From 7 to 17 March 2020 we meet again in Koh Chang, Ranong Province (Near Phuket), Thailand. One of the few places on Earth with the conditions for a festival like this.

A small wild island surrounded by the calm and warm waters of the Thailand seas with a fresh blue lake in its middle. The perfect scenario for our water and land activities. Cashew trees, wild vegetation, a Buddhist monastery and the quietness of an almost engine/technology-free environment.

1. THE PROGRAM
ARRIVING
INTENSIVE
EMBODYING
2. ACCOMMODATION & FOOD
3. REGISTRATION
4. WORKSHOPS

1. THE PROGRAM

We divide the program in 3 stages, Arriving, Intensives, Embodying.
And regardless of which phase of the Festival we are, every evening we JAM on the main floor.

ARRIVING
The first three days of the festival ( 7-9 March) is the time to arrive on the island and to the dance.
We begin with 3 days intensive for beginners:

7-9 March ”Let’s Begin Together!” (Maria Grudskaya)

8-9 March Freediving classes with Kirill Popov

INTENSIVE
The next 5 days (10-14 March), is the core of the festival.
3 days (10-12 March) with two parallel intensives on land in one half of the day, and two parallel intensives in the water on the other half. Then, a day out (13 March) to rest. The last day of this part of the festival (14 March) is for jamming and closing the water intensives.

10-12 March “Distance and intimacy” (David Leung - Hong Kong)

10-12 March “Martial Arts in Contact Improvisation” (Michal Ratajski - Poland)

10-14 March “Dance element” (Sasha Bezrodnova & Anastasia Saevich - Russia)

10-14 March “Sinking in” (Mario Blanco Martinez - Spain/Argentina)

EMBODYING

The last three days of the festival (15-17 March) are the time devoted to the assimilation and the embodiment of the festival. This time will be occupied with Somatic explorations, Bodywork Practice, Labs and exchanges. And finally, the closing circle of the Festival.

2. ACCOMMODATION & FOOD

The festival fee does not include accommodation and food. Accommodation on the island around the festival area ranges from 8 to 17 U$S, or 7.50 to 16 €, for some nice and cozy bungalows. Information for booking is available on the festival website. You can usually find someone to share once you´re there. The food is really cheap and Thai tasty, and the festival offers fruits and drinks in the evening at the jams.

3. REGISTRATION

The registration IS OPEN!

EARLY BIRDS!
Making Prepayment before 1 January 2019 – 320 $.
After the 1 of January, the festival registration fee is 370 $.
Prepayment = 100 $

The fee includes participation in the festival program activities (intensives, jams, labs, freediving classes, etc.) evening fruits, water, and tea.

You may register to the festival through the website
http://ci-thai.com/registration/

Or you may write us an E-mail:
ci.thai.fest@gmail.com

4. WORKSHOPS

7-9 Мarch
Maria Grudskaya ”Let’s Begin Together!”
"We have three days at the very beginning of the festival to arrive in the land, water, and people of our amazing island. For some, it will be the first meeting with contact improvisation… Uuu, exciting! For some, it will be the first experience of dancing outdoors in a hot country, and for sure for everyone, it will be the first meeting with each other. We have enough time to really launch the festival together!"

8-9 Мarch
Kirill Popov "Freediving class"
"Freediving is a dream of flying that comes true! Hold your breath, dive underwater – and you can move in any direction. You can find effortless movement and enjoy your presence at the moment here and now.
Deep immersions are not included in this workshop!"

10 - 12 March
David Leung “Distance and intimacy” (a re-initiation into the depths of contact improvisation)
"As intimate as one maybe to oneself, there can often be misunderstandings and misgivings. I see this as a space for learning and personal growth. The fact that the questions, “who am I”, along with many that unfold along the way, can bear more answer than one, dependent upon the situation and happenstances, has become a fascinating way to re-initiate myself into the otherwise repetitive, “almost-certain”, “been-there-done-that” kind of existence which for me kills the joy of the practice."

10-12 March
Michal Ratajski (Poland)
“Martial Arts in Contact Improvisation”
"This workshop is a author translation of martial arts [MA] ideas and training systems into a contact improvisation plane. In martial arts almost every action involves contact. The detailed information from MA incredibly extends the context of knowledge. If at the mental level we change the approach and point of view on the aspect of victory, rivalry and intentions of our actions. And at the physical level: to pace, strength, mussle tension, range of motion …"

10-14 March
Sasha Bezrodnova & Anastasia Saevich (Russia)
“Dance Element”
"Full release and relaxation – what is called “yield” in the language of the patterns of the developmental movement – in our opinion, is the basis from which the dance grows. A dance can contain many different states, aspects, and patterns, it can be energetic and furious, but if yield is missed, then all actions seem to lose their support of sensitivity, become more flat and external. If we have rooted in ourselves the qualities of relaxation and letting go, then we have very good contact with ourselves, with the earth and with everything/everyone we interact. Then the dance happens truly interactive, organic, and artful. Therefore, in the course of the intense, we will come to different qualities and conditions of the dance, but only after we make sure that the participants really raised this quality of yield within themselves."

10-14 March
Mario Blanco Martinez (Spain-Argentina).
“Sinking in”
"As we let go of the patterns of earth, air, gravity, to discover those waiting for us in the water, it is not just the way we move that changes, but the way we think, sense and feel. It is worth contemplating ourselves in the process, as to revisit ourselves and root back to earth with new knowledge.
This workshop aims to acknowledge the water as a place of learning, and the present moment as the teacher. To relax in the element, so we can explore moving in the water while contemplating our own experience, and the transformations we go through."