Contact Improvisation in nature – with Eva Mora and Tomas Wortner

We warmly welcome you to an open contact improvisation workshop in our beautiful valley in Camino Art House. Date: 9th and 10th March, 2024
Warming up event in Las Palmas: 5th March, 2024 11.00am

We will provide technical and improvisation exercises. We will practice rolling, sliding, jumping, falling, flying … from ground level to standing level. And we will enjoy the dance.

If you want to get to know the facilitators, and have a taste of the classes, you are welcome to attend to our Contact Improvisation meet up in Las Palmas, between 11.00 – 13.00 (Calle Portugal 55). This event is 15€/person.

What is contact improvisation?

CI is a dance form where the dancers dialogue spontaneously connecting through touch, sharing weight, rolls, momentum, gravity, jumps, lifts and falls. It’s about trust and listening to oneself, the others and the space.

“Contact Improvisation is an open-ended exploration of the kinaesthetic possibilities of bodies moving through contact. Sometimes wild and athletic, sometimes quiet and meditative, it is a form open to all bodies and enquiring minds.” – Ray Chung
(https://contactquarterly.com/contact-improvisation/about/index.php)

Difficulty: the workshop is designed for people interested in the body, movement and dance.
Lecturers: Eva Mora and Tomáš Wortner (more info at
http://databazetance.cz/mora-gonzalez-eva
http://tomaswortner.cz

Language: lesson will be facilitated both in English (Spanish translation is possible if needed)
What to bring: Bring comfortable clothes that allow freedom of movement. We will work barefoot or in socks.

Program

Saturday + Sunday: 11.00-14.00 class, lunch, 16.00-20.00 class 20.00 dinner

CONTRIBUTION:

Tutorial fee: 100€
Food (4 vegan meals): 70€
Accommodation (1 nights): 20€
The second night is also possible to book after the event: 15€

To book or if you have questsions please contact on whatsapp (only text, no calls please) +34 633339903 or e-mail: caminoart@caminoart.org

Alapastel+Kikon: improvised ambient all-night set 28th January – Sleepover concert in Camino

Injoy an overnight event in Camino on the 28th January, in one of our cozy caves and share your experiences during breakfast.
We are happy to host Alapatel and Kikon in Camino, this sleepover concert is going to be a very unique experience. Hope to see you there.

Alapastel+Kikon

Alapastel is a Slovak electronic composer. He creates contemplative soundscapes on the border of ambient, neoclassical and experimental electronic music. He is interested in finding originality in the values that can be shared through music. He is fascinated by the creation of soundspaces which can take us into the depth of our being, where we can discover the unexpected.
Waves of gentle ambient electronica intertwine with live loops, effects and vocals from Kikon from the slovak female vocal group Neha!

Kikon dedicates her work to uncovering the different layers that exist in both sound and consciousness.
She experiments with a sensitivity for the different worlds that one can connect to via the voice.
She uses her voice as a tool for self-exploration and the most sincere instrument of self-expression.
She considers music a hidden language that we all understand on an intuitive level and that transcends the limits of the spoken.

THE SLEEPOVERS

We are two out of a group of friends who share the passion for ambient music. A few years ago we got excited about the concept of sleepover concerts. We are fascinated to explore the conjunction of music with sleep. Sleepover concerts are a heart project for us.
They include elements of intuitive and improvised playing, where the unknown is given space to emerge. The sleeping audience is receptive indeed. It listens, just in a different way.
Just as in sleep some centers have the opportunity to relax, we too can tune into these waves and weave a soundscape out of our collective dream field. A kind of nocturnal sound healing arises that seeps into our dreamworlds and massages our (sub)consciousness.

As the morning rays approach, the music fades and we rise into the morning, stretch and share our dreamy experiences over breakfast.

Sleepover concerts fascinate us because we can not only accompany the listeners through the night, but also through a meditative immersion in which we all can become music for a while. You can listen to Alapastel + Kikon here.

Short video

The program and prices

28 January, 2024

4pm – arrival, discovering the land, introduction
8pm – dinner (donation: 5€ extra apart from the entrance fee)
10pm – concert starts
7am – waking up
8am – breakfast (included in the entrance fee)
10am – event ends

We invite you to arrive earlier in the afternoon and discover the magical valley of Camino Art House. This way you will feel more comfortable in the cave where we organize the program. The entrance fee for the event is 10€, including the concert and the breakfast. You can have family dinner with us and other Camino people at 8pm for 5€ donation at 8pm before the concert. All food are vegan (sometimes vegetarian options). For the sleepover we provide soft surface (mattresses, yoga mats, carpets, blankets), blankets and pillows.

For booking and more info please text to Bea (only text! no calls please!) whatsapp +34633339903.

Dinner and Theatre – an extraordinary evening

10th March and 16th March, 2022. 7pm


Sharing a delicious meal and the experience of an extraordinary theatre show are two things that many of us consider as joy and unique moment in life. Why not combine the two? On this evenings you will enjoy a family dinner with people you meet at the first time, but for sure you have something in common: enjoying food and theatre in life.

We are happy to host a very special theatre group at Camino Art House in March. Václav Wortner has spent many weeks and held theatre improvisation workshops at Camino Art House in 2021. This time he returns with his group called “Us Boys Who Go Out Together”.

ABOUT “US BOYS”

What happens when a Moravian actor, Australian circus performer, Slovakian mime, and Czech polyglot improv wizzkid meet? The boys who go out together are a mix of actors and performers with various backgrounds, ranging from classical drama theatre, dance, circus, and physical theatre. They met during free-form improv classes at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague and have been performing ever since. With the main purpose of exploring essentially total and utter free theatre improvisation without any structures ahead given, they concentrate on physicality and movement as their main form of expression. They search and keep learning our own language, consisting of dark Czech humor, movement improv, and an exquisitely bad taste in folklore singing.

Dinner and Theatre

We are inviting you to a special event, the first in history of Camino Art House. We are honoured to host the Improvisation Theatre group who are going to entertain us with their charming characters. But before the show, we all will sit around the table and have a special meal. The cook for these nights is Bea, founder of Camino Art House, who is preparing a special vegan meal for all the participants. The menu (and the show as well) will be different on each night, so if you liked the first one, there is always a chance to repeat 🙂

Places are limited, so please book yours in advance. Dinner starts at 7pm, please arrive 15 minutes earlier.

Entrance fee (includes the dinner and the theatre show): 30€

Menu 10th March

Sweet potato soup with ginger and Moroccan spices
Crispy bites with 3 different kind of dips (sweet potato, yukka, potato, apple, carrot) (alioli, lentils sweet chilli, papper sauce)
Rice with nuts
Green curry with tofu (spicy)
Salad – sweat and sour sauce
Vegan lemon cake from fresh lemon from the garden

Menu 16th March

Vegan Minestrone soup
Special mushroom stew with black paper and walnut
Hungarian Nokedli (pasta)
Baked tomato
Beetroot salad
Chocolate with strawberries

More info:
https://caminoart.org
bea@caminoart.org
+34 633339903

Us Boys:
https://www.facebook.com/mykluci
https://www.instagram.com/myklucicospolu

How to get to Camino:
https://caminoart.org/camino-art-house/how-to-find