Unplugged Dance 2026 Residential Eco-Somatic Dance Program

Unplugged Dance

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance

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Dates

April 26 – June 13, 2026

About

A deeply embodied educational experience in dance, somatics and collective practice

Unplugged Dance is a 7-week immersive residential program that offers time, space, and continuity for personal and collective exploration in dance and somatic practices.

It is an immersive space to live, move, reflect and create together.

This program emerges from the desire to approach dance not only as technique, but as a way of understanding ourselves — through the body, through relational practice, and through shared experience.

Here, movement becomes a tool for awareness, regulation, expression and transformation.

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance

This year, Unplugged Dance is oriented toward exploring movement as a regenerative, living practice that nourishes our bodies, our artistic work, and the ecosystems we inhabit.

The program invites an approach to dance that understands movement as a means of ecological awareness and approaches the dancing body as a living, multidimensional organism, inherently interconnected with its environment. Practices are held as ways of cultivating relational sensitivity, an embodied attentiveness to the living networks that connect us with one another and with the world around us.

This year’s workshops are shaped around:

– eco-somatic perspectives that engage with the intersections of dance, ecology, and community, drawing inspiration from principles of permaculture and deep ecology.

– site-specific practices in natural environments that invite direct engagement with the textures, rhythms, and dynamics of the landscapes we inhabit. Space is approached not merely as a backdrop, but as a companion in the creative process, where movement can arise in response to land, weather, soundscape, and living ecosystems.

– process-oriented, participatory, and reflective formats. Unplugged Dance prioritizes experience over external validation, treating movement as a learning field in which every gesture is understood as part of an evolving dialogue between body, environment, and artistic practice.

– approaches that expand our understanding of dance as a political, cultural, and ecological practice, capable of cultivating awareness, resilience, and transformation through deeper connection with ourselves, with others, and with the more-than-human world.

Listening to a Permanent Culture of Dance offers a common ground for diverse practices and ways of engaging over the course of the program.

Over the course of seven weeks, you will:

• Deepen your embodied awareness and relationship to your body

• Develop practical somatic tools for self-regulation and creative process

• Expand your movement vocabulary and physical confidence

• Engage in reflective and collective dialogue

• Experience dance as a living, relational and investigative practice

• Strengthen your personal artistic or embodied path within a supportive community

This is not only training.

It is a lived educational experience.

Facilitators – Workshops

Week 1

Kyveli Kouvatsi & Yorgos Sioras Deligiannis – facilitating landing and introductory sessions

Week 2

Mariela Nestora ◘ Fieldwork scores

Kate Sagovsky ◘ Rewilding Play

Week 3

Vasiliki Tsagkari ◘ The body as roots for poetry

Reversed Dances [Franziska Gerth and Lily Pasquali] ◘ The Loss Lab: Embodied Research in a Damaged World

Week 5

Alessio Castellacci ◘ Embodied Voice Flow

Week 6

Bodycartography [Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad] ◘ Ecosomatic practices for living and dying

Program Structure

The 7 weeks include:

• Introductory “landing” week and integrating one in the end

• Experiential workshops Monday – Friday led by international facilitators

• Free weekends for personal or communal time to integrate and recharge for next week – with breakfast offered.

• Daily dance and movement workshops

• Somatic sessions and embodied research

• Time for morning warm up

• Heart circles – Group reflections

• Critical circles – open discussions

• Space for personal exploration and integration

• Collective care of the space

• Arranged excursions

Living together is part of the process. The residential format allows depth, continuity and shared learning.

Arrival is on Sunday, April 26, at a specific time that will be announced later. The arrival day includes a welcoming circle and dinner. Departure is on Saturday, June 13, and includes breakfast and collective cleaning. We cannot accept later arrivals or earlier departures, as both the arrival and departure days are integral parts of the program.

Who is it for?

This program is open to adults who feel called to deepen their relationship to movement and embodied practice.

It is for you if you:

• Wish to cultivate a sustainable and conscious body practice

• Are interested in somatics as experiential knowledge

• Want to explore dance beyond performance and aesthetics

• Seek a community-based learning environment

• Are ready to commit to a 7-week immersive process

Previous experience in dance can be supportive but is not mandatory. Commitment and openness are essential.

Participation Fee

The participation fee is €3600 and covers the full 7 week program, including 180 hours of workshops, guided practices and collective activities.

In addition, during the program, daily shared meals are offered and participants are hosted in shared living arrangements, at no additional cost.

A payment plan in installments is available.

If finances are a concern, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We are happy to explore options together.

Registration

To complete your registration, please fill out this form, pay the deposit (1/3) within 48 hours and send a copy of your payment at unpluggeddance@gmail.com

If you’d like to connect, we’re always happy to arrange a free call to answer your questions and help you feel confident about your participation.

Erasmus+ Funded participation

This program is open to learners funded through Erasmus+ Adult Education and Youth mobility schemes.

Tripudium Collective is registered in the Erasmus+ system and can act as a receiving organisation for Erasmus+ participants. If you are eligible for Erasmus+ funding through a sending organisation, you may use your grant to participate in this program.

If you are interested, please contact us before applying to discuss arrangements with your sending organisation.

Contact details: unpluggeddance@gmail.com