Diving into Consciousness: Expanded presence & movement in art and daily life is a performative workshop led by dancer, actor, and performer Piotr Mateusz Wach, created as part of the 7th edition of the We Do Festival of Contemporary Polish Arts & Culture: Turning Point.

We invite you to a unique exploration of presence — a practice that expands awareness and deepens connection with ourselves and with others. Drawing from contemporary dance, somatic practices, and meditative traditions, this workshop invites participants to slow down, listen, and cultivate a heightened sensitivity to body, emotions, and surroundings.

Workshop highlights

• Guided by Piotr Mateusz Wach, participants will experience original methods rooted in Deep Listening (Pauline Oliveros), Conscious Release (Agostina D’Alessandro), tantric and meditative traditions, tarot, lucid dreaming, and the dreaming body (Arnold Mindell).
• Through somatic work, mindfulness training, and movement exploration, participants will cultivate attentiveness and responsiveness to what happens both within and around them.
• The practice integrates body, empathy, and care — fostering transformation in art, relationships, and daily life.

Participants will explore questions such as:

• How do we listen with our whole body?
• What does it mean to be fully present in a shared space?
• How can awareness become a tool for transformation in art and everyday life?

The workshop is an invitation to immerse yourself in presence — expanding perception, opening compassion, and discovering new possibilities for connection.

About the Artist

Piotr Mateusz Wach is a dancer, actor, performer, and pedagogue of dance. A graduate of the State Higher School of Theatre in Kraków (Faculty of Dance Theatre, Bytom) and Lart Studio in Kraków, he was a member of the Rozbark Dance and Movement Theatre in Bytom (2015–2017). Currently working as an independent artist, he seeks to cross the borders of theatre, dance, visual arts, and film. His long-term collaboration with Jacek Niepsujewicz includes the Project:Life, an artistic-behavioral experiment exploring extreme life changes as a source of truth in performance.