FoRest is a 3-day residential laboratory that integrates dance, aquatic bodywork, hiking, and immersion in nature.
Where: GüiGüi ravine & beach, municipality of La Aldea, Gran Canaria, Canary Island, Spain
When: May 10th to 12th, 2026
Deadline for applications: Till completed, only 5 places available
FoRest (Fundamentals of Observation, Rest, Experimentation, Sustainability and Transit)
is a 3-day residential laboratory that brings together dance, hiking, active meditation and aquatic bodywork within a remote coastal landscape. The encounter takes place in Guy Guy beach, a wild territory and natural reserve accessible only by foot or by boat.
Conceived as a small-scale collective experience, FoRest invites a group of participants to share time living, moving and creating together in close dialogue with the surrounding ecosystem. Through dance explorations, attentive walking and somatic practices, the laboratory cultivates a space for listening, creative intimacy and embodied research.
A central dimension of the retreat unfolds in the water. Through aquatic bodywork sessions inspired by Watsu and Aguahara, the sea becomes both studio and collaborator. Water offers a field where gravity softens, perception expands and relational movement can emerge through trust, support and fluidity.
Approaching the human body as an amphibious system, the laboratory explores the creative potential of moving between elements. The interplay between land and sea invites participants to re-sense the body’s adaptive intelligence and to engage with nature as a living partner in processes of attention, rest and transformation.
FoRest is open to movers, artists, thinkers and anyone interested in embodied research and shared experiences of creativity in nature.
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Flights: we advise you to arrive and leave one or two days before and after FoRest, in order to explore this wonderful island on your own.
Send us an email to receive all technical information and itinerary.
Lab facilitated by HobeLasai (Javier Murugarren);
Choreographer, pedagoge and performer. Founder of ReMo Studio; an Amsterdam collective focused on performance and textile experimentation, movement pedagogy and artistic mentoring. He is also a boat skipper, free diver, aguahara, watsu and myofascial practitioner
How to apply / register:
send a mail to: HobeLasai@proton.me
Contact us to receive all the necessary information: schedule, way to arrive, materials and food to take with you,
Costs for participants:
Costs for participants: Price: €300 early bird €270 booking until the 15th of April
Contact details: HobeLasai@proton.me
For further information, please visit http://www.remostudio.org/
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