We offer accomodation in comfortable and cozy shared rooms in beautiful old fashion house style. There is option to go camping. You are welcome to take your own equipment or rent camping equipment for an additional fee.

El Cortijo has a swimming pool with streaming mineral waters without usage of chemicals. You will find open terraces, spacious common areas where you will be welcomed to spend your free time in communal spaces to swim, read, write, and rest.

We are privileged to have 3 spaces for our practices: 2 indoors and one outdoors. The expansive grounds are covered in flowers and vegetation, with gardens that will provide your daily meals.

3 delicious vegan-vegetarian daily meals. Farming at the Cortijo is fully organic and biodynamic. Three meals a day can be protein based vegetarian. Our chefs can meet most dietary requirements.

The nearest airport to Cortijo Caseria del Mercado is in Granada however flying to Malaga is often a more convenient option due frequency and affordable prices well. We can arrange a bus from Malaga Airport straight to Cortijo, which takes approximately 2 hours. The price varies between 15 - 25 euros depending on the amount of people committed to share the chartered bus. This communication will become more clear as we approach closer to the event once the group becomes defined as well as knowing participants routes and arrival preferences.

Kristián "Mr. Kriss" Mensa is a Prague-based dancer and visual artist known for merging breaking with experimental and contemporary styles. With over 15 years of experience, he has performed with artists like Kylie Minogue and Hania Rani, taught globally, and collaborated with WWF, Greenpeace, and Adidas Originals. His multidisciplinary work spans dance, illustration, and animation, seamlessly blending elegance, creativity, and visual poetry. Featured in the documentary Mr. Kriss (2021) by Adolf Zika, he has been recognized by Forbes' "30 Under 30" and awarded a Silver Medal from the Czech Senate for “youthful determination and inspiration.”

Kristián has been teaching dance for over ten years, sharing his expertise with more than 5,000 students worldwide, ranging in age from 5 to 72. He has hosted workshops across the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Spain, Greece, Belgium, the United Kingdom, the United States, South Korea, Japan, Hong Kong and Ghana. Kristián helps participants connect with their bodies through improvisation while nurturing group connection. His extensive knowledge of breaking allows him to break down complex acrobatics into playful, accessible approaches for dancers of all levels.

This workshop explores elasticity and lightness as natural qualities of the body. Through guided improvisation and an approach inspired by hip hop, contemporary dance, and acting, we will rediscover how to move through air and floor with clarity, efficiency, and a sense of freedom.

Workshop topics:

• A free spine and fluid joints
• Soft, effortless floorwork
• Balance through risk and trust
• The art of falling
• Threading movement into expression
• Minimalism as a source of depth and creativity

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Dancer, choreographer and teacher in the field of Contemporary Dance and Formless Arts Movement Philosophy. Since 1999, she has been exploring the relationship between body and consciousness through a continuous practice of diverse movement languages and artistic forms. Her research integrates contemporary dance, waacking, martial arts, play-fight practice, liquid body practice, and freediving, forming a multidisciplinary approach to movement and embodied presence. Teaching contemporary dance since 2010 and facilitating Play-Fight Practice since 2016, she is the creator of the dance courses Dissolution and Paper Body. With over 14 years of teaching experience, she has shared her work internationally in Brazil, Spain, Russia, France, Egypt, Italy, and Belgium. A graduate of the Institute of Music, Theater and Choreography at Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, she is currently based in Brussels, working as an independent artist and educator.

“Taken by Surprise” is a movement workshop that explores individual expression, improvisation, partnering, object-based practice, and embodied awareness, where spontaneity and unpredictability become key forces in discovering self-expression through movement — in solo practice, partnership, and group work. of technique, conditions and sensitivity to surrounding forces.

The main focus of the practice is to harmoniously combine inner sensation with physical movement vocabulary in order to awaken individual creativity. Dance is one of the most ancient bodily ways of expressing our inner world through movement. This workshop enters a space of uncertainty and not-knowing, where the next moment cannot be predicted. To navigate this process with clarity and confidence, participants work with a shared map — a physical alphabet, clear directions, and specific conditions that support communication through the body.

Key Aspects of the Practice

Bruno Caverna has been immersed in multidisciplinary body–mind studies for nearly 40 years, beginning with Capoeira in 1987 and unfolding through Acrobatics, Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Russian Systema, Watsu, freediving and breath-work. His teaching path began in 1995 with a capoeira program in a psychiatric hospital, an experience that forged the deconstructive and adaptive pedagogical foundations that continue to shape his work.

In 2012 Bruno gave birth to the Play-Fight and Liquid Body practices, both emerging from his long-term research into embodiment, relational intelligence and the dynamics of conflict and cooperation. In 2016 he founded Formless Arts, an international platform dedicated to cultivating a community of self-responsible practitioners across disciplines.

Drawing from decades of inquiry and particularly from the internal martial principles transmitted by Alexander Solovev, in 2023 Bruno distilled his knowledge into GFP – Gravitational Field Principle, a somatic education program exploring falling, adaptability and co-regulation with natural forces. In 2025 he formed the first generation of GFP Practitioners.

Bruno is also a certified freediving instructor with the Molchanov School and the founder of Functional Apnea, a breath-work methodology informed by the Buteyko Method and Oxygen Advantage.

Play-Fight is a core practice within Formless Arts, weaving raw physicality with a movement philosophy that brings awareness to our unconscious resistances to gravity and the pervasive human fear of falling—physically, emotionally, and existentially. Through playful yet incisive physical drills, participants learn to recognize, acknowledge and transform lifelong patterns of hidden tension and protective holding. The practice cultivates empowerment by recycling these blockages into adaptability, sensitivity and creative responsiveness. At its heart, Play-Fight explores the ecology of relationship: the continuous dance between cooperation and confrontation, where instinct, curiosity and mutual awareness become the ground for authentic encounter.

WORKSHOP TOPICS

Shared Rooms

CAMPING

Early Bird - 690€
Regular Fee - 760€

Early Bird - 790€
Regular Fee - 860€

Early Bird for the first 10 registrations