ARRÁBIDA DANCE LABS | 31st Edition • 18 – 25 September – Biovilla
Welcome to our Thirty-First Impermanent Community, where Dance is the chosen language for a deeper understanding of one another, sustained by practices as:
contemporary movement
contact improvisation
contact improvisation
instant composition
poetic embodiment
performance
poetic embodiment
performance
meditation
somatics
butoh
somatics
butoh
jam
“Here, you confront, live, and surrender to each passing moment, each graceful movement, each spirited dance… and in the end, you are reborn.”
Pedro Neves
(body therapist)LIMINAL BODIES
Dancing Beyond What We Thought Possible“What if the body is not a boundary, but a doorway?
Here’s an unpretentious truth: our body knows more than what we think.
For nine days, this time under the theme “Liminal Bodies”, we will meet again where movement becomes discovery.
No perfect moves or poses.
No right ways.
Just the raw, beautiful mess of being human together.”
Pedro Paz
(founder and curator of Arrábida Dance Labs)
(body therapist)LIMINAL BODIES
Dancing Beyond What We Thought Possible“What if the body is not a boundary, but a doorway?
Here’s an unpretentious truth: our body knows more than what we think.
For nine days, this time under the theme “Liminal Bodies”, we will meet again where movement becomes discovery.
No perfect moves or poses.
No right ways.
Just the raw, beautiful mess of being human together.”
Pedro Paz
(founder and curator of Arrábida Dance Labs)
We will explore:
• How contact improvisation teaches us about trust
• Why butoh helps us release what no longer serves us
• Where disruptive movement breaks old patterns
• What happens when individuals become a collective pulse
• How contact improvisation teaches us about trust
• Why butoh helps us release what no longer serves us
• Where disruptive movement breaks old patterns
• What happens when individuals become a collective pulse
This is for people ready to:
• Feel deeper
• Risk authenticity
• Remember that every body is a wise body
• Feel deeper
• Risk authenticity
• Remember that every body is a wise body
• • • B O O K I N G
I N F O R M A T I O N • • •
I N F O R M A T I O N • • •
- Dates: from 18th (Thu) until 25th (Thu) September, 2025
- Location: BIOVILLA, Arrábida Natural Park, Portugal
- Includes: Diverse workshops and community experience, 3 vegetarian meals per day and accommodation (dormitories, own tent/caravan or rent a tent)
- Limited Spaces: 50 participants
Registrations:
Thank You and, hopefully, see you soon on the Dance Floor!! Arrábida Dance Labs