About R.I.T.M.O.
R.I.T.M.O. is a holistic approach to rhythm, created and envisioned by Colombian percussionist Túpac Mantilla, based on the use of the body as our main instrument, with the intention to enter rhythmic flow through contents around body percussion and body rhythm, and to open a space that develops individual creativity as part of a holistic experience.
R.I.T.M.O. uses flow to learn complex patterns and to create longtime memory and complex movement integration. It trains coordination and motor skills through gradual multilayered exercises that combine different rhythmic levels in the feet, hands and the voice at the same time. It invites to explore movement through the perspective of rhythm and to experience a wide range from basic to complex rhythmic structures and polyrhythms.
Learn tools from Túpac’s unique body percussion system (like Scales, Power Rhythms, Dun-tas and Circulines), get to know concepts, games and settings that give room for creativity and improvisation and offer powerful tools for group formation and group synchronization, as you interact in a collective sharing context and have a lot of fun.
DESIGN YOUR OWN RETREAT PROCESS.
CHOOSE YOUR OWN RHYTHM.
FIND YOUR OWN SPACE.
About the RETREAT
The activities during the Retreat are organized in a way that you can customize your own personal experience based on your particular interests. Choose from different practice sets that focus on body awareness, grounding, rhythmic meditations, body percussion technique and tools, grooves, polyrhythms, voice and movement journeys, brain activation, as well as discussions and talks around the scientific research and pedagogic methodology that supports the R.I.T.M.O. process. Special music, dance, drumming and open gatherings will take place in the evenings and throughout the course.
The Retreat offers a personal space to focus and reconnect with your inner rhythm and the intelligence of your body and invites you to develop and bring forward your own creative voice.
The main language of the course will be English. Translation into German will be provided whenever necessary.
The Place
PEGASUS SEMINARHAUS + RETREATCENTER
21732 Krummendeich
Contact us for questions at: contact@percuaction.com
Schedule
TUESDAY
28.7.26
Arrival and registration
available from:
16:00
Welcoming and Introduction
Meeting:
17:30
18:30 - DINNER
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
Evening R.I.T.M.O. Gathering:
20:30
WEDNESDAY
29.7.26
7:00 - 8:00 Morning
Activity
8:30 - BREAKFAST
10:00 - 13:00 Training
Sessions 1 - 3
13:00 - LUNCH
15:30 - 18:30 Training
Sessions 4 - 6
18:30 - DINNER
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
20:30
Evening R.I.T.M.O. Gathering
THURSDAY
30.7.26
7:00 - 8:00 Morning
Activity
8:30 - BREAKFAST
10:00 - 13:00 Training
Sessions 1 - 3
13:00 - LUNCH
15:30 - 18:30 Training
Sessions 4 - 6
18:30 - DINNER
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
20:30
Evening R.I.T.M.O. Gathering
FRIDAY
31.7.26
7:00 - 8:00 Morning
Activity
8:30 - BREAKFAST
10:00 - 13:00 Training
Sessions 1 - 3
13:00 - LUNCH
15:30 - 18:30 Training
Sessions 4 - 6
18:30 - DINNER
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
20:30
Evening R.I.T.M.O. Gathering
SATURDAY
1.8.26
7:00 - 8:00 Morning
Activity
8:30 - BREAKFAST
10:00 - 13:00 Training
Sessions 1 - 3
13:00 - LUNCH
15:30 - 18:30 Training
Sessions 4 - 6
18:30 - DINNER
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
20:30
Evening R.I.T.M.O. Gathering
SUNDAY
2.8.26
Morning Activity
7:00 to 8:00
8:30 - BREAKFAST
10:00 -12:30
Final Session
13:00 - FINAL LUNCH
(Vegetarian Menu Served)
Gather around an amazing community of people, in a beautiful surrounding, as you dive into profound
rhythmic experiences.
Prices
600 EUROS
Discount until 31.12.25
650 EUROS
Full Fee from 1.1.26
Includes all the R.E.treat activities, materials and diploma.
Does not include Room and Board.
* Room and board must be booked and paid separately directly to the
Pegasus Seminar Center administration after having received the confirmation of registration.
To find out about room and board prices
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Registration
Please fill in the registration form below. Once we receive your subscription, our team will get back to you with the details for payment and reservations for accommodations.
For additional details and information please contact:
Irene Weber +41 79 233 16 30 / schosulan@hotmail.com
Or email us at: contact@percuaction.com
We look forward to hearing from you!
About Túpac
Túpac Mantilla holds degrees in classical, world and Indian percussion studies from Javeriana University (Bogotá, Colombia), the New England Conservatory (Boston, U.S.A.) and Harvard University (Cambridge, U.S.A.). His performance activity includes regular appearances at venues such as Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and Kennedy Center, as well as festivals such as Montreux, Newport and North Sea Jazz, and collaborations with artists like Bobby McFerrin, Esperanza Spalding, Zakir Hussain, and Julian Lage, with whom he was nominated for a Grammy in 2009 for best contemporary Jazz Album.
He regularly teaches and gives lectures and residencies at educational institutions such as Stanford University, New York University, Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory. In 2012 he founded PERCUACTION (www.percuaction.com), an organization that develops and runs rhythm oriented artistic and social programs around the world, through an innovative rhythm curriculum, which in 2020 surpassed a teaching coverage in Colombia of 200.000 children. He is the founder of the Youth Education Program at the Panama Jazz Festival and the director of the World Rhythm Program at the Stanford Jazz Workshop since 2016. In 2020 he joined the Faculty at the Summer Educators Program at Carnegie Hall in New York City, recognition that goes along with nominations as a 'Rising Percussion Star' by Downbeat Magazine in recent years.
In 2023, Túpac had the honor to be invited by the legendary Tabla Master Ustad Zakir Hussain to join his world-renowned Masters of Percussion project, wich toured extensively in Canada and the United States.
Testimonies
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