Our masters Mr and Mrs Cieślak (Przystałowice Małe) have been dancing since birth, and it is from them that we will learn the Przystałowice variant of the oberek. We have the privilege of communing with an indigenous couple of dancers for whom dance and its local variants have always been a natural form of social communication and expression.
Bogumiła and Piotr Zgorzelscy, initiators of the Academy of Traditional Dance and long-time practitioners, masters of the young generation, authors of numerous programmes and instructional films, will conduct workshops with the Cieślak couple and teach them how to improvise in the oberek. In teaching dance, they are guided by a non-invasive approach to the audience; the classes first allow one to become accustomed to one's own body and to direct it, and then to reach subsequent levels of initiation.
duration: 2 hours