4 ELEMENTS Dance your Nature

3-10 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑅𝐸𝑇𝑅𝐸𝐴𝑇 𝐼𝑁 𝑁𝐴𝑇𝑈𝑅𝐸
11-13 𝐽𝑢𝑙𝑦 4 𝐸𝐿𝐸𝑀𝐸𝑁𝑇𝑆 𝐽𝐴𝑀

𝘏𝘰𝘸 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴?
The retreat is an invitation to experience one week of dance deeply immersed into the wild, to approach movement and contact improvisation practice from the elemental world of earth, water, air and fire.
We will dance the questions that the elements are whispering to us, expanding the qualities of our movement by allowing Nature dancing through our bodies. We will meet a deep interconnection between ourselves and the environment through eco somatic practices, opening our sensibility to receive the knowledge that is already there, inside and around us.
We will have time for classes in an open-air studio and for excursions and practices in the surrounding nature, alternating with moments of integration and jam.
Four teachers will guide the journey through the four elements: Antü Munay, Margherita Fort, Samuel Nicola Fuscá and Valeria Chan, bringing together their paths of study and research in movement.

𝑺𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑫𝑼𝑳𝑬
Thursday 3:
h 14.00 arrival / 16 circle - intro and jam / dinner
Friday 4 - Saturday 5 - Sunday 6 - Tuesday 8
morning class / lunch / afternoon class or lab / dinner / night jam
Monday 7:
free morning / lunch / afternoon jam / dinner
Wednesday 9:
all day wild excursion / dinner
Thursday 10:
morning jam / lunch / closing practice & good bye
Friday 11 / Saturday 12 / Sunday 13:
4ELEMENTS JAM / open space for practicing

𝑽𝑬𝑵𝑼𝑬
In the heart of Tuscany, at the foot of the Pratomagno mountains, Spazio il Mulino will welcome our work, with a large wooden platform surrounded by forest and rock and the river to renew our energies.
Antü Munay and Margherita Fort are two C.I. practitioners and teachers, spontaneous permaculture explorer and young holistic therapist, founders of the project, a place ment to be in connection with Nature, practicing Movement and open up to Healing.

𝑨𝑪𝑪𝑶𝑴𝑶𝑫𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵
It can be with your own tent and camping equipment or in a shared bell tent for 3 people, with materass and pillow provided by Spazio il Mulino (maximum 12 spots), bringing your own sleeping bag. We also have a few spots for caravan.

𝑭𝑶𝑶𝑫
A chef will prepare delicious meals with local and organic products, taking care of food intolerance if needed, and providing a vegetarian/vegan menu. Fruits, fresh spring water and warm tea will always be available.

𝑯𝑶𝑾 𝑻𝑶 𝑮𝑬𝑻 𝑻𝑶 𝑺𝑷𝑨𝒁𝑰𝑶 𝑰𝑳 𝑴𝑼𝑳𝑰𝑵𝑶
Il Mulino is in Tuscany, Italy, between Florence and Arezzo, next to Pian di Scó village. The nearest train station is Figline Valdarno, you can easily reach from Florence and Rome. The nearest airports are Florence, Pisa and Bologna. A shuttle service from Figline Valdarno train station to the event will be organized on the arrival date.

𝑹𝑬𝑮𝑰𝑺𝑻𝑹𝑨𝑻𝑰𝑶𝑵
Registration opens January 25.
This is the link to the registration form both for the retreat and for the jam:
https://forms.gle/rp7twu6eJQLKS2XX7
Early bird price for the first 5 spots!

𝑻𝑬𝑨𝑪𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑺 𝑨𝑵𝑫 𝑶𝑹𝑮𝑨𝑵𝑰𝒁𝑬𝑹𝑺
𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗮 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝘁
She fell in love with contact improvisation in 2011, since then she has never stopped learning, practicing and researching in the field of movement, training with numerous teachers in Europe, Asia and North-Central-South America. Traveling and dancing in different cultural contexts has been a great gift for her.
In her journey, the practice of contact improvisation, somatic approach and Butoh dance are the main focuses.
She started teaching in 2018 in U.S.A. and Mexico. Together with Antü Munay she has been holding a regular Contact Improvisation class in Florence since 2021, and in 2023 they founded Spazio il Mulino, a place that focuses on movement, nature and healing.
Parallel to dance, she teaches yoga and is a therapist specialized in family constellations.
𝗔𝗻𝘁𝘂 𝗠𝘂𝗻𝗮𝘆
Dancer, student and teacher of movement/dance.
He has been dancing since he was a child.His research goes in many directions regarding the experience of being a body, a living being.He investigates dance and movement as expression, as relationship, as language and above all as the essential freedom of the human being.The awakening of intuition, instinct, the acceptance of being animals and experiencing our bodies beyond ideological limits, of perceiving our physical, mental, emotional bodies and more, all together receiving, giving and transforming information every second and through different practices tuning all our bodies and opening new places of perception and sensitivity.
𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘂𝗲𝗹 𝗡𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗮 𝗙𝘂𝘀𝗰𝗮̀
He has been studying dance since he was a child, recalls a photo at age 5 in front of a concert where he left a hole in the ground. Since then he has explored ballet first, then theater and various group sports. He returned to contemporary dance in 2010 and then began training in physical theater/performing arts in Turin with Philip Radice that lasted until 2014. Instead, since 2011 he has encountered contact improvisation dance, which definitively enters his life. He no longer stops chasing it between continents, attends festivals, teachers from various backgrounds and in 2019 decides to go direct to New York and then Earthdance in Massachuteses. He goes to meet Nancy Stark Smith personally and is not sure how he manages to interview her in CQ studios.
Since 2018 he more or less casually shares his passion for this practice, mixing it with everything he has gone through in life.
In 2022 at a Taiji-Qi Gong retreat with Sarah Tulivu he is thunderstruck by the idea of founding a place where CI is at home. 50dayscontactdance was born, a program of retreats, research and sharing in the remote Tuscan countryside.
𝗩𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗮 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻
Born in Genoa with Chinese origins, after extensive travels in Asia and South America she meets Contact Improvisation in Brazil. CI immediately becomes Home and school of life. In 2017 she returned to Europe and began studying with international teachers including Nita Little, Ray Chung, Anya Cloud, Charlie Morissey, Martin Keogh and Itay Yatuv. She has a background in Contemporary dance and her research draws from Body Mind Centering, Butoh, Axis Syllabus.
Currently leading regular Contact Improvisation classes in Genoa, she deepens her passion for the body and its energy system through the study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Emotional Liberation Massage method.