THE WORK
30 People teaching, learning and creating together. One week of hard work from 16-22th November, ending in Fenix Festival 22-24th November.
We will be all working on three main subjects:
Dance Exploration: investigate and stretch the technical limits of balfolk
Balfolk promotion: organising is not easy, doing it sustainable is even harder. Let's share some useful knowledge
Pedagogy: sharing and exploring pedagogical tools and approaches
During the residency we will see 6 Dance exploration workshops with collaborative labs, 3 balfolk promotion workshops, plus 6 balfolk challenges (pedagogy-oriented) and 6 warm-up and movement workshops. Moreover, we will be building 3 cooperative workshops that will take place during the Fenix Festival from the 22nd to the 24th of November.
Every contribution is valuable, opinions are precious, feelings are worth telling.
We will explore the techniques of our favorite dances, go through all the details, try some mixed and ideas, crazy stuff. We will also explore how to teach, explain to each other where do we teach from, where do we want to go, and try different approaches through laboratories. We will spend some time to think about how events are, what are their fragilities, which new models can we make work.
And, of course, we will dance. A lot. And we will have fun. A lot.
LANGUAGE DISCLAIMER: The Residency will be only in English. The Fénix Festival will be in English and Spanish.
SCHEDULE
The schedule will be (almost) every day:
08:00-08:30h
09:00-09:50h
10:00-11:30h
11:30-12:00h
12:00-13:15h
13:15-14:00h
14:15-15:15h
16:00-17:30h
17:45-19:00h
18:30-19:00h
19:00-19:30h
20:00-21:00h
21:30-00:00h
- Breakfast
- Warm up and movement
- Residents’ dance exploration proposals
- Snack
- Lab
- Collaborative work (Cool stuff)
- Lunchtime
- Sustainable Balfolk
- Balfolk challenges (pedagogically oriented)
- Snack
- Stretching
- Dinner
- Bal/ Party hard/ Bedtime...
ARTISTIC COORDINATION
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Lucas Thébaut is a diatonic accordeon player and dance teacher from Poitou (France). He started music and dance in his early twenties and hasn't stopped yet experimenting to improve phrasing and groove over various repertoires in search of what in dance and music movement will make the specificity, the essence of each dance.
All these elements brought together in a unique, musical universe.
After 20 years of thinking and tinkering, of sharing experiences and joy all over the world, still the path ahead lies anew, full of possibilities - and the journey continues. Rest assured that he will never miss an opportunity to share a tune, a dance ... or a drink with you.
Catarina Ascensão
Today, she lives her life as a mother, a dancer, a teacher, an event organiser, a doula and a space holder.
Graduated in Contemporary Dance and Choreography, during 10 years she was a resident teacher, dancer and choreographer in several schools and theatre/dance companies. Along with her artistic path, she develops a parallel path through holistic healing, focused on the merging of the movement with subtle touch.
She discovered folk dance and music as a teenager and has been one of her immersion worlds until today.
She co-created Resitrad - Dionysos à Ciel Ouvert, collaborated with several teachers and musicians, participated and teached in several events in Europe and Asia.
The body, its expression and the relationship between beings, are her main focus of research. She feels at her place when holding the space for others to dance and create. She deeply believes in a natural balance of things. She loves to laugh while dancing and to observe the music of people moving together.
Francesco and María are balfolk teachers and producers. Located in Madrid, they organise loads of events, workshops and stuff.
Among other events they organise the Bailando Entre Montañas festival and Cenizas.
As folk dancers and teachers, they’ve specialised in couple dances, studying their most intimate features and exploring the possibilities from fusions with other dances. Their approach, based on creativity, active listening and roles switching, has been recognised in these years with workshops in many balfolk festivals in all Europe (they still miss some country, though).
They’ve also participated as teachers in other balfolk residencies such as Folktemporary, Resitrad or Sustainabal and they wish to bring the spirit of these encounters into this new gathering.
¡¡APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!!