This weekend, April 11-12, we invite you to two workshops with Sebastian Flegiel.
SATURDAY, APRIL 11 – ArtSport: Contact Improvisation – Training that Becomes Poetry
SUNDAY, APRIL 12 – ANATOMY OF PRESENCE. TRIAD. BODY – MIND – EMOTIONS IN ONE FLOW
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ArtSport: Contact Improvisation – Training that Becomes Poetry
Contact Improvisation is over 50 years old. For half a century, it has taught us one simple principle: energy doesn’t disappear, it changes form. Gravity becomes momentum. Momentum becomes a bounce. A bounce becomes a moment in which you’re airborne for a second – and that’s enough to feel that the body is capable of more than you think.
And then someone decided that was too much physicality. That it needed to be softened, spiritualized, and calmed. And that was good – it was necessary. But suddenly, dance, born from a fascination with physics and dynamics, became static. Full of good intentions, but lacking one key ingredient: transformation. Without the moment when the body ceases to be a burden and becomes an ally. Without the moment when you can stop planning and simply… be a passenger in your own movement.
That’s why I’ve been running workshops differently for years.
I call it ArtSport – because that’s what Contact Improvisation used to be called. Not because I separate art from effort. Quite the opposite. ArtSport is a place where training becomes poetry. Where strength isn’t a goal, but a gateway. The truth lies in the tension between athletic lightness and artistic discipline. Between the strength that allows you to hold another person on your shoulder and the tenderness that tells you how to care for them upon landing. Between the training that builds and the poetry that is born when the training ceases to be visible.
What our day will look like
We divide it into two blocks. You can participate in just the first one and leave fulfilled, oxygenated, and calm. You can stay for both parts and feel your dance take on new dimensions, becoming lighter and more present.
️10:00–13:00 | ROOTS – Flow and Presence (open to everyone)
Here we start with the foundation. But note: foundation in ArtSport doesn’t mean “easier.” It means more consciously.
This is our common ground. We’re returning to the roots that have evolved over 50 years to become an incredibly sensitive body language. This isn’t a “warm-up for the weak.” It’s a mindfulness training.
We will:
– learn to distribute weight so that the joints don’t scream,
– roll so that the spine says “thank you,”
– touch the other person so that partnering becomes a dialogue, not a lifting exercise.
Smooth floor work, initial partnering, conscious flow. We build within ourselves “little dances” of stability and balance – the foundation for everything that comes later. This part isn’t about strength, but about the body intelligence that lies within you. Are you coming for the first time? Have you been here for years? You’re welcome. Together, we create a space where every level has the right to be and learn at their own pace.
️1:00 PM–2:00 PM | Lunch Break
Time for your own meal, warm tea, conversation, and smiles.
️2:00 PM–5:00 PM | LOT – Depth and Dynamics (for those who want more)
If your body says “yes,” we enter the second layer. The door is open to anyone who feels their body asking for more. This isn’t a fight. It’s the art of surrendering to gravity together.
We learn that true support isn’t about rigid holding, but about flexible, dynamic following. This can be demanding—just as demanding as true, in-depth training is. But it’s precisely in this “demand” that a new resilience is born, a trust in physics and in another person, a strength you never knew you possessed.
This is the moment when training ceases to be visible. Where the strength you’ve built becomes transparent—because the movement is so fluid that no one sees the effort, only pure expression. Dynamic partnering, sharing the burden, dancing with gravity, where your body is strong enough to allow itself to surrender completely to the moment.
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What do you gain?
– A body that stops fearing – falling, weight, another person.
– Gravity as an ally, not an enemy.
– The ability to be a passenger in your own movement – without planning, with pure presence.
– Dance that takes your breath away because it looks like poetry, yet is pure physics.
Your body already knows it needs it. Feel it in your bones.
See you on the mat. Your place is waiting for you.
Sebastian Flegiel
About the instructor – Sebastian Flegiel is a Contact Improvisation teacher with 26 years of advanced experience in his own practice and 19 years of international teaching.
He has led workshops, intensive courses, and laboratories throughout Europe and Asia – from Madrid, Copenhagen, Hanoi, Bangkok, and Bali, to regular classes and festivals in Poland (he has lectured at the Academy of Music in Łódź and the Department of Dance Theatre in Bytom).
His work combines clarity, physical precision, and dynamic exploration. At the heart of his classes are partnering techniques, weight sharing, lightness, rotation, momentum, and a playful dialogue between gravity and flow – always grounded in deep listening and embodied presence.
Thanks to his education and practice in aikido, contemporary dance pedagogy, and process engineering, Sebastian provides participants with a uniquely structured yet creative approach to this form.
He is also the creator of Movementalism – a holistic system integrating Contact Improvisation with philosophical inquiry, meditative mindfulness, and systemic thinking about the synchronization of body, mind, and emotions.
Whether you’re returning to deepen your practice or just beginning to explore the language of contact, Sebastian invites you to a space that is open, physically rich, and guided with insight, so you can discover your own movement intelligence.
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☆DETAILS:
♧ SATURDAY, APRIL 11:
●️ArtSport: CONTACT IMPROVISATION – Training that Becomes Poetry
– 10:00 AM–1:00 PM | ROOTS – Flow and Presence (open to all)
– 1:00 PM–2:00 PM | Lunch break
– 2:00 PM–5:00 PM | FLIGHT – Depth and Dynamics (for those who want more)
♧ SUNDAY, April 12
●️ANATOMY OF PRESENCE. TRIAD. BODY – MIND – EMOTIONS IN ONE FLOW
– 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Block I – The Body as the Foundation
– 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Lunch Break
– 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Block II – Mind and Emotions in Flow
Guided Meditations and Triad Integration
◇ PLACE: KONTAKT, Space of Movement, Dance and Music, Szpitalna street 40, Kraków
●️PRICES:
– Saturday Only: Roots (3 hours) – PLN 175
– Full Saturday: Roots + Flight (6 hours) – PLN 325
– Sunday Only: Anatomy of Presence (6 hours) – PLN 245
– Full Weekend: Roots + Flight + Anatomy of Presence – PLN 495
●️REGISTRATION: via the registration form
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