Contact and flow
29 of April to 17 of May
A dance journey of the body-mind through contact improvisation and water explorations.
3 weeks of intensive workshops, labs and jams in studio and immersed in nature.
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Pre-workshop
“Time of the liquid body”
29 of april - 3 of may
A intensive workshop diving into the waters inside you through somatic explorations, water- and dancetherapy, vocal- and bodywork. An encounter with your fluid being.
With Ariadna Franco and Andrea Scheel
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Immersion
Contact improvisation and water dance
4 of may - 11 of may
A 6 day immersion to dive into the depth of body, dance and movement through contact improvisation and water explorations finding new ways to move and connect with land and water. Morning yoga, jams, live music and sweatlodge will be part of the experience.
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Post-workshop
Contact Improvisation - Gathering
13 of may - 17 of may
4 Days of Jamming, Improvising and Labbing in water and on land
With Eva Schorndanner
TEAM
sandra morell
Sandra shares her deep connection with the water as a vehicle to connect to our essence. After she finished her studies in Occupational Therapy.
Sandra Morell
Sandra Morell
Sandra shares her deep connection with the water as a vehicle to connect to our essence. After she finished her studies in Occupational Therapy and Public Health in Madrid, Sandra started a journey that brought her to discover and explore different bodywork techniques, massage, healing practices, dance and yoga.
She always had a special relationship with water, but when she discovered Aguahara a new universe of aquaticness open up to her and since then she follows the path of the water.
She is in a deep exploration of this new ways to communicate with the water, our bodies and our authentic beings. For the past 6 years she has intensively been teaching and facilitating courses, treatments and aquatic experiences in different Waters of the world. Now her main focus is the water dance exploration, authentic being research and creating spaces for sharing this water experiences.
Eva Schorndanner
Eva studied music and movement at the Berlin arts university, having a wide training in music and dance improvisation.
Eva Schorndanner
Eva Schorndanner
Eva studied music and movement at the Berlin arts university, having a wide training in music and dance improvisation. The second one deepening in release technique, Feldenkrais, contemporary dance, body mind centering, laban technique, contact improvisation, choreography and performance.
She works as a freelance artist and as a art facilitator in the area of music, dance and performance in national and international projects.
She was co-organizing and teaching in the Liquid Flow Festival, Mexico 2016 and 2017. This year she is for the second time one of the core-organizers of the 2. Contact and Flow Festival, Bacalar, Mexico.
During the immersion she will be teaching contact technique and dance improvisation in nature places. In the post-workshop she will share about sight specific improvisation scores.
https://kollektiv-colin-maillard.jimdo.com/
www.contactandflow.com
Ariadna Franco
Mexican choreographer, performer, dance therapist, and somatic educator; has led workshops in Butoh, contact improvisation.
Ariadna Franco
Ariadna Franco
Mexican choreographer, performer, dance therapist, and somatic educator; has led workshops in Butoh, contact improvisation and somatic movement across Mexico since 2012.
Since 2009 she has created performances whose center is the body; presenting her work and teaching in México, Colombia and Brazil.
She is co-director and founder of Soma, Anatomia en Movimiento, a creative and educative platform based on somatic work; Mexico Contact Improvisation, which has the purpose of the dissemination of Contact Improvisation in Mexico,” and Casa del Movimiento, a space created for the training and education of dance therapists.
Andrea Scheel
Performer, choreographer, healer and water being who likes sharing through collective experiences for creation and healing.
Andrea Scheel
Andrea Sheel
Mexican artist and facilitator of multiple disciplines trained in contemporary dance, with studies on Naturopathy, (Natural Medicine) in continued explorations on somatic practices. She has dedicated her research on evolutive movement on both land and water for the lasts years and has practiced Contact Improvisation since 2008, creating and facilitating spaces for practicing and teaching CI, movement practices and water bodywork/dance. She has taught in several festivals such as Somatic Flow (Portugal 2018), Luz del Sur (Spain), Contact and Flow (Mexico and Spain), given workshops in Mexico, Germany, Spain, Brazil and Guatemala. She has also facilktarred spaces for water bodywork in Germany and Bacalar (Mexico). She has studied CI with Nita Little, Chris Aiken, Martin Keogh, etc. and water therapies: Wasser Tanz with Arjana and Aguahara with Tanja and Alexander Sieberstern. She has collaborated with teachers Vega Lukkonen, Mario Blanco, Sasha Bezrodnova. Her mission is to create spaces of facilitation to inhabit the body from the somatic experience, experiential anatomy and contact improvisation with a creative approach. A purpose to focus on the collective and the performatic aspects of this disciplines is a major interest of her work.
She created a multidiciplinary collective, Animal Vrbano, and co organizes the festival Contact and Flow in Bacalar, both in Mexico. Nowadays she is interested in the connection between the body and the aesthetics of visual media, artes plasticas and music: the expressive body in its whole integrity. To reclaim one’s own appropiation of these media to communicate, to connect and provoque. She has made skme performatic productions and audiovisuals underwater.
https://andreascheel.wordpress.com/
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submerge yourself in the beautiful lagoon of the seven colors and enjoy the magical underworld of cenotes, caves and ancient stromatolites in Bacalar, México.
Get in contact with the elements dancing in water
THE IMMERSION
4th: arrival day, dinner, welcome Jam
5th – 10th: early morning yoga class, contact improvisation in nature, water and studio, somatic explorations, jams and temazcal
11th: breakfast and closing circle
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How to Get there
Book your flight now to cancun or merida and get the best deal!
FROM EUROPE
www.wamosair.com
Cheap Flights Madrid, Amsterdam to Cancun Qta. Roo (+4.5 hour drive to Bacalar)
www.tuifly.Com
or fly to Chetumal Qta. Roo (+30 min drive to Bacalar)
FROM MEXICO
www.vivaerobus.com
www.interjet.com
Flight to mérida o Cancún ( +4.5 hr drive)
or flight from Mexico City to Chetumal (+ 30 min drive to Bacalar)
Bus Service
www.ado.com
Buses and Shutters Cancun – Bacalar
White van shuttles every 20 min from bus station. (faster and cheaper)
Pre-WORKSHOP
| Early Bird (15th november - 20th january) | Normal Price | |
|---|---|---|
Camping | $300 dlls | $350 dlls |
Regular cabin / Yurt (2 persons) | $330 dlls | $380 dlls |
Room (3 persons with private bathroom) | $340 dlls | $390 dlls |
Private cabin with own bathroom(2 persons) | $450 dlls | $500 dlls |
* price in usd per person
*Includes accommodation for 5 nights, three meals a day (starting with dinner the 29th of april closing with lunch the 3rd of may) pre-workshop and one water therapy
Immersion
| Early Bird (15th november - 20th january) | Normal Price | |
|---|---|---|
Camping | $430 dlls | $480 dlls |
Regular cabin / Yurt (2 persons) | $470 dlls | $520 dlls |
Room (3 persons with private bathroom) | $480 dlls | $530 dlls |
Private cabin with own bathroom(2 persons) | $615 dlls | $665 dlls |
* price in usd per person
* includes accommodation for 7 nights, three meals a day (starting with dinner the 4th closing with breakfast the 11th) and all the activities of the immersion
Post - Workshop
| Early Bird (15th november - 20th january) | Normal Price | |
|---|---|---|
Camping | $230 dlls | $270 dlls |
Regular cabin / Yurt (2 persons) | $250 dlls | $300 dlls |
Room (3 persons with private bathroom) | $260 dlls | $310 dlls |
Private cabin with own bathroom(2 persons) | $380 dlls | $430 dlls |
* price in usd per person
* includes accommodation for 6 nights (starting with lunch 11th to 17th breakfast) three meals a day and LAB AND JAM.
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