liquid roots
2024
Liquid Roots Gathering
July 4 - 9th 2024
NapMajor Farm, Hungary
What:
This is a 5-day immersion weaving land-based somatic practices with aquatic dance. We will offer a supportive space to explore your dance through releasing excess tension, finding fluid integrity, and embracing suppleness in connecting with yourself, the ground, the water, and others.
Throughout the week we will draw from both land based practices and aquatic practices, to support us in finding our liquid roots. Our land-based work
will offer intensives that draw from somatic practices, tuning scores, contact improvisation, axis syllabus, play-fight, breathwork and functional floorwork.
Our aquatic offering will draw from our practices of aquatic contact dance, freediving, Aguahara, Janzu, and Fluid Presence. We strive to develop body-minds that can access fluid expression, availability and presence, while cultivating a sense of rooted integrity and grounded intention.
How:
Throughout the gathering we will:
* Find a sense of levity in relationship to gravity,
* Renegotiate the distribution of tension in our bodies,
* Follow the chain of movement along fascial networks,
* Introduce the basics of giving and receiving aquatic support,
* Practice mutual and collective care within a community container
* Attune to sensing and moving different layers of our anatomical structure,
* Deepen our capacity for subtle listening and connection in water and on land,
* Discover new pathways that emerge through weightlessness and disorientation,
*Co-create an empowering field of personal expression & group communication
for whom:
This workshop will be applicable to dancers, movement artists, bodyworkers, physical therapists, movement therapists, somatic therapists, or anyone who is:
* curious about exploring the fluid mechanics of the body
* researching ways of developing more softness and listening in their dance
* wanting to be in their body in a more responsive and adaptable way
* wanting to find more fluidity in their partner dances
* Interested in developing their technique in aquatic dance
why:
We believe cultivating fluid capacities supports us in navigating unexpected, challenging, or disruptive experiences in movement or in life, with grace. In these times of increasing instability and uncertainty, we believe training qualities such as fluid adaptability, softness, resilience, yielding, listening, and creativity are implicit to surviving, as well as thriving. We will explore how to carry these qualities into our movement practices and ultimately into our life.
researching the continuum between the liquid and terrestrial habitats, our land and water body
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integrating the fluid qualities of water into our biomechanical, ecological, relational, and emotional structures
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blooming towards the encounter while keeping my roots firm, caring for me while taking care of the other.
researching the continuum between the liquid and terrestrial habitats, our land and water body 〰️ integrating the fluid qualities of water into our biomechanical, ecological, relational, and emotional structures 〰️ blooming towards the encounter while keeping my roots firm, caring for me while taking care of the other.
Napmajor Farm
Our workshop will be hosted by the beautiful Napmajor Farm, about an hour outside of Budapest, Hungary. There we will get to enjoy an indoor heated pool, large wooden-floor dance space, sauna, cold-plunge, and surrounding lush forest. This is a unique opportunity to explore land-based movement practice with aquatic dance, in a quiet and natural environment. The farmhouse offers comfortable 2-3 bed private rooms, as well as a traditional yurt for 6 people. If you are inspired to camp, that is also a possibility.
Investment
Reduced
early bird (Until 31/05/24)
450 euros
timely bird
500 euros
Standard
early bird (Until 31/05/24)
500 euros
timely bird
550 euros
Supporting
early bird (Until 15/31/24)
550+ euros
timely bird
600+ Euros
◎3 vegetarian meals a day during immersion are 100 additional euros.
◎Cost includes camping (bringing your own camping gear)
or shared dorm (6 people in dorms, first come, first serve)
◎Private rooms with 2/3 people is additional 50euro
◎We have several helper/work exchange positions available, inquire in registration
◎16 participants max
◎150euro deposit is due to secure your spot. Non-refundable after June 4th.
Registration & Further info
For any inquiries or to register for the retreat,
you can email or Whatsapp with interest at:
chiarapaloma.zompa@gmail.com
To finalize your registration
submit your 150 euro deposit by bank transfer to:
Account name: Bousquie Zamora Leticia
BIC: TRWIBEB1XXX
IBAN: BE92 9676 5073 0223
Address of Wise: Rue du Trône 100, 3rd floor
Brussels, 1050, Belgium
The final registration is due upon arrival to NapMajor Farm.
Meet your hosts
Kriss Rulifson
[they/she]
Kriss is a contemporary movement artist, aquatic dancer, and interdisciplinary maker. Their love for disorientation has inspired them to dance suspended off bridges, free fall into the depths of the sea, and plummet into hundreds of bodies over the many years of practicing contact improvisation. Through their various movement muses, they are constantly asking, “ How can I be in the most available state to receive and respond to a constantly changing environment?”
Kriss is currently working as a freelance dancer and choreographer based out of Berlin and is an Axis Syllabus teacher candidate. Kriss graduated from Tanzfabrik Schule (2022) and holds a degree in Neurobiology Physiology and Behavior from the UC Davis (2014) and Expressive Arts Therapy from the Tamalpa Institute (2016). Their creative work has been received throughout the Bay Area and greater Northwest of the USA, Turkey, Mexico, Canada, France, and Germany. Their movement is inspired and informed by Contact Improvisation, Breaking and House, Axis Syllabus, Flying Low, and Free Diving. Kriss has performed and collaborated with various companies such as KD MovingGround, Piñata Collective, Scott Wells & Dancers, Footloose Presents, Artship, and Dugway Proving Ground, amongst others.
kristenrulifson.com
asha f. passalacqua
[he/they]
asha is an integrative bodyworker, aquatic therapist, SEP (somatic experiencing practitioner), facilitator and dancer with a somatic oriented approach to guiding the body into functional fluidity. He strives towards presencing ever deepening levels of embodiment and somatic freedom and integrity. As a dancer/mover, his movement practice has been shaped by many influences, but is predominantly informed by Axis Syllabus, Contact Improvisation, functional movement, contemporary dance, Playfight and aquatic dance. Through his practice and teachings, he hopes to support the development of functional fluidity, a reliable connection to the ground, subtle listening, and presence in moments of disorientation.
Asha earned his BA from Hampshire College in integrative psychology, medical anthropology, and cognitive science, and his CMT from Mckinnon Body Therapy Center, and SEP. His passion for aquatic therapy led him to study Aguahara and Fluid Presence in Brazil, Mexico, and Spain. He is a certified DanceAbility teacher, Aguahara practitioner, Freediver. His somatic work is informed by his Somatic Experiencing Practitioner training and Gabor Mate's Compassionate Inquiry Method. He offers trauma-informed bodywork, and somatic experiencing sessions through the psychedelic-assisted-therapy clinic Sage Integrative Health in Berkeley, Ca, and co-facilitates legal psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands with Kiyumi.
Escolacqua.com
Leticia Bousquie
[she/her]
Leti is an aquatic therapist and certified instructor of Janzu technique. In the past years she has been fully dedicated to studying and integrating many therapeutic aquatic techniques such as Janzu, Aguahara, Acquadynamics, FasciaSomatic and Aquatic Bodywaves./ She receives inspiration from several teachers and especially from her own relationship with water since being a child on the Mediterranean. This practice supports her in bringing together all her passions and daily practices as dance, yoga and meditation, and helps her grow and develop the presence, acceptance and empathy required to offer this healing work to others and to this world. She has collaborated in aquatic jams, produced aquatic dance workshops and facilitated Janzu training around Mexico, Puerto Rico and Colorado (US). Coming from a background of Nutrition and Chinese Medicine studies in Barcelona, she also accompanies self-development processes through nutritional consulting, and offering conscious nutrition workshops. She is in devoted service through earth and water, committed to growing in wholeness as a human and holding spaces for self discovery processes.
Chiara Zompa
[she/her]
Chiara started her journey of discovery through dance and movement in 2007. Floor work and release techniques were her first strong technical pillars and by following the desire to explore the potential of physical expression and communication, she have been feeding her research and training mainly with the practice of Axis Syllabus, contact improvisation, physical theater, instant composition and improvisation, taiji and capoeira angola. In 2016 her artistic path brought her to Portugal, where she took part in FAICC, advanced formation in choreography and creation, which gave her the opportunity to expand her research as a performer and creator. Always in search of a way that integrates the multiple expressive possibilities of the body, she attended the professional course for Contemporary Circus Actor and she studies and explores voice and singing through the Lichtenberg approach. Since 2014 she finds in Formless Arts' practices a huge basin where to discover and learn about how to meet through dance in a playful, careful and confrontational way, as a gateway to the neverending path of self-knowledge. She is part of the Team both as a Play-Fight facilitator and organizer. Chiara graduated in Cultural Anthropology and she is a MLE practitioner (Energetical and Emotional release Massage).