Portugal Programs – Forgotten Land

January 16-18, 2019

Fluentbody

We will take a journey through movement, dance, connecting and feeling, to explore the intricacies of our stories. Connecting conscious and unconscious movement, we will uncover delicate, pleasurable and powerful movements, without self-judgment. We will open doors to new places, awakening physical sensations, which can also work on an emotional level.Florencia Lamarca

February 22-25, 2019

Contact meets Waterdance Training II

We find freedom, choices and directions in moving towards and away from each other. We experience our spine as an alive, mobile and resilient structure that can support ourselves and others. We explore our soft and strong spine in solo movement and in contact with another body, in water and on land. We explore how the modulation of the tone of the spine serves different situations in relation to gravity and the full or partial weight of another body.Marielle Gerke

February 13-19, 2019

Contact meets Waterdance Gathering

In the CI meets Waterdance Gathering we are working with experiential somatic disciplines we explore inner and outer states, discovering where movement arises. With practices to enliven the sense and develop our somatic communication skills, we experiment with movement and touch in a safe, held container. We invite the healing elements of nature into our research through exercises on the beach. An evolutionary journey from water, to land & onto the dance floor!Marielle GerkeDolores Dewhurst-Marks (UK)Vega Luukkonen

February 11-15, 2019

Wild Feminine Dance Retreat

FREE • WILD • FEMININE The new feminine wayLia Pavlidis

February 6-9, 2019

Contact Improv Training Intensive: Advanced 2

This CI intensive training is focused on both building a solid ground of basic and advanced contact improvisation skills and develop understanding of underlying physical principles of CI. Our approach is dance & somatics, flavoured with some heart and soul.Vega LuukkonenPrem Tara

Jan 30 – Feb 3, 2019

Axis Syllabus, Movement Artisans: Flying

The program serves as foundation for new students to the Axis Syllabus or provides a deepening for the more experienced. The two modules are focusing on Anatomy in Motion, functional and context oriented coordination, connective theories and detailed movement exploration. Each module weaves together a matrix of material that is experienced through individual movement research, looping movement patterns, contact improvisation and other dance and athletic forms. In addition we invite other somatic experts, speakers and surprises (outdoor sessions, constraints-led practices, jam…) to expand the modes of learning and experiencing as well as offering complementary embodiment practices and restorative time.Kira Kirsch (GER)Antoine RagotYulia Dolgova

Jan 28-29, 2019 & 4-5th February

Authentic Movement & Performance Making

What does it mean to touch and be touched? To see and be seen?Rosalind Holgate-Smith

Jan 20–27, 2019

Goa Contact Festival

We explore different aspects of dance, improvisation and performing arts in skill building intensives, classes, labs, theoretical /practical researches. Nightly dance jams take place in an outdoor marquee, beside the ocean, inspired with eclectic live musicians. Weaving the web of this international artistic community!Kira Kirsch (GER)Malcolm Manning (UK)Tom Goldhand (ISR/NL)

Jan 10-15, 2019

Goa Ecstatic Festival

Join us in Arambol, India for a transformative movement adventure by the ocean. Celebrate with your global ecstatic dance family and an exquisite line-up of artists & teachers. We are excited to be with you again.Willemijn De DreuArun JiPascal de Lacaze

January 9-15, 2019

Moving from the Fish Body

In the 3.5 billion year tale of human evolution, it is from our fish ancestors that we inherit our spinally organised head-tail structure. In this process-oriented dance and movement workshop we’ll experience how to articulate from the “fish body” – our vital core – and how our legs and arms enable us to navigate it through the world.Malcolm Manning

January 2-6, 2019

Axis Syllabus, Movement Artisans: Earthing

December 26-29, 2018

Contact meets Waterdance Training I

We experience ourselves as breathing beings that allow their cells, souls and bodies to expand and condense. We explore external and internal breathing and how the breath supports our movement – alone and together, in water and on land. We explore our center and our limbs as well as their relationship to each other through movement and touch as a basic organisational principle of the moving body. We explore how this principle supports our Contact Improvisation practice on land in all levels in space and in the water.Marielle Gerke