THREE-MONTH COURSE IN MOVEMENT COMPOSITION, CONTEMPORARY DANCE, and THERAPEUTIC DANCE with Alicja Miszczor in Krakow, April 10, 2026 – June 24, 2026
Note:
1. The trial lesson will take place on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, at 6:00 PM (registration required).
2. New! This edition is dedicated to MOVEMENT COMPOSITION, among other things.
3. COURSE AVAILABLE ONCE OR TWICE A WEEK
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 your body reasons to move and thus nurture your inner sunshine ♡.
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 do movement, the senses, and the visual arts combine in play? – YouTube
DETAILED COURSE INFORMATION:
KEY INFO (objectives and methods):
This course is a land of calorie-rich 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 creatively).
All this through play, authentic expression, deep self-experience through 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), as well as therapeutic dance, physical theater, and movement composition. You will also learn or deepen the methods of 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.
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. Grounded in specific methods, it 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 training course for surfing the waves of life.
Additional strengths of the course include: the in-person format, regularity, and a competitive price – considering the program.
The course takes place in Krakow, but you can only attend Friday classes.
COURSE AS A CLOSED UNIT:
The course is a process (a series of workshops) and is held in a CLOSED FORM, meaning in a fixed group. The course level is open, and the course itself is designed to benefit both experienced and beginners.
What students said about the course:
1. “I discovered my abilities that I had no idea about.”
2. “A time of change and transformation.”
3. “Reduction in pain-related symptoms.”
4. “An incredible experience that gave me a new perspective on myself, my body, other people, and my relationships with them and myself.”
5. “Leaving my comfort zone and beaten paths.”
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’s deeply hidden.”
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.”
DURING THE 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
– 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 other areas
– spontaneity/courage
– feeling the body and reading its signals
– broadening horizons and ranges: physical and mental
– breaking away from established patterns
– gently leaving the comfort zone
– becoming friends with the senses and the phenomenon of pleasure
– realizing one’s own potential
– building the ability to act with consideration for one’s psychophysical state (acceptance)
– yourself as you are (authenticity)
– inspiration
– the present moment through being embedded in the body
– meeting new people with similar interests and a new side of yourself
– peace
About the combination of CONTEMPORARY DANCE and THERAPEUTIC DANCE:
The intertwining of therapeutic dance and contemporary dance (here: dance improvisation), therapeutic dance, and other disciplines in this course is crucial and not accidental, as it trains the dancer not only in experiencing and releasing the content stored in the body, but also in body awareness, motor agility, and Using a specific form 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 feeling, associations, or imagination. The physicality supports mental space and allows us to delve deeper into the process.
4 PILLARS OF THIS COURSE:
1. DANCE IMPROVISATION
This is a calorie-rich celebration of your expression through movement/dance.
This is your unique way of expressing yourself in the language of movement.
This is movement in which you are the creator, creating new worlds, and within them, yourself anew. At the same time, this creation is movement that arises by letting go of control, judgment, and grounding yourself in the present moment in topics available in real time.
2. THERAPEUTIC DANCE:
This is meeting yourself more deeply and allowing yourself to be yourself. Change is not the goal, but happens through dancing with what is. It is 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:
This is the encounter between theatre and the body feeling in movement.
It is the shapes, gestures, and symbolism of the body.
It is 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.
4. MOVEMENT COMPOSITION:
These are etudes that participants create based on the given themes and tools. These are unique movement expressions built on feeling, mood, and inner stories. These are essential dance impressions created using simple methods. Movement expressions about what is: important, difficult, unique, mysterious, authentic, or funny. Movement composition is a space for telling stories about oneself and the world. 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 medications
– 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 suitable for those who are drawn to dance, but perhaps haven’t previously been able to pursue this particular 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 worn out).
Teachers and performers of all stripes have the opportunity to gain a wealth of inspiration and knowledge here.
Host: Alicja Miszczor: Born in 1982. Lives in Krakow. Coach, ArteCoach (Master of Coaching, Meritum School), movement actress, dancer, improviser, experienced instructor of dance improvisation, physical theatre, 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, Detlef Kappert). Graduate of PPSKAK in Kalisz, majoring in contemporary dance. From 2008 to 2015, she was a dancer at EST under Iwona Olszowska. 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 leads inclusive workshops for individuals with physical and intellectual disabilities, among others.
In 2024, she completed the Anna Halprin Course: Dance and Gestalt, Life/Art Process.
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: