Mutation, evolution, change, transformation, movement. Inner and outer.
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Fénix ​​festival is the culmination of Cenizas, our balfolk residency.
A weekend festival focused on education, a deep and immersive learning itinerary about Balfolk dances. It’s designed to refine technique, explore variations, enhance musicality, understand origins, the function of dances, navigate the dance floor, and much more! A weekend full of enjoyment, learning, and lots of high-quality dancing.
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A unique opportunity to receive training from over 12 Balfolk teachers from different parts of Europe, who have spent a week working together to improve the dances and their transmission, offering top-quality training.
Fénix is a festival to dive, to learn, to have fun, and to dance with experienced dancers from diverse Balfolk communities across Europe.
Balfolk represents the contemporary aspect of traditional dances, the necessary change following the collapse of the pillars of ancient rural and urban societies. And it is still evolving, but how?
Cenizas is an international laboratory where dancers, teachers, and organizers gather to share, to learn, teach, confront each other, and essentially, grow. Fénix encapsulates the outcomes of these experiences in a condensation of workshops, concerts and basically A LOT of dancing.
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The Festival
A weekend of intensive workshops and a concert each night, a beautiful gathering to have a great time and learn at full speed, immersed in a stunning natural environment.
This year we’ve created three training itineraries with different workshops, allowing you to choose based on your level of dance experience and curiosity:
- Beginners (1 star): It’s my first time at Balfolk, or maybe my second. When I hear “Mazurka,” I think, “I've danced it but, how was it?” This is a space to strengthen the basics, to understand a dance from scratch. Even if you already know the basis, this might be the place for you :)
- Intermediate (2 stars): I’m comfortable with some dances and know the basics, but beyond that, I feel a bit lost. Breton dances? Gascon dances? They’re not the same? Oh dear, there’s so much to learn. And after a very little while in a couple dance, I feel stuck in what I know and I feel I don't advance.
- Advanced (3 stars): I’ve been dancing through festivals for years. I feel comfortable as a leader/follower and interpreting the music, but I want to take a step further.
From Cenizas, we want to rebuild, to be the Fénix that begins its journey over and over again in a continuous circle of learning that embraces us and takes us ever further.
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