08/27/25 to 09/06/25 \\ Vall de Boí \\ Lleida
Contact Impro Festival and Movement Arts
in Nature
PiD24 SHOWS
"NATURA" by Alba Olmedo y Cía. (Andalucía)
Danza, Flamenco and more. Saturday 31/8/24 en La Vall de Boí.
NATURA is a performance that embraces flamenco, dance, and theater as avenues of expression that can materialize the reflections and impulses born from coexistence, contemplation, and the resonance of the natural environment.
It is a declaration of intent, an invitation to listen to the environment, as well as to the intimate, personal space. It alludes to the origin-context that allows us to exist and gave us birth. It offers a reminder of the strength that emanates from there, which we can shape and redirect at any moment. It also whispers, reminds us of the responsibility and respect that both our own and our common heritage deserve.
"MAIADOR" by Cía, Delá Praká (Brasil)
Danza, Circo & Popular Culture from Brasil. SUNDAY 1/9/24 in La Vall de Boí.
MAIADOR is an expression of the rural culture of northeastern Brazil, meaning the flat place where the ox rests. It is that shade in the middle of the field where cattle take refuge and rest from the midday sun. This show evokes these moments of refuge and encounters in the midst of everyday life, recreating that "Maiador" in each new space, filled with our personal and cultural references. The audience, a fundamental part of this gathering, shapes our arena, inviting them to share this experience based on Brazilian popular music and dance, fused with acrobatics and contemporary dance. "Maiador" is a celebration that reveals our very essence.
The show blends acrobatics, Chinese pole dancing, acrobatic duets, Brazilian musicality, and contemporary and popular dance. It invites the audience to experience a relaxed atmosphere, where everything is transformed into rhyme, constantly seeking balance but never falling, at once firm and flexible. The creation is influenced by popular Brazilian movements such as Samba de Roda, Coco, Baião, and Capoeira, among many others.
"SERÁ PAISAJE" Compañía Natalia Jiménez (Andalucía).
Danza & manipulation. SATURDA 7/9//24, DANSGÉNERE in El Pont de Suert.
It will be a landscape, a dance piece that explores the basic needs and flow of life in primitive communities. From an anthropological perspective, the creator embodies the transition from one generation to the next, in a cyclical process of caring, providing sustenance, and receiving shelter.
“DISPOSITIVO LABRANZA” Colectivo Lamajara Danza (Cataluña/Canarias)
Performance SATURDAY 7/9//24, DANSGÉNERE in El Pont de Suert.
DISPOSITIVO LABRANZA is a stage structure that integrates social and professional dance through a creative process based on the possible similarities between the farmer and the artist-dancer, in which each individual connects with their "inner countryside" to explore their own idiosyncrasies and reality.
This is an intergenerational project, bringing together people between the ages of 16 and 75 and using the figures of the farmer and the artist to identify the similarities between the two fields and how they coexist. We therefore took this impetus to approach the project from the common, everyday, and authentic movement of people, which is expressed in a rich way and is supported by those stories of yesteryear that, in their simplicity, imbue the locals with depth and identity.
LA VALL EN DANSA 2024
“Natural and Cultural Landscape” (Boí Valley) with Xavi Farré
Guided walk and reflection . Sunday 8/9/24, Cavallers area.
“Showcase Contest Winners” presents MyMadder Company .
SUNDAY 8/9//24, Cavallers zone.
With the aim of decentralizing art and its common exhibition spaces, we encourage performers and creators to seek out new, challenging spaces. We connect past and present through dance and reflection, and address topics of interest to the valley from a different perspective.
La Vall en Dansa opens a space for experimentation, research, and projection for new creators and residents of the Vall de Boí.
2024 EDITION
Espectáculo de Danza, Circo y Cultura Popular Brasileña de Cía. DELÁ PRAKÁ
Espectáculo de Danza, Flamenco y Teatro de Alba Olmedo
Muestra del certamen de nuevos creadores
Espectáculo de Danza, Circo y Cultura Popular Brasileña de Cía. DELÁ PRAKÁ
Guest Professors 2024
Marina Collares and Ronan Lima
(From Praka)
Delá Praká emerged from a shared interest in deconstructing traditional circus aesthetics through contemporary dance. They developed their own language through dance, acrobatics, hand-to-hand performances, and a strong influence from Capoeira Angola and Brazilian culture. They have created shows such as CLAVEANDO, JANGO, JUNTO, SEN-TIDO, NOIS UM, and MAIADOR.
"Dance Workshop for Two, a look inside Contact Improvisation" Whorkshop CI
In this class, we will explore the different possibilities of blending dance with duo acrobatics, seeking fluid connections, minimizing effort, and leveraging the natural flow of movement in an organic way.
Through the concept of "give and take," we will explore counterbalance, listening between bodies, leading and being led, entrances and exits of acrobatic movements, focusing on transitions and using momentum to our advantage.
The main objectives of this workshop are: to learn how to read the movements of others and to act with the necessary strength to expand and carry flight smoothly with minimal effort; to expand the capacity for listening between bodies in motion, how to receive the body of the other gently, yet with presence; to awaken the center (abdominal region) and use it as the engine of movement; to develop lightness and smoothness in acrobatic movement; to work on counterbalance, jumps, carrying and receiving weight gently; to explore the entrances and exits of acrobatic movement, using momentum to serve the kinetics of movement, softening and minimizing weight.
Collective
Lamajara
Thinking is an art of giving birth. Dancing is an art of birth. If reality is more than a word, it must be explored in a moving body. If our ideas relate to the world, they must develop in dialogue with gravity. Dance as an art of liberation.
This workshop consists of psychosomatic experiments focused on transforming our understanding of the space we are and the space we share. Inspired by Butoh dance and birth thought, the workshop experiments explore the possibility of understanding this shared space in its nascent and emerging states.
We work from the common spaces of breath, gravity, physical sensations, and imagination. We thus enhance sensitivity (the ability to capture sensations, that is, signals from space and the subconscious) and resonability (the ability to resonate and relate freely, spontaneously, and innocently) to achieve a vitalized space where the flavor of existence is enhanced.
The workshop makes no distinction between theory and practice and proposes a moving exploration aimed at enjoying a dance of origin. It is accessible to all bodies, enjoyable for all minds.
The collective was born with the mission of seeking a new language of the body. They organize their work cooperatively and explore the concept of culture "through the principles of nature: becoming, transformation, and change." Their trajectory is marked by reflection on territory and its connection to the earth, the city, and common spaces. In their own words: "The territory we want to describe translates into a way of inhabiting through dance, integrating the body, not only for the pleasure of movement but also as a political practice that opposes the logic of capitalist and colonial structures."
"Labra-T"
Dance and physical play workshop
Natalia Jiménez
Dancer, choreographer, teacher, and activist, she served as president of the Andalusian Dance Association (PAD) for four years, and has worked in other movements and collectives such as LaBoldina, which focuses on gender and permaculture. She is the founder of Group La Bolsa (a group of international dance creators involved in the pursuit of performative practices in live creation). She is a shiatsu therapist and manager of SEMANA SANA (Healthy Movement Practices). As a dancer, she has worked with various choreographers, including Guillermo Weickert, Abraham Hurtado, and Satoshi Kudo, among others.
She is currently in the process of creating GEOMETRY OF EXPERIENCE, some of her previous creations as a choreographer and director in collaboration are: WOLF, AULA, LAOBRAVACIA, LA MEDIDA DEL DESORDEN, PROJECT CONJUGATIONS, L-ENTES and MUY FREGIL
"Motion X-rays"
Dance Improvisation
We propose a specific work on contact, as a way of imprinting movement. We will work with the idea of transferring information to another body through contact, allowing us to draw on multiple logics. We will approach this through intuitive translation and the provision of tools that allow us to develop a specific method of capturing this information and transferring it to the body. In this way, movement becomes a perceptual tool that self-regulates its own expression, building a specific body that explores the qualities of memory, the forms of gaze, listening to space, and musicality.
Improvisation practices that stimulate people's ability to apply their creative and constructive intuition in real time, fostering a perceptive and sensitive state in the present moment and reinforcing interdependencies and everything that surrounds them. Strengthens the sense of community through listening and fine-tunes the unique characteristics of each individual within the group.
Alba Olmedo
Dancer, performer, and visual artist. My passion is to dance, to create, and to share art, not only professionally, but also as a source of creativity and vital energy. It's not something conscious. It's intuition, an ancient instinct that ignites the spark and activates emotion. Nature is my refuge and starting point; it's the reason I can create and feel, believe and trust. Nature is everything; I reverence it and draw inspiration from it. Water and pigments, flamenco and movement. Colored stains that slide onto paper or canvas... Flamenco and movement, costumes, colors, passion, feeling.
Flamenco alludes to roots, strength, feeling, depth, passion, emotion—essential aspects of human nature. Flamenco dance draws from these and explores them, expressing itself through a connection to tradition and cultural influences.
But beyond aesthetics and established canons, what impulses drive the engine of flamenco expression? We will be able to translate and recognize these stimuli within ourselves, beyond the referent, integrate the essential, and freely express movement.
We will recognize the body as a vessel, a container of presence, internal movement, and impulses. From this perspective, we will learn the essence of the various resources that make up the expression of flamenco dance, stimuli available for transformation and integration into a unique language, both individual and group. We will converse with flamenco.
"Body and Center. Conversations with Flamenco" Flamenco Improvisation (without heels)
PiD2024 TRAINING CALENDAR
