"Poronin" - Summer Summit

You are warmly invited to a 6-day West Coast Swing trip to Poronin!

6 days of West Coast Swing, great fun, holiday time spent with wonderful people, but above all, plenty of technique, delving deeper into various West Coast Swing topics, and giving yourself the opportunity for a big leap forward in your West Coast Swing journey! 🙂

Dates: 18 – 24.08.2025

Teachers:
Kasia & Marcin Skalscy

What we have planned?
– As usual, plenty of technique – we have a lot of new insights we want to share with you! 🙂
– Each day will have a different concept (but as always, we want the whole week to be a logical sequence of topics – from more basic to what we can build on good foundations)
– Controlled practice sessions + Q/A
– An additional hour each day for INT+ level participants if there are any on the list.
– For those interested – morning warm-up and/or an hour each day on how to take care of your body and what training to do to dance for a long time and without injuries.

EXACT TOPICS?
– We always plan the exact program after closing the list.
– We strive to ensure that the topics are as well-suited as possible to the people who sign up – so that you can take away as much as possible from the camp.

Venue:
Weronika Inn, Zakopane

WHO CAN ATTEND?
Actually, the most important thing is that there won’t be a „from zero” group – to join, you need to have at least six months of regular West Coast Swing dancing in classes and events.

We’ll create the exact schedule for the sessions once we have a better idea of who has signed up. 🙂 🙂

PRELIMINARY GROUP DESCRIPTION:
G1 – people dancing for 6 – 36 months, or this level has been recommended to you by your instructors. For Skalski Dance students: P1-P3

G2 – people dancing for at least 3 years, or this level has been recommended to you by your instructors. For Skalski Dance students: P4-PKP

Of course, regularity and frequency are also important 😉 that’s why we always finalize the schedule once we know who has signed up – the above description is quite provisional.

IMPORTANT: We will make the final group division after registration closes!

IF YOU’RE UNSURE WHETHER THIS TRIP IS FOR YOU – GIVE US A CALL:

Marcin Skalski +48 507065615
Kasia Skalska +48 514149393

!!!REGISTRATION!!!

11.02.2025, 17:00 (Warsaw time)

WHAT YOU SHOULD BRING WITH YOU?
– Shoes for classes (comfortable, no heels)
– LOTS of strength and positive energy!! 😉
– Awareness that we’re aiming for a logical sequence in the classes, so let’s agree not to skip any sessions, or else you might miss out on the context for what we’re doing next 😉 😛

Included:
– Approximately 20-22h workshops for each group (there will be 2 groups) – we anticipate daily for each group: 3 hours of classes + 1 hour of controlled practice/Q&A + 1 hour of training sessions (final schedule will be determined after registrations, as we aim to tailor the plan to your needs).
– And if someone attends both groups, it will be hardcore 😉 (whether someone can attend both groups depends on their willingness and our decision – whether we believe it will help in their development – because it’s not obvious 😉 )
– Daily parties until 2:00 in the morning. (We would suggest not partying every night – 6 days is quite a stretch ;))
– 6 nights of accommodation with meals included (2 meals a day – breakfasts and dinners)
– One afternoon for relaxation – barbecue / integration, etc. 😉
– Coffee/tea throughout your stay
– Our time 100% for you – we’re here for you not only during classes – if you need to ask anything dance-related, clarify something, feel free to ask even outside of classes – even at parties

– ATTENTION! For participants of Poronin, we have a discount! 😀 Every two or three intensives are not just one 😉 so for Poronin participants, there will be a 50% discount on our July’s Master Your Basic or Creativity intensives.

(If at some point you feel you need more relaxation and integration time, we can always adjust – but all together, not someone skipping classes 😉 😛 Of course, if someone tells us they need to rest, that’s not a problem, but we need to know why someone is not practicing)

ATTENTION! There is no possibility of cancellation – of course, you can find someone to take your place if needed.

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IMPORTANT – ROOMS:

there will be accommodation in rooms for 2, 3, 4 or 5 people
We can’t guarantee you which room you will get
You will have a list of rooms before the event and you will be able to assign to the room you want if other people will not be faster 😉
You can let us know which room you prefer and with who you want to be in the room but we can’t guarantee if you will be in room for 2 or 5 people.
We will try to fulfill all requests, but due to amount of the rooms we probably will not ba able to put everyone into rooms for 2 or 3, also because we will have rooms from our venue probably 1 month before the event. (if we would like to be in the venue with guaranteed rooms for this week the price would be probably 200EUR higher than we have…)

Price:
1950PLN

PREPAYMENT – deposit rules:
The main rule is that if you decide to use the deposit system, they are NON-REFUNDABLE AND OBLIGATORY TO PAY THE ENTIRE AMOUNT (by the specified deadline below).

There is no possibility of cancellation regardless of whether you paid the full amount or a deposit:
if you cannot attend, you must find someone to take your place!

The amount of the first installment is 1050 PLN.

2nd instalment – the remainder of the total amount (which is 900 PLN) by the end of May 2025.

PAYMENTS:

The account details will be provided in the confirmation email.

The payment deadline is 14 days from receiving the confirmation – that’s how much time you have to pay the full amount or the deposit. Failure to make the payment by the deadline may result in the cancellation of your registration and acceptance of someone from the waiting list to take your place.

A couple of rules:

1. Registration order:

– couples: we need two registration forms from a couple. The first registration form that we receive gets you both in BUT we have to receive the second registration form before the end of that same day to keep you on the list as a couple. If we don’t receive both forms the same day, we will treat your registrations as two single registrations. It is possible for one person to send two registration forms for both partners – we will let you know what details you need to fill in the forms before the registration opens

– single registrations: you can get on the list as soon as we can match your single registration with another single registration. Your place on the list does not depend on how soon you registered but on the time we receive the second single registration.

2. Can I register as a single leader/follower?

Sure you can but you have to remember that couples will always come before you on the event list even if they registered later than you. You can send us a single registration form but it doesn’t guarantee the place at Summer Summit – it does, however, guarantee the price. So if you registered as a single Early Bird but you found a partner much later, don’t worry – you will still remain an Early Bird 🙂

– We believe it’s still ok if there is up to 10% more followers than leaders, so there should be some single spots available as well but it will depend entirely on how many single registrations we will receive

– If there are not enough single leaders/followers to match you with and as a result we can’t put you on the event list, we will send you back the money you already paid.

3. How to look for a partner? 🙂

Please, look for a partner BEFORE YOU REGISTER. If you send a single registration first and then realize that a friend of yours also registered alone, you won’t be able to register together – every single registration we receive is automatically matched with another single registration in the order they came in. In such a case you would have to find a leader/follower who has not yet registered and can write your name in the registration form before sending it to us.

4. LEVELS – ROLE BALANCE – AUDITIONS?

– It’s not compulsory but please try to register with a partner who chose the same level of classes you did.

– The level you pick while registering is treated as your initial choice, it’s very much respected and seriously taken into account but the final division into groups will be made by the event directors after closing the registration. If necessary, we will organize auditions for each level.

REGISTRATION FORM: TBA

SCHEDULE:

Here you can see updated schedule for this year’s camp, also available HERE :) 🙂

Kasia i Marcin Skalscy:

Kasia and Marcin are a teaching couple from Kraków with impressive experience in both dancing and teaching (each of them has been teaching for over 20 years). For a long time their interests revolved around competitive ballroom dancing.

As an instructor, Marcin has been working with competitive ballroom dancers for over 15 years, teaching mainly adults at all levels of advancements (from complete beginners to S-class dancers). He is also a personal trainer and Buteyko method instructor, and passionate about healthy movement.

Kasia, on the other hand, has been focusing on social dances. She’s gained experience in teaching kids, teenagers and adults (some of them physically challenged) at various levels of advancement, as well as running courses for other dance instructors. She’s also the creator of the largest charity dance course in Lesser Poland (one of Polish voivodeships), attended by hundreds of students every year. She is also passionate about andragogy science.

As a teaching duo, Marcin and Kasia prove that absolutely everyone is capable of learning how to dance. They are well-known and appreciated for their positive energy and passionate approach to dance instruction.

Kasia and Marcin in just two years (from year 2014) have built the largest WCS community in Poland (and this part of Europe). Currently, in their dance studio in Kraków, they run 15 WCS courses on 6 different levels of advancement. A number of their students attend international events and compete successfully in Newcomer, Novice, Intermediate, Advance and All-star divisions. Happy as they are with their students’ results in jack’n’jills, they do not see the competitive aspect of WCS as the most important thing in this dance. Social dancing and having fun is what they appreciate most. The most wonderful and fulfilling experience is for them to see how people who were extremely skeptical on their first lesson and thought that dancing is not for them get excited about WCS and join the community for good.

They constantly surprise their students with new, creative exercises and they are capable of translating even the most difficult WCS concepts into a language understandable for everyone.

For Kasia and Marcin, West Coast Swing is not only about dancing but, most importantly, about spending time with positive people, having loads of fun and recharging batteries.