Portugal

Red earth. Warm Breeze. Blue sky.
The earth calls to those who speak the language of the heart.
Forgotten Land is where the seekers come to find what we are looking for.
Freedom of creation. Freedom of intimacy. Freedom within community

Events, Festivals, and Programs

In between the hills and the sea, you will find the Forgotten Land Portugal gathering. Here the community comes to express, to create, and to share our gifts with each other. We express from the heart and trust our own creativity. Together, we step fully into the present moment and celebrate the rediscovery of our own inner artists.

14-20 September 2020

Portugal Contact Festival

You are invited to spend this gathering with your international contact improvisation family in a private country house by the warm coast of Algarve, Portugal. We will Iive, eat, and dance together in a nourishing rural environment between hills

24-29 August 2020

Ecstatic Dance Festival Portugal

We come together in a lush nature retreat place for a transformative community experience through awareness, music and movement. We DANCE under the sun, the moon and the stars at Aterra, on the Southwest coast of Alentejo, Portugal!!

17-22 September 2019

Underscore Meeting

A six days immersion in the world of the Underscore in a contained and supportive rural environment facilitated by Christine Mauch and Malcolm Manning This is an opportunity to dance contact improvisation, study and develop how we play together.

I am able to create whatever my heart wants

- Volker

This is a place where we can truly belong; a place where we can live our lives and live our passions. It is a loving environment where we can be held by the earth, and carried by the community around us. Through dance, improvisation, and somatic awareness; we transform deep individual journeys into connection and co-creation within our tribe.

Beneath our feet we feel the heartbeat of the land. The warm breeze carries the song of Mama Africa, and we find ourselves reconnected to the roots of humanity. Here, we gather to dance, to sing, to move, and to grow. We learn to rise in love with ourselves and with each other all over again.