ABOUT THE CLASS

Hania will be offering a creation workshop in and with public space. Students who attend this workshop can expect a night of not-your-daily exploration, theory-in-practice, theory-in-motion, and seeing their mundane surroundings in a whole new way-- a way full of powerful, or beautiful, or refreshing potentials.

As for a less mysterious content description, we would take a closer look at some notions related to Public Space. Especially, the typical human role within it and how we might interact with public space differently as artists if we attempt to "de-bunk" ourselves from the position of having (our usual) human primacy over the structures and space around us. How do we create differently when we consciously relinquish/release some of our normal control over what's around us (=our environment)?

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ABOUT HANIA SZYMCZAK

Hania Szymczak is a Polish & American dancer and choreographer. Her main dance styles include Contemporary, Modern, Improvisation, and Contact Improv. Functional fitness, Acting, Music, and Martial arts play a part in shaping her artistic practice as well. She comes from Wrocław, Poland, but earned her bachelors in Leadership & Performing Arts at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. Directly following, Hania was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship which relocated her to Neumuenster, Germany. She's been mostly Europe-based since, performing & teaching in Istanbul, Greece, Germany, and Poland. Hania also guest-performed with ArtLab J I in metro Detroit in 2018. She recently earned an MA in Performing Public Space (PPS) at Fontys University in the Netherlands and is excited to be facilitating PPS-themed master classes at CSD and Madonna University during her November visit to the US!