Body · Movement · Presence
Where Dance, Therapy, and Creation meet to celebrate the Self.
Productions
It came by surprise!!
When coming back from a trip in India in 2015, Marcos Palacio asked me: why we don't make a contact festival in Asturias? And I said ok!! So, we started dreaming about it and giving the steps to make it happen. It happened, and since that date Asturias contact festival is alive.
Monica Cofiño, alias La Xata La Rifa helped us a lot in these first editions, and with her, I've learnt a lot about this world working in her bucolics productions for several times.
I understood the depths and poetics of Production with Marina Oural.
I've being on the edge playing this role, I've struggled, I've fight, I've spent nights with no sleeping.
I've lived very exciting moments and I saw magic happening.
Playing this rol you forget about yourself, you just play with all your skills in service to make things happen.
You have the vision and you dare to give the steps to make it real.
You make the impossible to make something happen in the best way you can.
Challenging, scaring and exciting!!!
You go for it!!!
When something is meant to be is gonna be. We are just the channels to make things happen ! ! !
That's production.
That's life.
Events
ASTURIAS CONTACT FESTIVAL
10th edition coming next August: 20th to 26th
"ACF X - crossing frontiers"
August 20th
PERFORMATIVE TALK
+
JAM
August 21st morning
INTRO TO CI FOR PEOPLE FROM 0 UNTIL 100
((open to everybody))
August 21st - 26th
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL WITH
Sergio Palomares
Dagmar Bock
ACF Team
((with registrations))
RENASCIMENTO EM DANÇA
Creative Gathering on Butoh and Body Weather
with Marlene Jöbstl, Sara Pons & Yael Karavan
This is a once a year date for an inmersión in the art of Butoh.
All human bodies are welcome, for this experience lead by these wise women.
VI edition 2 - 6 April, 2026
Quinta Ten Chi, Sintra, Portugal
BOB FESTIVAL
Creation & Performance Festival
Co-directed by Irene Alvarez & Marlene Jöbstl
This is a new baby to dive into creative process, individually and collectively, into the Beauty Of Butoh, into the celebration of our most true expression.
In collaboration with Marlene Jöbstl who will lead the artistic process with her Radical Dance Research into the construction of a Cabaret Show.
II edition will be postponed to 2026 in Asturias, Spain.
WEEKEND CI MARATHON JAM
We bring back the Weekend Marathon JAM to Quinta Ten Chi this upcoming spring.
This event is a gift to all those who love the art of Contact Improvisation (CI), to those who embrace the language of movement, and to anyone who feels drawn to explore how bodies can communicate without words. It is an invitation to dive deeper into the world of shared presence, where boundaries dissolve and we experience oneness, both with ourselves and with others.
Each journey starts at 10am with the Social Presencing Theatre.
From 12pm until 10pm we will open the CI Jam space held by different facilitators.
Food and sleeping facilities available
April 2025, 12th & 13th
Quinta Ten Chi, Sintra, Portugal
