08/26/26 to 09/05/26 \\ Vall de Boà \\ Lleida
Contact Impro Festival and Movement Arts
in Nature
Guest Professors 2025
Rolando Salamé and Lucas Morones
Rolando Salamé, a Chilean performing artist residing in Madrid, has developed his career as a performer, director, choreographer, and creator in various theater and dance companies, touring theaters in South America, North America, and Europe. Today, he focuses primarily on his solo projects and those of his company, No Bautizados, for which he has received various awards and recognitions. His work combines theater and dance at the level of movement and dramaturgy, seeking answers within the inner being of human beings and the poetry of things.
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Lucas Morones is a dancer and artist from Malaga. His work explores the relationship between dance and drawing, exploring their potential interpenetration. His training highlights various movement techniques such as contemporary dance, circus, urban dance, and physical theater.
"Contact, Movement and Expression" Workshop CI
We will attempt to allow ourselves to be permeated by the living nature of things, filling the gap between understanding and understanding with questions that inspire us to dream. Part of the process is deconstructing, as if extracting its wild, primordial nature from a garden expertly landscaped. We will address movement and contact at the individual and collective levels through tools of physical theater and dance, which we will integrate organically and sensitively into our bodies. The workshop is aimed at both performing arts professionals and anyone interested in movement and expression.
Diego Garrido
Based on his research on body mobility with the hybridization of urban and contemporary dance, Diego proposes seeking to connect with different sensations, qualities, and patterns when dancing or moving. This workshop will focus on energy shifts, improvisation, dissociations, undulations, movement through sensations and floor work, etc. A space to discover and transform movement from the deepest part, applicable to any movement discipline!
Diego Garrido (Valladolid, 1984) began his b-boying career as a self-taught artist in 1999. Through his travels to national and international urban dance events, he discovered and delved deeper into hip hop culture. In 2012-2013, he completed his training in contemporary dance at the Varium school in Barcelona, and has since explored other disciplines such as Butoh, vertical dance, physical theater, and yoga.
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He is the co-founder of Iron Skulls Co, a collective that marked a turning point in his artistic and personal career. With the company, he has participated in prestigious national and international festivals and theaters, performing in cities such as Berlin, London, New York, San Francisco, as well as in Austria, Finland, Brazil, and Mexico, among others. He has received various awards, both collective and individual, and conducts workshops where he delves into the fusion of urban dance, contemporary dance, movement, and b-boying—a line of work the collective calls Theatrical Breakin'.
Diego also works as an actor and model in advertising and music videos, collaborating on campaigns for renowned national and international brands.
"The Body Feels"
Urban and contemporary dance workshop
Manuel MartÃn
Manuel MartÃn (Madrid, 1981) is a choreographer, performer, and co-founder of the company Mymadder. His work intersects urban and contemporary dance and performance creation. He has been part of companies such as Dani Pannullo, Antonio Ruz, Sharon Fridman, and Zerogrammi, and has presented his works at festivals such as TAC Valladolid, Cortoindanza (Cagliari), LOGOS Festival (Sardinia), and the Centro BotÃn. His latest piece, El paÃs más pequeño…, premiered in 2022 after several international residencies. His stage language is based on the body as memory and space of thought. In 2024, he was nominated for the Max Awards as best male performer for Pharsalia, by Antonio Ruz.
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"Dance and Mutate" Dance Improvisation and Instant Creation
This workshop involves, on the one hand, improvisation work aimed at developing proprioception and attentive attention to the body, placing the participant and their experience at the center of learning. On the other hand, it involves the space we inhabit together, its elements, its possibilities for developing the creative act, and whether or not it projects a collective imagination.
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The work of instant creation, of generating something observable and transmitted between participants, the sound space, and the physical space.
Mutating from one state to another as we move together, the power to change everything by enjoying the present.
Mireia Miracle
A clown and musician originally from Linares (Jaén), he holds a higher degree in music, specializing in flute, and has training in musical improvisation and jazz. As a clown, he trained with masters such as Anton Valen, Peter Shurb, Michel Dallaire, Jef Johnson, and Teatro de la Complicité, and in theatrical creation with Jorge Pico and Stefan Metz. He has participated in expeditions for Clowns Without Borders in Bosnia, Jordan, Kurdistan, and Ethiopia, and collaborates as a clown and musician with the Stadteatern in Gothenburg, Sweden. He was selected as the lead clown by Cirque du Soleil in the show "Corteo," performing with the company on its European, South American, and North American tours. He founded his own company, Lolo Fernández & CÃa, with which he has premiered three shows. Simultaneously, he develops concerts for clowns and symphony orchestras throughout Spain, while also directing and collaborating on the creation of shows for circus and theater artists and companies. As a clown teacher, he has given workshops in Spain, Belgium, Germany, Morocco, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru... for professional theater and circus schools and universities... (Circo La Tarumba in Lima, Autonomous University of Madrid, Timbre 4 in Buenos Aires, Cirque du Soleil, Cirque du Mundo)
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!
"My Big Ball" Clown and Dance
PiD2025 TRAINING CALENDAR
