On 11 April 2025, the 2nd edition of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference took place at the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre. This year, the conference was held under the theme Immersions. Questions of Fluidity in Choreography and Dance. The conference served as a prelude to the 5th Krakow Dance Festival, which took place from 3 to 9 August 2025.
During the conference, we explored the idea of immersions—of dancers, spectators, writers, choreographers, and organizers alike. Immersion in change, in the fluid transitions between authenticity and creation, in the sensory following of ideas, affects, and imaginings proposed by the moving bodies of artists.
We examined fluidity both metaphorically and literally, as well as issues related to immersion, such as visibility and grounding. Fluidity emerged as a kind of continuum of movement, but also as a blurring of boundaries and an interpenetration of topics, people, problems, and ideas. We delved into a dialogue on immersion as exhaustion, softness, closeness, attentiveness, deepening, and enlivening. This dialogue created conditions for potential encounters, in which one configuration (including choreographic) gives rise to others, fostering an exchange of thoughts, feelings, and fantasies. An environmental dimension also emerged, particularly in the context of hydrofeminism, which connects reflection on water with a feminist perspective on care and responsibility.
Fluidity also found its place in collective ways of working, which in turn opened up contexts proposing alternatives to hierarchical management of cultural institutions, creating spaces for fluid exchange of opinions and supportive discussions.
Organizer: Nowa Huta Cultural Centre – Krakow Choreographic Centre
Coordinators: Pamela Bosak, Karolina Graca
Academic supervision: Dr. Katarzyna Słoboda
Facilitation: Dr. Izabela Zawadzka
Patronage: Didaskalia theatre magazine
Support: Department of Performative Studies, Jagiellonian University
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
11:00 – 12:30 – IMMERSIONS / ZANURZENIA
- Angelika Mizińska – Subjectivity of Fluidity / Podmiotowość płynności
- Marianna Zabawa – The Secret of White Water / Tajemnica wody białej
- Magdalena Siemaszko – Immersion in Landscape as “Weak Resistance” – Practices of Attuning with Water Bodies in the Face of Ecological Crises / Zanurzenie w krajobrazie jako „słaby opór” – praktyki zestrajania z wodnymi ciałami wobec kryzysów ekologicznych
13:00 – 14:30 – FLOWS / PRZEPŁYWY
- Jagna Nawrocka – Fluid Authorship, Fluid Identities, Fluid Body Boundaries in Scores / Płynne autorstwo, płynne tożsamości, płynne granice ciał w partyturach
- Zuzanna Kasprzyk, Anna Kamińska, Agata Jędrzejczak, Andrzej Molenda – Flow of Technology / Przepływ technologii
- Ida Ślęzak – Flows and Blockages / Przepływy i zatory
15:30 – 17:30 – CURRENTS / NURTY
- Alicja Czyczel – Hydrochoreographies of Collaboration / Hydrochoreografie współpracy
- Żaneta Górska – Immersing Dance in Water. A Comparative Analysis of Contact Improvisation Experience in Two Environments / Zanurzyć taniec w wodzie. Analiza porównawcza doświadczenia contact improwizacji w dwóch środowiskach
- Mo Tomaszewska – Body-Fluidly. Hydrofeminist Forms of Resistance in Performance Art / Ciałopłynnie. Hydrofeministyczne formy oporu w sztuce performance
- Hanna Raszewska-Kursa – Collective Immersion and Confrontation. Body-(Un)Friendly Organization of Space / Wspólne zanurzenie a konfrontacja. Ciało(nie)przyjazna organizacja przestrzeni
The day concluded with a performative lecture by Baxi Ostrowski, Babel. The Resonance of Language, presented in the KCC studio.
Photo: Klaudyna Schubert
