The project “Scores for Belonging” is an initiative of the Krakow Choreographic Centre (KCC) and artist Yanira Castro. It is another project carried out as part of an international cooperation network with the American organization Movement Research.

Who is it for?

We invite anyone who has experienced migration to participate. We consider migration as a form of movement, defining it expansively: as migration from another country to Poland, from a smaller town to Krakow. 

Open to everyone aged 18 and over, including those with no prior dance experience.

Project Stages:

• Online Introductory Meeting: Tuesday, April 28, 5:00 PM

A meeting between the selected group and Yanira Castro to get to know each other and discuss the preparations for the “Communal Meal.”

• Communal Meal:

May 9 | 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM – Preparation

May 10 | 4:00 PM – 7:00 PM – Event at the Nowa Huta Cultural Centre (NCK)

The Communal Meal considers shared eating as a practice of collaboration, relationship-building, and mindfulness toward others, particularly in the context of migration and cultural memory. Inspired by the memories and experiences of the participants, this event will also be open to the public. During the meal, Yanira will facilitate the group using her original “Scores for Cooperation.”

• Community Workshops: May 11–14 | 5:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Location: Nowa Huta Cultural Centre and other spaces in Nowa Huta.

Workshops and performative actions in the local spaces of Nowa Huta, revolving around Yanira’s practices, themes of migration, and the concept of the “ideal city.”

• Project Wrap-up (After-talk): May 19 | 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM

A closing meeting open to the public and all project participants.

Organizational Information

• Participation is free of charge. We ask participants to commit to all stages of the project.
• The project will be conducted in English.
• If you require translation or have specific language needs, please let us know. We will do our best to accommodate them.
• Space is limited — participants will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.

Link to the application form: https://forms.gle/xjjKXTnidZxjvXxX8

• Application deadline: March 20, 2026
• Confirmation of participation (from KCC and Yanira): by March 27, 2026

More about the project:

KCC treats the body and movement as central to addressing important social issues and challenges. Yanira Castro is a Puerto Rican artist who lives and works                in Lenapehoking (New York City). In her artistic practice,Yanira explores questions of migration, belonging and radical democracy. She treats art as rehearsal for civic practice.

With Yanira, we will prepare the “Communal meal” and take part in community workshops including performative activities in local spaces of Nowa Huta. We will investigate ways, models, and forms of coexisting. Through bodily dialogue, physical participation and movement, we will collectively share stories about the impact of migration on our sense of belonging and how together we build our “ideal city.”

Nowa Huta’s architecture follows the idea of an “ideal city.” For example, a single housing unit is planned for a specific, limited number of people to facilitate the creation of a local community in which residents recognise one another. 

We want to expand on these urban-planning principles of the “ideal city” and reinterpret them in our own vision of an “ideal city,” focused on ways to communicate, interact and connect with others. We will ask ourselves whether and how we are able to create an ideal city. What does it mean for us?

“We live in the city and we make it ideal.”

Yanira Castro – Yanira Castro’s work is rooted in communal construction as a rehearsal for radical democracy. She is an interdisciplinary artist born in Borikén (Puerto Rico) and living in Lenapehoking (Brooklyn). Castro forms iterative, multimodal projects that center the complexity of land, citizenship, and governance in works activated and performed by the public. Co-creating with a team of collaborators under the name, a canary torsi, she investigates choreography as a practice of collective embodiment, grappling with agency and communal action as a body politic. She has developed over fifteen projects including installations, performance manuals, podcasts, video works, and performances at MCA/Chicago, ICA/Boston, ODC in San Francisco, Bates Dance Festival, and venues in NYC including NY Live Arts, Abrons Arts Center, Danspace Project, LMCC’s River to River, The Invisible Dog Art Center, and The Chocolate Factory Theater. 

She has been recognized with national awards and commissions including Creative Capital, Herb Alpert Award in the Arts for Dance, NYSCA/NYFA Interdisciplinary Artist and Choreography Fellowships, NEFA’s National Dance Project, and two Bessie Awards for Outstanding Production. She has recently been in residence at LMCC, MacDowell, Yaddo, and The Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography.

This project was supported by the GPS/Global Practice Sharing Program of Movement Research, with funding from the Trust for Mutual Understanding.

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