Contemporary Dance Intensive

El Pescadero, BCS, Mexico

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Jun 16 - 23, 2024
Group size: 10 - 15
Contemporary Dance Intensive
El Pescadero, BCS, Mexico

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Jun 16 - 23, 2024
Group size: 10 - 15

About this trip

Experience a cultural and dance performance intensive led by dance artist and El Campo founder, Annie Parr and guest choreographer Sofia Camacho of Guadalajara, Mexico.

For ages 16 and up. This 8 day choreography lab and technical intensive is an immersion into creating work and bringing it to performance the final evening to an audience of the Todos Santos area.  There will be 4-5 hours a day of training and rehearsal, beach and pool time, delicious  food, hammock hangs and dance jams in the evening. A week to never forget immersed in art, dance and the Baja life style and culture. 

About the Choreographers and Teachers

Sofia Camacho is a Mexican choreographer, performer and teacher born in Guadalajara, Jalisco and based in San Josédel Cabo, Baja California Sur. She trained in classical dance at Ballet de Cámara de Jalisco, Escena 3 and Joffrey Ballet School. She has worked professionally as a dancer in the company Ballet de Jalisco under the direction of Dariusz Blajer, Coastal City Ballet in Canada under the direction of L Yaming and currently, as an independent artist.

Founder and Artistic Director of Colectivo Faze, a young company and high performance training and creation program conceived on her own initiative. Her first full-length work ''Kshama'' was selected to be presented at the International Dance Festival (FID). Her choreographic pieces ''Abilis'' and ''Spharia'' were awarded as best choreography at the Ballet Festival Guadalajara. 

She has worked in choreographic productions for different professional dance companies such as Ballet de Jalisco, premiering two pieces at the Teatro Degollado, within the framework of the International Festival Lila Lopez; Ballets de San Juan (Puerto Rico) presenting two pieces in their choreographic laboratory gala at Bellas Artes in Puerto Rico; and Armonium Dance. She has also performed in productions, residencies and master classes with different schools of classical and contemporary dance nationally and internationally. Her stage creations have participated in different dance festivals and galas such as Lila Lopez, YGP Mexico, Festival Internacional de Danza (FID), Circuito Cervantino among others. She is currently an independent choreographer.

 

Annie Rosenthal Parr is a Bay Area, California native. She is a dancer, choreographer and teacher who founded RoCo Dance Center, Marin County in 1993. Annie received her BFA in Dance from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was a member of Della Davidson Dance and Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. 

She presents work as an independent choreographer, performer and educator and has served as an adjunct professor, guest teacher and commissioned choreographer to UC Berkeley, Sonoma State, San Francisco State and The Boston Conservatory. 

Annie founded El Campo, Baja Sur in 2022 as a retreat space for movement artists, a performance venue and vacation rental. She splits her time between Mexico, California and New York where she teaches her movement practice "The Field"

What’s included

  • Meals
    3 healthy and delicious meals will be prepared daily
  • Classes and performance
    Led by Annie Parr and Sofia Camacho
  • Transportation
    To and from airport and outings off campus
  • Lodging
    6 nights
  • Dance Jams
    Evening dance parties. and free forms
  • Performance
    End of week performance by the participants for the Todos Santos community

What’s not included

  • Massage
    Book a massage onsite for 75-100. usdusd
  • Surf Lessons
    Book a surf lesson at Cerritos beach. 60-75usd
  • Airfaire
    Book your own air travel to San Jose Del Cabo International

Available Packages

7 day Contemporary Performance Intensive
Available until June 13, 2024
$2,400
Deposit: $500

Itinerary

Arrival to El Campo
Take a tour, settle in and eat!

Once everyone is settled into the property and checked into their bedrooms we will give you a tour of the property and eat a snack. We will meet and give you the run down of the week to give you some free time before dinner. After Dinner and desert dance jam in The Mill and off to bed by 9:30pm

Your Organizer


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El Campo is a retreat place of unrefined elegance, attracting creatives, surfers, movement artists and Baja enthusiasts. Located in El Pescadero, Baja California which is 1 hour and 15 min from the San Jose International Airport.