Lumi is conceived as a surreal, celestial-like, minimalistic performance/installation. It invites its audience to wander and explore the movement of lights and dancers, to drift among luminous objects, to surrender to curious sensations.

Lumi explores the possibilities of an event-world rather than an object world – something more dynamic and relatively unpredictable. It aims at diverse sensory experiences and a heightened sensitivity towards the immediate physicality of the world by interlacing movement, dance, music, visual art and light design. The performance/installation affirms the idea of place as sensed, place as sensation – space as audile-tactile or kinaesthetic sensory universe in which proprioception is key.

During the performance the audience is free to move, enjoy multiple perspectives, explore, be active and/or relax. Furthermore, in order to respect the individual needs of both babies and adults, as well as the time needed to constitute the experience, the audience is invited to enjoy the installation upon their personal needs – to arrive at the time which suits them the best and stay as long as they like to, within the 4 hours running time.

Essential for the concept is the notion of audience’s agency in correlation with multi-directional interaction of the senses and sensuous interrelationship of body-mind-environment. Safe and stimulating performance environments are conceived to generate an inter relational ecology, providing unique conditions for a wide variety of interchange and communication. The installation environment is designed to challenge conventional conception of aesthetics for babies by proposing to its audience out-of ordinary experience and ambience.

A day-long workshop on writing about dance performances for children. The pretext for the analysis becomes two family dance performances: “Where Shapes Have Necks” by Holobiont collective, which will be presented on the Scena Wspólna, and “Labyrinth” directed by Alicja Morawska-Rubczak, the recording of which the participants watch during the workshop.

The meeting is addressed to critics and students of both dance and art for children. It takes a workshop form – through discussions and performative games, the participants think together with the teachers about how critical texts on dance for children can look like. Using strategies from different areas of theater criticism (theater, dance, children’s theater) class outlines both – areas of dialogue and places in need of new language.

The closing of borders due to the pandemic has caused a forced hiatus in the presentation of performances around the world. However, some of the events have moved online, making it possible to see foreign proposals without leaving home. In order to take advantage of the potential contained in this unexpected situation, here’s a series of online workshops.

The meetings are addressed to critics and students of both dance and art for children. They are a non-profit grassroots initiative aimed at exchanging ideas, building a critical toolbox, community dialogue and maintaining professional identity in difficult times for the field of performing arts.

Since we consider the diversity of research perspectives to be of great value, the intention of the series is to encourage participants to actively co-create it so that each meeting is led by a different person. The final format of the meetings is determined in dialogue with those interested in working together.

A workshop of working with the body – first with the parent’s body so that the parent can feel and remember what happens to them when they move in a way appropriate for their child, and then – with the toddler’s body – how to carefully observe, sense with a clever touch and support the child in its motor, social and emotional development from the earliest stages of life.

The workshop is based on Moshe Feldenkrais’ method and Anat Baniel and Chava Shelhav, who continued his ideas in working with children. It allows parents to strengthen their confidence in their own parental instincts by developing an awareness of their own body, communicating more clearly with the child and understanding the stages of the child’s development.

There is a lot of talk these days about the disappearance of the child-parent relationship. Maybe it is because of our busy lives? Maybe because of lack of understanding? Here the participants learn that changing it is possible!

During the workshop, in an atmosphere of acceptance, the workshop leader creates space, above all, for good fun in movement – which is a beautiful way to fully be with your child. The scenario of the class is inspired by Veronica Sherborne’s method of developing movement, contact improvisation and acroyoga. Thanks to the work, participants get to know their own bodies better, gain self-confidence and develop a sense of security in establishing contact with others and cooperating with the group. And above all, they learn inspiring tools for later family dance games at home.

Dance improvisation and creative dance classes with elements of Dance Therapy, addressed to Adults, who can be accompanied by CHILDREN up to 1 year of age (preferably not yet walking).

At this meeting, we will understand dance as a creative process that enables individual expression rather than the realization of an imposed pattern. It is an encouragement to follow one’s own natural movement and rhythm, to release the breath, to improve blood circulation, to search for one’s own movement patterns and find new ones, to derive pleasure from movement. Children participate in their own way – in a sling, on a blanket, or just playing in the same room. If they are accompanied by a dancing caregiver, rhythmic movement together promotes brain development, social development and a sense of security.

Thematically, I will encourage you to surrender to the influence of the Wave – gently rocking, or excitingly agitated, or even breathtaking and causing anxiety? Rest assured that this will be your Wave, just the one you need at that moment and the one you will allow to come to you.

Get ready. Gather all your courage scattered around the room, fish out the curiosity stashed in your pocket, and dust off your imagination, our best friend. Today we embark on a journey into the land of dreams, dreams and intuition. Like mythical heroines, we’ll encounter terrifying monsters, unimaginable challenges, delicious temptations and magical lands enchanted in our bodies. We’ll find hidden powers and meet loyal allies. There will be temporary adversaries, but through imagination and knowledgeable dreams, we will understand how to turn their power to our advantage. And all this to discover the treasure hidden at the end of the road.

Week-long workshop for girls aged 9-12 invites to the world of dance and imagination. Through movement games, dance improvisations and working with intuition, the event aims to broaden skills in creativity, concentration, expression as well as the ability to calm down. The leader, drawing on her many years of experience as a dancer and choreographer, offers the participants exercises to deepen their body awareness and develop trust in their own imagination.

The workshop is a response to the challenges posed to children by modernity, which is increasingly distanced from bodily attentiveness. Taking up the topic of sleep and combining it with the practice of following the spontaneous joy of movement has the potential to strengthen the participants’ self-esteem and may in the future prove to be a support in the courageous pursuit of their needs and chosen goals.

The “Dream Explorers” workshop is designed in the spirit of respecting children’s subjectivity. The proposed activities therefore assume openness to a variety of responses and types of involvement of participants.

Since 2011 Old Brewery New Dance for Children program has been focusing on the development of contemporary dance for the youngests. The program offered movement workshops and presented the most interesting dance performances prepared with children audiences in mind. We know what is happening in the world of dance education and we want to use this knowledge to create a regular dance group for children. Through movement games and free improvisation Hanna Bylka-Kanceka will create space for children to develop imagination and body awareness, to strengthen motor coordination and above all – to enjoy and release creative expression. Dancing kids on the move!