Marta Wrzesińska
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“How can a simple point of contact become a conversation?”
Marta Wrzesińska
I have been engaged in the practice of Contact Improvisation for the past 17 years and teaching it for more than a decade. Throughout this time, Contact Improvisation has remained the central focus of my movement practice, artistic research, and teaching.
I have shared my work internationally in countries including Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Poland, India, and Canada, participating in festivals, retreats, and gatherings such as the Freiburg Contact Improvisation Festival.
As a teacher and facilitator, I am interested in creating learning environments rooted in listening, curiosity, and respect for each person's individual process. I am inspired by observing how bodies learn, adapt, and discover new possibilities through movement. My approach combines technical clarity with embodied exploration, offering spaces where dance can emerge through presence, awareness, playfulness, and connection.
I am co-founder of Estudio 113 and co-organizer of projects such as La Reunión, Sicily Contact Retreat, Dive into the Dance, and Mad Pulse. Together with Jesús Alonso, I support the development of spaces dedicated to practice, research, and community around movement and Contact Improvisation.
My training includes extensive study with teachers such as Mirva Mäkinen, Kira Kirsch, Katja Mustonen, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Charlie Morrissey, Joerg Hassmann, Linda Bufali, and many others. I have also studied contemporary dance with Leonardo Robayo, Chey Jurado, Michelle Man, among others; PCI (Integrative Body Process) with Antonio del Olmo; and, in recent years, Axis Syllabus and its application to Contact Improvisation with Kira Kirsch, María Mora, and Ona Fusté.
Alongside my movement practice, I hold degrees in Polish Philology and Theatre Studies from Adam Mickiewicz University.
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How does a dance begin?
What happens when we allow sensations to guide us?
How can a simple point of contact become a conversation?
In this workshop, we will explore some of the fundamental tools of Contact Improvisation, not as fixed answers but as conditions that allow dance to emerge. Presence, listening, sharing an axis, counterbalance, structural organization, rolling, and our relationship to gravity will become territories for inquiry and practice.
We will pay attention to what supports movement before it takes shape: how weight shifts, how one surface listens to another, how the spine organizes and reorganizes the body in relation, how a decision emerges through contact before becoming action.
Starting from concrete principles, we will gradually open space for freer exploration. Together, we will investigate how simple tools can give rise to complex landscapes, allowing dance to emerge through the interplay of bodies, forces, perception, and imagination.
An invitation to return to the essentials: to cultivate the conditions from which movement can surprise us.