"Choose a partner!" - You are going to hear this instruction in many of the workshops - and will often initiate the search for the ideal partner, but who ever can be? and how can I deal with it when I get a partner with whom (at first?) I don't feel any connection ... We will playfully process the issues arising from this situation through fun body-improvisations and in the end EVERYONE will find their ideal partner. Guaranteed!

Thomas Dempfle//
is a trained actor and dance instructor for all types of couple dances. This may seem to be a strange combination at first, but in the end compliment each other very well. Physical communication, contact with oneself, the other, the space, the situation - these are key aspects of his work.

Friday

11:00-12:30

Throughout our lives we move through many spaces we call “Home.” There’s one home however, our greatest and most essential home, which we often overlook, neglect and forget—our bodies. In this workshop, we use image and somatic exercises to do home-work. We will learn tools for rebuilding, renovation and rest, focusing into our bodies to lay foundations for grounding, growing and expanding our dream homes: our selves.

Stuart Meyers//
is a Berlin-based multidisciplinary performing artist and hypnotist from the US. 

Friday

11:00-12:30

Sounds and movements are strongly connected to each other. Discover  your body as a membrane and getting touched by a sound, you start to dance. Playfully communicate with sounds and explore lustful a deeper aspect of connection with your partner. So grunt, yell, hiss and move him towards ecstasy.

Ric Schachtebeck//
set and costume designer with a professional dance background has worked, besides others, with the dance theater GROUP MOTION / Philadelphia and was one of the leading etchers and performers in the 1970/1980's, who brought the post modern dance back to Berlin.

Friday

11:00-12:30

Four stations: for being clothed, for undressing, to be naked and to put our clothes back on. These are options, not obligations: you decide in which quarter you will be and for how long. Slowing down the process of (un)dressing, bringing our awareness to the thoughts, feelings and memories that arise. We can look at each other, but we do not interact phsyically or verbally. Mirroring our similarities, differences and imperfections with gentleness.

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.

Friday

13:00-14:30

Have you ever hugged someone in a Brazilian way? Have you ever had just your left thigh getting squeezed really tightly by someone? In this class, we’ll experiment with a few scores that will deal with hugging and squeezing in all kinds of ways, ranging from playful to sensual, and eventually find out which sorts of embraces we enjoy most.

Ralf Jaroschinski//
was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained to become a dancer in Hannover, Germany, and New York. He has been working as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor for 30 years. Since 15 years, he focuses on contact improvisation and facilitates this technique in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2009, he developed „sensual contact improvisation“ in San Francisco and has since taught several workshops and class series in the US, Peru, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Friday

13:00-14:30

Sensitivity is a great asset, yet often we experience it as a wound, and struggle to integrate it in harsh environments. It goes to the heart of sexual identity, the balance of masculine and feminine, and our ability to create rich, full lives. Come explore the balance of sensitivity and strength from an energetic perspective. Using meditation and energy work, you can find new ways of integrating your sensitivity, enhancing strength and experiencing balance.

David Manning//
is an energetic technician, with an ability to perceive and dismantle energetic structures and patterns in the body and energy field. For over 25 years he has worked, using a clear focus of intention and sound to help many people around the world make significant and rapid changes in their lives. He understands that as gay men, we have an important role to play in the evolution of consciousness on this planet. 

Friday

13:00-14:30

In this workshop we combine elements of Thai Massage with a sensual body contact exchange. We will warm up with dynamic massage principles; by rocking ourselves and the other we explore and tune into our body centers. With different  body parts / limbs in various positions, we will explore sinking  into each other with our body weight and trust. Out of this, we slowly move in a continuous body contact enjoying a connecting touch, where the roles of giver and receiver dissolve. 

Zahiro Kai Esco//
is a naturopath living in Berlin. Originally coming from Dance and Movement, he has been practicing for many years energetic and intuitive Thai Merian Massage. He learned this massage form along with other types of energetic bodywork at all importants schools in Thailand during his annual visits to Asia since 2004. He is teaches since 2008. His special interest and his passion lie in combining Asian and Western approaches to reharmonize the body.  

Friday

16:00-17:30

The ancient Greeks in their plays often used the choir to support (hidden) emotions taking place on the main stage by collectively forming archetypal gestures. The work with those movements in an exploring and loving context, is able to reveal deeper layers of the heart level that the intellect often knows little of. In this workshop we will experiment with those gestures to assist us to understand more about ourselves and our relationships and to stimulate healing and growth.

Chris Hebling//
As a systemic gestalt therapist and social worker from the US and Germany, Chris has been working with groups and individuals in Amsterdam and abroad for the last 15 years, catering mostly to the LGBTI community. His approach is mainly inspired by the healing potential of humanistic psychology, exploring movement/gestures (Karl Metzler) and the works of Rickie Moore (Tri-Energetics). Chris has adopted the traditional African philosophy of ubuntu as his fundamental approach to client contact.

Friday

18:00-19:30

Where do you find your inner ugliness? Get your inner troll out and play with him. How would he_they look like, how would he_they move, interact or flirt with another one? Your ugliness is sexy. Perform it.
Elements and exercises from Butoh and Fake Dance Therapy guide you through this sexy and funny experience.

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.

Freitag

16:00-17:30

In this class, we go into Vogue. The idea is to encapsulate a sense of femininity using the modes of archetypal goddesses. We see it all around with performers; they all channel a "god" or a "goddess". We start with some warm ups, before we delve into finding your sexy through basic vogue dance movements. 

Bishop Black//
is a Performer from London, based in Berlin. He works with massage but also studied dance professionally and unprofessionally, as well as collaborated with artists for stage shows. 

Friday

16:00-17:30

In this workshop we will interact with the subtle, fluid rhythms of our bodies. Through gentle touch we will 'listen' and track present time, embodied sensations in ourselves and another. We will use our personal resources, stillness and intention, to explore relationship and feeling sensations in our bodies. In the workshop we will make negotiated contact with the head, the heart and the genitals.

Michael Rolnick//
trained for eight years at The Royal Ballet School before dancing and performing with dance and theatre companies around the world including Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, AMP, and the Lindsay Kemp Company. He has also choreographed productions in dance and Opera both in the UK and abroad. In 2002 Michael trained as a Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor, then followed by a two-year comprehensive training with the Pilates foundation UK. Michael trained to work as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist graduating from CTET in 2009.  Michael's pursues an active interest in visual arts and has attended numerous part time courses at the Royal Drawing School and The Slade summer school.

Friday

18:00-19:30

5Rhythms® is a dynamic movement practice, that ignites creativity, connection, empowerment in the communities that we live in and touch.
Creative and fun - we listen to our own body through movement and expand our physical vocabulary in relationship to ourselves and other men in the group. Embodiment as gay men is a gift that can deepen our physical expression and knowledge of the essential wisdom within.

Bodhi Nick Hunt//
is accredited at both 'Embodiment' and 'Heartbeat/Emotional' levels of 5Rhythms® and has been teaching for over 12 years. He works as a Psychotherapist with a background in Herbal Medicine and Mindfulness (MBSR). He teaches a weekly 5Rhythms class in London for LGBT and facilitates workshops in Movement and Mindfulness in London, Europe and Russia.

Friday

18:00-19:30

Re-Seeing: A Portrait Studio brings Tony Whitfield's ongoing portrait project out of his private closed environment in New York into the context of the Stretch Festival. Whitfield will explore the ways in which the artist comes to visually understand the body of another man he is beginning to know as, simultaneously, an object of desire, a site of careful observation and investigation, a "scape" in space, and a limited record of time and collaborative engagement.

Tony Whitfield//
is an artist, designer, producer, writer and curator whose work has been shown and published in articles as well as solo and group exhibitions in galleries and museums in the US, France, Italy, Japan, Peru and the Dominican Republic including the New York’s Museum of Art and Design, Leslie Lohman Museum of Lesbian and Gay Art, the Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano. Whitfield has also written about art, new media, film, performance and design.

fri+sat all day

"Anyone with an ass can twerk! Twerking can be many things: silly and playful, powerful and profound. It can be shame-freeing, tension-dissolving, kundalini-awakening and much more!
After a simple introduction into the cultural 'herstory' of twerking- so we can see ourselves in relation to it - we will dive into the practice, cultivating an attitude of playfulness and permission, that allows even the shyest of us to allow our inner exhibitionist to roam wild and free!"

Ruby May//
is a Berlin-based illuminatrix, facilitator and creative visionary, whose international workshops and rituals weave her passion for re-discovering the art of play, finding the magic in the mundane and the sacred in the profane. Although sexuality has been her field of expertise for the past ten years, her interest lies within its potential as a gateway into deep truths: connecting to the wisdom of our bodies, discovering who we are beyond our bodies and our societal conditioning, and embodying a new paradigm of power through living with an open heart, in deep communion with life.

Saturday

11:00-12:30

One physical phenomenon that is always with us it the breath. Yet, hardly we commune with it. If we do connect then in it is mostly to support, enhance or optimize something else - we hardly ever relate it to as something pleasurable in and of itself. This partnering workshop aims to give a glimpse into a vast and rich universe of experience that breath provides a door to.

Kai Ehrhardt//
is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum Movement teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created "Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men" and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. 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.

Saturday

13:00-14:30

When we dream we seem to move through a landscape governed by rules beyond our rationality and sometimes even beyond our imagination. Rationalizing and dreaming seem to be antagonistic in nature - one extinguishing the other. By creating a surrendered body state using techniques of Continuum Movement, we will attempt to invite dreamlike qualities that can be held hovering between sensate awareness and conscious cognition - making it possible to exist in various states of being at the same time.

Kai Ehrhardt//
is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum Movement teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created "Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men" and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. 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.

Saturday

11:00-12:30

In this version of contact improvisation it is allowed to touch your partners‘ entire body by chance and also intentionally. Co-creative dancing and being with others, assuming active and passive roles in various percentages, queer sensuality, deeply erotic and also acrobatic moments - all of this may occur.  A safe container will be held which will allow the participants to express themselves fully and freely.  This will not only be a lot of fun, this practice also has a very integrative and healing effect.

Ralf Jaroschinski//
was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained to become a dancer in Hannover, Germany, and New York. He has been working as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor for 30 years. Since 15 years, he focuses on contact improvisation and facilitates this technique in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2009, he developed „sensual contact improvisation“ in San Francisco and has since taught several workshops and class series in the US, Peru, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Saturday

16:00-17:30

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.

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.

Saturday

13:00-14:30

Can we distance ourselves from the gender binary? If so, how far? How sedimented are the ideas of "man" and "woman"? Do we have the psycho-emotional repertoire to allow ourselves to go beyond the two? It's not important to come to conclusions, but rather to come to better questions. Let's investigate it playfully.

D von Wilt//
a local in Rio de Janeiro and Berlin, is a psychologist/ social worker/ artist, who has been investigating gender based identity their entire lives. Having spent years researching  psychoanalytical theory has given D a solid stepping-stone to reach a better understanding on gender, while their involvement with Buddhism/Meditation catapulted them to a broader comprehension. Art gave D a platform to explore it. Everything else is open.

Saturday

16:00-17:30

In this workshop we will use our creative eros to investigate alternative ways of drawing from the body. There will be fast exercises to free us up, opportunities to explore the nature of the 'self' and the 'other', and the chance for a sustained observational drawing meditation. Be prepared to be both physically and mentally challenged!

Michael Rolnick//
trained for eight years at The Royal Ballet School before dancing and performing with dance and theatre companies around the world including Sadlers Wells Royal Ballet, Scottish Ballet, AMP, and the Lindsay Kemp Company. He has also choreographed productions in dance and Opera both in the UK and abroad. In 2002 Michael trained as a Gyrotonic and Gyrokinesis instructor, then followed by a two-year comprehensive training with the Pilates foundation UK. Michael trained to work as a biodynamic craniosacral therapist graduating from CTET in 2009.  Michael's pursues an active interest in visual arts and has attended numerous part time courses at the Royal Drawing School and The Slade summer school.

Saturday

13:00-14:30

Dancing, in the ancient civilizations was not separate from worshiping. Each emotion was respected and expressed through movements in a conscious, ritualized way. In this workshop we will allow the music to shake our energy and let it flow through our bodies "from our vibrant sexual center to our subtle energetic self.” Awaken our sensuality, intimacy and pleasure through techniques deriving from Sufi, Zaar, Gypsy, Indian and oriental dance.

Prem Khalid//
was born in Syria. He lived and moved between different countries of the Middle East. In Greece he discovered the delight of dancing through meditation. He began a journey of acceptance to find the connection between the body and the soul. In this journey exploring several types of active meditation and dancing techniques from various old traditions, teachers and wisdom roots.

Saturday

16:00-17:30

We will examine how we as gay men form and express our identity and sexuality and which factors influence our experience of them. It touches on questions of the nature of identity and sexuality, the relevance, if any, of authenticity, the role of desire, and how our contemporary cultural environment affect all of these. The workshop explores these issues through group exercises and discussion. Participants are asked to wear clothes that they would in their everyday life or when going out. We may also ask those that feel comfortable with it to share with the group their online dating profiles as part of this exploration.

Jan Großer//
is a 52-year old gay man living with his partner in Berlin. He trained and worked as a consultant psychiatrist in London with experience in the areas of sex and relationship therapy, psychotherapy and addictions. Since returning to Berlin in 2010, he has been working as an artistic and commercial photographer; his works have been exhibited in various European cities. His work focuses on themes of identity, sexuality and consumer culture.

Saturday

18:00-19:30

Let's create intimate settings by sharing texts and poetry.
Let's read to each other, and offer and receive words as precious gifts.
Let's write on bodies, whisper into ears, surrender to the simple magic of a soothing voice.
Let's borrow other people's words to engage in acts of tenderness or provocation. 
Let's craft spells from left-over words and create landscapes/soundscapes of mutual care and connection.

Please bring some books or poems you like (in any language)!

Jo Koppe//
is a freelance dancer, performer and facilitator, a queer nomade navigating in-between spaces of many sorts.

Saturday

18:00-19:30

Play fighting is experimenting with our bodies in physical contact and conflict 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 a unique, intensive way.

Dorian Bonelli//
is a conText artist based in vienna, who experiments with transformations, blank space, shapeshifting and communication processes. He is passionate about playfighting, pain sexuality and bike culture. A former bikemessenger skilled in moving between designated positions he considers his trans-sexuality a messengerjob between the genders.

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.

Saturday

18:00-19:30

The heart has a wisdom and language that runs deeper than our words can say and more authentic than our minds can think. In this workshop we will be discovering the depth of the heart through the senses, the breath and the dynamism of our bodies. In this way we can enhance our capacity to communicate heart to heart. There will be no talking other than through the movement of our bodies.

Geoff Warburton//
is a psychologist, writer and movement meditation teacher. He holds a research Doctorate about the healing force of love. He pioneered a range of award winning psychological support services in the UK for LGBT communities with principles of love at their centre. His main interest is in the embodied dimensions of love, including sensuality and dancing. Geoff has a private practice in London and runs workshops throughout Europe.

Sunday

11:00-12:30

Dancing, in the ancient civilizations was not separate from worshiping. Each emotion was respected and expressed through movements in a conscious, ritualized way. In this workshop we will allow the music to shake our energy and let it flow through our bodies "from our vibrant sexual center to our subtle energetic self.” Awaken our sensuality, intimacy and pleasure through techniques deriving from Sufi, Zaar, Gypsy, Indian and oriental dance.

Prem Khalid//
was born in Syria. He lived and moved between different countries of the Middle East. In Greece he discovered the delight of dancing through meditation. He began a journey of acceptance to find the connection between the body and the soul. In this journey exploring several types of active meditation and dancing techniques from various old traditions, teachers and wisdom roots.

Sunday

11:00-12:30

Meditation is an act of intimacy and connection with Self that allows awareness to expand beyond the personal sense of self into transpersonal presence. Through exploring our subtle essence and honoring our basic needs in the moment, a process of expansion unfolds naturally.  Slow and gentle body-tuning and guided exploration offer simple Self access.

William Yensen//
is a spiritual psychotherapist from Toronto, Canada.  He is a natural healing practitioner trained in various energy healing techniques as well as bodywork methods.  He has lived in Germany since 2010 and works as a body-mind-spirit coach, integrating psychotherapy, meditation and somatic exploration. His approach is sincere, intuitive and playful with an attitude of curiosity for self-expression and self-discovery.  

Sunday

11:00-12:30

In this version of contact improvisation it is allowed to touch your partners‘ entire body by chance and also intentionally. Co-creative dancing and being with others, assuming active and passive roles in various percentages, queer sensuality, deeply erotic and also acrobatic moments - all of this may occur.  A safe container will be held which will allow the participants to express themselves fully and freely.  This will not only be a lot of fun, this practice also has a very integrative and healing effect.

Ralf Jaroschinski//
was born in Southern Germany and grew up in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He trained to become a dancer in Hannover, Germany, and New York. He has been working as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor for 30 years. Since 15 years, he focuses on contact improvisation and facilitates this technique in the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Australia. In 2009, he developed „sensual contact improvisation“ in San Francisco and has since taught several workshops and class series in the US, Peru, Spain, the Netherlands, and Germany.

Sunday

13:00-14:30

Most if not all of us are familiar with shame. Sometimes it is related to a natural mechanism that regulates our ability to exist in social structures, sometimes it is a tool we use to play with. Other times shame has a stifling or even toxic effect on our experience of life. And, often shame is connected to a sense of hiding. In this workshop we create an opportunity to witness the transition from hiding to visibility, from hidden to being witnessed. The witnessing will be created in such a way that there is enough safety in the room. The whole process can lead to vulnerability. And vulnerability is an ingredient  for the generation of intimacy. Let's be courageous and generate a powerful medicine.

Kai Ehrhardt//
is a breath therapist based on Prof. Ilse Middendorf's work, an authorized Continuum Movement teacher, holds the German Heilpraktiker license for psychotherapy and co-founded the Somatic Academy of Berlin. He created "Authentic Eros - Explorations for Men" and curates the STRETCH and the BODY IQ festivals. 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.

Sunday

13:00-14:30

In this workshop we combine elements of Thai Massage with a sensual body contact exchange. We will warm up with dynamic massage principles; by rocking ourselves and the other we explore and tune into our body centers. With different  body parts / limbs in various positions, we will explore sinking  into each other with our body weight and trust. Out of this, we slowly move in a continuous body contact enjoying a connecting touch, where the roles of giver and receiver dissolve. 

Zahiro Kai Esco//
is a naturopath living in Berlin. Originally coming from Dance and Movement, he has been practicing for many years energetic and intuitive Thai Merian Massage. He learned this massage form along with other types of energetic bodywork at all importants schools in Thailand during his annual visits to Asia since 2004. He is teaches since 2008. His special interest and his passion lie in combining Asian and Western approaches to reharmonize the body.  

Sunday

16:00-17:30

Sensitivity is a great asset, yet often we experience it as a wound, and struggle to integrate it in harsh environments. It goes to the heart of sexual identity, the balance of masculine and feminine, and our ability to create rich, full lives. Come explore the balance of sensitivity and strength from an energetic perspective. Using meditation and energy work, you can find new ways of integrating your sensitivity, enhancing strength and experiencing balance.

David Manning//
is an energetic technician, with an ability to perceive and dismantle energetic structures and patterns in the body and energy field. For over 25 years he has worked, using a clear focus of intention and sound to help many people around the world make significant and rapid changes in their lives. He understands that as gay men, we have an important role to play in the evolution of consciousness on this planet. 

Saturday

16:00-17:30

Since GayOlympicGames#1 (1982) there are global/regional multi-sport events gathering LGBTIQ+ athletes in “Participation, Inclusion and Personal Best!”. As mainstream traumatised non-conforming youth, LGBTQ sport inspired personal and social growth… Singular act of resistance & resilience instigated by Olympian Tom Waddell (apropos  Harvey Milk assassination and LA Olympics), grew as movement, that in 30 years it formalised, institutionalised and commodified. Analysis of these processes helps strategize co-ownership of the mainstream and LGBT/Queer spaces.

Zeljko Blace//
is (in)consistently working in(-between) contemporary culture, media technologies and sport cross-pollinating queer, media and social activism. He was co-founder of Multimedia Institute/club MaMa in Zagreb, researcher at Jan van Eyck Academie, PatchingZone.nl and PhDArts.eu. He instigated QueerSport.info and qSPORT communities in Croatia/region and currently works on ccSPORT initiative and conteS/Xting SPORT - exhibition and program in Berlin at nGbK.de and in residence of Village.Berlin

Sonntag

16:00-17:30

In this class, we go into Vogue. The idea is to encapsulate a sense of femininity using the modes of archetypal goddesses. We see it all around with performers; they all channel a "god" or a "goddess". We start with some warm ups, before we delve into finding your sexy through basic vogue dance movements. 

Bishop Black//
is a Performer from London, based in Berlin. He works with massage but also studied dance professionally and unprofessionally, as well as collaborated with artists for stage shows. 

Sunday

18:00-19:30

Rhetoric of Flirtation focuses on a social inter-relational practice to find ease and empowerment in vulnerable exposure. It is not about seducing or gaining the other but rather about the pure play of desire without end. The workshop proposes exercises situated along the boundaries between mindfulness, embodiment and rhythm. In a series of exercises we engage in challenges to awaken the excitement and uncertainty that lay at the core of this social dynamic. 

Klaas Devos//
Belgian choreographer Klaas Devos (1985°) studied contemporary dance at the Royal Conservatory (BE). He engaged in academic studies at the University of Antwerp, specializing in the history and theory of staged arts. In 2008 Klaas Devos was part of the first generation of performance researchers at the School for Advanced Performance and Scenography Studies (BE) and refined his investigations in notions of discontinuity in social choreography at the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S.).

Sunday

18:00-19:30

Play fighting is experimenting with our bodies in physical contact and

conflict 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 a

unique, intensive way.

Dorian Bonelli//
is a conText artist based in vienna, who experiments with transformations, blank space, shapeshifting and communication processes. He is passionate about playfighting, pain sexuality and bike culture. A former bikemessenger skilled in moving between designated positions he considers his trans-sexuality a messengerjob between the genders.

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.

Sunday

18:00-19:30