Dance and Somatics Retreat in Lefkada, Ionian Islands, Greece

1st week Workshop 2

Young Girls Wanna Dance Their Spirit by Lilach Pnina Livne 6-13.8.23

Can we ever truly dance freely when someone else is watching? The main goal of this workshop is awareness. To constantly be aware of who you are, as a “performer”, in every moment, and to sometimes, even in the middle of it all – to self reflect, re-construct, re-create, re-choose. We will explore the creation of new relations between all the elements that make up the medium of dance and performance and how situations and moods such as friendship & compassion can be an integral part of experiencing dancing with other people in the same space - as performing state in a dance performance and as an audience witnessing this kind of being. We will explore “where I am” in mind and body when I dance and challenge this question by different practices of “the body is here and the mind is there.

2nd week Workshop 1

In reflection/resonance by Anna Konjetzky, Sahra Huby, Quindell Orton 13-20.8.23

In this workshop we invite you to dive into 5 thematic zones of research: awakening our senses, practicing collective care, decentralizing the body in a wider ecosystem, queering normativity, and rewriting/deconstructing patterns.
These Ideas and topics will be explored and translated through movement, using the body as a source of knowledge, sharing and discovering together physicalities and practices for present and future.
Each day we will propose different exercises and scores linked to each zones, but also explore with the participants how to develop their own practices, exercises and scores to embody the different zones.

2nd week Workshop 2

Regulatory Bodies | In Plain Sight by Giorgos Sioras Deligiannis 13-20.8.23

A workshop that invites anyone to reflect upon the human body and its nature through and beyond identities, to experience the presence of shifting bodyscapes and to explore the vastness of our blurry sensorial limits.
Inspired by meditative practices of the gaze, Giorgos will introduce participants in slowness and reflection, while dealing and relating with nature and its patterns, shapes and textures.
We shall explore a canvas of great compositional possibilities where human body can be lost and found between a woody land, rocks and water.
From candle gazing to creating dances of polymorphous moving flesh we shall play and question the nature of nature in order to see and be seen.

Accommodation

Camping - Paleochori camp - Bring your own tent

We provide properly designed, safe space to place your own tent and keep the cost of the program low. Paleochori Camp is equipped with autonomous wc facilities, showers with hot water and specially designed areas for resting in the shadow under the trees with swings and hammocks.

Accommodation

Bell Tent

Shared 5m bell tent for three people
Shared 4m bell tent for two people
Shared 5m bell tent for two people
Single 4m bell tent

The 4m Bell Tent has plenty of space for one or two people. The 5m Bell Tent has plenty of space for two or three people.
Our bell tents are manufactured using the finest 285gsm cotton canvas which are fully waterproof. Mosquito mesh doors, windows and air vents ensure you can allow a breeze within the tent but keep the creepy crawlies out.
All tents are properly furnished with beds, furniture for clothes, small table, pillows and the service includes bed sheets, as well as body and face towel.

Meals

Two vegetarian meals (breakfast – dinner) and a snack in between are provided each day. They are plant-based, with fresh, local, organic products, cooked with love by the experienced team of φ | Foodpath.
In case of intolerance, allergy or any other impotant information we need to know regarding your diet please note it on the registration form so that we can take it into account.

Practicing space

Classes are taking place in an openair, shaded patio of 95m2 in Paleochori, as well as in natural locations of the village after consultation with each instructor.

Pricing

for attending 1 week

Camping
Pre-Early Bird 595
Early Bird 710
normal price 830

Shared 5m bell tent for three people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 675
Early Bird 810
Normal price 945

Shared 4m bell tent for two people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 690
Early Bird 830
normal price 970

Shared 5m bell tent for two people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 735
Early Bird 880
normal price 1030

Single 4m bell tent
Pre-Early Bird 820
Early Bird 985
Normal price 1150

Pricing

for attending 2 weeks

Camping
Pre-Early Bird 1010
Early Bird 1210
normal price 1410

Shared 5m bell tent for three people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 1155
Early Bird 1385
normal 1615

Shared 4m bell tent for two people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 1170
Early Bird 1400
normal 1640

Shared 5m bell tent for two people (price per person)
Pre-Early Bird 1250
Early Bird 1500
normal 1750

Single 4m bell tent
Pre-Early Bird 1390
Early Bird 1670
normal 1950