Kasia Kamińska and Mateusz Kamiński discovered blues in 2018 and immediately fell in love with the dance. They find blues to be one of the most beautiful musical genres of all time, and it moves them both in a profound way.
Mateusz has a movement background — before dancing, he trained parkour, running and martial arts. He has been fascinated with hip hop culture from an early age, which now strongly influences his understanding of dancing as a form of cultural expression.
Kasia discovered the magic of movement later in life, qualified as a yoga teacher, and explored various movement forms. Having graduated from linguistic studies and now working as a jewelry designer, she sees blues both as a language — a way of communication and self-expression — and as an art form.
Together, they love exploring different dances under the blues umbrella and focus on culture, history and Black American values in their dancing journey. They build their dance around deep connection — with music, with the floor (grounding!) and with a partner — while simultaneously embracing individual expression, shapefullness and play.
They have been sharing their blues journey with the local Warsaw community for nearly four years, and in the last year they began gaining international experience. They are also still learning and researching, and don’t plan to stop. Living in Warsaw and being cultural outsiders, they are aware that they need to dig deep in order to stay in the process of finding out what blues actually has been. And the deeper they scratch, the deeper it goes — so they keep on scratching, learning and exploring.