WE INVITE YOU TO:
A 6-WEEK MORNING SERIES OF THERAPEUTIC DANCE AND CONTEMPORARY DANCE WORKSHOPS with Alicja Miszczor in Krakow,
May 21, 2026 – June 25, 2026
Early spring can be a demanding time for both body and mind.
This course will revitalize, soothe, brighten, and illuminate this challenging time. Together, with a dance-like step, we will give our bodies reasons to move and thus nurture our inner sun ♡.
Before reading the description, we invite you to watch the recordings from the room:
https://www.facebook.com/reel/2290804868087052?s=yWDuG2&fs=e
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1526826805030030?s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Video testimonials from course participants:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cu8w5cfSY/
https://www.facebook.com/interartdance/videos/1113373469562835
And interviews with the course instructor:
(1) How movement, senses, and arts Artistic skills combine into play? – YouTube
DETAILED COURSE INFORMATION:
KEY INFO (objectives and methods):
This course is a land of energetic creativity and a celebration of expression, but also a mindful journey for the mind, body, and spirit. A journey in which you not only discover and deepen your dance/motor skills, but also receive support and have the opportunity to: gain insight, transformation, and rediscover your potential (not just creative). Working with emotions is also an important element here.
All this through play, authentic expression, deep self-experience through the mind-body connection, as well as reflection and pause.
You will receive tools from the fields of contemporary dance in its broadest sense (primarily from the area of dance improvisation, where you can finally forget about the steps and surrender to fully uninhibited expression), as well as from the fields of therapeutic dance and elements of physical theater. Here, you’ll learn (or deepen) the following methods: Dr. Detlef Kappert, Anna Halprin’s method (elements), and the original method of the instructor at Interart Dance. Elements of Qi Gong, Yoga, and relaxation techniques will also be present. Body awareness and mindfulness exercises will also be included.
In this course, dance intertwines with other artistic disciplines, and movement expression techniques with mindfulness training. The course curriculum is unique, rich, and highly eclectic.
The course is led by a practitioner with twenty years of experience in bodywork and a passion for what she does. The grounding in specific methods provides a balanced and mindful approach to both dance and personal development. We don’t promise you eternal happiness 24/7 or a recipe for life, but rather a unique training for surfing the waves of life.
Additional strengths of the course include: the in-person format, regularity, and a competitive price – considering the program.
COURSE AS A CLOSED COMPLEX:
The course is a process (a series of workshops) and takes place in a CLOSED FORM, meaning in a fixed group.
The course is open-ended, and the course itself is designed to benefit both experienced and beginner participants.
What participants say about the course:
1. “I discovered my abilities that I had no idea I had.”
2. “A time of change and transformation.”
3. “Reduced pain-related discomfort.”
4. “An incredible experience that gave me a new perspective on myself, my body, other people, and my relationships with them, as well as with myself.”
5. “Leaving my comfort zone and the beaten path.”
6. “Developing the language of movement.”
7. “A space of mindfulness, presence in the body, joy and community.”
8. “Joy, expressing emotions, interactions, experimentation, breath, touch, voice, energy (…), being natural and alive.
9. “Opening the body and mind, settling into oneself, wonderful people, shedding the burden of stress (…) sometimes fooling around, sometimes profound experiences.”
10. “A space where you can express everything that is buried deep inside.”
11. “Abundance, comfort and surprise.”
12. “I felt myself and others again after experiencing a huge loss in my life.”
13. “The magic of professionalism, the professionalism of magic.”
14. “One of the best improvisation instructors.”
IN THIS COURSE, YOU CAN ALSO EXPERIENCE:
– strengthening your positive relationship with yourself (greater acceptance of yourself and the world)
– awakening dormant instincts and the vitality and creativity behind them
– having fun
– a sense of flow in communication with yourself and the world
– a sense of agency in certain areas of your life, but also a sense of letting go in others
– spontaneity/courage
– feeling your body and reading its signals
– expanding your horizons and ranges: physical and mental
– breaking out of established patterns
– gently leaving your comfort zone
– becoming friends with your senses and the phenomenon of pleasure
– realizing your own potential
– building the ability to act with consideration for your psychophysical state (acceptance)
– yourself as you are (authenticity)
– inspiration
– the present moment through being grounded in your body
– meeting new people with similar interests and a new side of yourself
– peace
About the connection of DANCE CONTEMPORARY AND THERAPEUTIC DANCE:
The interweaving of therapeutic dance and contemporary dance (here: dance improvisation), therapeutic dance, and other disciplines in this course is crucial and deliberate, as it trains the dancer not only in experiencing and releasing content stored in the body, but also in body awareness, motor agility, and the use of specific forms in movement. This approach allows the mind to keep pace with the body and facilitates self-expression, preventing us from getting stuck at the level of sensation, association, or imagination. The physicality both supports mental space and allows us to delve deeper into the process. Not to mention the side effect of improving physical fitness (so important for health).
THREE PILLARS OF THIS COURSE:
1. DANCE IMPROVISATION
This is a calorie-rich celebration of your expression through movement/dance.
It is your unique way of expressing yourself in the language of movement. It’s a movement in which you are the creator, creating new worlds and, within them, reinventing yourself. At the same time, this creation is a movement that comes about by letting go of control, judgment, and grounding yourself in the present moment, in real-time topics.
2. THERAPEUTIC DANCE:
It’s a deeper encounter with yourself and allowing yourself to be yourself. Change isn’t the goal, but it happens through dancing with what is. It’s an authentic expression of all your parts (both light and dark). What is noticed, allowed, and expressed changes form, often becoming your ally.
3. PHYSICAL THEATRE:
It’s a meeting of theater and the body feeling in motion.
It’s shapes, gestures, and the symbolism of the body.
It’s also a message/story in a language that the entire world understands without uttering a single word.
Body language is also the language of human emotions and feelings.
Our hands, forming gestures, are an extension of the heart, but the entire body also almost constantly forms gesture-shapes in response to the reality we experience, like a sensitive organic instrument.
Expect props here.
CONTRAINDICATIONS:
– psychotic states
– psychotropic therapy (not contraindicated, but consultation with a doctor is required)
– advanced pregnancy and the very early postpartum period
– various types of inflammatory and acute conditions
– epilepsy
– glaucoma
– current, unresolved injuries
Situations requiring caution:
– high sensitivity to strong stimuli, e.g., loud noises
– use of pharmaceuticals
– general poor health
– long-term untreated depression
– long-term exhaustion or weakness
COURSE SUITABLE FOR:
– Both individuals with experience in the course topics and complete beginners or “greenhorns” (with an appetite for this particular course).
– Also individuals who are calling to dance, but perhaps haven’t previously given themselves the opportunity to pursue this specific need. What you do on a daily basis doesn’t matter for your participation in the course.
Age doesn’t matter (as long as your body isn’t particularly damaged).
Teachers and performers of all stripes also have the opportunity to gain a wealth of inspiration and knowledge here.
Instructor:
Alicja Miszczor: Born in 1982. Lives in Krakow. Has 20 years of experience working with the body. Coach, ArteCoach (Master of Coaching, Meritum School), movement actress, dancer, improviser, and experienced instructor of dance improvisation, physical theater, and therapeutic dance. Creator of the Interart Dance method. Certified Hatha Yoga instructor. Scholarship holder of the Alternative Dance Academy in Poznań. Certified choreotherapy instructor: Movement Improvisation and Body Symbolism (Institute of Dance and Movement Dynamics, Essen, formerly Detlef Kappert). A graduate of the PPSKAK in Kalisz, majoring in contemporary dance, she was a dancer with Iwona Olszowska at the EST from 2008 to 2015. From 2013 to 2015, she collaborated with the Barakah Theatre in Krakow. She also creates performances and dance videos. She collaborates with the Kreissau Foundation, where she leads inclusive workshops for individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities, among others.
In 2024, she completed the Dance and Gestalt, Life/Art Process Course with Anna Halprin.
She is an art therapy student at the WSKZ (Wrocław).
In her free time, she sings, paints watercolors, and loves animals and water.
More information about the instructor:
https://taniecpolska.pl/ludzie-tanca/alicja-miszczor/
YouTube playlist:
Facebook group: Interart Dance. Workshops with Alicja Miszczor
Dance video group on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/563344323713738
Instagram: instagram.com/danceandeverything.alamiszczor
Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/interartdance
TIME:
Thursdays
11:00 – 12:20
REGISTRATIONS:
Email address: alataniec@gmail.com
Please enter: morning course in the subject line
In the email, briefly describe your experience with movement and Please send your phone number (important).
Reservations are based on a phone call with the course instructor and the deposit payment.
The date of deposit submission is the deciding factor, not the registration deadline. If no contact is made by phone, your registration will be cancelled.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
1. Deposit cancellations.
Refunds are not possible after 24 hours of deposit payment.
2. Course fees are non-refundable, but in very serious emergencies or crises (critical health, accidents, etc.), participation in the next course is possible.
3. It is not possible to make up classes in another course or to reduce the course price due to absences. It is possible to make up individual classes in an open lesson.
4. One workshop (or none) may be held during the course with an external instructor invited from the following fields: contact improvisation/dance improvisation/physical theatre/voice work. 5. Information for those who have already taken my course:
The material is never repeated. Most methods are repeated, but I always offer a new approach to the topic. New exercises are also constantly being developed.
EARLY BIRD PRICE, until May 13th:
PLN 850 (6 workshop meetings plus an autumn open lesson – free)
PLN 950 – price after May 13th
* Payment in two installments is possible in case of financial hardship. Installments slightly increase the course price. Please inquire about installments via email.
LOCATION:
An exceptionally charming and welcoming space in the heart of Krakow:
Contact: Przestrzeń Ruchu i Tańca
ul. Szpitalna 40, 1st floor, Krakow
(city center, very close to the Słowacki Theater and the Main Train Station)
Link to the school photo gallery:
https://kontaktprzestrzen.pl/galeria
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