studio 25: CI & power
4-15 AOut 2025
Un rassemblement, une recherche, une danse, une réflexion, une jam
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Studio 25 jam "Improvisation and politics" : CI & Power
A Gathering, A Research, A Dance, A Reflection
This year, we invite you to join us at Studio 25, where we continue our journey of questioning, dancing, and being together in an environment that nurtures connection, critical inquiry, and creative exploration. Set amidst a luscious forest, a flowing river, and spaces designed for movement and reflection, we will gather for 12 days to engage with the theme: Contact Improvisation and Power.
What is Studio 25?
It is a long jam, a study, a rest, and a collective dance—a living inquiry into the intersections of our somatic practices and the socio-political realities of our world. From dawn to late night, our days unfold across two studios, an outdoor dance deck, and the richness of shared time with 25 to 50 fellow movers.
days 4-5-6 August: Arriving: Open jams, personal time, informal meetings, gatherings and discussions
days 7- 12 August: The intensive
Mornings: Workshops to ground our explorations in shared technique and themes.
Afternoons: Laboratories, spontaneous reading groups, collective writing, and space for experimentation.
All Day: Jams, open-ended and ongoing.
curators: Nezha Rhondali,Oswaldo Marchionda
days 13-15: Integration: Open jams, personal time, informal meetings, gatherings and harvest.
All 12 days: A commitment to situate our dance politically, ethically, and relationally.
Why Contact Improvisation and Power?
Because touch is never neutral. Because every dance carries the echoes of the worlds we live in. Contact Improvisation, born out of radical experimentation, now stands at a crossroads: will it continue to reflect the hierarchies and inequalities of the societies that birthed it, or can it challenge them?
This year, we take a hard look at the ways power is embodied in our practice. Who gets to touch? Who decides the terms of a dance? Who feels empowered to take risks, and who is sidelined—by our unspoken norms, our spaces, our culture?
We interrogate the intersections of CI with whiteness, heteronormativity, coloniality and capitalism. How does the somatic wellness bubble insulate us from accountability? How does CI tourism exploit the global South while claiming universality? And in what ways do our dances unconsciously mirror the very structures of oppression we might hope to dissolve?
But this is not only critique. It’s a call to action. Can CI become a site of resistance, a practice of solidarity, a space where power is shared rather than wielded? Can we reimagine the politics of touch—not as a reflection of societal hierarchies, but as a tool to dismantle them?
This gathering is not just an invitation to move; it’s an invitation to confront. To confront the ways our cells, bodies, and dances are tangled in systems of love and war, liberation and constraint. And to ask, together: What happens when we let the dance be as messy, complex, and transformative as the world it contains?
PRACTICAL INFO:
We can welcome about 40 participants. Accommodation will be available in shared rooms/dormitories as well as the camping space (or your own truck).
The price of the event includes studio space, evening classes, lodging and all the food necessary for the preparation of the meals. We will prepare the meals as a group and we will collectively take care of the life and the spaces (cleaning etc..).
For days of arrival and departure we will offer once a day a shuttle form THIVIERS train station to Larret and back.
**ECONOMY**
PARTICIPATION OPTIONS and PRICES:
Full event: arrival 4th about 4pm - 15th August departure 12am
550-650€ / queer-bipoc 480-650€
First 3 days Jam + Intensive : arrival 4th about 4pm - departure 13th August about 10am
490-550€ / queer-bipoc 450-550€
The intensive: arrival 6th about 7pm - departure 13 August about 10pm
380-480€ / queer-bipoc 340-480€
Intensive + Last 3 days Jam: arrival 6th about 7pm - departure 15th August about 12pm
490-550€ / queer-bipoc 450-550€
DOBST‧NOTAFLOF (Doing Our Best So That No One’s Turned Away For Lack of Funds): You may ask for gratuity or a reduced price (no justification needed) upon registration. If the functioning cost of the event is paid for, Larret will give away free and reduced-price spots. If you need financial help to get to Larret, please let us know.
LOMTSOFLOF (Leaving Our Money To SomeOne Lacking of Funds): You may give more money so as to help others to get reduced pricing.
BUDGET TRANSPARENCY:
5445€ renting of studios & land and cover the cost of facilities and maintenance (* the land that is hosting us was purchased in 2020 and is still under construction, and loans are still being reimbursed to banks; part of the daily price goes to this, as well as to the functioning costs for electricity, water, gas…)
4125€ food cost & cook salary
2200€ logistics & salaries for Larret’s logistical team
2400€ facilitator’s transportation & invitations
Any extra money will go to reduce the pricing or helping for transportation for those needing it. If you nee help to asses your relationship to economic privilege compared to others, here’s a visual aid.
Geohistory
23 Impasse du Chalard, Larret – Saint Saud Lacoussière 24470
contact: studio.larret@gmail.com
Since June 2020 Larret is a place of collective life, creation and hosting where projects around dance, farming, cooking, building, thinking are developed in their ecological dimension. An eco-somatic place for those who live there and those who come, dancers, researchers, philosophers, craftsmen, the curious…
Accessibility and life on the land
The studios and collective space are 25 minutes by car from the nearest train station (a shuttle will be in place). The studios, collective dining areas, showers and dry toilets are not wheelchair accessible, and the circulation paths are a mix of dirt and pebbles. There are stairs to access the three-people bedrooms and the 10-people dormitory, but not the studios. From the studios, the river is a 15 minutes walk through the forest, with sometimes steep paths.
Larret-en-Mouvement is a collectively run space on a land that is privately owned by two self-identified cis straight white men. The land is stewarded by a (majority-white, majority-queer) collective and involves dancing, gardening, building, cooking food, and engaging in group-decision training.
Surrounding the studios is a forest, a small part of which is privately owned (not by us), and the most part of which is stewarded by the Parc naturel régional du Périgord Vert. Downhill, the river Dronne runs amid volcanic rocks and regional trees. Its stream and banks are public spaces, although there’s a large part that is seldom visited by locals or tourists. Nudity has been known to happen at the river, please check with your neighbors if that’s okay with them (coz consent is beautiful)!
FACILITATORS:
Nezha Rhondali and Oswaldo Marchionda
