Outdoor Play
There will be structured outdoor dance explorations, called outdoor play, happening in very special and magical sites, including the volcano itself and the Sahara Sand Dunes!
Sand Dunes (outdoor play)
Playing and dancing in Fuerteventura's famous huge sand dunes is amazing! The sand's special feel originates in Africa which is about 100 km away. The fine grained sand travels on the wind directly from the Sahara to the East coast of the island. The dunes are a playground! The top of each soft rise in itself is an invitation for delight, jumping free, rolling, falling and flying - in solo movement exploration as well as duet and group jamming. Taking ourselves over the edge, journeying up and down the sliding hills.
Under the open sky, how does this soft, warm surface influence our dance? When dancing Contact Improvisation outdoors often momentum play is slowed or dies on non-sliding surfaces like earth, grass, sand, rock, or concrete etc. But what if it doesn't? If you play on a tilted surface which gives - like a sand dune - momentum and gravity are at work in new fascinating ways. As you move the surface beneath you is lose and everything is moving. This is nature! This is life!
Volcanic Crater (outdoor play)
Fuerteventura has many amazingly powerful volcanoes. We will dance with our favorite one. Hiking up to the top step by step we will slow, listen, sense, see and feel the crater. Opening to its power and our senses, we will work with space, stones and sound, taking the feeling of the experience into our meeting in dance.
Spaciousness
Each day there will be free time, mostly during the afternoon, and sometimes in the morning. We want to give spaciousness to just BE. We want to allow space for all of us to meet the place and eventually ourselves. Connecting to the island, listening and adjusting to its slow and powerful rhythm. Doing whatever we wish, even nothing. Following our interests and instincts, needs and curiosities. We can choose to spend time alone or with people. Nothing has to happen.
Some days we will stay in a location after a workshop, bringing the food to the location, so there is time to just be there. We will create the space that our dance can continue, that whatever wants to happen can happen.
Jams
One morning, and in the evenings and we will have focused and open jamming, in-doors and out-doors. Some with partially guided warm ups and live music.
Sharing Circle
When in a festival, in a new place with a lot of people, sharing life and dance together, a lot of things may move inside of us. We might resist, struggle, laugh, sigh and need our voice. We might need quiet, or we might want to process our stories out loud, a lot can happen. Gathering in small family-like circles, we can listen to and learn from each other, share our inner experience. The festival is about supporting ourselves and each other. We learn in community, as individuals finding ourselves unfolding in the dance of life.
Theater Score Jam/ Performance Night
Saturday night we have the option of performing in the local theater/ Auditorio of Corralejo. It will be what we always do . we will dance.
There will be a score for this jam which means it will be a structured jam with special lights and music. The performance will be part of our journey together, reaching out from inside, sharing and connecting with people from outside of the festival.