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Klara Łucznik & Julian Zubek In the first minute of dance What happens in the first minute of a dance? How do we come into contact, starting a dance duo? How do we know that we are already in contact? How do we use our senses, and which ones are guiding us? What actually transmits…

Participnats; by Andrew Wass DATE: August 22 TIME: 8.00 pm DATE: August 28 TIME: 1:30 pm, 4.00 pm, 7.30 pm PLACE: Ujazdowski Castle Center for Contemporary Art Join the open events of 12th Warsaw CI Flow. It’s a great opportunity to experience contact improvisation as a viewer! Schedule 22nd of August 2021– 8.00pm – final…

Lisa Nelson DATE: August 26 PLACE: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art TIME: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm CI ARCHIVE followed by TALK WITH LISA NELSON, led by Emma Bige  Film repertoire:  PERIPHERAL VISION1975. B&W. Duration: 21:05©Videoda Selections from a Contact Improvisation concert at Firehouse Theater in San Francisco, CA in 1973: “You Come, We’ll…

Ksenia Opria DATE: August 25 & 27 PLACE: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art TIME: 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm How to enter a jam? Does it need any special entrance? How do you know you are ready to move/share weight/improvise? Can you jam when you are not ready? Where is your attention now? How…

Emma Bigé DATE: August 24-25 & 27-28 PLACE: Łazienkowska Youth House of Culture TIME: 10:30 am – 12:30 pm This is a proposal for nerding out Contact Improvisation, for reading while dancing, for warming-up while listenning to a podcast, for rolling on the ground while watching movies. We’ll dive in a series of textual practices…

Ali Schwartz DATE: August 23 PLACE: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art TIME: 1:30 pm – 3:30 PM AN INTRODUCTION TO CONSENT CULTURE IN CI Consent Culture normalizes asking for and receiving consent. It actively opposes rape culture and is conscious of how power dynamics affect one’s ability to consent. Practicing Consent Culture not only…

Andrzej Woźniak DATE: August 23 & 24 PLACE: Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art TIME: 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm Time before jamming can have a huge impact on how we feel in the dance, what we get out of it and what we give from ourselves. Silence and peace are accompanied by an intensified…

Iwona Olszowska DATE: PLACE: TIME: A kind of Jam, in which performative action has the same value as creating a common constellation of active observation. Moving from the role of performer to the viewer, and the other way around. It is a circle in which everyone has a common focus, they change their position by…

Zuzanna Bukowski DATE: August 17 PLACE: Łazienkowska Youth House of Culture TIME: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm X to one is a format in which we are labbing and asking questions around contact improvisation. It is an opportunity to learn from each other, dance and receive direct feedback.  We will facilitate 20min slots where movers…

Isabelle Uski DATE: August 23 – 28 PLACE: Łazienkowska Youth House of Culture TIME: 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm AFTEREGO. BEING DANCE WITHIN SOFT STATES OF TRANS. When I dance, who dances? One of the most delightful things I experience while dancing is when I have no idea of who is dancing, when the body…