ONE DANCE FESTIVAL 2025
Dear friends, dancers,
we cordially invite you to
We will meet on 14-17th August 2025 and a long weekend full of life-awakening dance awaits us!
The theme of this year's festival will be CONNECTIONS, because we feel that there is a need for more connection as human to human. It's like preventing strife, fighting and at the same time it's medicine.
For the fifth time, we will meet in the beautiful ŽIVÁ VODA residential center in Kohoutov near Trutnov, surrounded by forests and clear water.
The festival brings the opportunity to "taste" the workshops of teachers from various schools of free conscious dance.
We arrange varied, enticing and nourishing program.
Our intention is cooperation and creative connection, so that dancers can experience a colourful range of approaches and musical atmosphere.
This time, we want to invite not only Czech or Slovak-speaking dancers, but also English-speaking dancers to participate, in order to support the spirit of connection and cooperation between participants, cross-culturally, cross-nationally.
We are very much looking forward to spending time together, nourishing ourselves, finding resources and connecting with each other.
We look forward to seeing you at the dance.
One Dance team
We are introducing this year's One Dance Festival guests and performers who will help us stretch our bodies, nourish our minds and surely delight our hearts. It's going to be epic! Come and join us.
TEACHERS AND PERFORMERS
Nele Vandezande
Nele Vandezande is a physiotherapist, relaxation & breathing therapist, teacher of Open Floor Movement and other modalities. She is from Belgium. Teaching since: 2000.
She trained with Gabrielle Roth and became 5Rhythms® Teacher (Waves & Heartbeat level). In 2013 she helped to build an international school: Open Floor International and Therapy in Motion. Nele and her husband Kurt Pattyn are the founders and creators of Souldance.
She followed her passion and curiosity for life and fell in love with movement as a pathway to presence and awareness, a map to follow in order to keep deepening into what it means to be human.
With over 25 years of experience guiding people through movement, her work focuses on how movement helps process and transform stress, issues and trauma.
"Since childhood, I have been fascinated by the body. At a young age, I was confronted with the limits of what the body is capable of and how people approach it destructively to maintain control over situations. These early experiences were the impetus for what I do now and who I am today."
Chris Camp
Chris Camp ia a 5Rhythm teacher from Belgium (5Rhythms®, Waves & Heartbeat level). Dancing since: 1999. Teaching since: 2014.
Since early childhood Chris has been interested in how we humans function. Over the years his interest spread out into bodywork, psychotherapy, movement and creative arts. From Shiatsu to Gestalt, Trauma Therapy, Voice Dialogue and many more, he just can't get enough of studying and diving deeper into the healing arts. His deepest love however is for the 5Rhythms®. Once you start to put your body into motion, you open the gateways to magic. Chris will guide you with amazing music deep into your journey of transformation.
"Since childhood music and dancing where my passion. As my feet wandered onto a 5 rhythms dance floor in 2004 I finally felt I had found something that I was looking for. Where on earth could I find a place where I could completely lose myself and at the same time find myself but on the dance floor...?!"
Patrik Kee Kedzierski
Patrik Kee Kedzierski is a Czech singer who is dedicated to live vocal improvisation and creates spacey compositions using his voice, which he records and layers on an instrument called a loopstation.
Patrick's music gives listeners a space to look inside themselves and rejoice at the same time.
"I'm very happy to be able to create just the way I feel and perceive it. It's called intuitive tuning and I record it all on an instrument (loopstation) where I can layer dozens of voices and sounds on top of each other.
Each concert is a reflection of my current state of mind and, dare I say, the attunement of everyone involved."
Here in the links you can listen and learn more:
Teachers from the Czech Republic of the ONE DANCE project that you can look forward to:
Raduca Vojáčková, Oli Cháb Makovecká, Veronika Živa and Veronika Theofía Kociňáková
Raduca Vojáčková
As an accredited Open Floor and 5 Rhythms teacher, I have been guiding free conscious dance for a quarter of a century. I have experienced the "miracle" of dance firsthand, and so the movement that unifies the body and connects it to the world around it is something I long to convey to others. Dance has infinite forms and everyone can find in it what is "theirs" at a given moment: perhaps "just" relaxation, calming or joy and refreshment, and also an unexpected insight or transcendent experience.
Olí Cháb Makovecká
This festival is like a spaceship that transports you to a place of dreams. It is a safe space of sharing, support and collaboration. My life has been most influenced by family constellations, chi kung and free dance and I have been involved in these disciplines for many years. All of my teachers and their methods lead me to see my own essence of life and the Source of which we are all a part. My dance journey has been supported by the accredited training of Open Floor international.
Veronika Živa
I did a 5 year intensive Movement Medicine training in England with Susannah and Yaacova Darling Khan. I have been DJing dance events and evenings for 10 years and have been a Movement Medicine teacher since 2018.
Veronika Theofía Kociňáková
I always liked to dance without having to follow a particular person, particular steps. I danced for the feeling of lightness, happiness, freedom. Today I dance for realness. I love the process of mental hygiene through movement, where in dance we have the opportunity to go deeper into our true nature, into our heart, to release repressed emotions, to find a connection with the earth and with what transcends us, to get into harmony.
A WELCOMING PLACE TO STAY
The dance space is connected to the surrounding nature through large windows. Every morning you can go swimming under the stream of cold water from an old stream. The Živá voda center is located in the middle of the woods, surrounded by a large garden. You can stay in rooms or on mats in the meditation room or in your own tent.
The Živá voda center, Kohoutov 143, Kohoutov
DIVINE MANA
The cuisine goddess, Zuzana Rohovská, and her assistant will take care of the nutrition for our bodies. Vegetarian or vegan food, pleasing to the eye and beneficial to the body, is guaranteed.
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM
MASSAGES
Three masseurs with a wide repertoire of approaches offered their services with great effect: the Trager treatment, as well as relaxation or Hawaiian massage, shiatsu and craniosacral therapy.
CREATIVE PHOTO SHOOT WITH PAVLA
Our excellent festival photographer Pavla Žáková offers the possibility of an individual "mini" photo shoot. The photo shoot will take the form of a short photo shoot during breaks, in the hall or outside, portrait or in motion according to agreement with Pavla.
REGISTRATION
The registration form here!
THE PROGRAM PRICE
The price of the program from Thursday evening to Sunday afternoon, with 9 dance sessions:
200,-EUR with payment until 30th June 2025 / later payment 235,-EUR.
The price of the program from Friday evening to Sunday afternoon, with 6 dance sessions:
175,-EUR with payment until 30th June 2025 / later payment 200,-EUR.
THE ACCOMMODATION PRICE
750 CZK (about 32EUR) /1 night in a shared 3-bed to 6-bed room
590 CZK (about 26EUR) /1 night in own sleeping bag in a small hall
590 CZK (about 26EUR) /1 night in own tent
THE MEAL PRICE
Vegetarian full board
550 CZK (about 24EUR) / 1 day