I am a Contact Improvisation (CI) researcher and dancer, exploring bodily sensations and the poetics of movement. My work blends somatic awareness, improvisation, and CI, seeing dance as a dialogue between internal sensations and external stimuli. I teach internationally at festivals such as Flow Festival (Poland), Mediterranea Contact Festival, Dive Into the
Dance (Spain), Sicily Contact Improv Retreat, Body and Composition (Algarve), and Innercore Festival (Portugal). I co-founded La Buenísima Dance Company and La Reunión, fostering collaborative improvisation and movement research.
I train under influential CI practitioners including Cristiane Bullousa, Diana Bonilla, Linda Bufali, Katja Mustonen, Mirva Mäkinen, Charlie Morrissey, Rai Chung, and Yaniv Mitezer, and I integrate contemporary dance influences from Poliana Lima, Lucas Condró, Mónica Valenciano, Flor Buzzo, Kira Kirsch and fascia work with Maria Mora and Ona Fuste. My practice is enriched by the Feldenkrais Method (Simonetta Alessandri, Julen Arévalo).
Based in Madrid, I guide weekly CI and somatic classes since 2019, cultivating a supportive community and encouraging exploration of movement, presence, and improvisation.
Contact Improvisation Festival - Classes
COMMON BODY, DANCING PRESENCE
This workshop explores deep listening to the body and the encounter through Contact Improvisation, cultivating presence, intimacy, and subtle complicity. Participants explore to move without leading, trusting the body and the shared moment, experiencing intimacy as presence rather than intention. We will research on those different topics:
-Intimacy with Myself – Breath and body awareness, exploring each body part and integrating movement.
-Intimacy with the Other Through the Gaze – Meeting others through eye contact, exploring comfort and boundaries.
-Walking Synchronies: Creating a Common World – Hands on shoulders, one hand on pelvis, alternating hands, spirals and circles, exaggeration and creative chaos, returning to small gestures, role swaps, walking embrace.
-Presence and Common Sustain Facing a Partner – Mutual support and sustained presence on the floor.
-Emerging Joints: The Connected Body – Mobilization of head, torso, pelvis, and legs, exchanging roles, then unfolding into free dance.
-Trio: Exploring Neutral Intimacy Through Touch and Movement – Lying observation, balance and rocking, extremity flow, simultaneous limb mobilization, active movement, directed movement, role reversal and support.
-From Ground to Chaos – Pairs descend and ascend to the floor in progressively shorter times while maintaining contact.
-Trios: Neutral Transmission – A neutral center transmits information between bodies, tuning subtle movement and adjusting roles.
The workshop cultivates a shared physical and emotional field — a common body sustained by attention, listening, and presence.