Contact Improv in Costa Rica

Workshop
12 фев 2022 -  19 фев 2022
12 фев 2022 @ 5.00 pm 19 фев 2022 @ 9.00 am
Goddess Garden Retreat Center - , Cahuita, Costa Rica - Show map
Contact Improv in Costa Rica - Goddess Garden Retreat Center - Cahuita, Costa Rica

8th Annual Contact Improv Retreat in Costa Rica w/ Moti
February 12-19, 2022
@ Goddess Garden, Cahuita, Costa Rica

INFO/REGISTER: www.contactimprov.com/costarica

* PARTICIPANTS MUST BE FULLY VACCINATED FOR COVID-19 *
For full details on COVID considerations and policies see here: shorturl.at/chHMY

Come to the magical rainforest and Caribbean coast of Costa Rica to play, improvise, and enhance your Contact skills. Your host and teacher, Moti Zemelman, brings 33 years of CI experience to share. We’ll improvise in the beautiful wood-floor palapa studio and do site specific dance explorations with the Goddess Tree, in the pool & on the beach. Nightly jams will include live improvised music. During this week-long intensive we will explore Contact as a way of connecting with self, nature, spirit and community.


Thanks to our Inclusivity scholarship every year we fund 2 - 4 Costa ricans & Central Americans to join us. Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/costa-rica-inclusivity-scholarship-2022

*** SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE FOR COSTA RICA & CENTRAL AMERICAN RESIDENTS - APPLY HERE: https://forms.gle/6wFjfvehADUARUDbA



Cost includes:
❉ 7 Nights accommodations
❉ Morning warm-ups
❉ Daily Contact classes and Jams
❉ 3 healthy nutritious meals per day
❉ Transportation to and from San Jose to
Goddess Gardens


Pricing tiers:
✾ 6 person dorm: $1199 ($1299 after Nov 28)
✾ Triple: $1399 ($1499 after Nov 28)
✾ Double: $1599 ($1699 after Nov 28)
✾ Private Room: $1999 ($2099 after Nov 28)


For details and registration:
www.contactimprov.com/costarica
or e-mail: moti@contactimprov.com


Pura Vida!
Moti


MOTI ZEMELMAN, MFA
As your host and teacher I bring 33 years of CI experience to share. Based in Massachusetts, I've taught and performed across USA, Canada, Costa Rica, Mexico, Europe and Israel. This will be my 10th year teaching in Costa Rica! Over the last 15 years in my desire to integrate communication and intimacy skills in teaching and life I have studied Non-violent communication, Tantra, Butoh, Byron Katie's "The Work" and most recently Betty Martin's "Wheel of Consent". I have been both a teacher and a board member at Earthdance Retreat Center in Plainfield, MA where I currently direct the Touch&Play Festival. I am a featured dancer in Sanford Lewis' documentary film about CI "An Intimate Dance." I also design and moderate the international Contact Improv resource website www.contactimprov.com


TESTIMONIALS:
Moti's intensive was hands down the best contact dance intensive I have ever taken. Moti was able to create a space where community could flourish and where we were able to explore ourselves at so many levels. Contact dance was the vehicle through which we delved deeper into ourselves and what in means to be in community with each other. I cannot recommend his teaching enough.
- Rosemary Macadam (Toronto, Canada)

This Retreat was an absolute highlight in my over 30 years on again off again CI dance life. Moti is a sensei, a true master teacher, who has fed my love for CI on a very deep level and has brought out new curiosities and inner explorations into my being a CI practitioner, who wants to see this form spread to the edges of the earth.
- Cornelia Hoehle, (USA/Germany)

The combination of a paradise jungle/ocean location and Moti’s loving, experienced teaching made this a contact improv dancer’s dream.
- Bobby Dolan, (MA, USA)

Moti's classes were always engaging and challenging without pushing me to wear out my aging body! Thanks for attuned pacing that seemed to work well for the younger bodies as well.
- Beth Dennison (MA, USA)

Moti's CI workshop has been one of my favorite CI expeditions, and I would love to go again! The diverse array of offerings, and being in a beautiful jungle with amazing CI dancers from Costa Rica/Central America, you are always in a dance of inter-connectedness, not just with bodies, but with nature (even the jungle sounds), and culture! Magical, playful, delightful...mmm!
- Moé Kishida (Phoenix, USA/Japan)

Este retiro fue una experiencia hermosa. El lugar y la naturaleza que lo rodea son hermosos... La oportunidad de compatir con gente de otros países que está en la misma frecuencia de uno, gente sensible, abierta, es maravilloso... Y por supuesto la belleza y dulzura de Moti, junto con su enorme experiencia enseñando CI... Todo esto hace de esta experiencia algo digno de vivirse al menos una vez en la vida.
- Emmanuel Ramírez (San Jose, Costa Rica)

Fue una experiencia maravillosa, de gran crecimiento y aprendizaje. Sentir el cuerpo vivo y en movimiento, concentrarse en la pequeña danza, alejados del mundo por unos días para descubrirnos y abrirnos a la maravilla del contacto. Asistir a este retiro fue una experiencia que como artista escénico y ser humano, es invaluable. Gracias.
- Marianna Musso, (Argentina)

Una experiencia transformadora en todos los niveles. Bailarines de todas las edades y con distintas experiencias creando, jugando, improvidamdo, volando!!!!!..no hay palabras para describir la belleza, la apertura, la diversión. Co- crear movimiento, co- crear experiencias, co-crear comunidad. Cada célula de mi cuerpo desea volver el próximo año para seguir transformando no sólo mi cuerpo sino mi mundo interior, mis creencias y mis limitaciones. Gracias infinitas moti por esta oportunidad única y maravillosa!!!
- Virginia Delbino (Tinamastes, Costa Rica)

Info in Spanish -
Para ver la información de este evento en español haga clic aquí:
http://www.contactimprov.com/costaricaspanish.html

Goddess Garden Retreat Center


Cahuita

Costa Rica

The magic of the Costa Rican Rainforest and the dance of the Caribbean Sea make the perfect combination to create this dance and yoga Retreat Center.