08/27/25 to 09/06/25 \\ 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 Martín
Manuel Martín (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 Botín. His latest piece, El país 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
Mireia Miracle is a clown, dancer, actress, educator, and artistic director. Founder of Mireia Miracle Company (2016), she develops her own shows that combine humor, visual poetry, and symbolism, addressing profound themes through a delicate aesthetic. Trained in Lecoq pedagogy (Mar Navarro), contemporary dance, and social theater, she also teaches workshops, directs projects, and advises on creative processes. Her work unites stagecraft, pedagogy, and symbolic creation with a respectful approach to people and their processes.
The training I propose is a 3 to 4 hour journey through the motor centers of the
organism. These centers give rise to different ways of moving and relating to the world and others, and they organize our body, giving rise to varied and nuanced dynamics. The idea of the workshop is to explore the unexplored body and also identify how our perception changes when energy shifts center. Moving from the head, which is related to thoughts, is not the same as moving from the hands, which are, depending on their height, related to other emotions and intentions.
In life, without realizing it, we move from different energy centers that generate attitudes, personalities, and archetypes. The more philosophical, mystical, and supremely connected archetypes can be worked from the head center, while the savior archetype would be worked from the chest energy, where the energy of loyalty, love, and dignity is found, for example. The idea is to start from movement and energy and move toward dance and relate from there. How does a person who moves from the head energy relate to another who has their energy in their heart? Can one of them ultimately convince the other? Can one body infect other bodies with its energy? What are the dynamics of a group that moves and relates from the head? What would happen if one of those people began to move from their guts? These and other searching dynamics will be seen in the training, in individual, pair, and group work.
"The Beat of the Centers" Leqoc Technique applied to dance
PiD2025 TRAINING CALENDAR
