HOME |
PROGRAM |
ARTISTS |
BE PART OF IT |
ROOMS & TRANSPORT |
DANZA DUENDE |
CONTACT |
BLOG |
We are preparing the program for our next 2019 Gathering.
Stay tuned for more news!
Below you can see 2016's program
ALESSANDRA CENTONZE
Workshop: KABYLE
A joyful and colorful celebration, of life, originally danced for the harvest and the special Events of the Kabyle villages. The universal meaning if this dance is joining earth and sky through a simple and grateful heart. Bring a foulard and train your youyou!
Workshop: DANCING THE FOUR DIGNITIES with Francesca Russo
Let’s create a simple dance, joyful, brave and crazy to dance it together not only in this occasion, but every time we want to evoke the qualities of the open hearted warrior.
Humbleness: The earth, the roots, the pleasure of living in or body, the richness of simplicity, the wonder on present moment.
Joy: Beauty and precision of forms following the rules of rhythm and harmony.
Bravery: Training space awareness. Improvising fearlessness. Leadership or being in service according to the dance armony requests.
Magic: Playing with what’s happening. The invisible side of the dance.
Show: BALADI COMIC
A funny game between Alessandra and Victoria Ivanova, to laugh about competition between dancers. Everything in pure baladi style.
Show: EDUCATION OF THE WARRIOR with Francesca Russo
Education of the Warrior is an improvised dance performance: a choreographic structure tells the astonishing journey, now hard and then joyful of the human heart opening. Our inspirations are the study of Tibetan Buddhism in Shambala Lineage and the Danza Duende training: the two paths we have in common, led us on the creation of this dance.
Being warriors today, for us means being brave to be ourselves and embracing the world without fear of showing our tenderness and vulnerability. “Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.” (Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
ANA BEATRIZ DEGUES
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Maria Goretti Coelho & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
ANASTASIA FRANCAVIGLIA
Workshop: ORIENTAL DUENDE
In the training we try to preserve the original nature of this improvisational dance in order to discover, express and convey the vital energy and sensuality inherent to it. In Oriental Duende authentic form brings a freshness, authenticity and awareness to female sensuality and thus to the dance itself.
We will hear a dance that was born from the womb, where sexual energy is transformed into authentic sensuality, offering the joy of life, grace, richness and magic. We will work with coin hip scarves and veils.
Workshop: GYPSY DUENDE
Show: THE DANCE OF FIRE
Show: ZIGANA CLAN
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
CAROLINA FONSECA
Workshop: GYPSY KIDS
This workshop is for people from 5 to 13 years old and totally direct to train the joy of rhythm, musicality and body language play, in a magical way. We will work in therm of cultures and tales, and do some creative games and develop synergy.
Workshop: KALBELIA AND GYPSY DUENDE FOR ADULTS
This workshop is based in the techniques of the gypsies from the region of Rajasthan, North India, where they dance inspired by the serpent of the deserts itself. So the rites and the movements are unique, and very important to describe the musicality. If you have any feet instrument and a large skirt you can bring it to the class.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
CLAUDIA NUNES
Show: Inside Out (Solo of aerial dance)
Exquisite drawings of a fragment of time.
Dense dance of ephemeral flesh.
Illusions of perceptions of a svelte gesture.
Tender offering of unveiled intimacy...
Show: Senses (every day show in different corners of the town)
5 days, 5 elements, 5 different places, 5 small aerial forms
Workshop: 5 wisdoms with Maria José Sainz
CRISTINA MANRIQUE
Workshop: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra
The inspiring context are the feminine hammams (Moorish baths) portrayed in the Orientalist paintings in the nineteenth century. As we enter into this oneiric and perfumed atmosphere, with the appropriate music ( "cultivated” musics that were used in this type of closed and intimate environments, lute pieces, qanoun, nay ...), we will create a dance by developing practices of improvisation belonging to Danza Duende and exercises that will allow us to enter into a dynamic flow of creation in tune with the magical context. This is a divine workshop!
Some practices that we will realise:
Basic Danza Duende improvisation exercises. Individually and as a group.
Brief contextualization (time, space) of the inspirational theme.
Guided exercises using Bellydance technique.
Creation of a base sequence that will support the whole creation.
Awareness of the power and magic that naturally reside (they are not artificially made) in the unfolding of this blessed dance.
Materials: White fabric or veil.
Show: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra
"The Hammam is a place where men meet, and they all look and act alike, whether they are masters or servants. Each man is in contact with other men who are not friends, and the enemy can become his partner". Ibn al-Mugallis, XI century poet.
A selection of dances and songs that belong to a very specific context, a hammam -or its hall-, which however connects us to an intemporary and universal language. An extremely intimate atmosphere where a group of women undress their souls. The simplicity, the care for details and poetry are the main keys of this gathering.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
ELISABETH MULLIER
Workshop: TANGO DUENDE (Feminine and masculine : encounter in movement)
Tango Duende workshops are a conscious exploration of Argentinian tango, an elegant and sensual traditional popular dance which gathers two persons and their desire to communicate. It is an opportunity to observe and reinforce the quality of our presence to ourself, our partner, music and space. During this workshop, we will freely use the corporal vocabulary of tango to create our duo dances. In the depths of the abrazo, male qualities join the female virtues, improvising an alive and powerful dance. Open to all levels.
Show: AURORA ETERNA with Martin Lopez Muro
Since dawn of times, musicians and dancers meet in dialogue, being inspired and mutually nourishing themselves in the eternal search for a common language. Times change but dawn remains, and in the freshness of each encounter, they recognize in themselves the immemorial marks of this alliance. Martin and Elisabeth met through Argentinian tango and chose to explore together the links between music and dance, departing from and breaking through traditional forms. Letting their personal interpretation run wild, the body vocabulary of tango opens up under the influences of other airs of guitar, of popular musics from Argentina and elsewhere.
FRANCESCA RUSSO
Workshop: PILATES DUENDE
We will try to discover the Five Wisdoms in Pilates exercises, with an easy training that leads us closer to this discipline.
Hands like precise cutting knives; bellies like warm ovens ; we’re like children having fun rolling on the earth.
Slowing down and enforcing the core; breathing and letting go.
Workshop: DANCING THE FOUR DIGNITIES with Alessandra CentonzeLet’s create a simple dance, joyful, brave and crazy to dance it together not only in this occasion, but every time we want to evoke the qualities of the open hearted warrior.
Humbleness: The earth, the roots, the pleasure of living in or body, the richness of simplicity, the wonder on present moment.
Joy: Beauty and precision of forms following the rules of rhythm and harmony.
Bravery: Training space awareness. Improvising fearlessness. Leadership or being in service according to the dance armony requests.
Magic: Playing with what’s happening. The invisible side of the dance.
Show: EDUCATION OF THE WARRIOR with Alessandra Centonze
Education of the Warrior is an improvised dance performance: a choreographic structure tells the astonishing journey, now hard and then joyful of the human heart opening. Our inspirations are the study of Tibetan Buddhism in Shambala Lineage and the Danza Duende training: the two paths we have in common, led us on the creation of this dance.
Being warriors today, for us means being brave to be ourselves and embracing the world without fear of showing our tenderness and vulnerability. “Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.” (Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
FRENEZA JUPOJ
Show: FRENEZA JUPOJ, THE CRAZY SKIRTS
6 dancers of different origins, ages and personalities. But one thing they all have in common: their passion for Roma music and dance and their desire to dress up, wearing their 'crazy' skirts. They adore improvising, but they also make their own choreographies on slow and fast ‘Gypsy’ music. Some in a specific Roma dance style, others in their own fusion style. But whatever they perform: all of their dancing is a homage to life, a celebration of the present moment which they are glad to share with you. All dancers started their 'Gypsy' dance training within the 'Danza Duende' school, founded by Yumma Mudra, taking classes with different teachers abroad as well as in Belgium.
Freneza Jupoj is a project born from the desire to share moments of Gypsy Duende between dancers in a spirit of co-creation. Freneza Jupoj are Pascale GOUBERT, Caroline MEERT, Ninon ROBIN, Sarah KAERTS, Angelika SOKOLOVA et Sandra VANOVERBERGHE.
JEAN LUC PEROT
Workshop: MORNING TAICHI
A time to gently wake up and build up the Taichibody co-working with mental participation, feelings, sensibility, breathing and gesture, and, by the same time, greeting the new day and others on the circle.
Workshop: DUENDE WARRIOR
Help discovering how strong and clever you are when relaxing in the body structure.
How to receive, deflect or refuse hostile energies and how to give, transforme and recycle with an effortless power.
Show: DANCING FAN
A simple “offering” a way to express my path from pure Taichichuan to Danza Duende Taichichuan.
MARIA GORETTI COELHO
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Ana Beatriz Dengues & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
MARIA JOSÉ SAINZ (Musa)
Workshop: TOURING MY COLOURS with Claudia Nunes
"Touring my colors" is a workshop created for children in which through play and various forms of art we cross our colors, experiencing the different smells, tastes, textures connecting in a playful way with the values and emotions of our heart.
Inspired by the 5 energies, Maitri, within the project-School Dance of Yumma Mudra Chorésophe.
Max 16 children/ no age limit.
Show: THE BREATH OF MY WINGS
Dancing my dream: loving myself. Overcoming a negative habit. My lungs as wings of my heart. Breath as impulse of life, movement, of the dance that is life. The bravery and courage to find me, look at me, to listen me, recognize me, to love me.
Love my beauty naturally, learning to be authentic, offering myself to the world, displaying my wild beauty with the simplicity and humility of nature.
When I met Yumma in 2009, she said and made us repeat: “I'm free, I'm not afraid, I'm not proud, I'm beautiful by nature” Then my mind understood, now wisdom is coming to my bones, my stomach cells.
MARILINA VECA
Show: LA SOLEÁ
Based in the soleá "Lloran al lao mío" by Montse Cortés: the words are a poetic composition about the subject of loneliness and disappointment. The soleá has surpassed the limits of the popular Andalusian literature, incorporating to the work of authors such as Manuel Machado in his book "Cante hondo", in which he wrote "Tengo un querer y una pena. La pena quiere que viva; el querer quiere que muera. Llorando, llorando nochecita oscura, por aquel camino la andaba buscando". García Lorca also wrote about the soleà: "Trajeada de mantos negros empieza el ritmo de la soleà".
The soleá is one of the "great chants of flamenco", it might be the greatest, the purest. My dance teacher for more than 20 years is Carmen Fuentes, who studied with Matilde Coral, from Jerez, a "bailaora" and choreographer known as one of the most influencial of our times.
Conference: MUDRA CHORESOPHER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARILINA VECA
Marilina Veca is very engaged writer and journalist. She is the translator of Mudra’s Book «La Voie Qui Danse». And they are both, Mudra and Marilina in love of Dance. The «sisterhood» meeting of these two women offers a moment of communication, the question is: Why and how does dance become a deep way to transform human suffering, liberating in the body this unconditional sense of joy, of love and of celebration that is breathing inside of all of us?
MARION BEDBUR
Workshop: SPONTANEOUS BEAUTY
For everybody who wishes to learn more about hair styling & make-up, Marion will show you how to make the most out of your appearance. Tips, demos, personal advice and fun, in a totally Duende spirit! Open to all.
MARTA PORTUGAL
Shop/Market: ESTENDAL
Estendal means “Rope hanger” and is a new project by Marta Portugal and her friend Xana to sell selected clothes (unique pieces) that they collect in their trips from different countries (Senegal, Romania (gypsy style), Tanzania, Morocco, Turkey, etc) . Many of the pieces are suitable for dancing. Xana is also a Tarot reader and will be available for consults near the cloth stand.
Show: RITMO E CORAÇAO
MARIO TEIXEIRA
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Ana Beatriz Dengues & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
MARTIN LÓPEZ MURO
Show: AURORA ETERNA with Elisabeth Mullier
Since dawn of times, musicians and dancers meet in dialogue, being inspired and mutually nourishing themselves in the eternal search for a common language. Times change but dawn remains, and in the freshness of each encounter, they recognize in themselves the immemorial marks of this alliance. Martin and Elisabeth met through Argentinian tango and chose to explore together the links between music and dance, departing from and breaking through traditional forms. Letting their personal interpretation run wild, the body vocabulary of tango opens up under the influences of other airs of guitar, of popular musics from Argentina and elsewhere.
MICHEL RAJI CHÓRESOPHE
Workshop: CHORÉSOPHIE
At the very heart of the vast and at the same time intimate experience of his/her own body the Choréosopher, the dancing human being, the dancer of wisdom lets himself/herself be born again in the infinity of time, he/she lets himself/herself breathe, he/she looses himself/herself in his/her dance, and his/her dance turns into the sensation, the feeling of the present moment as it becomes a presence itself.
The wish of the dancer to dance more, to dance beyond himself/herself creates the gestures/movements of a choreosophie, which he/she himself/herself sculpts and develops according to the five essential wisdoms: body, breath, space, time and energy.
It is a Sensorium of permanence, a connection between the instants of present time, a crossway, which leads us to unknown, unexpected places, which can be found between immanence and transcendence.
Show: SAMAYA (Rite of the Rose by Michel Raji and Yumma Mudra)
This is a show created by the international dancers Yumma Mudra and Abdeslam Michel Raji. A process of transmutation of the body through the sacred wind, which is one’s own breath. A descent into the depths of one’s own memories, space and time, a moment of openness and freedom through which the joy of simply being, that is felt during the dance re-enacts the essential meaning of the very act of dancing.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
MÓNICA RONCÓN
Workshop: THE SUN | SIMPLE JOY (Gypsy Duende)
Recovering the simplicity of a childlike state of mind, where imitation is part of a playful state. The warmth of a positive and radiant energy will colour our steps and “right or wrong” will be… nothing but fun ideas to play with!
(Only for adults with children’s hearts :-) )
Workshop: THE KNIGHT OF SWORDS | THE ESSENCE OF AIR BEHAVING AS FIRE (Gypsy Duende)
We will boldly ride our dance, turning the room into a whirling tornado-like celebration in an upbeat cheerful manner! Let us purely be rebellious and dance outspokenly for the sake of basic goodness. Follow your heart.
(Adults - only for the brave :-) )
Show: DANCE FOR TARA (Daily Street Performance)
Tārā is a tantric meditation deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness. Tara is actually the generic name for a set of Buddhas or bodhisattvas of similar aspect. These may more properly be understood as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often considered metaphors for Buddhist virtues. She is known as the "mother of liberation".
Tārā also embodies many of the qualities of feminine principle. She is known as the Mother of Mercy and Compassion. She is the source, the female aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence. She engenders, nourishes, smiles at the vitality of creation, and has sympathy for all beings as a mother does for her children. As Green Tārā she offers succor and protection from all the unfortunate circumstances one can encounter within the samsaric world. As White Tārā she expresses maternal compassion and offers healing to beings who are hurt or wounded, either mentally or psychically. As Red Tārā she teaches discriminating awareness about created phenomena, and how to turn raw desire into compassion and love. As Yellow Tārā, she is associated with wealth and prosperity. As Blue Tārā (Ekajati) she becomes a protector in the Nyingma lineage, who expresses a ferocious, wrathful, female energy whose invocation destroys all Dharmic obstacles and engenders good luck and swift spiritual awakening.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
MÓNICA ZAS (Sauvage)
Workshop: REFLEXOLOGY
Experimental workshop where we will recognize our feet, and the feet of the others. Our feet take the weight of the whole body, in contact with the earth. We'll learn the basics steps of reflexology massage, to relax or to give energy, some emergency remedies, and to understand how nice and important they are. People need to bring their own towel and a small recipient for water.
LILIANE VIEGAS
Workshop: DANCE FOR SENIORS
Reconnecting with the body sensation through the respiration and rescueing the capacacity to move through non verbal language and expressive movement will be our challenge, With tenderness,, compassion, and equanimity we will share our movement and our dance turning the presente moment magic and full of pleasure and joy.
LA NEGRA
Workshop: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra (Oriental Duende)
The inspiring context are the feminine hammams (Moorish baths) portrayed in the Orientalist paintings in the nineteenth century. As we enter into this oneiric and perfumed atmosphere, with the appropriate music ( "cultivated” musics that were used in this type of closed and intimate environments, lute pieces, qanoun, nay ...), we will create a dance by developing practices of improvisation belonging to Danza Duende and exercises that will allow us to enter into a dynamic flow of creation in tune with the magical context. This is a divine workshop!
Some practices that we will realise:
Basic Danza Duende improvisation exercises. Individually and as a group.
Brief contextualization (time, space) of the inspirational theme.
Guided exercises using Bellydance technique.
Creation of a base sequence that will support the whole creation.
Awareness of the power and magic that naturally reside (they are not artificially made) in the unfolding of this blessed dance.
Materials: White fabric or veil.
Show: IN THE HAMMAM with Cristina Manrique
"The Hammam is a place where men meet, and they all look and act alike, whether they are masters or servants. Each man is in contact with other men who are not friends, and the enemy can become his partner". Ibn al-Mugallis, XI century poet.
A selection of dances and songs that belong to a very specific context, a hammam -or its hall-, which however connects us to an intemporary and universal language. An extremely intimate atmosphere where a group of women undress their souls. The simplicity, the care for details and poetry are the main keys of this gathering.
Show/Ritual: LET THE OLD DIE
Periodically snakes moult their skin, it is a sign of health in their evolution. The old skin dies and falls off, leaving new skin space. Because of our nature, we human beings often drag habits, ideas, forms that we do not need any longer and do not allow ourselves to change and grow. Our fear of death of changing often makes us walk with heavy burdens that slow us down and, at the same time, teach us many things about ourselves!
As individuals and as a community it is necessary and sometimes very urgent that we let go, that we allow the old to die so that a friendlier and more caring coexistence can be built from individual, social and group
changes. We have the joy of being in a magical city which is protected by a serpent:Serpa.
The legend tells about a woman called Serpinha who apparently was part of the founding group. This white town is embraced by the Guadiana (or Ana) river, shaped as a dragon.
Snakewomandragonwater ... We have too many reasons to celebrate a ritual and evoke in a natural and simple way these transformational and changing energies that we need so much as a civilization.
Very important: ALL ARE WELCOME TO THIS RITUAL! PEOPLE OF SERPA: I’LL BE WAITING FOR YOU!
NINON ROBIN
Show: LE RITUEL DE LILITH (The Ritual of Lilith), with Pascal Goubert and Monica Zas
This ritual mixes dance and poetry. It gathers my comediant tools together with my Duende and Souffle (Breath) training. Based on Joumana Haddad's Lilith poem, a disregarded force is awakened.
ONDAKINI
Show: FARFALLE SULLO STOMACO
Based on the book of the writer Rossella Calabrò, which deals with the subject of eating disorders, it is a performance made of dance and readings, in which the Ondakini troupe guided by Alessandra Centonze dances are inspired by a delicate story, fragile as the wings of a butterfly…
PASCALE GOUBERT
Workshop: ANIMA DUENDE
Created as a contribution to the Danza Duende trainings, Anima aims to develop the empathy that links us to the beings. The art of puppetry help us to reveal the deep soul and the magic of the things that make our everyday life. We become servant of our usual servants, and bring back some life to them through our human warmth, feeling how illusory the boundary between us and the world is. Manipulating together makes concrete and obvious the circulation of leadership between center and periphery.
Show: BIRTH OF A WITCH
Experimenting the synergy between dancing and puppetry on a music composed by Charles Ravier, a creature appears. Fed by the breathing, new and very ancient at the same time : I still don't know what she will reveal… Sculpture : Sandrine Furrer
STEPHANIE VAN VYVE
Workshop: THEATER DUENDE
Theater Duende is also called "Theater of compassion". Its goal is to reveal oneself instead of hiding in a role. If we can dance our life, we can also play it. If theater can help us to understand life, life can also be a experimented as a playground and a stage performance. What I search for through Theater Duende is to bring consciousness into daily life. Acting is getting more into life, we can make it bigger. Why don't we embrace the "l'enjeu du JE au JEu", 'the stake to go from I to ACT'?
During this workshop, we will explore in a playful way what kind of reactions, sensations, emotions appear while we offer ourself on stage and how we get committed with precious words.
This workshop is open to everyone from 16 years old, no requirements. If you know a little text, a few lines by hard, you will have even more fun.
Show: 1TREE/2LIVES with Yumma Mudra
"TheTempo traverses matter. Invoking the silence of the verb, a woman transforms the heavens that make her alive"
This "tree of life" has grown in us an organic spiral process that pierce the walls of our mind and awakens our breath to let the fruits of our femininity flourish on stage. It is natural for a woman to be two, and we together, at service for this tree that lives in us, mysterious, strong and conscious of its potential, and deeply in love with its fertility. "One Tree, Two Lives" is a constant work in process that puts in place the challenge of offering this imprevisible living tree to ourselves and to cultivate it in our everyday life. The mystery stays enigmatic, the poem makes the difference between life and death: their unity escapes from the norm and yet we can take the fruits at every moment.
This work is the fruit of a long maturation, and the last months of creation corroborate with my pregnancy. We presented a first version a week before I gave birth, and the second, 2 months after. It brings so much meaning for me.
TIFFANY GYATSO
Workshop: SLOW ART
To be able to express in a complete form, our body and mind need to be awaken to be present in the action. Today it seems that body, mind and heart are disconnected. One too slow, one too fast, they get tired trying to do day by day things separately.
In this workshop we are practicing exercises to awaken the subtle sensations of the body, evoking a mind that understands its rhythms. By finding moments of union between body, mind and heart, we will express the artistic form through drawing and intuitive and spontaneous painting. No experience required, everybody is welcome to a new experience.
For 20 people – material included.
Conditions: switch off phones and dedicate yourself for the time proposed.
VICTORIA IVANOVA
Workshop: ZINGAORIENTAL
An explosion of emotions! It's the fusion of gypsies and oriental dances , a game between rhythms, music and different moods. Dancing from absolute calm of the water to an exciting fire. There's something crazy and wise at the same time. So much energy and fun.
Workshop: CHILDREN, PLAY AND DANCE
The main components art: creativity and imagination, body and voice, music and space becoming a way to discover the artistic and creative potential of the child.
Through the simple and funny games the children learn the basics of dance as turning , jumping, having a correct posture, breathing properly and everything that could be useful for any dance discipline. The qualities that children develop during this process are: perception of space , presence, ability to react and improvise . All this is also useful for everyday life , the child becomes independent and able to face the difficulties and particular situations.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
YUMMA MUDRA CHÓRESOPHE
Workshop: GYPSY DUENDE
Session on Tuesday, that goes on with the «breathe» energy of the opening SENSORIUM with Raji, just before, to bring this rhythm of the dance and of the natural sense of music into the «Gypsy Duende» spontaneous and sensual game of a circle, a team, which supports each individual in her own particular challenge.
Wokshop: JOIN THE 3 I's : Intelligence/Intuition/Instinct
A spontaneous workshop based on space and time. Our body in this present moment is the truth of all that we are now. Space is limitless and full of all the geometric potentials and of infinite procreative imagination, time is limited by our perception of the rhythm of life, the beating of hearts, our basic relationship to earth. Water, Fire and Wind are always dancing the paradoxical link between the earth and the sky. To life fully aware of this Dance in each one of us is a treasure of wisdom opened to all human beings.
Show: SAMAYA with Michel Raji Chóresophe
This is a show created by the international dancers Yumma Mudra and Abdeslam Michel Raji. A process of transmutation of the body through the sacred wind, which is one’s own breath. A descent into the depths of one’s own memories, space and time, a moment of openness and freedom through which the joy of simply being, that is felt during the dance re-enacts the essential meaning of the very act of dancing.
Show: 1TREE/2LIVES with Stephanie Van Vyve
"TheTempo traverses matter. Invoking the silence of the verb, a woman transforms the heavens that make her alive"
This "tree of life" has grown in us an organic spiral process that pierce the walls of our mind and awakens our breath to let the fruits of our femininity flourish on stage. It is natural for a woman to be two, and we together, at service for this tree that lives in us, mysterious, strong and conscious of its potential, and deeply in love with its fertility. "One Tree, Two Lives" is a constant work in process that puts in place the challenge of offering this imprevisible living tree to ourselves and to cultivate it in our everyday life. The mystery stays enigmatic, the poem makes the difference between life and death: their unity escapes from the norm and yet we can take the fruits at every moment.
Conference: MUDRA CHORESOPHER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARILINA VECA
Marilina Veca is very engaged writer and journalist. She is the translator of Mudra’s Book «La Voie Qui Danse». And they are both, Mudra and Marilina in love of Dance. The «sisterhood» meeting of these two women offers a moment of communication, the question is: Why and how does dance become a deep way to transform human suffering, liberating in the body this unconditional sense of joy, of love and of celebration that is breathing inside of all of us?
Workshop: KABYLE
A joyful and colorful celebration, of life, originally danced for the harvest and the special Events of the Kabyle villages. The universal meaning if this dance is joining earth and sky through a simple and grateful heart. Bring a foulard and train your youyou!
Workshop: DANCING THE FOUR DIGNITIES with Francesca Russo
Let’s create a simple dance, joyful, brave and crazy to dance it together not only in this occasion, but every time we want to evoke the qualities of the open hearted warrior.
Humbleness: The earth, the roots, the pleasure of living in or body, the richness of simplicity, the wonder on present moment.
Joy: Beauty and precision of forms following the rules of rhythm and harmony.
Bravery: Training space awareness. Improvising fearlessness. Leadership or being in service according to the dance armony requests.
Magic: Playing with what’s happening. The invisible side of the dance.
Show: BALADI COMIC
A funny game between Alessandra and Victoria Ivanova, to laugh about competition between dancers. Everything in pure baladi style.
Show: EDUCATION OF THE WARRIOR with Francesca Russo
Education of the Warrior is an improvised dance performance: a choreographic structure tells the astonishing journey, now hard and then joyful of the human heart opening. Our inspirations are the study of Tibetan Buddhism in Shambala Lineage and the Danza Duende training: the two paths we have in common, led us on the creation of this dance.
Being warriors today, for us means being brave to be ourselves and embracing the world without fear of showing our tenderness and vulnerability. “Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.” (Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
ANA BEATRIZ DEGUES
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Maria Goretti Coelho & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
ANASTASIA FRANCAVIGLIA
Workshop: ORIENTAL DUENDE
In the training we try to preserve the original nature of this improvisational dance in order to discover, express and convey the vital energy and sensuality inherent to it. In Oriental Duende authentic form brings a freshness, authenticity and awareness to female sensuality and thus to the dance itself.
We will hear a dance that was born from the womb, where sexual energy is transformed into authentic sensuality, offering the joy of life, grace, richness and magic. We will work with coin hip scarves and veils.
Workshop: GYPSY DUENDE
Show: THE DANCE OF FIRE
Show: ZIGANA CLAN
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
CAROLINA FONSECA
Workshop: GYPSY KIDS
This workshop is for people from 5 to 13 years old and totally direct to train the joy of rhythm, musicality and body language play, in a magical way. We will work in therm of cultures and tales, and do some creative games and develop synergy.
Workshop: KALBELIA AND GYPSY DUENDE FOR ADULTS
This workshop is based in the techniques of the gypsies from the region of Rajasthan, North India, where they dance inspired by the serpent of the deserts itself. So the rites and the movements are unique, and very important to describe the musicality. If you have any feet instrument and a large skirt you can bring it to the class.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
CLAUDIA NUNES
Show: Inside Out (Solo of aerial dance)
Exquisite drawings of a fragment of time.
Dense dance of ephemeral flesh.
Illusions of perceptions of a svelte gesture.
Tender offering of unveiled intimacy...
Show: Senses (every day show in different corners of the town)
5 days, 5 elements, 5 different places, 5 small aerial forms
Workshop: 5 wisdoms with Maria José Sainz
CRISTINA MANRIQUE
Workshop: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra
The inspiring context are the feminine hammams (Moorish baths) portrayed in the Orientalist paintings in the nineteenth century. As we enter into this oneiric and perfumed atmosphere, with the appropriate music ( "cultivated” musics that were used in this type of closed and intimate environments, lute pieces, qanoun, nay ...), we will create a dance by developing practices of improvisation belonging to Danza Duende and exercises that will allow us to enter into a dynamic flow of creation in tune with the magical context. This is a divine workshop!
Some practices that we will realise:
Basic Danza Duende improvisation exercises. Individually and as a group.
Brief contextualization (time, space) of the inspirational theme.
Guided exercises using Bellydance technique.
Creation of a base sequence that will support the whole creation.
Awareness of the power and magic that naturally reside (they are not artificially made) in the unfolding of this blessed dance.
Materials: White fabric or veil.
Show: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra
"The Hammam is a place where men meet, and they all look and act alike, whether they are masters or servants. Each man is in contact with other men who are not friends, and the enemy can become his partner". Ibn al-Mugallis, XI century poet.
A selection of dances and songs that belong to a very specific context, a hammam -or its hall-, which however connects us to an intemporary and universal language. An extremely intimate atmosphere where a group of women undress their souls. The simplicity, the care for details and poetry are the main keys of this gathering.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
Show: SAPHIR
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
ELISABETH MULLIER
Workshop: TANGO DUENDE (Feminine and masculine : encounter in movement)
Tango Duende workshops are a conscious exploration of Argentinian tango, an elegant and sensual traditional popular dance which gathers two persons and their desire to communicate. It is an opportunity to observe and reinforce the quality of our presence to ourself, our partner, music and space. During this workshop, we will freely use the corporal vocabulary of tango to create our duo dances. In the depths of the abrazo, male qualities join the female virtues, improvising an alive and powerful dance. Open to all levels.
Show: AURORA ETERNA with Martin Lopez Muro
Since dawn of times, musicians and dancers meet in dialogue, being inspired and mutually nourishing themselves in the eternal search for a common language. Times change but dawn remains, and in the freshness of each encounter, they recognize in themselves the immemorial marks of this alliance. Martin and Elisabeth met through Argentinian tango and chose to explore together the links between music and dance, departing from and breaking through traditional forms. Letting their personal interpretation run wild, the body vocabulary of tango opens up under the influences of other airs of guitar, of popular musics from Argentina and elsewhere.
FRANCESCA RUSSO
Workshop: PILATES DUENDE
We will try to discover the Five Wisdoms in Pilates exercises, with an easy training that leads us closer to this discipline.
Hands like precise cutting knives; bellies like warm ovens ; we’re like children having fun rolling on the earth.
Slowing down and enforcing the core; breathing and letting go.
Workshop: DANCING THE FOUR DIGNITIES with Alessandra CentonzeLet’s create a simple dance, joyful, brave and crazy to dance it together not only in this occasion, but every time we want to evoke the qualities of the open hearted warrior.
Humbleness: The earth, the roots, the pleasure of living in or body, the richness of simplicity, the wonder on present moment.
Joy: Beauty and precision of forms following the rules of rhythm and harmony.
Bravery: Training space awareness. Improvising fearlessness. Leadership or being in service according to the dance armony requests.
Magic: Playing with what’s happening. The invisible side of the dance.
Show: EDUCATION OF THE WARRIOR with Alessandra Centonze
Education of the Warrior is an improvised dance performance: a choreographic structure tells the astonishing journey, now hard and then joyful of the human heart opening. Our inspirations are the study of Tibetan Buddhism in Shambala Lineage and the Danza Duende training: the two paths we have in common, led us on the creation of this dance.
Being warriors today, for us means being brave to be ourselves and embracing the world without fear of showing our tenderness and vulnerability. “Hold the sadness and pain of samsara in your heart and at the same time the power and vision of the Great Eastern Sun. Then the warrior can make a proper cup of tea.” (Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche)
FRENEZA JUPOJ
Show: FRENEZA JUPOJ, THE CRAZY SKIRTS
6 dancers of different origins, ages and personalities. But one thing they all have in common: their passion for Roma music and dance and their desire to dress up, wearing their 'crazy' skirts. They adore improvising, but they also make their own choreographies on slow and fast ‘Gypsy’ music. Some in a specific Roma dance style, others in their own fusion style. But whatever they perform: all of their dancing is a homage to life, a celebration of the present moment which they are glad to share with you. All dancers started their 'Gypsy' dance training within the 'Danza Duende' school, founded by Yumma Mudra, taking classes with different teachers abroad as well as in Belgium.
Freneza Jupoj is a project born from the desire to share moments of Gypsy Duende between dancers in a spirit of co-creation. Freneza Jupoj are Pascale GOUBERT, Caroline MEERT, Ninon ROBIN, Sarah KAERTS, Angelika SOKOLOVA et Sandra VANOVERBERGHE.
JEAN LUC PEROT
Workshop: MORNING TAICHI
A time to gently wake up and build up the Taichibody co-working with mental participation, feelings, sensibility, breathing and gesture, and, by the same time, greeting the new day and others on the circle.
Workshop: DUENDE WARRIOR
Help discovering how strong and clever you are when relaxing in the body structure.
How to receive, deflect or refuse hostile energies and how to give, transforme and recycle with an effortless power.
Show: DANCING FAN
A simple “offering” a way to express my path from pure Taichichuan to Danza Duende Taichichuan.
MARIA GORETTI COELHO
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Ana Beatriz Dengues & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
MARIA JOSÉ SAINZ (Musa)
Workshop: TOURING MY COLOURS with Claudia Nunes
"Touring my colors" is a workshop created for children in which through play and various forms of art we cross our colors, experiencing the different smells, tastes, textures connecting in a playful way with the values and emotions of our heart.
Inspired by the 5 energies, Maitri, within the project-School Dance of Yumma Mudra Chorésophe.
Max 16 children/ no age limit.
Show: THE BREATH OF MY WINGS
Dancing my dream: loving myself. Overcoming a negative habit. My lungs as wings of my heart. Breath as impulse of life, movement, of the dance that is life. The bravery and courage to find me, look at me, to listen me, recognize me, to love me.
Love my beauty naturally, learning to be authentic, offering myself to the world, displaying my wild beauty with the simplicity and humility of nature.
When I met Yumma in 2009, she said and made us repeat: “I'm free, I'm not afraid, I'm not proud, I'm beautiful by nature” Then my mind understood, now wisdom is coming to my bones, my stomach cells.
MARILINA VECA
Show: LA SOLEÁ
Based in the soleá "Lloran al lao mío" by Montse Cortés: the words are a poetic composition about the subject of loneliness and disappointment. The soleá has surpassed the limits of the popular Andalusian literature, incorporating to the work of authors such as Manuel Machado in his book "Cante hondo", in which he wrote "Tengo un querer y una pena. La pena quiere que viva; el querer quiere que muera. Llorando, llorando nochecita oscura, por aquel camino la andaba buscando". García Lorca also wrote about the soleà: "Trajeada de mantos negros empieza el ritmo de la soleà".
The soleá is one of the "great chants of flamenco", it might be the greatest, the purest. My dance teacher for more than 20 years is Carmen Fuentes, who studied with Matilde Coral, from Jerez, a "bailaora" and choreographer known as one of the most influencial of our times.
Conference: MUDRA CHORESOPHER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARILINA VECA
Marilina Veca is very engaged writer and journalist. She is the translator of Mudra’s Book «La Voie Qui Danse». And they are both, Mudra and Marilina in love of Dance. The «sisterhood» meeting of these two women offers a moment of communication, the question is: Why and how does dance become a deep way to transform human suffering, liberating in the body this unconditional sense of joy, of love and of celebration that is breathing inside of all of us?
MARION BEDBUR
Workshop: SPONTANEOUS BEAUTY
For everybody who wishes to learn more about hair styling & make-up, Marion will show you how to make the most out of your appearance. Tips, demos, personal advice and fun, in a totally Duende spirit! Open to all.
MARTA PORTUGAL
Shop/Market: ESTENDAL
Estendal means “Rope hanger” and is a new project by Marta Portugal and her friend Xana to sell selected clothes (unique pieces) that they collect in their trips from different countries (Senegal, Romania (gypsy style), Tanzania, Morocco, Turkey, etc) . Many of the pieces are suitable for dancing. Xana is also a Tarot reader and will be available for consults near the cloth stand.
Show: RITMO E CORAÇAO
MARIO TEIXEIRA
Show: CUIDANDO-TE also with Ana Beatriz Dengues & Mario Teixeira
From breath to breath, rhythm is born and develops in us, becoming more and more creatively complex. It joins other rhythms, building a story about feeling, facing the challenges of growth, and the single task of standing up and connecting with the other.
The look is the first stage in the construction of the bond. With the presence of the other as a protective model and mentor, each of us can go further in the manifestation of our potential. The heart is the bridge between the physical body and the mind, making us responsible for what we create.
MARTIN LÓPEZ MURO
Show: AURORA ETERNA with Elisabeth Mullier
Since dawn of times, musicians and dancers meet in dialogue, being inspired and mutually nourishing themselves in the eternal search for a common language. Times change but dawn remains, and in the freshness of each encounter, they recognize in themselves the immemorial marks of this alliance. Martin and Elisabeth met through Argentinian tango and chose to explore together the links between music and dance, departing from and breaking through traditional forms. Letting their personal interpretation run wild, the body vocabulary of tango opens up under the influences of other airs of guitar, of popular musics from Argentina and elsewhere.
MICHEL RAJI CHÓRESOPHE
Workshop: CHORÉSOPHIE
At the very heart of the vast and at the same time intimate experience of his/her own body the Choréosopher, the dancing human being, the dancer of wisdom lets himself/herself be born again in the infinity of time, he/she lets himself/herself breathe, he/she looses himself/herself in his/her dance, and his/her dance turns into the sensation, the feeling of the present moment as it becomes a presence itself.
The wish of the dancer to dance more, to dance beyond himself/herself creates the gestures/movements of a choreosophie, which he/she himself/herself sculpts and develops according to the five essential wisdoms: body, breath, space, time and energy.
It is a Sensorium of permanence, a connection between the instants of present time, a crossway, which leads us to unknown, unexpected places, which can be found between immanence and transcendence.
Show: SAMAYA (Rite of the Rose by Michel Raji and Yumma Mudra)
This is a show created by the international dancers Yumma Mudra and Abdeslam Michel Raji. A process of transmutation of the body through the sacred wind, which is one’s own breath. A descent into the depths of one’s own memories, space and time, a moment of openness and freedom through which the joy of simply being, that is felt during the dance re-enacts the essential meaning of the very act of dancing.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
MÓNICA RONCÓN
Workshop: THE SUN | SIMPLE JOY (Gypsy Duende)
Recovering the simplicity of a childlike state of mind, where imitation is part of a playful state. The warmth of a positive and radiant energy will colour our steps and “right or wrong” will be… nothing but fun ideas to play with!
(Only for adults with children’s hearts :-) )
Workshop: THE KNIGHT OF SWORDS | THE ESSENCE OF AIR BEHAVING AS FIRE (Gypsy Duende)
We will boldly ride our dance, turning the room into a whirling tornado-like celebration in an upbeat cheerful manner! Let us purely be rebellious and dance outspokenly for the sake of basic goodness. Follow your heart.
(Adults - only for the brave :-) )
Show: DANCE FOR TARA (Daily Street Performance)
Tārā is a tantric meditation deity whose practice is used by practitioners of the Tibetan branch of Vajrayana Buddhism to develop certain inner qualities and understand outer, inner and secret teachings about compassion and emptiness. Tara is actually the generic name for a set of Buddhas or bodhisattvas of similar aspect. These may more properly be understood as different aspects of the same quality, as bodhisattvas are often considered metaphors for Buddhist virtues. She is known as the "mother of liberation".
Tārā also embodies many of the qualities of feminine principle. She is known as the Mother of Mercy and Compassion. She is the source, the female aspect of the universe, which gives birth to warmth, compassion and relief from bad karma as experienced by ordinary beings in cyclic existence. She engenders, nourishes, smiles at the vitality of creation, and has sympathy for all beings as a mother does for her children. As Green Tārā she offers succor and protection from all the unfortunate circumstances one can encounter within the samsaric world. As White Tārā she expresses maternal compassion and offers healing to beings who are hurt or wounded, either mentally or psychically. As Red Tārā she teaches discriminating awareness about created phenomena, and how to turn raw desire into compassion and love. As Yellow Tārā, she is associated with wealth and prosperity. As Blue Tārā (Ekajati) she becomes a protector in the Nyingma lineage, who expresses a ferocious, wrathful, female energy whose invocation destroys all Dharmic obstacles and engenders good luck and swift spiritual awakening.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
MÓNICA ZAS (Sauvage)
Workshop: REFLEXOLOGY
Experimental workshop where we will recognize our feet, and the feet of the others. Our feet take the weight of the whole body, in contact with the earth. We'll learn the basics steps of reflexology massage, to relax or to give energy, some emergency remedies, and to understand how nice and important they are. People need to bring their own towel and a small recipient for water.
LILIANE VIEGAS
Workshop: DANCE FOR SENIORS
Reconnecting with the body sensation through the respiration and rescueing the capacacity to move through non verbal language and expressive movement will be our challenge, With tenderness,, compassion, and equanimity we will share our movement and our dance turning the presente moment magic and full of pleasure and joy.
LA NEGRA
Workshop: IN THE HAMMAM with La Negra (Oriental Duende)
The inspiring context are the feminine hammams (Moorish baths) portrayed in the Orientalist paintings in the nineteenth century. As we enter into this oneiric and perfumed atmosphere, with the appropriate music ( "cultivated” musics that were used in this type of closed and intimate environments, lute pieces, qanoun, nay ...), we will create a dance by developing practices of improvisation belonging to Danza Duende and exercises that will allow us to enter into a dynamic flow of creation in tune with the magical context. This is a divine workshop!
Some practices that we will realise:
Basic Danza Duende improvisation exercises. Individually and as a group.
Brief contextualization (time, space) of the inspirational theme.
Guided exercises using Bellydance technique.
Creation of a base sequence that will support the whole creation.
Awareness of the power and magic that naturally reside (they are not artificially made) in the unfolding of this blessed dance.
Materials: White fabric or veil.
Show: IN THE HAMMAM with Cristina Manrique
"The Hammam is a place where men meet, and they all look and act alike, whether they are masters or servants. Each man is in contact with other men who are not friends, and the enemy can become his partner". Ibn al-Mugallis, XI century poet.
A selection of dances and songs that belong to a very specific context, a hammam -or its hall-, which however connects us to an intemporary and universal language. An extremely intimate atmosphere where a group of women undress their souls. The simplicity, the care for details and poetry are the main keys of this gathering.
Show/Ritual: LET THE OLD DIE
Periodically snakes moult their skin, it is a sign of health in their evolution. The old skin dies and falls off, leaving new skin space. Because of our nature, we human beings often drag habits, ideas, forms that we do not need any longer and do not allow ourselves to change and grow. Our fear of death of changing often makes us walk with heavy burdens that slow us down and, at the same time, teach us many things about ourselves!
As individuals and as a community it is necessary and sometimes very urgent that we let go, that we allow the old to die so that a friendlier and more caring coexistence can be built from individual, social and group
changes. We have the joy of being in a magical city which is protected by a serpent:Serpa.
The legend tells about a woman called Serpinha who apparently was part of the founding group. This white town is embraced by the Guadiana (or Ana) river, shaped as a dragon.
Snakewomandragonwater ... We have too many reasons to celebrate a ritual and evoke in a natural and simple way these transformational and changing energies that we need so much as a civilization.
Very important: ALL ARE WELCOME TO THIS RITUAL! PEOPLE OF SERPA: I’LL BE WAITING FOR YOU!
NINON ROBIN
Show: LE RITUEL DE LILITH (The Ritual of Lilith), with Pascal Goubert and Monica Zas
This ritual mixes dance and poetry. It gathers my comediant tools together with my Duende and Souffle (Breath) training. Based on Joumana Haddad's Lilith poem, a disregarded force is awakened.
ONDAKINI
Show: FARFALLE SULLO STOMACO
Based on the book of the writer Rossella Calabrò, which deals with the subject of eating disorders, it is a performance made of dance and readings, in which the Ondakini troupe guided by Alessandra Centonze dances are inspired by a delicate story, fragile as the wings of a butterfly…
PASCALE GOUBERT
Workshop: ANIMA DUENDE
Created as a contribution to the Danza Duende trainings, Anima aims to develop the empathy that links us to the beings. The art of puppetry help us to reveal the deep soul and the magic of the things that make our everyday life. We become servant of our usual servants, and bring back some life to them through our human warmth, feeling how illusory the boundary between us and the world is. Manipulating together makes concrete and obvious the circulation of leadership between center and periphery.
Show: BIRTH OF A WITCH
Experimenting the synergy between dancing and puppetry on a music composed by Charles Ravier, a creature appears. Fed by the breathing, new and very ancient at the same time : I still don't know what she will reveal… Sculpture : Sandrine Furrer
STEPHANIE VAN VYVE
Workshop: THEATER DUENDE
Theater Duende is also called "Theater of compassion". Its goal is to reveal oneself instead of hiding in a role. If we can dance our life, we can also play it. If theater can help us to understand life, life can also be a experimented as a playground and a stage performance. What I search for through Theater Duende is to bring consciousness into daily life. Acting is getting more into life, we can make it bigger. Why don't we embrace the "l'enjeu du JE au JEu", 'the stake to go from I to ACT'?
During this workshop, we will explore in a playful way what kind of reactions, sensations, emotions appear while we offer ourself on stage and how we get committed with precious words.
This workshop is open to everyone from 16 years old, no requirements. If you know a little text, a few lines by hard, you will have even more fun.
Show: 1TREE/2LIVES with Yumma Mudra
"TheTempo traverses matter. Invoking the silence of the verb, a woman transforms the heavens that make her alive"
This "tree of life" has grown in us an organic spiral process that pierce the walls of our mind and awakens our breath to let the fruits of our femininity flourish on stage. It is natural for a woman to be two, and we together, at service for this tree that lives in us, mysterious, strong and conscious of its potential, and deeply in love with its fertility. "One Tree, Two Lives" is a constant work in process that puts in place the challenge of offering this imprevisible living tree to ourselves and to cultivate it in our everyday life. The mystery stays enigmatic, the poem makes the difference between life and death: their unity escapes from the norm and yet we can take the fruits at every moment.
This work is the fruit of a long maturation, and the last months of creation corroborate with my pregnancy. We presented a first version a week before I gave birth, and the second, 2 months after. It brings so much meaning for me.
TIFFANY GYATSO
Workshop: SLOW ART
To be able to express in a complete form, our body and mind need to be awaken to be present in the action. Today it seems that body, mind and heart are disconnected. One too slow, one too fast, they get tired trying to do day by day things separately.
In this workshop we are practicing exercises to awaken the subtle sensations of the body, evoking a mind that understands its rhythms. By finding moments of union between body, mind and heart, we will express the artistic form through drawing and intuitive and spontaneous painting. No experience required, everybody is welcome to a new experience.
For 20 people – material included.
Conditions: switch off phones and dedicate yourself for the time proposed.
VICTORIA IVANOVA
Workshop: ZINGAORIENTAL
An explosion of emotions! It's the fusion of gypsies and oriental dances , a game between rhythms, music and different moods. Dancing from absolute calm of the water to an exciting fire. There's something crazy and wise at the same time. So much energy and fun.
Workshop: CHILDREN, PLAY AND DANCE
The main components art: creativity and imagination, body and voice, music and space becoming a way to discover the artistic and creative potential of the child.
Through the simple and funny games the children learn the basics of dance as turning , jumping, having a correct posture, breathing properly and everything that could be useful for any dance discipline. The qualities that children develop during this process are: perception of space , presence, ability to react and improvise . All this is also useful for everyday life , the child becomes independent and able to face the difficulties and particular situations.
Show: SAPHIR by Michel Raji Chóresophe, with Mónica Roncón, Carolina Fonseca, Cristina Manrique, Alessandra Centonze, Victoria Ivanova and Anastasia Francaviglia
"Sapphire, the Stone of Venus"
In the Garden of gardens, flowers are not born according to the seasons, they are born free.
Show: SALAMANTRAS with Alessandra Centonze, Carolina Fonseca, Mónica Roncón, Cristina Manrique, Anastasia Francaviglia and Victoria Ivanova
The SALAMANTRAS Gipsy Duende Dance Company was created in 2000 in Portugal after the great musician Roby Lakatos asked Myriam Szabo (Yumma Mudra) to join him on stage on specific occasions. Since then the group has performed with several bands and musicians in different European festivals.
Salamantras is a fruit of the Danza Duende project: an intense investigation created by Yumma Mudra, not only on Gipsy Dances and Music from all over the world, but also on the very core of the human being, through the heart of Arts as a path for education.
Each dancer of SALAMANTRAS is an accomplished artist in her own right and all together they are delighted to share their wild spirit with the audience, setting our souls free.
http://gipsyduendecompany.wix.com/salamantras
YUMMA MUDRA CHÓRESOPHE
Workshop: GYPSY DUENDE
Session on Tuesday, that goes on with the «breathe» energy of the opening SENSORIUM with Raji, just before, to bring this rhythm of the dance and of the natural sense of music into the «Gypsy Duende» spontaneous and sensual game of a circle, a team, which supports each individual in her own particular challenge.
Wokshop: JOIN THE 3 I's : Intelligence/Intuition/Instinct
A spontaneous workshop based on space and time. Our body in this present moment is the truth of all that we are now. Space is limitless and full of all the geometric potentials and of infinite procreative imagination, time is limited by our perception of the rhythm of life, the beating of hearts, our basic relationship to earth. Water, Fire and Wind are always dancing the paradoxical link between the earth and the sky. To life fully aware of this Dance in each one of us is a treasure of wisdom opened to all human beings.
Show: SAMAYA with Michel Raji Chóresophe
This is a show created by the international dancers Yumma Mudra and Abdeslam Michel Raji. A process of transmutation of the body through the sacred wind, which is one’s own breath. A descent into the depths of one’s own memories, space and time, a moment of openness and freedom through which the joy of simply being, that is felt during the dance re-enacts the essential meaning of the very act of dancing.
Show: 1TREE/2LIVES with Stephanie Van Vyve
"TheTempo traverses matter. Invoking the silence of the verb, a woman transforms the heavens that make her alive"
This "tree of life" has grown in us an organic spiral process that pierce the walls of our mind and awakens our breath to let the fruits of our femininity flourish on stage. It is natural for a woman to be two, and we together, at service for this tree that lives in us, mysterious, strong and conscious of its potential, and deeply in love with its fertility. "One Tree, Two Lives" is a constant work in process that puts in place the challenge of offering this imprevisible living tree to ourselves and to cultivate it in our everyday life. The mystery stays enigmatic, the poem makes the difference between life and death: their unity escapes from the norm and yet we can take the fruits at every moment.
Conference: MUDRA CHORESOPHER IN CONVERSATION WITH MARILINA VECA
Marilina Veca is very engaged writer and journalist. She is the translator of Mudra’s Book «La Voie Qui Danse». And they are both, Mudra and Marilina in love of Dance. The «sisterhood» meeting of these two women offers a moment of communication, the question is: Why and how does dance become a deep way to transform human suffering, liberating in the body this unconditional sense of joy, of love and of celebration that is breathing inside of all of us?