08/26/26 to 09/05/26 \\ Vall de Boí \\ Lleida
Movement Arts Festival in La Vall de Boí
and Aigüestortes National Park
Guest Professors 2026
Lucía Sánchez
Originally from Madrid and now living in the Sierra de Madrid mountains, she has been a movement and dance teacher for 18 years. She began her career as an educator at Lapuertaroja (a studio she founded and directed from 2008 to 2022). Since 2020, she has co-directed La Mimosa, where she continues to teach with passion through conscious movement (Contact Improvisation Dance, Dance & Somatics, and Pilates). She trained in Ballet, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, and Improvisation, and has also explored Butoh, Body Mind Centering, Axis Syllabus, and other approaches. She has been a Pilates instructor since 2008 and a regular yoga practitioner. She is a lover of the Feldenkrais Method and nature.
Contact Improvisation Workshop:
“Swimming in the River of Sensations”
This proposal is guided by the practice of mindfulness and attentive work, observing sensations as a guide to unfolding the body and movement. We will navigate this dual dialogue of attending to the moving body and how our attention also shifts from one layer to another, opening our perception to contact with other bodies and the landscape. Whenever we touch another body, we are touching ourselves; as we learn the qualities of that body, we discover new aspects of ourselves. We will connect with the environment (in the studio and in nature), allowing the world to permeate us, affect us, and change us, noticing the subtle transformations. We will imagine ourselves as part of a larger organism; as a forest, as a lake, as a valley, as the group.
To embody the environment and allow our individual being to dissolve into this system larger than each of us, embracing the emergent properties that this new organization, communion, and organism offers us.
Emma
Riba
This workshop proposes an exploration of movement based on the relationship between the body and the object. In this case, stones are presented as active elements that transform physicality, the quality of gesture, and the relationship with space. Through physical exercises, games, and improvisation activities, we will explore different qualities such as weight, texture, and flexibility, transforming actions like holding, dragging, suspending, or dropping into drivers of physical action.
Originally from Andorra and based in Catalonia, she is a dancer, performer, and creator. She works with companies such as Núria Guiu, Ingri Fiksdal, Ex Nihilo, and Cielo Raso, among others. She is the co-director of LaSúbita with Laura Alcalà and is part of the L'ERA Performing Arts collective, developing projects related to artistic creation, community practices, and heritage and unconventional spaces. Alongside her career as a performer and creator, she has led workshops in spaces and programs such as Varium, Àrea, Nunart, and CobosMika Seed's. With LaSúbita, she has participated in community projects such as Pla Actua 2021, Nilak 2022, and Ballar el barri for the La Mercè 2024 festival.
"Dance Workshop with the Object"
Contemporary dance and improvisation
Mar Pinho and
Charline
Nolin
Based in France, Cía Fiká is an acrobatic dance duo formed by Portuguese artist Mar Pinho and French artist Charline Nolin, both specializing in floor acrobatics and with circus training. Their work combines dance, acrobatics, and physical play, creating pieces and workshops where movement becomes a space for encounter and bodily communication. Mar, with a background in hip hop, krump, and breakdancing, and Charline, with a background in contortion and contemporary dance, develop together a physical language based on contrast, listening, and complicity between bodies.
"Get Acrobatic" Dance Acrobatics
Through this workshop, Cía Fiká shares a physical practice based on contemporary dance, hip hop, and floor acrobatics, adapting to the abilities and experiences of each participant. The workshop invites participants to discover movement through physical games and group activities, exploring different body supports and developing tools to create their own short acrobatic phrases. The workshop focuses on enjoyment, body awareness, and connection with other bodies, making acrobatic movement accessible to people of different ages and backgrounds.
Teresa
Martín-Sauceda
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Originally from Madrid and based in Cádiz. Dancer, creator, and movement teacher. Founder and director of Proyecto NaNa, creator, promoter, and co-director of Pirineos en Danza and Danza a Toda Costa with Laura Lara Mariscal.
Throughout her career she has developed stage, educational and community projects in conventional and unconventional spaces, investigating the relationships between body, emotion, imagination and movement.
Her work stems from reflection on human realities and emotions, translating these experiences into symbols that take shape through the body, objects, and choreography. In her creative and teaching processes, she understands movement as a tool for exploration, listening, and expanding individual and collective consciousness.
An express clown creation workshop where, through clowning techniques and games, we will explore the world of comedy and dance together. We will create short collective and individual choreographies where improvisation will be the driving force behind the search for material that will culminate in the writing of a physical, comedic score created by the students with the help of the audience's laughter—the only choreographer to whom we will be accountable.
We will use the clichés of dance and movement, and play with them, luminously extreme and intense, launching our artistic ambition to infinity, always in a playful and trusting atmosphere... But with the seriousness and importance of knowing that today can be a special day, it can be your great DANCE!
"The Natural Within You" Immersive Mountain Dance Workshop
