INTENSIVES

The VALLETO Dance and Heal intensives happen twice a year. They are global, inclusive, artistic incubators + dance training programs that combine dance, holistic methods, and the experience of collaborating with other dancers, with a performance experience for a live audience (summer intensive only).

NEXT INTENSIVE: AUSTIN SUMMER INTENSIVE 2023

Location: TBA

AUSTIN Summer Dance Intensive 2023

VALLETO summer intensive is a 11-day dance training workshop designed for dancers who wish to strengthen their techniques, expand their dance network, connect with their artistic mission and be in a creative and choreographic process. This intensive includes dance techniques such as floorwork, ballet, gaga, dance theater, partnering, improvisation, and flying low taught by invited guest artists and director Valeria Gonzalez. In addition to our physical training workshop, and our creative choreographic process, the students will have the time to engage in conversation, journaling, holistic methods and mentorship. Every VALLETO summer intensive culminates with a performance project open to the public.

VALLETO COMPANY CLASS

Unpredictable Bodies

Valeria's classes take you on a physical and sensorial journey to awaken the unconscious, and emotional inner knowledge. Valeria cultivates a safe space for the students to have a deeper connection to the movement practices. Her workshops also focus on exploring partnering dynamics, undoing old movement habits, and unveiling the psyche through a variety of contemporary dance methodologies, improvisation, and acting methods. Her goal is to invite the students to have more awareness of their bodies, their minds, and their spirits to find freedom in the uncomfortable. Valeria encourages her dancers to tap into their imaginations, and their desires for unapologetic self expression.

She also includes:

ºHolistic Approaches (Meditation)

ºDialogue

ºEmbodiment Practices

ºDiscovering What Is Your Artistic Statement (Journaling)

VALLETO CHOREOGRAPHY/CREATIVE PROCESS

Valeria’s choreographic process excavates deep emotional states and memories through movement research, shapes, geometry, voice, the outer and inner world, sound, curiosity and collaborative exploration. She safely invites her dancers to be vulnerable and allows them to unveil the many layers that our collective consciousness hides.

Valeria is interested in the creature we all hold within. The curious creature that needs to be fed, the creature we had abandoned when we were children. Her goal is to awaken, and allow uninhibited self-expression in all aspects of the process to happen.

Guest Artists: TBA

Participants must be 18 years old or more by the date of the workshop.

Winter Intensive 2024

Heal + Dance Edition:
This course is designed for all humans (dancers and non-dancers) who crave to be in a safe and intimate space for self- expression and movement exploration. This exploration involves several modalities we utilize in VALLETO choreographic processes such as improvisation, conversation, acting methods, meditation, partnering, embodied and somatic practices, sound, and more.

Our Core Values: Liberation, Self-Expression, Autonomy, Curiosity, Trust, Safety, Inclusivity, Movement Research, Empathetic Listening

Our intentions are:
• To create a supportive and loving community.
• To connect with our intuition, our inner self, our truth & our power.
• To express ourselves fully, and be witnessed with love.
• To connect and explore our feminine power.
• To reclaim our voice and bodies.
• To learn healing and holistic modalities.