Welcome To
The roots of
Adventure
Workshop
exploring Adventure through Improvisation, combat, parkour and grooves.
collaboration with The Kaland Movement
A workshop exploring play, improvisation, physicality, and presence.
What are the roots of the playfulness we had as children? Where's the hidden key to that taste of magic and adventure? This is a 3-day journey into unexpected side quests, guided discovery, and the tale your own body can tell when it moves freely, in contact with nature and each other.
Kaland and Roots of Play come together to create a shared movement experience — cultivating a space to play, research emergent ideas, and foster deep presence within the creative process. Expect real expeditions in different environments: guided discovery where you can move freely, alone or in a group, within physical scores that give direction but leave room for your own curiosity.
The journey unfolds through:
• Expedition — real adventures outdoors, in nature and with others
• Physical Scores — frameworks that guide without dictating
• Practice — deep-diving into the movement and games we discover, developed together with facilitators and the group
• Presence — creating and sharing ideas without the pressure of performing, staying authentic and curious as complexity grows
We'll explore balance — in risky positions, in contact with nature, in contact with each other — and build tools for improvisation that work anywhere.
What we're offering:
• A framework for physical transformation — changing how you move and relate to space.
• Tools for artistic expression and playfulness
• A genuinely fun, low-pressure way to push your physical edges
• Community built through shared physical experience — moving and problem-solving together, not performing for each other
• Mindfulness, freedom of expression, and connection to nature woven throughout
Open to every level. We believe everyone can find their own intensity of participation. A shared focus and a wish to stay present and curious matter more than ability — different movement styles only make the experience richer.
🍀 Three days to reclaim the spirit of adventure.
The Approach
Participatory Action
Transformation through direct experience.
While allowing the material to be co-creational and emergent, we will also be basing the residency off principles inspired by Contact Improvisation, Contemporary Dance, Feldenkrais Method, Arboreal Locomotion, Parkour and Martial Arts.
Witnessing Observation
Learning by seeing.
Understanding the transformative power of quiet contemplation and witnessing. Time will be spent watching and observing what is happening as an approach to integration and deeper introspection on our collective pursuit for understanding.
Reflexive Discussion
Developing shared language.
We will take time to understand the processes we have uncovered by developing shared vocabulary to talk about phenomenological experience. This will also be time to understand how our currant disciplines can be embedded into non-human made contexts.
Collective Research
Cultivating Collective Intelligence.
CoCreated Research and developmental material. How we come together with a shared intention and no leader. Everyone establishing themselves as a generative figure to move towards something emergent and collective. A pillar of this residency.
Who is this for
This workshop Is Open Level.
As long as you and physically able and can traverse complex terrain, you will feel comfortable and safe here.
Practical Information
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You will be hosted in a private garden on the boarders of Budapest.
You will need a tent and camping equipment.
More info will be available upon booking confirmation.
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Food will not be included.
You will need to bring your own food.
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We will start 10am and finish 5pm each day.