International Contact Improvisation Festival En Provence Spring -12-18 April 2025 - Rustrel - 12th Edition

12th edition of the Festival of Contact Improvisation in the French Province, in Rustrel, one of the most beautiful villages in France, located north of Apt and at the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse. A unique opportunity of immersion for 7 days, for 35 participants, to experience an exploration of dance and movement with quality workshops, jams, live music and many other proposals to share.

Contact Improvisation, Danse contemporaine et improvisation, Workshops, Jams, Underscore, Live music, Nature.

THE PROGRAM => check  https://www.emotionbodies.com/events/73-festival-contact-improvisation-provence-rustrel-spring-2025.html

The event is open to all those who wish to share, learn or get a deeper experience in Contact Improvisation Dance. Space open to all levels, beginners and advanced and professional dancers.

• Days and hours: From Saturday July 20th afternoon to Friday 26 July in the afternoon.
• Places available: Limited to 35 and will be accepted in order of registration.
• Location: Rustrel (Provence). Professional dance space with a high quality wooden dance floor.
• Food: Amazing vegetarian food done by Silvia Sampons, our professional cook with extensive experience cooking for groups in events of all kinds. She cooks vegetarian, organic and always tries to use high quality local suppliers. Working chef and student of alchemy, art and culinary anthropology. Lover of seasonal vegetarian/vegan cuisine and permaculture. https://www.instagram.com/cuinaanonima/

Festival philosophy
This festival was born from an initiative between a brother and a sister and their passion for dance. Mercè Nebot, who has lived in French Provence for 20 years, and Pep Nebot, who lives in Barcelona, have joined forces to create this space for sharing dance, creation and beauty.

At each edition, people of different nationalities have gathered for the Festival, in particular from France and Spain, but each year other nationalities join us, which is very enriching and allows the establishment of a cultural bridge around art, dance and creativity.

In this festival we want to prioritize some approaches:
• Quality pedagogy in Contact Improvisation dance to promote better body awareness;
• Welcoming a small group that will live together for a week an intimate and profound human adventure. We want to generate a sense of belonging to the group and a sense of community, by creating an inclusive, generous and supportive environment;
• Contact with nature, surround yourself with aesthetic beauty and charismatic villages of the deep Provence;
• The cultural exchange between participants, locals and international visitors; We have already experienced on many occasions that, when people with different cultures and life experiences get together, we all grow in a spiral of creativity and self-knowledge;
• Live Contact Improvisation in its essence, with its living principles present at all times: self-respect and respect for the other, sense of group, security and creativity, movement in gravity, contact, attention and self-knowledge, among others.

The facilitators
Below there is a more detailed description of the participants and their workshop proposals. Here there is a short synthesis:

• Consuelo Pacheco - (Chili - Italie) – I am interested in the biological-cultural dimension within the practice of dance, and the possibility of opening new perceptions and questions about ways of feeling and thinking about embodiment. My experience in Dance begins in early childhood and for the last fifteen years I have been investigating the relationship between Movement, Writing, Nature and Somatic Practices.

• Leonardo Lambruschini - (Italie) - Performance artist and CI and teacher. Artistic Director of Spazio Seme International Artistic Center www.spazioseme.com a place where we create opportunities to research, design, teach and manage festivals, intensive workshops, shows, artistic productions and international residencies. Contact, trust, movement are the central fulcrum around which I develop didactic and research, both for adults and children.

• Pep Nebot - (Barcelona) - Contact Improvisation dancer for 15 years, he has participated in workshops with Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Leilani Weiss, Sveta Bird, Itay Yatuv, Leonardo Lambruchini, Ramon Roig, Carmen Alcalde, Lucía Sánchez, Kira Kirsch, Noam Carmeli and many others. He also professionally practices contemporary dance and acrobatics, and organizes festivals and professional acro-dance workshops. 

• Mercè Nebot – (Barcelona-Provence) – Passionate dancer and instructor of Wutao and free dance. With her own creation ORGANIK DANCE, she will offer us a workshop to reconnect with her interiority, her rhythm, her creativity and embark on a sensitive, jubilant and revitalizing dance journey.

• Sébastien Prats (France) : Vocal practice and Jam music. A self-taught author, composer and performer for over 20 years, Sébastien Prats offers an artistic originality that transcends borders. Close to nature and its energies, he draws his inspiration, his poetry and his ability to create magnetic, bewitching and singular sound spaces.

• Silvia Sampons (Catalunya) – Professional cook with extensive experience cooking for groups in events of all kinds. She cooks vegetarian, organic and always tries to use high quality local suppliers. Working chef and student of alchemy, art and culinary anthropology. Lover of seasonal vegetarian/vegan cuisine and permaculture. https://www.instagram.com/cuinaanonima/

Structure of the intensives

INTENSIF CONTACT IMPROVISATION - CONSUELO PACHECO
Membrane: skin meets space.

Through somatic experiences we can explore different qualities of our body systems, learning some essential skills and tools to practice CI in a safe space, expanding our awareness of movement and cultivating communication with the group.
We will explore the interactions between the layers of the skin and the layers of the space to guide our improvisational decisions in new ways. Prolonged listening to the space and the ways we choose to touch. We will hold a space of shared study and observation, to engage in the small instants that sustain the unfolding and depth of our dance.
This is a practice to cultivate the curiosity, generosity and listening with which we allow ourselves to explore the environment in our dance.

INTENSIVE CONTACT IMPROVISATION - LEONARDO LAMBRUSCHINI
To be trio

​​​We will set out an investigation on solo, duo, trio and group playing. We will explore different subjects in CI related to trio work. We will learn how to play, land and fly with a partner and then how to do it with a trio and other group formations.

How are trios born? – investigating creation of trios in the space- coming into and out of them, practicing readiness for engagement.

How we can constantly modulate tone, weight and volume, in a continuous alternation of states and relationships; how can we always be available to dance and what dance asks for moment to moment.

We will cultivate moments of uncertainty as a resource that will allow us to continue our journey, venturing between the "known" and the "unknown" through dance, in that zone where creativity resides. Determination and letting go, holding on and going with the flow, fullness and emptiness, proximity and distance, we will try to awaken to and integrate that into dance. Through a conscious contact with the earth, we will bring our attention to a multidimensional space.

How do I discover more courage and trust in the multidimensional space of the trio? And of the group?

Be prepared to pause, to get lost, to leave, to start something new.

About Rustrel

Rustrel is a village located north of Apt and at the foot of the Monts de Vaucluse. Its open-air ocher quarries, fully exploited in the past, have made it rich and continue through tourism with those of the "Colorado Provençal". Its dirt trails allow you to discover eroded cliffs with more than 20 shades of ochre2, hoodoos, etc. They date from the Cretaceous and are composed mainly of ochreous sands, white sands and ferruginous cuirasses.

The privileged environment: The Provençal Colorado extends over more than 30 hectares, in the Luberon massif, about 10 km from Apt1. Marked trails run through former ocher quarries with more than 20 shades of ochre. The site includes the "Cirque de Barriès", the "Cirque de Bouvène", settling basins, fairy chimneys (dangerous area prohibited by municipal decree), the "Sahara", the bed of the Dôa (small local river) . The GR 6 long-distance footpath crosses the site. The colors of the ochres of the Provençal Colorado contrast with the shades of green of the vegetation and the white of the surrounding limestone massifs.

Accommodation

XII century Château de Rustrel located in the center of the village

This XII century castle has recently been restored and we continue to add a new touch to it every year. Nevertheless, it is a princely stopover that is offered to you with dinners in the amphitheater at the foot of the castle on sunny days, rooms for 2 and dormitories with 3, 4 and 6 beds and a large common room in ground floor. As it is in the center of the village, it is also an opportunity to take a short tour of the oil mill or simply listen to your footsteps echo in the cobbled streets.

We will have the chance to stay together in this historic building and meet there at every meal to share unforgettable moments.

PRICES & REGISTRATION

Price WITH accommodation in Rustrel castle (ony 30 beds):

• Early Bird until March 10, 2025: €495
• After March 10, 2025: 535 €

Price WITHOUT accommodation in Rustrel castle:

• Early Bird until March 10, 2025: 415 €
• After March 10, 2025: 455 €

To reserve the place, you must pay the deposit of €100, and the rest can be transferred or paid in cash at the event.

What is included in the price:

• Accommodation in Rustrel Castle in shared rooms. People will be distributed as they register. (for those who pay the price with accommodation).
• All lunches and dinners, with organic vegetarian cuisine.
  Use of the common spaces of the castle, dining room, bathrooms, terraces, etc.
• All workshops and jams.
• Liability insurance.

What is not included in the price:

• Breakfasts (the dining room of the Castle will be available to all participants). However, coffee and tea will always be available to everyone. A refrigerator will also be made available to all participants.

REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS

To reserve your place you must register in the registration form and pay the deposit of €100 to confirm your reservation, and the rest can be transferred before the event or paid in cash on the first day of the event.

The transfer of the deposit can be made to a Spanish or French bank, or by Paypal:

• Spanish bank: IBAN: ES47 0081 0900 8000 0334 3240SWIFT: BSABESBBXXX (Owner: José Nebot Muns)

• French bank: IBAN : FR76 1390 6001 4200 1891 0602 595 / BIC : AGRIFRPP839 / Association Corps Raccords

• Paypal: emotionbodies@gmail.com If you choose to pay pay Paypal, there is an applyed commission that can vary from 5 euros (Euro zone) to 20 euros (Israel or Australlia for instance). Due the this high quantities, we will ask you to pay us back this commission in cash in the festival. Thanks for understanding.

When making the transfer, write in the concept "your name and surname + Festival Provence". For international transfers, make sure that the amount being sent is free of bank commissions.

Contact and information:

Contact in France: Merce Nebot +33 666124365, corpsraccords.asso@gmail.com
Contact in Catalonia: Pep Nebot +34 685166358, info@emotionbodies.com