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International Danse Contact Improvisation Festival en Provence
19-25 july 2025 - Rustrel (Vaucluse) - XIII ÉDITION (SUMMER)
Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance and improvisation, Performance, Workshops, Jams, Underscore, Live music, Nature.
13th edition of the Festival of Contact Improvisation in the French Province, in Rustrel, one of the most beautiful villages in France, located north of Apt and at the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse. A unique opportunity of immersion for 7 days, for 35 participants, to experience an exploration of dance and movement with quality workshops, jams, live music and many other proposals to share.
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The event is open to all those who wish to share, learn or get a deeper experience in Contact Improvisation Dance. Space open to all levels, beginners and advanced and professional dancers.
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Days and hours: From Saturday July 19th afternoon to Friday 25 July in the afternoon.
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Places available: Limited to 35 and will be accepted in order of registration.
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Location: Rustrel (Provence). Professional dance space with a high quality wooden dance floor.
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Food: Vegan meals prepared with fresh, high-quality ingredients, sourced as locally as possible. Cristina Moncunill will be our chef, and her culinary talents are simply extraordinary.
FESTIVAL PHILOSOPHY
This festival was born from an initiative between a brother and a sister and their passion for dance. Mercè Nebot, who has lived in French Provence for 20 years, and Pep Nebot, who lives in Barcelona, have joined forces to create this space for sharing dance, creation and beauty.
At each edition, people of different nationalities have gathered for the Festival, which is very enriching and allows the establishment of a cultural bridge around art, dance and creativity.
In this festival we want to prioritize some approaches:
• Quality pedagogy in Contact Improvisation dance to promote better body awareness;
• Welcoming a small group that will live together for a week an intimate and profound human adventure. We want to generate a sense of belonging to the group and a sense of community, by creating an inclusive, generous and supportive environment;
• Contact with nature, surround yourself with aesthetic beauty and charismatic villages of the deep Provence;
• The cultural exchange between participants, locals and international visitors; We have already experienced on many occasions that, when people with different cultures and life experiences get together, we all grow in a spiral of creativity and self-knowledge;
• Live Contact Improvisation in its essence, with its living principles present at all times: self-respect and respect for the other, sense of group, security and creativity, movement in gravity, contact, attention and self-knowledge, among others.
Structure of the intensives
CONTACT IMPROVISATION INTENSIF – NICA PORTAVIA
WHY THIS SMALL DANCE IS SO BIG?
Where is the first perturbation? Where I can feel the smallest? How the smallest is becaming so big?
In this workshop we will take time to explore contact improvisation as a practice of inquiry , awarness and solidarity. We will approach the body as a community, a web of relations that is impacting the inner and the outer space, and how our story is impacting our steps.
We will explore a somatic-antropological approach that will give us access to the smallest, researching how a little impact can become a revolution in the way we percive and move on this planet earth.
We will research Contact Improvisation as a practice of sensations-revolutions-choices and small/big impacts.
Diving into our tissues, the skeleton system( approching Material for the spineby Steve Pacton) breathing and imagining togheter. Rolling, falling, flying, jumping - being ready for any changes and dancing any NOW.
We will dance cooperating with gravity, with the space, with the support that we recive living in this planet earth. Researching relations as a practice to soften our heart and make space to meet. We will practice CI as space of exchange, solidarity, support and revolution.
´When we do it togheter we can multiply and expand the impacts and soften our heart to make more space to recive'
INTENSIVE CONTACT IMPROVISATION - ERYN ROSENTHAL
Noticing the New: Contact Meets Composition
Social psychologist Ellen Langer defines mindfulness as “the simple act of actively noticing new things.” In this intensive, we’ll explore both contact improvisation (CI) and composition as active noticing lab–a way of exploring finer-tuned, dialogue-based nuances of Contact and Improvisation. We’ll practice and build on basic principles of CI: sharpening our listening, sensory perception, and attuning of physical reflexes, and building more nuanced skills in weight-sharing, spirals, and physical listening. We’ll play with momentum, speed and tone: at different depths and at different orientations to gravity, in connection with the ground, our partners, and the group.
We’ll also apply and connect these CI skills toward honing compositional awareness: finding variations in group, duet, and individual composition. Examining both CI and composition as relational practice, we’ll practice flowing and tracking our attention and awareness, as we move in and out of different depths and degrees of proximity. If dance is movement and movement is change in time and space, we’ll study emergent dynamics, patterns, rhythm, roles, shapes and tonality, as we craft and practice dynamic containers for studying and stirring change.
What is the speed of delight? What are strategies for co-creating? Over the course of this intensive, we’ll gain agility in movement invention and creative, game-based spatial problem solving. We’ll also build our awareness and range of texture, speed, stillness, and other compositional tools to weave a collective tapestry and navigate shared authorship. Open and juicy level class geared toward beginners to advanced. All bodies, abilities, and backgrounds are actively welcome.
The vegetarian food of Cristina Moncunill (Catalonia), our chef
Vegan meals prepared with fresh, high-quality ingredients, sourced as locally as possible. Cristina Moncunill will be our chef, and her culinary talents are simply extraordinary. She says: "Vegan cuisine, instead of limiting me, has opened up a whole new culinary landscape that has enriched my dishes—not only visually but also nutritionally." In 2021, as head chef at Casa Albets, we earned the Michelin Green Star and the Bib Gourmand. My motto is: "Simple, local, delicious, and healthy." Bon appétit!
ABOUT RUSTREL
Rustrel is a village located north of Apt and at the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse. Its open-air ocher quarries, fully exploited in the past, have made it rich and continue through tourism with those of the "Colorado Provençal". Its dirt trails allow you to discover eroded cliffs with more than 20 shades of ochre2, hoodoos, etc. They date from the Cretaceous and are composed mainly of ochreous sands, white sands and ferruginous cuirasses.
The privileged environment: The Provençal Colorado extends over more than 30 hectares, in the Luberon massif, about 10 km from Apt1. Marked trails run through former ocher quarries with more than 20 shades of ochre. The site includes the "Cirque de Barriès", the "Cirque de Bouvène", settling basins, fairy chimneys (dangerous area prohibited by municipal decree), the "Sahara", the bed of the Dôa (small local river) . The GR 6 long-distance footpath crosses the site. The colors of the ochres of the Provençal Colorado contrast with the shades of green of the vegetation and the white of the surrounding limestone massifs.
To get to Rustrel: From Avignon: Bus Line 915 Avignon-Apt Then Bus Line 916 Apt-Sault --- Get off at Rustrel.
ACCOMODATION
XII century Château de Rustrel located in the center of the village
This XII century castle has recently been restored and we continue to add a new touch to it every year. Nevertheless, it is a princely stopover that is offered to you with dinners in the amphitheater at the foot of the castle on sunny days, rooms for 2 and dormitories with 3, 4 and 6 beds and a large common room in ground floor. As it is in the center of the village, it is also an opportunity to take a short tour of the oil mill or simply listen to your footsteps echo in the cobbled streets.
We will have the chance to stay together in this historic building and meet there at every meal to share unforgettable moments.
PRICES & REGISTRATION
Price WITH accommodation in Rustrel castle (ony 30 beds):
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Early Bird until June 10, 2025: €495
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After June 10, 2025: €535
Price WITHOUT accommodation in Rustrel castle:
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Early Bird until June 10, 2025: €415
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After June 10, 2025: €455
To reserve the place, you must pay the deposit of €100, and the rest can be transferred or paid in cash at the event.
What is included in the price:
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Accommodation in Rustrel Castle in shared rooms. People will be distributed as they register. (for those who pay the price with accommodation).
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All lunches and dinners, with organic vegetarian cuisine.
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Use of the common spaces of the castle, dining room, bathrooms, terraces, etc.
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All workshops and jams.
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Liability insurance.
What is not included in the price:
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Breakfasts (the dining room of the Castle will be available to all participants). However, coffee and tea will always be available to everyone. A refrigerator will also be made available to all participants.
REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS
To reserve your place you must register in the registration form and pay the deposit of €100 to confirm your reservation, and the rest can be transferred before the event or paid in cash on the first day of the event.
The transfer of the deposit can be made to a Spanish or French bank, or by Paypal:
• Spanish bank: IBAN: ES47 0081 0900 8000 0334 3240SWIFT: BSABESBBXXX (Owner: José Nebot Muns)
• French bank: IBAN : FR76 1390 6001 4200 1891 0602 595 / BIC : AGRIFRPP839 / Association Corps Raccords
• Paypal: emotionbodies@gmail.com If you choose to pay pay Paypal, there is an applyed commission that can vary from 5 euros (Euro zone) to 20 euros (Israel or Australlia for instance). Due the this high quantities, we will ask you to pay us back this commission in cash in the festival. Thanks for understanding.
When making the transfer, write in the concept "your name and surname + Festival Provence". For international transfers, make sure that the amount being sent is free of bank commissions.
Contact and information:
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Contact in France: Merce Nebot +33 666124365, corpsraccords.asso@gmail.com
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Contact in Catalonia: Pep Nebot +34 685166358, info@emotionbodies.com
CANCELLATION POLICY: If the workshop is canceled for a reason attributable to the organization or beyond its control, the organization has the obligation to refund the total amount paid by the participant. If the participant cancels, we regret that we cannot make any refunds, due to all the administrative work and in order to ensure the sustainability of the event. Make sure you have the dates available.
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