Kontaktland 2023 - Hungarian Contact Improvisation Festival

Dear Dancers! 🌻 We warmly welcome you to the 6th edition of the Kontaktland festival. We will celebrate Contact Improvisation once again, and deepen together into our practice for 6 days in the middle of nature, at Három Kincs Völgye, followed by 5 days jam camp. 🌍 This is a fantastic opportunity to gather the Hungarian community and to welcome international dancers. The festival is settling year by year and we are so thankful to create such a safe, intimate and friendly space all together. This is not just a dream, this is reality! ⛺️ We are grateful for the success and the atmosfear we created in 2018 and 2019’s festival. Wonderful connections and collaborations were born, which inspired us to continue our work. In 2020 we canceled the festival and offered a self organized camp instead, we were 70 dancers. For 2021 and 2022 we took the decision to make a festival again, followed by a Jam Camp. 🌳 During 5 years our three word concept was: “community, research and nature”. For 2023 we are interested in Contact Improvisation as a somatic practice. In Contact Improvisation we give so much importance among practitioners to our well being, naturally taking care of our bodies by the way we relate to each other and ourselves. So we would like to honor this part of us and the somatic practice within CI. We asked the teachers to prepare their material following those questions: - When you teach CI, how do you approach body consciousness, how important it is for you? - What is moving in you and inspiring you in this time regarding your relationship with your own body? - What means the word somatic for you? - How do you experience somatic in your dance and your teachings? Those questions will accompany us and before and during the festival. Program: 👉INTENSIVES There will be three intensives led by Alessandro Rivellino (BR), Eszter Gál (HU) and Jori Snell (DK). The offer is to choose one. 👉WORKSHOPS The workshops will be held by Nayeli Spela (SL), Luca Kancso (HU), Lena Peled (IL), Elise Malafosse (FR), Judit Dömötör (HU) and Arnaud Blondel (FR), Bastien Auber (FR). 👉MUSICIANS This year the music will be provided by Nathaniel Damon (US). 👉JAM PRACTICE Every day jams, focused and open, with live music and also silent. One Underscore, maybe outside… 👉PERFORMANCE Time will be given for inclusive performance. 👉RESTING and REGENERATING Sauna time every evening. A space for resting and body work. Forest and endless landscapes to escape and find your space if needed. 👉DISCUSSIONS Sharings, talkings around CI, community, care, and safety. And also the topics which will be present during the week. There are 70 places for the festival, which will contribute to a cosy and friendly atmosphere. ​ The classes will be given in English and translated into Hungarian if necessary. More detailed information about the classes, the teachers, program, and registration on our new website. https://kontaktland.com/ ☝️ Registration starts from 15th of March. 🌻This year we will have the opportunity to get into practice together before the festival, as Eva Karczag will give a 5 days Prefestival Workshop, which will be held in Budapest. More infos here: https://kontaktland.com/prefestival-workshop-with-eva-karczag/ ⛺️Just like in previous years, we will have a 5 days Jam Camp on 11-15 of July 2023, right after the festival, at Három Kincs Völgye. More infos here: https://kontaktland.com/jam-camp/ With love, ❤️❤️❤️ The KontaktLand Festival Team, Grégory, Fruzsi, Viola and Dávid