.e. in a permanent group.
The level of the course is open, and the course itself is designed so that both experienced and beginners can benefit from it.
IMPORTANT ISSUES – DANCE/PHYSICAL THEATRE:
-body symbolism (including gesture)
-shape
-archetypes in character building
-body feeling and senses in movement
-solo, pair and group movement
-basics of voice work
-breath
-role of stopping in movement
IMPORTANT ISSUES – THERAPEUTIC DANCE
-me and my space
-boundaries (my ‘yes’, my ‘no’ and my ‘I don’t know’)
-leading and being led
-giving and taking
-dance of male and female energy in me
-emotions (feeling, expressing, releasing)
-contrasts and their integration (human as a whole)
-body symbolism
-archetypes in movement and dance
ISSUES – MOTOR SIDE:
-floor work
-mobility spine
-limb articulation
-timing
-working with the center
-isolation, continuum, impulse
-movement traveling between VERTICAL and FLOOR
-movement qualities (min. tension, weight, impulse, size, level, time, dynamics, space, direction, dynamics)
-movement shape and movement line (movement plasticity)
Statements of course participants:
1. “Warm atmosphere and diversity.”
2. “Time of change and transformation.”
3. “Reducing pain-related discomfort.”
4. “Amazing experience giving a new perspective on perceiving yourself, your body, other people and your relationships with them and yourself.”
5. “Leaving the comfort zone and beaten paths.”
6. “Developing the language of movement.”
7. ,,Space of mindfulness, presence in the body, joy and community”
8. ,,Joy, expressing emotions, interactions, experimenting, breath, touch, voice, energy (…), being natural and alive.
9. ,,Opening the body and mind, settling into yourself, wonderful people, shedding the burden of stress (…) sometimes fooling around, and sometimes deep experiences.”
10. ,,Space where you can express everything that is somewhere deeply hidden”
11. ,,Abundance, comfort and surprise”
12. ..I learned about my possibilities that I had no idea about”
13. ,,I felt myself and others again after experiencing a huge loss in my life.”
15. ,,The magic of professionalism, the professionalism of magic.”
16. ,,One of the best improvisation instructors.”
YOU CAN ALSO EXPERIENCE:
-strengthening the mind-body relationship
-awakening dormant instincts and the vitality and creativity behind them
-smoothing communication with yourself and others
-feeling the body and reading its signals
-broadening horizons and scopes: physical and mental
-leaving the beaten tracks
-becoming friends with the senses and the phenomenon of pleasure
-realizing your own potential (not only creative)
-building the ability to act with your psycho-physical state in mind (acceptance)
– yourself as you are (authenticity)
-inspiration
-the present moment
-meeting new people with similar interests and a new side of yourself
ABOUT CONTEMPORARY DANCE, THERAPEUTIC DANCE AND WHY THE COURSE IS IN BOTH OF THESE AREAS:
Contemporary dance sprouted on the border 19th and 20th centuries, when Isadora Duncan rejected the principles of classical dance, “breaking” its rules. However, the forefather of this movement was Francois Delsarte, who was the first to take a hard look at the feedback between the psyche and the body.
Contemporary dance is (often) spatial and expressive movement, full of expression. It is movement in which the mind and body are one.
Movement that tells a story and can express: an idea, emotions, feelings and everything contained in the mind-body. Its uniqueness and theatricality lies, among others, in movement combined with intention. It is movement in which our entire being manifests itself. In which the personality of the dancer is important and to a large extent determines his individual style. Creating your own movement is here often a very creative process and develops you on many levels.
In dance improvisation, which is a field of, among others, contemporary dance, the dancer moves/dances with specific topics at their disposal, which they receive from the leader, but also creates movement independently, just like a person painting a picture decides what will be in the picture. You will not be left to your own devices. We will achieve fluidity in this form of movement step by step.
Therapeutic Dance is an even more free form of movement, where aesthetics cease to matter.
We also receive suggestions from the leader. The most important thing is to express with the body in any way what we feel and the stories recorded in the body and to realize these experiences.
The intertwining of therapeutic dance with contemporary dance and other disciplines in this course is crucial, because it trains the dancer not only in releasing the content recorded in the body, but also in body awareness, motor agility and using form in movement. This form of movement allows the psyche to keep up with the body and facilitates self-expression, making us not get stuck at the level of feeling, associations or imagination, and the physicality both supports the mental space and allows us to go deeper into a given process.
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
– psychotic states
– psychotropic therapy (request a consultation with a doctor)
– advanced pregnancy and very early postpartum period
– various types of inflammation and acute conditions
– epilepsy
– glaucoma
– current, unhealed injuries
Situations when you need to be careful with yourself:
– high sensitivity to strong stimuli, e.g. loud sounds
use of pharmacological agents
generally very weak condition of the body
long-term untreated depression
ADDRESSEE OF THE COURSE
Both experienced and beginner people.
I also invite: choreotherapists, art therapists, psychologists who want to expand their skills to work with the body or to new tools in bodywork.
I invite people preparing for PWST exams, artists of all stripes/educators/people working with the body/people working with children or youth/people working with people with disabilities/parents.
We invite people struggling with pain every day, who want to learn to listen to their body.
We invite people who decided that it is too late to dance.
We invite people who want to make friends with their body.
I invite people of all ages.
*For people who have already been to my course (the material is never repeated, I always propose a new approach to the topic)
*The course is for people who are able to attend regularly
Host: Alicja Miszczor: Born in 1982. Lives in Krakow. Movement actress, dancer, improviser, experienced instructor of movement composition, dance improvisation, physical theatre. Creator of the ‘Dry Brushes’ method. Certified Hatha Yoga instructor. Scholar of the Alternative Dance Academy in Poznań. Certified Choreotherapy Instructor: Movement Improvisation and Body Symbolism (Institute of Dance and Movement Dynamics/Essen/r. Detlef Kappert). Graduate of PPSKAK in Kalisz, majoring in contemporary dance. From 2008 to 2015, dancer of EST under Iwona Olszowska. From From 2013 to 2015, she collaborated with the Barakah theatre in Krakow. Author of dance performances and videos. She collaborates with the Kreissau Foundation, where she runs workshops for people with physical and intellectual disabilities. She completed the Course: Dance and Gestalt, Life/Art Process, Anna Halprin.
More info about the host:
YouTube playlist:
FB page: https://www.facebook.com/interartdance
FB group: Interart Dance. Workshops with Alicja Miszczor
FB video dance group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/563344323713738
Instagram: instagram.com/alicjomszczinstagram.com
TIME:
Wednesdays:
6:00 PM-7:20 PM
Fridays:
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
REGISTRATIONS:
Please send your applications according to the instructions:
Registrations ONLY AND EXCLUSIVELY by e-mail:
e-mail address: alataniec@gmail.com
-in the title of the message enter the name of the course you are interested and your name, e.g.: ,,Czechowska, Diamentowy” (this is important)
– in the body of the email describe BRIEFLY your experience with movement and expectations from the course (literally a few sentences), and send your phone number.
Applications not sent according to the instructions will require re-sending.
The reservation of a place is decided by a phone conversation with the course leader and the deposit sent.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Withdrawals from the deposit.
After 24 hours from the payment of the deposit, a refund is not possible.
2. In very serious unforeseen situations, it is possible to take part in the next edition of the course.
3. I have one free place for a person with a disability or a person struggling with a serious illness. Please apply with a short letter of motivation.
4. Note: In the event of a very difficult financial situation, payment in installments is possible. However, please do not abuse this option.
PRICE:
DIAMOND COURSE-3 months/workshops 2 times a week/
price Early Bird: 1,800 PLN
-price for students: 1,650
-price after September 12 (also for students) -11,950 PLN
PRICE FOR WHITE COURSE -FRIDAYS ONLY plus 2 Wednesdays to choose from-3-month course
-price Early Bird: 1,450 PLN
-price after September 12: PLN 1,650
SILVER COURSE PRICE -WEDNESDAYS ONLY plus 2 Fridays to choose from -3-month course, once a week
-early bird price: PLN 1,450
-price after September 12: PLN 1,650
HYBRID COURSE PRICE -WEDNESDAYS AND EVERY OTHER FRIDAY OR FRIDAYS AND EVERY OTHER WEDNESDAY) -three-month course
-early bird price: PLN 1,700
-price after September 12: PLN 1,850
The Hybrid option is an option for people studying or having specific working hours or parents with small children, etc.
MIXED COURSE PRICE – three-month course (attendance schedule determined individually) – only for people with a crazy schedule
option A (for workshops once a week, e.g. in shifts Wednesday and Friday)
-early bird: PLN 1,450.
– price after September 12 PLN 1,6price
option B (for a larger number of workshops, e.g. four Wednesdays and two Fridays per month)
-early bird PLN 1,700.
– after September 12 PLN 1,850.
* Note. PLN 100 discount on the Diamond Course version, for people who have already participated in the course (in the Diamond version) until September 12. The discount does not apply after this date.
PLACE:
A very charming and friendly space in the heart of Krakow:
Kontakt Space of Movement, Dance and Music, Szpitalna street 40, 1st floor, Krakow
(city center, very close to the Słowacki Theater and the Main Station)
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