Southern Spain
Somatic Summer Dance Retreat
6 – 12 July 2025
Somatic Dance – Laban Bartenieff Movement System – Dancing in Nature – Touch – Authentic Movement
In this workshop we dance from our authentic source. The focus is on connecting your body with nature. In the morning we will work from the somatic knowledge of the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System. Principles such as breath support, dynamic alignment, support from your center, development patterns, rotation and spatial intention and anatomical knowledge are some of the themes that will be discussed. Each concept is explored through simple experiential movement explorations.
Be taken on an adventure…
In the second half of the workshop we will sometimes go into nature and on the open-air dance floor (with shade roof) to work with Authentic Movement and other improvisation deepening techniques.
We will dance in contact with the beautiful environment of water, earth, mountains and sun. The workshop will be both dynamic and nourishing and relaxing. The joy of movement, our authentic ways of dancing, the contact with what surrounds us, will guide us through the week. This workshop is open to people of all levels in dance.
The location: Baile en el aire
The dance retreat centre is located in the south of Spain in the Alpujarras, an hour’s drive from Granada. It is situated in a beautiful landscape with many waterfalls, beautiful chestnut trees, with endless hours of sunshine and nights full of stars.
The estate has a variety of small houses (fincas), all very specially decorated and painted. There is a large vegetable garden and a great swimming pool with a small island in the middle just ten metres from the dance floor. The water is natural and fresh and comes straight from the mountains! The dance floor is in the open air with a good wooden floor and a shade roof. The shower and toilet facilities are simple but beautiful and work on solar energy.
The site is 1500 m high, surrounded by the Sierra Nevada and open to the Mediterranean sea. There are rooms of different sizes (1 to 3 people in a room) in the small houses. You can rest there or take walks and enjoy the waterfalls and the beautiful panoramic landscape.
The food, vegetarian and delicious, is offered twice a day: breakfast, a big Mediterranean meal at 3pm. In the late afternoon there is time to have a siesta, walk to the pretty villages around the centre, swim in the pool or work independently on the dance floor.
For more information about the place you can visit these websites:
www.katharinaconradi.com
www.baileenelaire.com
Practical information
- Arrival 6 July 2025 in the afternoon – Departure 12 July 2025 before 12 noon
- 5 days of workshops 5 hours per day
- workshop: 555 euros
- Lodgings & food 420 euros (three delicious vegetarian meals per day and a single/double/shared sleeping place)
- Single sleeping place 10 – 15 euros more per day (only a small number available)
Sign up
Katharina Conradi
06 27070906
info@danstherapie-coaching-amsterdam.nl
Eerste Helmerstraat 102 1/2
1054 EG Amsterdam