In contact improvisation, we often want to jump straight into high altitudes and flights to experience the thrill of flying. But first, the most important thing is establishing communication and connection. Let’s think of “flying” and “freedom” not in terms of height, but as a quality of movement.
To begin, I invite you to feel and sense your own body and the bodies of others.
What you’ll learn:
Listening to yourself and others through touch and more
Body anatomy through practical application in movement
Using leverage to guide another person
Lifts using bones
Lifts, leading using leverage
Effortless movement
You’ll expand your solo movement skills
You’ll discover new movement paths that open up new perspectives (movement windows).
You’ll learn how to move and communicate with bamboo.
Drawing inspiration from Body-Mind Centering, the tensgrity model, and fascial principles, we will explore what happens beneath the skin—a dance from within. From there, we can explore many types of spatial flight: small or large, high or low, focusing on the experience of traveling through space. Small doesn’t mean less, and low doesn’t exclude the feeling of weightlessness.
Each day will begin with a series of exercises designed to open the sensory levels of body, mind, and space. We will begin with simple movements—bending and extending, contracting, stretching—gradually moving to more complex explorations. We will move our bones and allow them to be moved by others, discovering new ways of traveling, supporting, and flying.
Our exploration will be supported by anatomical principles, the Ilan Lev method, BMC, and other movement approaches. We will play with levers and forces to learn, let go, and reorganize habitual body patterns.
Don’t resist, don’t react… simply wait, follow the force—and then catch the momentum to ride the wave.
Together, we will discover how to travel through space, finding fluidity in solos, duets, and groups. We will experiment with small lifts, shifts, and jumps, weaving them into our journeys through space. Instead of typical contact lifts, we will learn new ones that we can take with us on our journeys through space, downward or upward.
This perspective breaks familiar patterns and brings joy and surprise.
So let’s enjoy, experiment, and help “our bones fly :)”
Where: Kraków, Szpitalna 40, KONTAKT, Space of Movement, Dance and Music
Price: sliding scale 450-600 PLN
If you’re having financial difficulties, contact me and we’ll definitely find a suitable solution. How to register:
Send an email with your registration:
Pablo.konior@gmail.com
And pay a deposit of 100 PLN to the following bank account:
98 1140 2004 0000 3102 3027 3155
Limited number of places:
Hours: 10:00 AM – 5:30 PM
About the presenters:
Paweł Konior
Performer, facilitator, teacher, therapist
After graduating from the Academy of Physical Education and the Experimental Dance Academy in Salzburg in 2010, Paweł has been actively working in the performing arts throughout Europe as a dancer and performer.
In addition to performing on stage, Paweł began teaching contact improvisation and improvisation, using them as a source of creation, connection, and embodiment.
For Paweł, contact improvisation is a form of listening at its peak. When one, two, or more bodies are attuned enough to truly listen—to the transient movement within the body, between bodies, and in space—they are ready for the unknown. From this emptiness, everything reveals itself, and everything becomes possible. In this state, nothing is good or bad. We learn to move together, resonating with everything around us. We are not trapped in what was or what will be, but present in what is—here and now—with everything that surrounds us.
His athletic background has strongly influenced his movement and teaching style, where improvisation is interwoven with technique and play. Paweł has a distinctive and organic approach, characterized by spontaneity and curiosity. He creates an environment that encourages people to adapt to ever-changing situations, helping them discover and nurture their true potential. His work is inspired by Ilan Lev’s therapy, martial arts, contemporary dance, tai chi, BMC, and sports.
“We are never in balance. The search for harmony and balance is a continuous process, and play is an essential element.
Iwona Olszowska
Is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher of contemporary dance, body awareness, contact improvisation, and improvisation as performance. She is also a Somatic Movement Educator using the Body Mind Centering method. She was the artistic director of the Experimental Dance Studio. She gained experience in dance centers in New York and at universities in Washington, Alabama, and Calgary, at workshops with the Silesian Dance Theatre and the Cultural Animation Center. She teaches at the Krakow Movement Wholesale Theatre, at the Academies of Music in Łódź and Krakow, and at the Warsaw Dance Department. She has created performances and choreographies for the EST ensemble, the Polish Dance Theatre, the Rozmaitości Theatre, the National Stary Theatre, and the Juliusz Słowacki Theatre in Krakow. She has performed in the USA, Canada, Finland, Russia, England, Norway, Israel, and Moldova. She dances solo. (recently also in alternative spaces) and performs structured improvisations, including lecture performance and site-specific work. He creates the Dance Area at the Barakah Theatre in Krakow.