OPENING THE FIELD OF THE POSSIBLE

Arrive, land, be. Welcome the felt body. Inhabit pores, folds, nooks, edges, textures, sounds. Connect with each layer, from skin inward and from skin outward. Meet ourselves, others, and the landscape as a living organism whose interactions between parts affect and shape the whole. Dance from sensations, mutual support, and the mystery of what emerges. Move through the solo, the duo, and other group constellations, relying on listening, contact area, and multidirectionality. Savor dance while knowing ourselves as both unique and belonging. In a space of contagious freedom where it is safe to take risks, clear the mind of plans and automatisms, and remain steady in uncertainty. Playing seriously.

CARMEN ALCALDE

I trust in the transformative power of CI, capable of expanding our perception and our awareness, affecting our corporeality and subjectivity to inspire new forms of relationship that I consider necessary in our current culture. I trained in parallel in the social, artistic, and educational fields, approaching singing, theater, and dance from childhood and later undertaking various trainings that I still draw on. In 2005 I fell in love with Contact Improvisation and deepened with numerous teachers. Since 2010 I have taught CI in different spaces and contexts, as well as being involved in organizing gatherings, festivals, and initiatives that promote the practice and its philosophy. In 2011 I settled in an Extremaduran village with a group of friends to start a collective life project with a horizontal and assembly-based structure. Driven by self-management processes and the dynamics that emerge from them, I studied Group Facilitation and Gestalt therapy, finding numerous connections with Contact and Improvisation. Since 2017, in the same place, I have managed and inhabited La Enramada, a home and meeting, retreat, and creation space from where I teach CI weekly, organize workshops, host artistic residencies, and accompany therapeutic processes. As a CI teacher I have participated in the festivals of Asturias, Madrid, Cardedeu, Italy, Provence/France, and in events such as “WIM Festival”, “Akelarre de Mujeres con Arte”, “Pirineos en Danza”, “Itineranzza”, “Namoreira” or “FESTCam”. Since 2017 I have co-facilitated with Lucía Sánchez the project Espacios ( ) between life and dance, co-organized the Encuentro Danzas Magas (10 editions) with her and Ernes Novales, and the CI Festival Inmersiones, together with Lucía Sánchez, Diana Bonilla, and Leilani Weis.