Program of the 3rd Samothraki Tangocontact Retreat
This year, we’re excited to extend the retreat to a full 11 days, giving everyone the chance to truly enjoy the island alongside the seminars and workshops.
The open-level workshops will welcome participants of all backgrounds and offer a chance to meet and connect with the local community, residents as well as long and short-term visitors, creating a warm and lively mix of people.
The intensive seminar will require some prior experience, as it will be a more focused and intimate journey, deepening our understanding of movement and improving our ability to connect with others.
The milonjams that will take place at the old school will be open to everyone. These gatherings will be a festive moment of connection and celebration, shared with the village of Therma, which so warmly hosts us.
Wednesday 20/8
21:00 – Warm up milonga at Rania Cafe (free entrance)Thursday 21/8 – Saturday 23/8
Open workshops at the old school of Therma
- 1 morning workshop: 15€, 1 evening workshop: 25€, Full Pass: 100€
The contact points of a fluid embrace with Kasia & Seran
Take the well defined structure of the traditional tango embrace and break it down to its essential structural elements, what is left is the contact points. After understanding how to have the contact points as reference, we will see how our embrace can transform during our dance while still offering us the desired stability
Approach to tangocontact with Roxi & Cacu
We will study the basic principles of this discipline with concepts associated to tango and contact impro to understand some of the dynamics that make up this dance: freedom of movement, relationship with music, space, group. We want you to feel how much they share and enrich each other, expanding their limits and combining their particularity
From massage to the dance. Restorative practices with Roxi & Cacu
The pleasure of entering into dance through massage, a possibility of studying the body by offering weight, investigating its insertions where we can go deeper and where we must become subtle, stretching, twisting, understanding the spirals and projections, as well as the moving energy.
Entering the Space: Proposing Through Presence with Kasia & Seran
We’ll explore the subtle art of entering our partner’s space. What shifts when we create space and offer it with intention? We will see how presence can become a proposal and shared space can turn into a vast field of possibilities.
Crossing Pathways: The Playfulness of Changing Direction with Kasia & Seran
Changes of direction within the flow of movement can spark playful improvisations and enrich our dance. Shifting direction becomes a tool for dialogue — surprising, responsive, and full of possibilities like leg crosses and boleos.
Spheric body in tangocontact with Roxi & Cacu
The body as a sphere that expands in multiple directions, also within the duo and in the space between. From the spirals and circularity in our movements, from understanding the spheres that make up the head, chest, and pelvis, and the ways to associate or differentiate these spheres and move, we will address how to build a spherical body while dancing tango.
Sunday 24/8
Gran Milonjam – 20:00 until late Participation with free offerMonday 25/8 & Tuesday 26/8
Free days to enjoy nature Optional group trips and movement workshops in nature for those interestedWednesday 27/8
Interlude milonga at Cafe Rania (free entrance)Thursday 28/8 – Sunday 31/8
Intensive Seminar at Mariva Yoga Retreat Center
Maximum 25 participants , Contribution: 300€ for the full seminar (includes all other activities)
Colgadas y Volcadas. The art of off-axis movements with Roxi & Cacu
Discover new possibilities and comforts in what the COLGADAS and VOLCADAS offer. Discover new spaces in the body and their musicality. Also, experience the ability to fall in a controlled manner with another person and feel the dynamics and forces that inhabit these movements. ”Zero-point” energy optimization
El universo de las piernas. Ganchos y boleos with Roxi & Cacu
How joints, muscle tone, awareness of support, and the forces within the embrace allow us to comfortably perform circular or linear Boleos, against or in the same direction of the movement. or even high or low Ganchos, circular ones and complex. And in this way, understand the dynamics and musicality associated with them. The understanding of “residual energy” to perform them. The activity of the support leg.
Elastics to explore the structures. The embrace and displacements. “Alteraciones y rebotes” with Roxi & Cacu
Understanding the forces of tension and relaxation that occur in movements through awareness of the joints and grips of the hands and arms, as a powerful tool of interpretation while dancing. All of this allows for more advanced movements like ALTERACIONES or powerful, musical REBOTES
Listening Bodies: Breath, Connection, and the Unexpected Dance with Kasia & Seran
We’ll begin by caring for our bodies, offering them the stretch and space they need. Through breath work, we’ll ease into a state of presence and deepen our connection — first with ourselves, then with our partner. From this place of awareness, we’ll explore how active listening to the body can give rise to an unexpected dance, shaped moment by moment in shared attention.
Giros y soltadas . Dinamicas y posibilidades with Roxi & Cacu
Performing the turn in a shared manner with a dialogue between the two roles. Being able to perform the turn within a hug with high muscle tone, in an open hug, or including Soltadas in the turn, leaving the contact for a moment while expanding communication through sight and body awareness.
Lifts and falls – Earth and air and the water in between with Roxi & Cacu
The embrace and the body of the partner can be the earth and the air to support the fall or flight and unfolding, as well as to enter and leave the ground, breathing and finding the fluidity that sustains these changes. What is our relationship with falling to the floor or being lifted by another body? How do we manage the subtlety to change levels during the tango code, within a hug, or in the dynamics of contact?
Sunday 31/8
Gran Milonjam – Fiesta Final at the old school20:00 – until late(participation with free offer)