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 Detail Workshops  Saturday 28th October 2017 

This class explores dynamics of collective desire, touching on awareness, acceptance, & articulation of personal boundaries, the relationship of the individual to the group, & the notion of pleasure as a path to embodiment. We will begin from somatic work with the Skin, which serves both as a boundary between ourselves and the rest of the world, and also as the first point of contact with that world. We will then move on to exercises that allow us to practice and embody the articulation of desires as well as boundaries, and embrace the joys of saying "no".

David Bloom is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, filmmaker, bodyworker, pianist, father, and tea collector. Graduated the M.A. choreography course at HZT Berlin. Also a long-time student and practitioner of conscious sexuality, his teachers have included Midori, Felix Ruckert, Osada Steve, Joseph Kramer, and Barbara Carellas. His dance films Quintet (2013) and Sonata (2015) premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and were screened internationally. David was a 2012 danceWEB scholar and taught at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna in 2015 and 2016.

In this workshop we will move, step by step, towards a beautiful, naked, sensual durational massage event. We seek to create an arena of non attachment, where we serenely glide through a ‘car wash’ of sensuality, a space where we can can open ourselves to the pleasure of different roles, both the giving and receiving of sensual touch. Individual boundaries are to be indicated and observed as well as a commitment to support and be aware of the flow of energy within the group.

Please note that for the majority of the workshop we will be standing.

Michael was born in London where he trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Schools. His dance credits include work with Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP and numerous others. Michael also works as a choreographer and makes visual art. He currently gives one-to-one bodywork sessions of Pilates, Gyrotonic®/Gyrokinesis®, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage, as well as holding creative spaces as a choreographer and workshop leader.

In Western culture, myths about inspiration (as represented by the Muse) are traditionally heteronormative. Cultural institutions usually promote the norm and play down or even silence the margins. But inspiration knows no such boudaries. Through role-play, we will summon alternative muses and try to channel queer energy into verbal creativity. This workshop is about tapping into queerness as a source of creativity, and allowing the poet and the muse within us expression.

Vanasay is a playwright and stage-director working in France, where he trained as an actor and musician. Beside his work in mainstream theatre, where he translates and directs, among others, plays by Shakespeare or Howard Barker, he has developed a series of performances exploring queerness, hinging on the notion of metamorphosis.
She’s also a singer.

When it comes to sex we may engage in it within a certain - perhaps repetitive - range of behavior that involves our bodies, feelings, minds or imagination. Focusing on the body, we will use the somatic method of Continuum to meet and recognize ourselves as full-blooded, full-bodied, conscious, living events … always breathing, pulsating, streaming, sending, receiving. From this activated state of multidirectional, cellular “listening”- awareness, we explore various partnering invitations and may so receive some inspirations for our sexual expression at home or elsewhere.

Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men & For and Beyond all Genders and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. In 2016 he initiated a new Community Center in Berlin called Village. He believes that the conscious body and the reclaiming of Eros are crucial elements in our evolution toward an integral way of life. Kai teaches since 2002 in Europe and in the US.

Play fighting is experimenting with our bodies in physical contact andconflict with one or more opponents.
Fighting playfully can be dance-like, sensual, funny, overpowering, childish, serious, scaring, deep, teasing, freeing, healing, or sexy.

Play fight is a consensual bodily confrontation that allows us to feel our power and our partner’s power, to feel how physical we are in aunique, intensive way.

Alexander Hahne is a movement researcher by night and an acoustic engineer by day based in Hamburg. He is trained in Ballett, New Dance, Contact Improvisation, Butoh and Martial Arts. His main interests are inclusion and empowerment concepts on a physical/bodily basis.

 

 

 

We sometimes tell a trusted friend that we had a really great date, or we might mention that so and so has a hot ass or a big cock. We might sometimes say that a date wasn't very rewarding. But, as gay/queer men, we don't often share any details about the actions, exitement, hope, disappointments, sadness, ecstasy, pain, shame and what ever else can happen to us during sex. Our inner narrative about our sexual history and self usually takes place in some kind of isolation. We start with a guided inner work to gently dive into our sexual past: to look for highs and lows, certainties and doubts, moment of opening up and moments of closing down. In a ritual setting we will then share stories (leaving out references to names, times and places). The ritual will facilitate an intimacy that will, at least for the duration of our time together, make us feel we are not alone. We can learn from each other, laugh en cry with each other, be each other's mirror. Share your story, be a healer and be healed by talking and listening.

Shamanic practitioner for more than 25 years, Daan has studied with traditional healers and shamanic teachers from various cultures (Lakota, Southern Ute, Sami and others). Combining elements of shamanic ritual and family constellations, he developed Systemic Ritual®. Daan is the author of seven books, his writings have been translated in ten languages. He works worldwide, creating rituals for different communities and groups. He lives in Amsterdam and Berlin.

A workshop based on sensual healing, exploring subtle and intimate touch. Through different body-awareness exercises we will focus on our personal healing capacities. Once connected with our hearts and invited to move to the beat of the shaman drum, we will encounter other men with whom we can exchange sensual and conscious touch. A workshop in which fun and Eros are the basics to help eachother enjoy our physical form and presence.
(involves nudity)

Robert is a massage and touch therapist with a background in Yoga, dance and theatre. He has been involved since 1997 in ritualistic work with Ayahuasca. As a passionate Umbanda practitioner and healer he travels Europe and Brasil to share his healing touch. After completing the Sacred Intimacy training he created his own workshops. Also known as an Erotic shaman he focuses on the healing aspects of conscious touch, pleasure, joy and gratitude.

Cats are inspiring creatures, sent to us by the gods.  If we let them, they can teach us wonderful ways of bonding, caring for each other and expressing affection gracefully. This workshop is about creating a (feline) space of intimacy, in which participants get to explore a more playful fashion of touch, physical closeness and communal care.

Idàn plays with performance, dance, music and film, trying to figure out what material are connections made of. They practice "unlearning" as means of healing and self-empowerment for individuals, communities and spaces. ​Idàn creates, explores and improvise​s​ in Berlin.

The future is the unknown territory of „not yet“ that we are all creating and shaping together through our actions in the here & now. What is it that we want to create, to call into being, to bring into the world? For ourselves, our loved ones, our community, and the world as a whole? Connecting both the concrete and tangible and our wildest utopian dreams and fantasies, we will invite our bodies, souls, hearts and minds to let the queer breath of the future run through us to collectively dream new realities into being!

Jo Koppe is a freelance dancer, performer and facilitator. He studied Sociology, Gender Studies, Dance, and Inbetween Territories of many sorts. He is interested in creating spaces for unlikely encounters, feeding queer monsters, and building impossible bridges. 

// sex with strangers. objectification. projection. fantasy. fun. freedom. risk. // 
In this fun-filled performance of physical theatre and dance, we look at the complex topics of growing up, identity, and the search for intimacy /connection in a culture of objectification and fast-food sexual encounters.

David is a physical actor, dancer and teacher. Born into a big family in a small village in the north of Spain, David studied physical theatre and dramatic art in Madrid and Bilbao. While studying at H.F.S. Ernst Busch in Berlin he learned Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation. Currently he co-facilitates the Queer Contact Improvisation Laboratory at The Village, and also works on creative projects as an illustrator, dancer and performer.  David is passionately interested in how to enable personal development of the individual within a group dynamic, the springs that activate the connection of our body's creative impulses, sexual consciousness development in a mindful way, and the role of gender and sexual orientation in our society.  

 

Michael was born in London where he trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Schools. His dance credits include work with Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP and numerous others. Michael also works as a choreographer and makes visual art. He currently gives one-to-one bodywork sessions of Pilates, Gyrotonic® / Gyrokinesis®, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage, as well as holding creative spaces as a choreographer and workshop leader.

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 Detail Workshops  Sunday 29th October 2017 

Between Jealousy

& Generosity

We all have experienced moments of envy and jealousy. Some situations trigger the sense of missing out (because somebody is getting it), of being forgotten, ignored or betrayed. We can also know moments of flow, generosity, when we can bless whatever somebody else is having or doing and we ourselves feel fulfilled and open hearted. In a ritual, we will explore the polarity of these two inner states. We will be giving and receiving support to and from each other where ever we might momentarily be on the path between the two.

Sunday

11:00-13:00

Daan van Kampenhout

Shamanic practitioner for more than 25 years, Daan has studied with traditional healers and shamanic teachers from various cultures (Lakota, Southern Ute, Sami and others). Combining elements of shamanic ritual and family constellations, he developed Systemic Ritual®. Daan is the author of seven books, his writings have been translated in ten languages. He works worldwide, creating rituals for different communities and groups. He lives in Amsterdam and Berlin.

Embodied Sensual

Sexuality 2

When it comes to sex we may engage in it within a certain - perhaps repetitive - range of behavior that involves our bodies, feelings, minds or imagination. Focusing on the body, we will use the somatic method of Continuum to meet and recognize ourselves as full-blooded, full-bodied, conscious, living events … always breathing, pulsating, streaming, sending, receiving. From this activated state of multidirectional, cellular “listening”- awareness, we explore various partnering invitations (progressing over the course of two classes on saturday and sunday) and may so receive some inspirations for our sexual expression at home or elsewhere.

Sunday

11:00-13:00

Kai Ehrhardt

Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men & For and Beyond all Genders and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. In 2016 he initiated a new Community Center in Berlin called Village. He believes that the conscious body and the reclaiming of Eros are crucial elements in our evolution toward an integral way of life. Kai teaches since 2002 in Europe and in the US.

Pain as a source for

Transformation

This Workshop combines elements of bodywork, dance and theatre. Together we create a playful and safe environment to enjoy movement and reciprocal empathetic touch. Increasing the level of energy and attention in our bodies, we explore further into our wishes and desires. We also investigate an obstacle or a personal pain (mental or physical) that we would like to change. Being aware of this in a state of softness and vulnerability, we allow ourselves to touch and be touched and generate a sense of empowerment.

Sunday

11:00-13:00

Jochen Stechmann

Jochen Stechmann is a Bodyworker, Choreographer and Performer. He studied at DasArts - Master for Theatre in Amsterdam and at the VC School of the Grinberg Method in Berlin. For 15 years he worked as a freelance choreographer, performer and contemporary dancer in the Netherlands. Since 2014 he is giving bodywork sessions with the Pantarei Approach in Berlin. He is fascinated by the fact that everything we feel is real - however illogical or contradictious it may seem. not.

Queer Breath of

the Future

The future is the unknown territory of „not yet“ that we are all creating and shaping together through our actions in the here & now. What is it that we want to create, to call into being, to bring into the world? For ourselves, our loved ones, our community, and the world as a whole? Connecting both the concrete and tangible and our wildest utopian dreams and fantasies, we will invite our bodies, souls, hearts and minds to let the queer breath of the future run through us to collectively dream new realities into being!

Sunday

14:30-16:30

Jo Koppe

Jo Koppe is a freelance dancer, performer and facilitator. He studied Sociology, Gender Studies, Dance, and Inbetween Territories of many sorts. He is interested in creating spaces for unlikely encounters, feeding queer monsters, and building impossible bridges.

Open Healing Space

Come with your need for healing, come with your ability to heal.

These needs and abilities will be communicated to the group and we will take time out of a busy weekend to see how we can be there for each other in a healing way.

This is an open space that is co created by all participants.

The open healing space is kept free of sensual and sexual touch. As healing as this can be it can also be a triggering.

Sunday

14:30-16:30

Julian Crotti

Julian is drawn to the strength and simplicity of the body. In Australia he works in dance and continues an Arts practice there involving film, tv and performance art. In Europe he explores body-oriented modes of healing. Landing with Whole Body Focusing; a technique guided by the inherent wisdom of the body. These two paths now intertwine and deepen as he continues to cut a path through this life.

Forbidden Pleasures

Forbidden pleasures or experiences that might remain unlived because of social or cultural beliefs. In this workshop we ask ourselves what is forbidden and why? In the shadow could be lurking for instance, a hidden artist, a Diva, or a whole array of forbidden fantasies. Through structured exercises, and dynamic ritual we work in pairs and with the group to quiet the voice of the cynic and to discover a space where we are able to be as deliciously self-indulgent as possible.

Sunday

14:30-16:30

Michael Rolnick

Michael was born in London where he trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Schools. His dance credits include work with Northern Ballet Theatre, Scottish Ballet, The Lindsay Kemp Company, AMP and numerous others. Michael also works as a choreographer/director and makes visual art. He currently gives one-to-one bodywork sessions of Pilates, Gyrotonic®/Gyrokinesis®, Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga Massage, as well as holding creative spaces as a choreographer and workshop leader.

The Choreography of

a Play Party

Participating in an orgy may be a common fantasy, but how does it relate to the actual situation of being in a space with others, not all of whom one is attracted to equally, and how does one create the time and space to respect everybody's boundaries? We'll look at choreographic practices such as REFLECTION - COMPOSITION - COLLABORATION. This workshop is intended for those interested in dance, conscious sexuality, and seeing things from different perspectives.

Sunday

17:00-19:00

David Bloom

David Bloom is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, filmmaker, bodyworker, pianist, father, and tea collector. Graduated the M.A. choreography course at HZT Berlin. Also a long-time student and practitioner of conscious sexuality, his teachers have included Midori, Felix Ruckert, Osada Steve, Joseph Kramer, and Barbara Carellas. His dance films Quintet (2013), Sonata (2015), and Shapeshifters (2016) premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival and were screened internationally. David was a 2012 danceWEB scholar and taught at the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna in 2015 and 2016.

Love stories

As queer people, our experience of love often challenges traditional representations, especially those we find in love stories. This can be felt as a form of exclusion. But it can also be seen as an opportunity to invent new stories that no longer set us apart, but celebrate our uniqueness. In this workshop inspired by improvisational theatre, we will meet unexpected lovers, imagine new narratives and become the heroes of our own love stories.

Sunday

17:00-19:00

Vanasay Khamphommala

Vanasay is a playwright and stage-director working in France, where he trained as an actor and musician. Beside his work in mainstream theatre, where he translates and directs, among others, plays by Shakespeare or Howard Barker, he has developed a series of performances exploring queerness, hinging on the notion of metamorphosis.
She’s also a singer.

Play Space

Juan, Andre, and Jorge will co-facilitate a group process of mindful/heart-full undressing and touch in a nude and blindfolded landscape that will then turn into an open jam/play/interaction/social space. Our aim is to simply and openly instigate a naked and gay space for people to enjoy each other at many levels of care, respect, touch, sensuality, and yes, possibly sexuality, etc.

Sunday

20:00-22:00

Jorge De Hoyos, Andre Uerba, Juan Corres Benito

Jorge De Hoyos (1984, USA), Andre Uerba (1983, Portugal), and Juan Corres Benito (1987, Spain) are Berlin-based artists working in dance and performance. From the beginning of 2017 they have begun instigating events in their flats, from Performance Art showings to community- and ritual-minded erotic gatherings. 

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STRETCH Imagine 2017

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