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FoRest: Movement / Mater / Ritual
Fundamentals of Observation, Resting, Experimentation, Sustainability & Transit
🌿 FoRest is a five-day residential somatic laboratory that blends physical training, choreographic and material experimentation in deep connection with the natural environment. It is an interdisciplinary, sensitive, conscious gathering rooted in care, creative intimacy, and ritual manifestation.
A gentle invitation for artists, thinkers, and anyone drawn to a shared field of attention, embodied exploration, and rest.
✶ FoRest invites you into a process of personal and collective research — a space to empower and reawaken an intuitive connection with nature, materials, and narratives. The research process will use natural and textile materials as a starting point for developing physical, visual, and dialectical associations.
We will work in groups and individually — fabricating, writing, moving, and creating emancipatory images. Dialogue and feedback will be at the core of the process.
✦ Movement Practice
FoRest proposes a daily physical training that draws on tools from The New Dance, such as release technique, partnering, improvisation, instant composition, movement research, and voice exploration, alongside visual language exercises.
The laboratory enhances intuitive perception, the advantages of imprecision, uncertainties, atmospheres, visions, quasi-things, and transformation processes. We will try to reach places where material, spiritual, and lived experience merge in continuous unfolding.
❖ Philosophy of the Process
Coexistence is the essence of FoRest. You will enter a shared journey — a kind of tribal alliance — where personal expression meets collective care. The experience is guided and initiated by Hobelasai (a multidisciplinary artist working across choreography, design, and sound), but its spirit is open-source and evolving: everyone is invited to contribute, shape, and co-direct the process in a fluid and democratic way.
The core group will be small — a handful of participants living and creating together over five days and nights. This intimate scale allows for a deeply connected process, where collective rhythms support individual exploration. We’ll inspire each other, observe new movements in ourselves through shared presence, and let the group dynamic become part of our research. While this core holds the heart of the residency, there may also be guests joining for just a day, bringing fresh perspectives into the field.
➤ Shifting Environments
Each day unfolds in a different environment:
Our studio in the green outskirts of Amsterdam
A day of sailing on the Ijsselmeer (the inner sea)
A deep immersion in the forest
These changing environments allow different atmospheres, sensations, and connections to emerge in each participant's process and in the whole.
◦ Daily Structure
Morning
Somatic exploration through yoga, swimming, manipulations, dance, voice exploration, improvisation, and instant composition.
Afternoon
Material and conceptual investigation using sewing, upcycling, visual and narrative practices, tailored to each participant’s curiosity.
Evening
Fireside reflection, shared meals, readings, screenings, music, and poetry.
❋ Food & Rest as Ritual
Food and rest are an integral part of the residency: we will cook together, share recipes, and nourish one another with vegetarian meals. There will be specific times for rest, solo research, and sharing of lived realities. These are not breaks from the process — they are part of the process.
✧ The Setting
The residency is based in Nieuw West, 30 minutes by bike from Amsterdam city center, considered one of the three green lungs of the city for its extensive green areas.
You’ll experience:
A dance studio, sewing atelier, and lush green spaces
A natural rainwater pool for swimming
Daily shifts between studio, water, forest, and boat
Communal living for 5 participants in a shared country home
A bike for each participant to move freely and explore the area
☙ Themes We’ll Explore
Dance: offering, ritual, creation, surrender
Body: home, care, listening, biogeometry, songs
Costume: presence, dignity, fabrication, remake
Matter: history, symbolism, cosmology
Memory: recognition, manifestation, healing
Environment: plants, water, earth, walking, meditation
⟡ How to Join
To participate, send us a short email to reservationremo@gmail.com
We’d love to hear:
What is your practice
What draws you to FoRest
What you feel called to explore
Any questions or practical needs
✦ Cost
€450 — for the full 5-day residency.
This includes:
All shared practices and workshops
Accommodation in a country house
All nourishing vegetarian meals
Use of materials
A bike for local travel
Day participation is also possible (10:00–20:00) for €100/day
Write to us for availability and more details.
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