Festival March 2021
Thailand Contact and Movement Arts Festival, celebrating diversity of culture, research and education of Contact Improvisation. Continuing our multi-disciplinary approach with insightful pedagogies of water dance, contemporary dance and somatic movement to support and inform our practice of CI.
The program includes formats for research laboratories, focused jamming, integration spaces and body work. Without forgetting our favourite offerings that make the festival feel so warm and celebratory – morning yoga, singing circle, concerts, fire under the stars.
Contact Improvisation
Contact Improvisation (CI) is a dance form based on the physical principles of touch, momentum and shared weight. It is an open exploration in which two or more bodies meet through a shared point of contact, and together explore the feeling and impulse of each moment.
Play Fight
The moving and embodied philosophy of a liquid body. Play-Fight is a martial arts / dance practice.
Water dance
Water dance is the exploration of fluid principles of Contact Improvisation. Discover how they translate in a weightless environment, dancing on and under the water’s surface.
Yoga
Beginning each day with yoga, to warm up the muscles and stretch in preparation for a day of dancing. Start your festival morning with a Hatha or Vinyasa flow.
singing circles
A wonderful way to start the day together is with singing. After morning yoga we will be singing Kirtans and singing circle songs to open our voices and lift the spirits.
This is a multi-disciplinary movement arts festival. Celebrating diversity of culture, practice and education of Contact improvisation.
At this years festival (March 2019) over 130 dancers gathered on Koh Phangan from 60 different countries to move, learn, play, share together…
The 2020 Festival will run over 9 days – 23rd – 31st March. And an additional pre workshop and a 5 day post festival jam.
Join us to co-create a joyful space of body, mind and movement connection through creative and artistic practices of Contact Improvisation, Play Fight, Water Dance, Contemporary Dance, Yoga, Ecstatic Dance, Singing Circle and more.
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creating together
january program
Contact Improvisation Intensive for beginners
6 – 11 January
Base of Contact Improvisation Intensive for beginners. 5 days Contact Improvisation training with Sasha Dodo & Dolores Dewhurst-Marks. Preparing body and mind for CI by engaging with its fundamentals principles, ideas and philosophy.
Contact Improvisation Intensive for experienced
22 – 26 January
Unbased base of Contact Improvisation Intensive for experienced. 5 days of CI training, developing body/mind readiness for unexpectable transformations within improvisation practice. Sharing the results in a final performance.
February program
ART CONTINUMM NOMADIC RESIDENCY
7 – 29 FEBRUARY
at Siam Healing Centre on Koh Phangan.
Art Continuum nomadic residency is designed for alternative education, artistic exchange, research and production of art in fields of poetry, dance improvisation, experimental theatre and film. It is orientated towards those who are looking for a flexible environment to develop their own creative pathways, in collaboration with other artists. Supporting individual artistic development and searching for an intuitive approach to co-creation.
The residency in Thailand will be focused on performance and film creation, in relation with dance improvisation and poetry. Divided into two parts, each 11 days, with an underlining open-focus laboratory for research and artistic exchange continuing throughout the whole period.
For more information http://artcontinuum.space/thailand/
March & april program
Thailand Contact & MOvement ARts Festival
23 – 31 March
9 days festival
Contact Improvisation – Play Fight – Water Dance – Yoga – Singing – Jams – Live music – Ecstatic dance. 20 teachers from Europe & Asia sharing their movement research & practice.