Contact Improvisation Circuit in Brazil- 2018! Did you know that in Brazil there is a fast-growing community of Contact Improvisation? It is full of artists, dancers, musicians, creative and inspiring souls! This summer (mid-December until mid-March) there are 7 CI festivals/meetings happening throughout the country and we want to facilitate the presence of foreigners to increase the diversity and the magic of these beautiful meetings! We have amazing teachers coming from all over the world, besides of the highest level Brazilian teachers that will be sharing their knowledge with us in these events! All these festivals are ready, open and willing to receive English speaking people for the events! Some of the beautiful people that will be teaching in Brazil this summer are:
Anjelika Doniy<Russia>
Lu Favoreto <Brasil>
Leonardo Lambruschini <Italia> Itay Yatuv <Israel>
Cristina Turdo <Argentina> Hugo Leonardo <Brasil>
Bere Luna <Argentina>
Paulo Mantuano <Brasil>
Gabriel Grega <Argentina>
Hadley Mays <USA>
All the events are being prepared with much love and care to receive the CI community! They are taking place everywhere in Brazil and the hardest part is to choose which ones to join! The good news is that the organizers are getting together to help you participate in all of them, so if you join more than 3 events you get 10% discount in each!!
Events 5th Diamantino Meeting of Contact Improvisation Overall: Arriving at its fifth edition, Encontro Diamantino of Contact Improvisation summons the sensitive commitment of awakened life through dance, letting oneself dance for the abundant nature of Chapada Diamantina and the so peculiar rhythms of the village of Igatu. Once again, we have launched an invitation to collectively create a space for Contact Improv experiences in a wide spectrum of ways, aiming to integrate classes / labs investigation into the shared daily dance routine together with a large group of participants, teachers and organizing team. We seek more and more to respect the structure and characteristics of the natural spaces with which we wish to dance in Igatu. Thus, we always set the intention of attentively listening to the environment that welcomes us to carry out movement with presence and mindfulness.
Dates: 28th December – 7th January Place: Igatú – Chapada Diamantina - Bahia Teachers: Gabriel Grega <Argentina> & Paulo Mantuano <Brasil> Price: Camping - R$ 1.368 or Shared accommodation - R$ 1.494. This price includes all activities, accommodation and Meals (Lunch, fruits and teas in the afternoon and light supper at night) Web-site:http://www.encontrodiamantino.com.br/ Facebook event:https://www.facebook.com/events/124750228142888/
ENCIMA of Chapada Overall: The ENCIMA of Chapada - Contact Improvisation Gathering on the Mountains and Waters of Chapada Diamantina, will lead us from the pure waters of Capão Valley to the sacred mountains of Pati Valley, in a dance and nature immersion, opening a sensory space for a dialogue of the body with the environment. The gathering is divided in 2 parts, the first one at Vale do Capão, in an eco-village. The second one is a dancing walk to reach Vale do Pati with many moments of listening and silence, dance-walking, waterfalls, movement and quietude. Dates: 8th - 14th January in Vale do Capão and 16th -24th January in Vale do Pati Place: The first part of the event happens in Vale do Capão – Chapada Diamantina – Bahia. The second part is dancing walk that will cross around 50 km of abundant beauty, walking an average 4-6 hours a day, according to the willingness of the group and of each participant, to reach Vale do Pati also in Chapada Diamantina. Teachers: Hadley Mays <USA> More information coming soon Price: First Part at Capão – R$ 350 / Second Part at Pati – R$ 750 / Both parts Capão and Pati – R$ 1.000. Activities and Accommodation included. Web-site: http://www.encimadachapada.com/p-gina-inicial.html Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/encimadachapada
Aquatic Monkeys Overall: Contact Improvisation in Water. Bringing Contact Improvisation research of movement and dance to the aquatic environment, especially the marine environment, provides a totally unique technical, poetic and experiential territory for this practice. Physical forces that interest so much in Contact, such as weight, gravity, force-momentum, friction, as well as flow principles, tone and axis aspects, all gain entirely new possibilities. If Contact Improvisation dance could indeed be explained as a state of non-verbal communication amply anchored in physicality, water seems to add new and defy other old reflections on what is there concrete or metaphorical about communication and contact: empathy, sensuality, lyricism, simultaneity, the unknown, etc. Dates: 13th – 20th January Place: Moreré Beach – Boipeba Island - Bahia Teachers: Hugo Leonardo <Brasil> Price: R$ 350 – Price includes all activities. Web-site: https://www.dancaimprevista.com/aquaticmonkeys Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/hugoleonardodancaimprevista/
9th International Contact Improvisation Meeting in São Paulo Overall: We aim with this meeting, to spread the practice and concept of Contact Improvisation, taking to account that this technique is a body dialogue of two or more people through sensorial vocabulary, comprising touch, weight and pressure. It is the acceptance of the other one and one’s own self in the development of a unique dance onto the present time. The movements that arise from the technique deal with inertia, momentum, unbalance and the unexpected, ranging from a high aerobic level to physical quietness. Body consciousness, free expression of movement, relaxation techniques, energy flow, and physics principles (weight, gravity, driving, fall, rolling, centrifugal force, etc.) are the fundamental principles that guide CI classes. In this edition the theme of the meeting will be spiraled flights – It is for those who want to investigate body intelligence and giveness. Dates: 18th – 30th January Place: Jardim Boa Vista - São Paulo.
Teachers: Anjelika Doniy <Rusia>, Lu Favoreto <Brasil> and Ariel Prem <Argentina>. Price: R$ 650 – Including Activities and Accommodation. If you also join the 7th International CI Meeting in Ilha Bela the price is R$1.250 for both events, only if you book until January 12th. Web-site: https://encontrointernacionaldeci.wordpress.com/home/ Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/events/1058643150903976
7th International Contact Improvisation Meeting in Ilha bela Overall: The 7th International Contact Improvisation Meeting in Ilha bela, will be an immersion of nine days in Contact Improvisation technique. During this immersion we’ll have classes with international teachers, Jams in all days and conversation rounds. We are producing one more year of Contact Improvisation in Ilhabela. A beautiful project, dance for everybody! In this edition the theme of the meeting will be Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation and Bodywork. Dates: 2nd – 10th February Place: Ilha Bela (Beautiful Island) – São Sebastião – São Paulo Teachers: Anjelika Doniy <Rusia>, Cristina Turdo <Argentina> and Ariel Prem <Argentina> Price: R$ 700 – Including Activities and Accommodation. If you also join the 9th International CI Meeting in São Paulo the price is R$1.250 for both events, only if you book until January 12th. Web-site:https://encontrointernacionalilhabela.wordpress.com/home/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1058643150903976/
5th Transforming Through Practice: International CI Festival in Nature Overall: Transforming through practice is a CI festival that happens every second year. It has two main characteristics: it happens on the nature and investigates self-management. We propose: collaboration of the participants in the maintenance of the space/time, food and in the schedule formulated by a collective of artists and invited teachers that are different each year. It is an invitation to learn together how to experience and experiment a dance collective taking place! Dates: 15th – 26th February Place: Gamboa Beach – Santa Catarina Teachers: Bere Luna <Argentina>, Gabriel Grega <Argentina>, Itay Yatuv <Israel> and Leonardo Lambruschini <Italia> Price: R$ 750 early bird until January 15th or R$ 810 after this date. You can join separate days – minimum 4 days – R$ 100 per day. Price includes Activities, Food and Accommodation. Web-site: https://transformandopelapratica.wordpress.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/festivaldecontatoimprovisacao/
5th Contact Improvisation Immersion LAB Overall: The proposal of the LAB is simple: to build spontaneous and organically the spaces/moments of happenings. We are with the listening expanded to the movements of the group that takes place at the same time that we listen to our internal needs. To go dancing in between these territories, open to the unknown that is coming, trusting radically in the mysteries of dance and in the impermanence of time/space. CI Laboratory in state of dancing dance. Dates: 26th February – 7th March Place: Vale do Arvoredo – Rio Grande do Sul Teachers: Information coming soon Price: Information coming soon Web-site: Information coming soon Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LABdeContatoImprovisacao/
Locations Yes, we definitely are a big country and the festivals are spread all over! Well, donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t worry about the distances, all the events are nearby big cities and they are all very well connected! Think about the many different landscapes you will experience! From sun, sand, sea, to rivers, waterfalls, jungle, mountains! How does the different surroundings influences your inner dance? Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s find out! Following you have all the location of the events in the map! If you want to access it in google maps to calculate distances here you have the link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o2ioBs2QIKVCuRCLwX85lrGhkJU&usp=sharing
Who did this and why? At this point you might be wondering who putted all this info together to facilitate your coming! Well, I am Carolina Saraiva, Brazilian by birth but a bit of a world citizen! I am a CI lover and I want to spread the word about this beautiful CI community in Brazil! I am willing to help you to get here, whatever doubts you have about the festivals, how to get around, visa, flights, accommodation or whatever else just contact me! I will be happy to help and please, if by anyway this document or I helped you to get to one of these festivals let the organizers know it! This way they will facilitate my participation in the events! I want you to come dance with us and I also want to be there to dance with you =) carolinacsaraiva@gmail.com
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Carol Saraiva