What if the things you’ve always suspected were there – softness, space, musical nuance, playful freedom – were not “mystical gifts”, but skills you can actually build?
In mazurka, it often looks like we’re pulled toward two extremes. On one side, there are the dancers who stay safely inside the base step, solid, faithful, “correct”… and yet secretly wondering where the fun is supposed to happen, what else they’re allowed to do, and how to make the dance feel more alive. On the other side, there are the dancers who chase freedom so hard that they end up improvising almost everything, until, little by little, the dance stops really being a mazurka at all. Plenty of movement, plenty of ideas… but the particular magic that makes this dance tick starts to fade.
If this tension feels familiar, this proposition might just be right for you: a 5-hour deep dive into mazurka, designed to bring a healthy middle ground, with more freedom, and more respect for what makes a mazurka a mazurka. A place to build tools that give you options, without losing the thread. To play more, without dissolving the form; to become expressive, without “escaping” the dance.
We will explore mazurka from the inside: the musical specificities that shape your choices, the subtle relationship to pulse and phrasing, and the way listening can change the entire quality of your movement. We’ll take time to refine connection, not in the sense of adding tension or control, but by developing a soft, precise, and comfortable dialogue in the couple. We’ll look at how to move through the room with more intelligence and calm, how to use space without rushing or getting trapped, and how improvisation can become playful and rich without becoming messy or random. In other words: we’ll build tools that make the dance clearer, freer, and more enjoyable, both for you and for your partner.
And because mazurka never exists in isolation, we’ll also take a step back and make bridges: how certain qualities in mazurka can be borrowed from other dances, and how what you develop here can be brought back into other couple dances. The goal is not to turn mazurka into a closed “style”, but to sharpen your dancing vocabulary and your sensitivity in a way that travels.
Expect beautiful music, a lot of dancing, and personal feedback! Plus the very real possibility that some of the questions you’ve been carrying for ages finally get an answer!
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We suggest all participants bring something for tea. Potluck!
The bar will be open throughout the day. Frisse Folk offers water for free
This workshops is taught in French. Pierre also speaks English and Spanish, so you can receive individual corrections in those languages as well.
Please arrive 15 minutes before the advertised starting time of the workshop, so we can start on time.
This workshop is not for beginners. If it is your first time dancing mazurka, this is not the right space. But if you know the base step (the rhythmic structure) and want to understand how to develop it, or if you’ve been dancing for years and feel stuck, then you are exactly the person this workshop is designed for.
It is never necessary to register as a couple for our dance workshops.
Therefore, you can register alone, as a couple, with friends …
