Warsaw CI FLOW — 17th International Dance Festival
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This year, the 17th Warsaw CI FLOW turns toward water — the element that quietly shapes our bodies, landscapes, and ways of being together. We too are mostly fluid. Beneath the surface of the skin, water moves through every cell, informing how we yield, resist, and reorganise. In this year's festival, we follow this embodied knowing: dancing with gravity, sensing inner currents that support softness, responsiveness, and change — within ourselves, in relationship, and in the wider field of the dancing community. Like water finding its path, the dance unfolds through attention and contact, shaping itself in the space between us. Three blocks of programme across eleven days: • 9–10 July — Pre-festival workshops at MIK: partnering with Michał Ratajski; performative CI with Klara Łucznik • 11–16 July — Festival at MIK: morning intensives with Karen Nelson & Nica Portavia, Rick Nodine, and Zuzanna Bukowski; afternoon labs; evening jams with live music • 17–19 July — Long Jam at Pavilion of Dance: a shared, community-led space for listening, dancing, and being together
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Pre-festival workshops
Jul 9 - Jul 10, 2026Two workshops at the Mazovian Institute of Culture. Imperfect Practices — towards the performative dimension of CI (Klara Łucznik): 3 sessions exploring CI as a space of performance, working with presence, timing, surprise, and collective coherence. The whole truth about partnering in Contact Improvisation (Michał Ratajski): 3 sessions examining body structure, biomechanics, and the Body–Mind–Emotions trio through the I_GO_SYSTEM methodology, from floorwork to standing partnering.
Festival
Jul 11 - Jul 16, 2026Morning intensives: Faking it With Gravity — Contact Improvisation Realness (Karen Nelson & Nica Portavia); Reframing Flow (Rick Nodine); Moving me, moving you — Axis Syllabus into CI (Zuzanna Bukowski). Afternoon labs with Riccardo Sacilotto, Karen Nelson & Nica Portavia, Jaime Caballero Milani, Alexandra Soshnicova & Serghei Golovnea, Aleksandra Rud, Tere Więcko, and Ania Jurek. Evening jams — focus jam, live music evenings, blind jam. Community gatherings and conversations throughout.