Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska is a Polish performer and choreographer. She has been teaching improvisation classes for over a decade and is active on the Polish dance and performance scene. In 2024 she received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage. She participated in the Alternative Dance Academy 2015-2017 (Art Stations Foundation, Poznan) and participated in the Global Practice Sharing program (Movement Research, New York). She is a graduate of the Experimental Choreography course (Centrum w Ruchu, Warsaw). Her works have been presented, in Berlin, Budapest, Philadelphia, New York, Warsaw and Vienna. Since 2022, she has worked with Justyna Sobczyk’s 21 Theater, with actors with Downs syndrome and intellectual disabilities and, with Ilona Trybuła ,from 2023, has been the co-curator of improvised dance evenings [sic!] Saute at the Łowicka Center (Warsaw). In her work, she explores the boundaries between simplicity and naivety as well as presentation and facilitation.

Aleksandra Bożek-Muszyńska’s visit is supported by Adam MickiewiczInstitute’s, Polish culture worldwide programme and a Polish Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, 2024 Scholarship.

Monika Kiwak is a performer, teacher and choreographer . based in Poland. She works in the field of improvisation with families and children, children and adults. She has a MA in Polish philology and MA in drama studies (PL) which have shaped her dance improvisation practice. She has a background in Body Mind Centring and is currently fascinated in improvisation with voice

Hilary Elliot is an Australian improviser and recovering academic, who has lived in the wild puddles of Yorkshire, England, for nearly 20 years.
She has performed in the UK, Europe and America as well as her home country, and has a particular interest in generating worlds in which movement and words can spark with and within each other.
Favourite moments from her adventures in improvisation include performing to the philosophers gathered at the Twenty-first Century Body: Annual Gathering of the Merleau-Ponty Circle, in Massachusetts (2015); the publication of her book: The Motional Improvisation of Al Wunder (2021) and teaching the next wave of creative artists at Leeds Conservatoire (2024).

David Wells is an artist that works across Dance, Music and Theatre. His work is typically interactive, improvised, collaborative, experimental, playful and often engaged with public spaces. David’s improvisation history includes: residency at the Melbourne Zoo, Al Wunder’s Theatre of The Ordinary, ‘Born in a Taxi’, creators of indoor/outdoor, physical performance (founding member), Neil Thomas’s ‘The Blue People’, ‘The Urban Dream Capsule’, Collaborations with Neil Thomas also include ‘Mantalk’, HUTCH, Cyclo Illuminato, Residencies at Arts Centre Melbourne, Gold Coast Commonwealth Games, HOTA, City of Maroondah and Wyndham. Collaborations with Tim Humphrey and Madeleine Flynn include ‘The Megaphone Project’ an interactive sound sculpture and ‘Weekly Ticket Footscray’ – a 15year performance installation at Footscray Train Station. David was Artistic Director of FOG Theatre and created ‘Clock It’ an improvised dance event structure with many participants. David currently works with The Humour Foundation – as a medical clown and collaborates with Moses Carr.

Andrew Morrish is a freelance performer, researcher, facilitator and teacher of improvisation working between Australia and Europe. He began improvising with Al Wunder’s “Theatre of the Ordinary” in Melbourne Australia in I982. In 1987 he formed “Trotman and Morrish” with Peter Trotman, another founding member of “Theatre of the Ordinary”.
Between 2000 and 2020 he developed his solo performing and teaching, touring extensively in Australia and Europe. In the last 10 years of this period he taught nearly 4000 students, in over 300 workshops in 19 countries and performed 276 times.
He was awarded the Australia Council for the Arts Dance Fellowship for 2016-2017.
Since 2020 he has been based in Orbost, East Gippsland, continuing his development via shared practice and also coaching artists on-line in Australia and Europe.