Anna Nowicka - Dreaming Reality

Eva Priečková/False Move in collaboration with Telocvičňa - a residential dance center warmly invites you to an exceptional workshop that connects collective movement practice with dreaming. It is led by Polish artist living in Germany - Anna Nowicka.

Anna Nowicka - Dreaming Reality
March 28th and 29th, 2026
10:00 - 17:00 (break between 13:00 - 14:30)
Telocvičňa - Residential Center for Dance, Nová Cvernovka, Bratislava

Entrance fee for both days: 40 euros
one day possible only on Saturday: 25 euros
(out of respect for Anna's work, we give priority to people who can participate in both days)

The workshop is open to people of different ages, experiences and professions.

More info about the workshop:
Every night – without exception – you plunge into a dreaming reality. You are carried away by a flood of seemingly unrelated images, dramatic events, unforeseen meetings, incoherent developments, and unconventional resolutions. You wake up deeply moved, often wishing to erase this night’s journey. “It was just a dream”, you say.

What if these nighttime adventures are not only an assemblage of coincidental pictures, but they weave a precise, clear, and deeply embodied image of the everyday life? What if they reveal to you a personalized, inner map depicting numerous choices you face, and possible responses to your reality?

The practice will combine intuitive ways of creating with conscious choreographic choices. We will dive into an embodied exploration of night and waking dreams, discovering how images move us, how they shift our presence and shape our decisions. We will move playfully between real and imagined, between doing and observing, expanding an awareness of the endless flow of impulses, able to choose which one to follow, form and embody. The work aims at revealing the active role of the observer and embodying a multilayered process of sense-making.

When the outer signposts lose their validity, a radical re-turn within is the only possible direction. Collectively discovered answers are applied to life. From a dialogue of dreaming and waking reality, a sense of belonging, collective and shared responsibility unfolds.

BIO of Anna Nowicka:
Anna Nowicka is a choreographer and dancer based in Berlin and Lüdersdorf (Brandenburg) working with dreams and embodied imagination. She aims at unfolding the body into a resourceful, alive, ever flowing entity, able to be responsive and present. Graduate of the Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance (SEAD), MA Choreography at the HfS Ernst-Busch / HZT in Berlin and MA Psychology at the Warsaw University, she wrote her practice-based PhD on embodied awareness as the foundation for being present at the Polish Film School in Łódź. She is a certified Saphire® teacher of Dr. Catherine Shainberg’s “The School of Images''. Anna is a faculty at the International Institute for Dreaming and Imagery, where she directs the Dream Your World® Kids program.

Supported using public funds by Slovak Arts Council.