Detail Workshops Friday 30th March 2018
Detail Workshops Saturday 31th March 2018
Detail Workshops Sunday 1st April 2018
The washing of feet is considered the ultimate act of service in many contexts. Feet are not only mentioned as a euphemism for genitals in the Old Testament, but are in fact also located next to them on the brain's somatosensory cortex. In the workshop, we will step into a somatic exploration of the foot's anatomy, a short reflection on the history of feet, and a foot washing ritual, allowing us to experience a millenia-old practice of giving and receiving.
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.
Are there specific qualities of movement associated with the skin? What does skin contribute to communication in dance? What movements result when the impulse to move is triggered by a stimulus applied to the skin? How are stories created that get “under your skin”? Touching and letting oneself be touched are important elements in Contact Improvisation and will play an important role in this workshop.
Dieter Heitkamp is professor for contemporary dance at HfMDK Frankfurt. His artistic work focuses on the collaboration of conceptions, movement, pictures, objects, light, film and music, as well as on systematic movement research, that examines the human body in its complexity in the context of its social environment. For over 40 years he has been devoted to studying, teaching and performing contact improvisation. He has been a dancer, choreographer, member and one of the artistic heads of Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Have fun conditioning your body in the social dynamic of the group. With a chunk of classical Pilates at it’s core, this class includes a fusion of exercises from a wide variety of sources to increase embodied awareness, strength, flexibility, dynamic alignment and coordination. We will wake up the body, challenge our physical range and feel good!
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.
Each of us has gay/queer ancestors, even if we do not know their names and faces. In this ritual, we experience the lineages of queerness as they stretch out throughout time. Monotheistic religion has tried to make us believe we are a mistake, but we are part of creation. Connecting to our queer ancestors gives us a new sense of belonging. Knowing where we come from, we discover unexpected roots and solid ground.
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.
Falling demands letting go of preconceptions, fears and surrendering to gravity, being out of control and out of balance. The falling state creates a immersive engagement and leads to extenuation of the conscious mind, which leads to more honest ways to deal with our own body. Contrary to what would appear to be a logical effect of exhaustion, awareness actually becomes more acute from a physical and mentally depleted state, the body reacts independently, has instinctive reflexes and functions more effectively.
Fernando Balsera was born in Madrid and graduated from Environmental Engineering at Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and finished his dance education at The Place, London.
He worked for MotionHouse Dance Theater, Gabriella Maiorino, Lilach Livne and Simone Sandroni.
In Berlin he worked for Toula Limnaios and Shangchi Sun.
Fernando was part of the ensemble Wee Dance Company as dance, choreographer and teacher.
Currently he works as a freelance for Hagit Yakira Dance, Jorge Crecis and Shangchi Sun.
This workshop offers an attempt to explore and experience non-duality – our fundamental interconnectedness – based on our immediate bodily experience and on biological facts. Questioning the seemingly fixed boundaries between inside and outside, self and other, we will explore the question of whether or not we really are as separate from each other and from the world as we tend to think.
Jo Koppe has not missed a single Stretch festival so far and always appreciates the opportunity to share and explore some of his current interests within the community. With a background in Dance and Performance as well as in Sociology and Gender Studies, his workshops constantly search for new ways and formats of envisioning the world; exploring layers of our physical being; sharing experiences; questioning prevailing assumptions; deconstructing and rebuilding dominant patterns; and striving to expand both our experience and our imagination.
Who am I? To whom am I being made? What is identity and how is it being (re-)created? Together we will look at these questions and how to move within and especially around our own identity. Through a set of exercises, alone and within the group, we are going on a journey to explore ourselves and to discover our identity(-ies) in a new way. We are going to experience a transition of our self, which creates a new reality around us through an improvised play.
Max Appenroth is a trans* activist from Berlin, who explores questions around identity and body constructions on a personal, political and academic level. Queer politics, the approach to bodies outside of societal norms and the development of identities are an integral part of his work as a freelance trainer, lecturer, scholar and activist. The experience of a changeability of identity means for him a detachment from strict norms and a gain in personal freedom.
Our animal-images are invited to move, interact and explore the landscape that we co-create at the time of our workshop, such that the diversity amongst us is seen, celebrated and honoured as part of life on this beautiful planet.
Pablo Harris is a Somatic Arts Psychotherapist, (MA UKCP), and founder of Ahimsa Associates @ Cortijo Verde, an interspecies family and retreat centre in Andalusia dedicated to permaculture and the somatic arts. He is faculty at the Institute for Arts in Therapy and Education in London where he lived and worked for 20 years before moving to Spain in 2015. Pablo is a qualified yoga teacher and yoga therapist as well as a Continuum Movement Practitioner.
"Nehmt mir meine Teufel nicht, sonst fliehen vielleicht auch meine Engel" ( Rilke) - Eros and Thanatos in a Systemic Constellation. We explore in a systemic way the energy of these instinctive Life giants. Eros is visible when peoples hearts open up, when men are touched by the vulnerable and young, when something new starts, when you fall in love. You rise, you fly, you live...Thanatos is visible when hearts are closing down, when there is war and destruction, when relations come to an end. You fall down, you descend, you die... Welcome!
Roef Mensink works as a communication coach in Doetinchem (NL) with systemic constellations, solution focussed partner work and massage. He is trainer/ actor in communication workshops about safety in families all over the Netherlands. In organizing touch events Roef creates opportunities for men in the east part of the Netherlands to experience intimacy and hearth connection in a physical way. He studied communication, psychology, physical education. He is certified by Authentic Eros as a Sacred Intimate.
Contra dancing is essentially social interaction, meeting people, and making new friends, set to music. It originated in New England, with roots in French, Scottish, and English traditional dances. Each dance consists of easy to learn figures and every sequence is taught before it is actually done to the music, and there is no fancy footwork involved. Chances are high that you are going to dance with every participant of the workshop, so it's a great way of "getting in touch" with each other.
Leo Brown learned about Contra Dance while traveling in the US in 2012 and immediately fell in love with it! Since then he has danced in Berlin on a regular basis and participated in several international Contra Dance Events. With growing experience he became interested in leading dances himself and became a Contra Dance caller.
Tarot is a tool to find clarity by connecting to your subconscious. In this introduction I will present the basic ideas of how you can work with Tarot. You will learn about the symbolic meanings and possible card spreads. In groups you will give semi-simulated readings to each other, one person will ask for clarification, the others will help to make sense of the cards. We will compare the results with the whole group.
Imagined in the mind of the Beast King and brought to life by a juicy kiss, Love Dragon is a playful and caring creature known for its obsession with language, games and tango. Housebroken, but to be handled with care. If he starts biting or tickling, fend him off with the magical word “no”. Consent training currently in progress.
In this workshop, we warm ourselves up with small movements from our three body centers: from the coccyx and navel center for grounding, from the chest center for the opening towards relation and then from the forehead center for our intuition. Based on these subtle movements, we come into a sensual contact with another partner. Slowly, we develop a consensual dance together, traveling on different levels in height, space and time, lightly dressed and in a safe space.
Zahiro Kai is an alternative non medical practioner (Heilpraktiker) based in Berlin. Originally from a Dance and Movement background, he learned Thai massage at all the important schools in Thailand and other bodywork techniques in India during his annual visits to Asia since 2004. As a therapist and teacher he combines Asian and Western approaches to reharmonize the body. He is also one of the facilitators of the „Queer Contact Improv Lab“ and „Body Centered Meditation“ at the Village.
Sensations, feelings, thoughts and the environment are constantly intertwined in enacting another moment. One entry point into the complexity of this process is our body. By experiencing our living body consciously, we can not only participate in a constant becoming and dissolving, we also can experience a shared agency, a sense of being both creative as well as subjected to our own embeddedness, the volume of which we can turn up or down, or we can tune in or out of. What if embodiment could enact a form of power, a message with political and social implications? What if that was nourishing and easy?
Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, a 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.
Warm, loving, heart to heart, skin on skin connection.
This workshop combines the best of naked and partner yoga to cultivate harmony, union and communication.
It asks you to share your vulnerability and energy with the men you'll partner with in a spirit of brotherhood and playfulness. It asks you to celebrate and enjoy affectionate masculinity.
There's no need to bring a partner... you'll be paired up with many men during the workshop.
A yoga teacher, tantric and touch devotee, Nickles grounds his practices and classes in connection… revelling in igniting and witnessing the sparks created when men come together.
He holds a British Wheel of Yoga accreditation and teaches twice-weekly naked yoga classes for men in London, and regularly in Brighton.
He also hosts retreats and holidays (mainly in Spain) and has recently completed a three-year diploma in tantra with Tantra4GayMen.
This workshop uses the Four-Fold Way (first articulated by Shamanic Practitioner Angeles Arien) to play with connection, space, physical contact and verbal communication. The Four-Fold Way invites us to: 1.Show Up, 2. Pay Attention, 3. Speak Your Truth without blame or judgement and, 4. Stay Open to the outcome. We’ll experiment with various exercises to practice the four strands and then put them together to experience intimate, unpredictable, consensual contact with others in the moment.
Tim Foskett is an accredited individual and group psychotherapist with over 25 years experience. He is a Director of Loving Men (www.lovingmen.org), which runs events about intimacy between men. He is a certified 5Rhythyms© Teacher and currently a Board member of the International Conscious Movement Teachers Association. He has written three interactive workbooks for gay/bi men on Getting Ready for Relationships; Relationship Skills and Sex. These are available on his website: www.timfoskett.com.
Unleash your creativity and make beautiful music together. This workshop is all about improvisation and letting go of your inhibitions, learning there is no such thing as mistakes and discovering the hidden depths of your voice. The reaction from most people who did this workshop last year: 'Where did that sound come from?' and 'I never knew I had so much power in my voice.' No singing experience is needed.
Singer/musician/performer/voice mentor born in Mexico City lives between Brighton and Berlin. After studying orchestra conducting in Vienna, he moved to Paris where he led an independent opera company and worked for France’s first TV Channel creating large musical extravaganzas around the world. In 2000 he moved to the UK where his passion for the voice led him to swap the orchestra pit for a life as a story teller, physical performer, singer and voice pedagogue.
People and cultures, throughout time, always have created their own god(desse)s and mythical beings. In pagan cultures sometime queer, bi, androgynous, gay and genderfluid spirits and deities were known. Through a proces of guided creative visualisation, we will all individually create our own queer deites. In some gentle partner exercises we will experience how this being can be a surprising healer and source of strength.
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.
After a performance score from Antonija Livingstone we will learn a simple, intimate, energy-exchanging choreography and practice it together.
Peter is a dancer and choreographer living in Berlin, teaching and performing internationally. He is a co-founder of P.O.R.C.H. summer-education program at ponderosa-dance. His most recent performances were with Keith Hennessy and together with Jenniffer Lacy for Antonija Livingstone. Fake Healing was a regular practice during these projects as a warm-up and a deepening of the relationships between the performers, an exercise on beauty.
Let’s make a toast to the mother archetype, cheers Mum! Let’s explore “the many gendered mothers of my heart” says Maggie Nelson, turning to Mommy for some feminist world making. Men, aka Daddy have had their go and it’s.. um.. not going so well. Let’s try on Mummy, doesn’t have to be yours, and eventually we can explore modes of protection, support and a hybrid world healing super mom of your invention. Mommy Kali Destroyers are also encouraged. Don’t Worry, Mommy’s Here!!
Jeremy Wade is a performer, performance maker, curator and teacher. Wade’s recent works "Together Forever," "Death Asshole Rave Video" and "Drawn Onward" explore queer theory, failure, death of man, zombie subjectivity, strange modes of being and affective alliances to undermine the social codes that define and oppress our bodies. In 2017 Wade focused on the political dimensions of care curating “Take Care," a three day symposium based on the relational ethics that disability culture demands. In 2018 he will continue to present “The Battlefield Nurse” and a lab for political imagination called “Between Sirens.”
Creating together a safe non judgmental space where we can explore and experiment with the topics of fear, shame, play and honesty. Be vulnerable and NOT having to be interesting, amazing, beautiful, funny, talented, smart or charismatic. The permission to show our so called "shadows" if we wish to. With respect and compassion for each-other. Possible scenerios: curiously playing with improvisation, exposure, sound, body, shaking, crying, voice, masturbation, silence, nudity, touch with consent or anything else that arises.
Amit is a visual artist, performer, yogi, dancer, student of shamanic practices and plant medicines. He studied art in Tel Aviv where he also grew up. Amit is interested in exploring social taboos, breaking them and looking at the ways we have been programmed by society. At the moment he´s curious to learn from fear, shame, imperfection and the topic of "failure". Doing that through improvised exposure within a supportive group environment.
In most of our sexual activities, we increase excitement in a short time from zero to 100%. With this partner exercise using genital touch we examine what happens if we stay consciously in the range between 20 and 80% over a longer period of time. What happens in our body? Are there any wishes coming up? How can I influence my arousal by breathing?
Julian originally studied acting, singing and dance before he discovered his passion for massage and bodywork. He regularly organises and leads courses for men and weekend workshops in Zürich under the title of “Men Bodywork”. The main areas of work are breath, voice, movement, touch, self-acceptance and the discovery and expression of your own needs as the key to a free and fulfilling (sex) life.
An invitation to dance the Five Rhythms® moving meditation practice. Creative and fun - no steps to learn. Instead, we listen to our body through movement and expand our physical vocabulary in relationship to both ourselves and other men in the space. The Rhythms - flowing, staccato, chaos, lyrical & stillness form a map to help us let go into the process and move our energy down from the mental chatter of the head and thus feel and move with spontaneous expression. Come with an open mind and leave with a loving moving heart!
Teaching 5Rhythms for over 12 years for the LGBTQ community. Offering workshops in London, Europe, Russia and Asia. ''I believe in the healing power of men coming together to dance, to celebrate as we have for millenniums and this has been a focus for my teaching from the start''.
The intention of this event is to create a space for us to give and receive healing from each other. Coming to receive healing is a very good way to engage with the healing space. Please don’t feel any hesitation to come with your needs. This space is for you. The space is also a place for people to practice and give to the community. A place to work with each other in a one on one way or in pairs.
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.
This workshop is designed to be a safe, intimate game-space for participants to discover and practice different forms of Clean Love - love that is in the moment, without expectations nor projections. We'll explore different types of relationships, encounter one another and make loving connections, long-lasting or brief - without judgement. Through playing we'll investigate if group-love is possible and if we can create a community where the individual is as important as the group.
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 improvises in Berlin.
Stress, anxiety and emotional chaos can become the operating system of your life and can disconnect you from your physical reality. This movement workshop challenges mental, physical and spatial awareness. Through playfully yet mindfully activating and aligning the body we can elevate our presence. While working alone, with someone else in partner or in group. We'll explore ways of giving, taking, offering and receiving. Discover your own powerful body and build your practice.
As a nurse, Bert went on completing his bachelors in contemporary dance at the Conservatoire in Antwerp, Belgium. Bert’s performers and movement directors experience include projects for: BBC, La Monnaie/De Munt National Opera Brussels, United-c, Joji Inc., Mountview Academy of theatre arts, London Fashion week and Pop band Friss.be. He teaches movement based workshops for theatre and dance professionals. And is a founding member of international theatre ensemble Babakas and artistic director of MoveMe.
The mouth is the first station of the digestive system, and it makes some of our earliest pre-verbal decisions. To taste or not, to swallow or not, to digest - or perhaps to spit up again what we have swallowed. In the workshop, we will somatically explore the digestive system first as a way of supporting our movement in general, but also its role in making decisions, in playfully connecting with others, as well as in setting boundaries.
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.
"Nehmt mir meine Teufel nicht, sonst fliehen vielleicht auch meine Engel" ( Rilke) - Eros and Thanatos in a Systemic Constellation. We explore in a systemic way the energy of these instinctive Life giants. Eros is visible when peoples hearts open up, when men are touched by the vulnerable and young, when something new starts, when you fall in love. You rise, you fly, you live...Thanatos is visible when hearts are closing down, when there is war and destruction, when relations come to an end. You fall down, you descend, you die... Welcome!
Roef Mensink works as a communication coach in Doetinchem (NL) with systemic constellations, solution focussed partner work and massage. He is trainer/ actor in communication workshops about safety in families all over the Netherlands. In organizing touch events Roef creates opportunities for men in the east part of the Netherlands to experience intimacy and hearth connection in a physical way. He studied communication, psychology, physical education. He is certified by Authentic Eros as a Sacred Intimate.
The Desire and Pursuit of the Whole is taken from Plato’s Symposium and explains the divine purpose for the diversity of sexuality in ancient Greek mythology. It is about the soul’s yearning for wholeness and our erotic urge to find both ‘the one’ and ‘the many’. We can explore and play with our relationships to straightness, bisexuality and queerness. We can embody the female and male; we can be masculine, feminine and everything in between.
Bruce has been a Dramatherapist for the past 25 years working in Mental Health and a Counsellor for 10 years working in Education. For the past 4 years he has been developing his practice as a Radio Broadcaster and will be beginning his masters in radio in 2018. Bruce has a lifelong interest and passion for helping people express and communicate their inner experience safely.
In times of political uncertainty, ignorance, anxiety and individualization, there is a need to question and rephrase how we connect and relate to each other. Using a "study on touch” score, we replace verbal communication with a tactile and sensory exploration that can lead to a body of togetherness, which neither loses itself in, nor imposes its power over the other. By delving into different modes of touch, we explore the dynamics of sexual energies where the “poetics of intimate encounters” can be investigated.
Movement/choreography related. Within the past 2 years together with his working partner Laura Eva Meuris they focused their artistic work on the topics of intimacy, love, care and sensuality.They felt the importance to react towards growing violence, hate, insensibilisation, empathic anaesthesia including the predominance of normative perceptions. They chose to create flexible scores where the psychosomatic experiences can live in. Allowing these distinctive states of being to move them and to choreograph them.
Two bodies holding one. Easy open hands that ask for nothing but expansion and rest. inviting to let go and be supported, growing taller and wider, giving space to exist in connection with partners (warmth), the earth (gravity) and the sky (lightness).
Peter is a dancer and choreographer living in Berlin, teaching and performing internationally. He is a co-founder of P.O.R.C.H. summer-education program at ponderosa-dance. His most recent performances were with Keith Hennessy and together with Jenniffer Lacy for Antonija Livingstone. Fake Healing was a regular practice during these projects as a warm-up and a deepening of the relationships between the performers, an exercise on beauty.
Watching and letting oneself be watched is an important aspect in the relation between a model and a painter / photographer and as well between a dancer / performer and members of an audience. Communication through touch is a fundamental element in Contact Improvisation. Letting oneself be touched can be a playful, adventurous journey into risky territory – not necessarily breathtaking acrobatics, but who knows? Not knowing as an option. When do you say “NO”, set a boundary? Multidirectionality – How direct can we be?
Dieter Heitkamp is professor for contemporary dance at HfMDK Frankfurt. His artistic work focuses on the collaboration of conceptions, movement, pictures, objects, light, film and music, as well as on systematic movement research, that examines the human body in its complexity in the context of its social environment. For over 40 years he has been devoted to studying, teaching and performing contact improvisation. He has been a dancer, choreographer, member and one of the artistic heads of Tanzfabrik Berlin.
Our culture seems to be speeding up, things become more and more short-lived as our attention jumps around to absorb one bit of information after the next. How is our relationship to the nature of death and dying connected to this phenomenon? How is our relationship to issues like pollution, migration or climate change connected to how we relate to death and dying? We will explore what needs to die in your life so that something that is yearning to live personally and/or collectively can arise?
Kai is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, a 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.RichText.
In this workshop we explore the qualities of the four elements in a four handed massage from two partners. Earth: through a sinking quality, related to solid forms in the body. Water: through melting and floating, related to body fluids and regeneration. Fire: deep treatment on "challenged" spots, related to metabolic processes. Air: through soothing and light strokes, related to the breath and the nervous system. We remain dressed, creating a safe, consensual space, respecting each other's boundaries.
Zahiro Kai is an alternative non medical practioner (Heilpraktiker) based in Berlin. Originally from a Dance and Movement background, he learned Thai massage at all the important schools in Thailand and other bodywork techniques in India during his annual visits to Asia since 2004. As a therapist and teacher he combines Asian and Western approaches to reharmonize the body. He is also one of the facilitators of the „Queer Contact Improv Lab“ and „Body Centered Meditation“ at the Village.
In this workshop we take pride in ourselves as a team, (and shine as individuals, no doubt...) discovering the joy, blood, sweat and yes, probably some tears, as we undertake our task to create a world-class(?) Corp de Ballet in 1.5 hours. If possible wear something white (underwear will do!)
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.
We are alive. We are humans. We are moving. We are all in this together. We are all in this alone. This is an invitation to a ritual of personal and collective protest and contemplation, based on a simple movement score by choreographer Mia Habib. A circular movement meditation on our humanness. A physical contemplation of how we move through time and space, as who we are, alongside with those who we share this time and space with. Come curious and unprepared!
Jo Koppe has not missed a single Stretch festival so far and always appreciates the opportunity to share and explore some of his current interests within the community. With a background in Dance and Performance as well as in Sociology and Gender Studies, his workshops constantly search for new ways and formats of envisioning the world; exploring layers of our physical being; sharing experiences; questioning prevailing assumptions; deconstructing and rebuilding dominant patterns; and striving to expand both our experience and our imagination.
Naked and blindfolded we explore each other on the jungle playground. Gentle and cuddly or yet wild and roaring we meet the other "animals"! Our hands become paws and serve only for locomotion. A pleasurable game of closeness and distance - discover the "animal in you"!
Julian & Alexander are part of the LoveLounge Community in Zurich. Both are trained in tantra massage from different schools and bring different styles together in their workshops, such as „Unter Männern“, „How To Please A Man“ and „Orgasmic Flow For Men“. At the moment they are working on a new workshop under the working title "Gay Handjobs For Straight Women", which of course has to be understood with a bit of a wink.
STRETCH Easter 2018
