Detail Workshops Friday 14th April 2017
This workshop will be about non verbal communication through touch & the qualities of sensuality and intimacy inherent to the practice of contact improvisation. By orienting those energies towards creativity and not sexuality, we will explore how the erotic forces of touch can support our expression through dance. We will focus on skin, organ of sensuality and communication, to get more in touch with it and learn how it supports our physical & sensual experiences & interactions.
Tchivett is a berlin based dancer, improviser and performer. He comes from france and has training in contemporary dance, butoh, performance art, somatic practices and martial arts. Since 2011 he creates his own solo pieces and workshops, and toured throughout europe on alternative scenes and in festivals. He also takes part in different constellations of dance creative group processes and research collectives seeking to develop artistic and political practices around dance, improvisation, self-organisation, queer culture and feminism.
A dance practice aimed at finding a deep movement in a harmony with ourselves and our partner. The starting point is listening to yourself and in a very gentle way sharing that listening with one or more partners. Mikel will guide you through a series of exercises to bring your inside world together with the external one and to create a playful ground where everything is possible.
Mikel studied dance at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen (1994). Since he has worked as freelance choreographer, dancer, theacher and producer in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Poland, Brasil, Argentina and Chile. He worked as a Dancer for Sasha Waltz (2001/05), Dv8 Physical Theater (2005/07) and other Choreographers. He organized and curated the 1st and 2nd Basque Chorograph Festival in Berlin in 2009 and 2011. He also plays Rugby with the Berlin Bruisers in Berlin.
Kundalini Yoga is a practice that is mindful, spiritual, loving, energetic, and fun. It is about the excitement of (re)discovering the infinite within you, and giving you tools to allow yourself to open up, expand, and experience your potential. In this class you can expect physical postures, partner exercises, chanting, and meditation. By aligning our bodies, our breaths, and our minds we can reach a greater understanding of ourselves and of others.
Éric is a web-developer and yogi living in Berlin. He discovered kundalini yoga a few years ago and very quickly felt the transformative powers of this technology. He quit a big job in a big company to focus on his yoga practice, and started teaching to share this powerful technology with others.
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.
Thai Yoga Massage is a form of massage from Thailand referred to as "Nuad Phaen Boran" (ancient healing massage). The massage is conducted while dressed lightly on a floor mat. In this workshop we will playfully explore the basic elements of this massage in a dynamic form and experience the sensuality that emerges from the moments of contact. By using different parts of the body, we will explore sinking into each other with our body weight and trust. Our practice will lead to continuous body contact and interlinked touch, an experience which is like a soothing partner dance, enabling the receiver to fully relax.
Zahiro Kai 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 important schools in Thailand during his annual visits to Asia since 2004. He teaches since 2008. His special interest and his passion lie in combining Asian and Western approaches to harmonize the body.
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.
In this version of contact improvisation it is allowed to touch your partners‘ entire bodies by chance and also intentionally. Co-creative dancing and experiencing intimacy 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, USA. He works as a dancer, choreographer and dance instructor since over 30 years. Since about 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 taught several workshops and class series in the US, Peru, Spain, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany since.
This workshop is an opportunity to be more bold about expressing your desires. Take time to identify what you really want and to express it as clearly and as detailed as necessary.
Reclaim your desires as an expression of your souls drive and Eros. Let yourself be nourished by the energy contained in them despite your possible fear of rejection, of judgment or despite the fact that your desire might not be fulfilled.
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.
Come play with the interface between ourselves and others! We will co-create a video art piece as we dance, bringing fresh beats together with our bodies as we move through space; what feels right 'out of focus' of the cameras versus 'in focus?' Explore your relationship with ‘Other’ and ‘Technology,’ ‘Present’ and ‘Future’ as we share our analog dance through a digital video published after the event.
MJ Petroni is a cyborg anthropologist and performer who explores the shift from fear to purpose. He draws from his experience with queer life, digital businesses and global nomads to translate the possibilities and threats of the future into mindful action in the present.
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.
In this session we will use our forearms and elbows, as well as our hands, for a deliciously sensual, dance-like massage.
Michael trained at The Royal Ballet School, London, before having a wide-ranging career in dance, theatre and Opera. His somatic teaching includes dance, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and Pilates, and therapeutic bodywork: Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga massage. Currently, Michael offers one-on-one bodywork sessions, and creates work in performance and visual arts.
In this workshop we will explore the basic tools that are necessary for those who wish to create community. We will explore through discussion and experiential exercises.
John Stasio is the founder of Easton Mountain, a community, sanctuary and retreat center in upstate NY. Our Community is an eco-friendly, permaculture inspired, queer friendly, eros friendly and social justice oriented. Easton Mountain was begun by a community of gay men as a gift to the world and to inspire and encourage people to be a force for positive change in the world.
This space is all about TOGETHERNESS and getting your basic needs of warmth, touch and connection met. Together we create a place of inclusion, consent and mutual appreciation; a place to forget about your worries or your latest man crush, let go and allow yourself to be held by the group. This cuddle puddle will be international, don’t miss it.
Roman, Julian and Uffe - the cuddle collective - have skills and backgrounds from many different areas. Roman is a breath worker, actor and one time berghain barman/celebrity. Julian is a physical performer, whole body focuser and certified temple whore and Uffe is an erstwhile political scientist now moonlighting as a professional cuddler with his new donation based initiative “cuddleNcompany”.
Together they are interested in exploring comfort, connection and consent in collective inclusive spaces. They run a monthly Cuddle Puddle at the Village.
Detail Workshops Saturday 15th April 2017
Grounded Presence
Grounded presence is the first step in practicing Whole Body Focusing. It invites us to arrive in the body in the presence of another, to listen to ourselves. It is the first and fundamental step in establishing relationship with another. I cannot meet you there until I am grounded and connected with me here. Only then can we create a we. If any of this speaks to you come along. This workshop involves no interpersonal touch.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Julian A 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.
Micro Space Explosions
Gentle, self-generated soundscapes and unpredictable, organically arising micro movements will accompany this continuum movement journey into our bodies. Intention, vibration and wave motion touch the surface and the depths of our body, our being and identity. Similarly, we awaken and claim both, the heart and the genitals from the inside, then continue to weave sensory awareness, sound and micro space activity until we unwittingly shift from producing to becoming - something other then the sum of our parts. You can discover and meet who else lives inside you and then take that into partnering.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
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.
Make Peace with
Yourself
Most of us have an inner voice that tells us that we're too fat, too gay, too old or just too.... If you've tried to banish your inner critic with positive messages, becoming more successful, or spending more time in the gym, you'll know they only work for a while. In this workshop, you'll go through a ritual to befriend this voice, learn lessons and ultimately to leave it a bit more behind. Warning this workshop includes hugs.
Saturday
11:00-12:30
Andrew G Marshall
Andrew G Marshall is an author and marital therapist with thirty years experience who leads a team of counsellors in London. He has written eighteen books which have been translated into twenty languages - including three into German. He has given workshops in the UK, USA, and Eastern Europe.
Genital & Herz
Meditation
"In diesem Workshop, hast du die Möglichkeit, mit einem Partner eine Meditation durchzuführen, bei der ihr euch gegenseitig berührt. Es geht dabei sowohl um das Geben als auch das Nehmen. Dabei baust du deine Fähigkeit auf, präsent zu bleiben. Präsent zu bleiben, während man einen anderen Menschen berührt, kann eine sehr starke Erfahrung sein. Eine Verbindung zwischen deinen Genitalien und deinem Herz aufzubauen hilft dir dabei, deine Verletzlichkeit zu spüren und dir diese auch zu erlauben. Sogar während einer emotionalen und sexuell erregten Stimmung.
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Friday
16:00-17:30
Curt Mason
Curt MasonIst ein qualifizierter und erfahrener Psychotherapeut (Gestalttherapie), zertifizierter Sexological Bodyworker. Er praktiziert seit über 15 Jahren Meditation. Curt arbeitet vor allem mit schwulen und anderen gleichgeschlichtlich liebenden Männern mit einem Schwerpunkt auf Intimität, Sexualität, Beziehungen, Angst, Trauma und Gruppenarbeit. Er teilt leidenschaftlich gern sein Wissen und seine Erfahrung auf eine Art und Weise, die einfach zu verstehen und umzusetzen ist und auch Spaß macht.
The Natural Voice & Free Emotion
The voice is the seat of emotions, the expression of our innermost truth. In this workshop we will explore ways to release this innate, often ignored and at times suppressed potential by using ancient vocal techniques based on rhythm, sound and imagination. We’ll set off on a journey that fascinated our ancestors for its power to communicate effectively and heal, a journey to that place within us where psyche and soma celebrate their union.
Saturday
13:00-14:30
Ignacio Jarquin
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.
Queer Deity
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.
Saturday
13.00-14.30
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.
Ballet of the love
declaration
If you've ever felt the urge to release your inner Nureyev, this is the workshop for you. Now's your chance to tighten your clothes, pad your pants or grab a tutu, and prepare for some SERIOUS fun. Step by pointey-footed step, we will unravel the mysteries of the classical pas de deux- supported by the luscious melodies of Tchaikovsky's music.
Saturday
16.00-17.30
Michael Rolnick
Michael trained at The Royal Ballet School, London, before having a wide-ranging career in dance, theatre and Opera. His somatic teaching includes dance, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and Pilates, and therapeutic bodywork: Biodynamic craniosacral therapy and Thai Yoga massage. Currently, Michael offers one-on-one bodywork sessions, and creates work in performance and visual arts.
Male Breast Feeding
After a performance score from Antonija Livingstone we will learn a simple, intimate, energy-exchanging choreography and practice it together.
Saturday
16:00-17:30
Peter Pleyer
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.
The Battlefield Nurse
presents "Critical Care"
"The Battlefield Nurse," a 5000-year-old hooker, healer and midwife for the dying who thinks this care thing is critical! However, care can be creepy, paternal and authoritarian, so she works to redefine care not only as a medical issue but also as a social and political strategy for bodies in crisis. She asks to what extent can interdependence help to combat isolation and inspire new ethical models of living, working and being together in this violent shit storm we call the present.
Saturday
16:00-17:30
Jeremy Wade
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 2017/18 Wade will curate "Who Cares," a symposium on the relational ethics that disability demands and is currently directing "The Battlefield Nurse," a performance project addressing care as a political strategy.
DILFs, Leather Daddies,
& Tranpa - queering Father*hood
A reflection on father*hood's and its effect on sexuality, identity, and desirability. Does becoming a Dad* make you hotter or less so? In your own eyes? The eyes of others? And how can we raise our children in a sex-positive way, giving them space to be conscious and confident about their bodies, identities, pleasure, and boundaries? This workshop is for Dad*s of all genders and orientations, those who have ever thought about having kids, and those who were once kids themselves.
Saturday
18:00-19:30
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) 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.
Sweat!
5Rhythms® an empowerment and healing practice for yourself, those around us, and the communities 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 is a gift deepening our physical expression and knowledge of the essential wisdom within our moving soulful bodies.
Saturday
18:00-19:30
Bodhi Nick Hunt
Bodhi 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.
Ars Amardi
Ars Amandi is a touch technique used in Bonobo Live Action Role Play to enable pseudo (fake)- sex, and to simulating feelings of compassion, joy, jealousy, grief, love. With consent, player are only permitted to touch the hands, arms, shoulders and neck. You will discover how touch can be your voice, and how emotions and arousal can be evoked without "real sex" taking place. This is a great way to explore emotional /sexual communication safely.
Samstag
18:00-19:30
Bonobo Woodland
As a heart activist, I use Joyfulness as a medium to introduce Bonobos’ to you humans. Sex/touch is language, so let's get talking. Playfulness inspires creativity and learning in me. Play is a process that helps test boundaries and discover new realms of possibility. I run Bonobo retreats that engage in the Playful, Emotional, Sexual, practical and creative. My training is in Sexological bodywork and Fine Art. I am an NLP practitioner and Art teacher.
Panel on Community Building
The late scholar David Bohm coined the term “Coherent Micro-culture” and spoke about the potential they have for impacting the macro-culture. Easton Mountain seeks to manifest and incarnate a vision grounded in our mission as a strategy for changing the world. John will share insights and stories as part of a panel discussion on Community.
Saturday
20:00-21:30
John Stasio, David Bloom, Kai Ehrhardt
, David Bloom, Kai Ehrhardt and Guests.
Detail Workshops Sunday 16th April 2017
Insight Meditation
In this workshop, we practice different forms of moving and silent meditation in order to get in touch with the body, own emotions and needs. Through biodynamic exercises and selected Yoga-asanas, you are able to explore body tension and blockages and discover approaches to solve blocked motions. After this, an approx. 20-30 minute silent meditation follows. A meditation experience is not required. Beginners are taught the basics of breathing meditation.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
Steffen Taubert
Psychologist. Further education in body-oriented psychotherapy, Hatha-Yoga (Sivananda), sexual counseling. Practicing meditation since 25 years, mainly in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism. Different retreats in Europe and South-East-Asia. Working as a project coordinator in the field of HIV/STI-prevention and as a psychologist for individual coaching, relationship counseling and team coaching.
Eros in Song
In this session we will loosen our bodies through self-massage and partner massage, following our desires, while singing in gently undulating choirs of ecstatic sound.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
Michael Rolnick
Michael trained at The Royal Ballet School, London, before having a wide-ranging career in dance, theatre and Opera. His somatic teaching includes dance, Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and Pilates, and therapeutic bodywork: biodynamic craniosacral therapist and Thai Yoga massage. Currently, Michael offers one-on-one bodywork sessions, and the creation of work in performance and visual arts.
Getting in Touch
In different exercises we are going to look at ways of getting in touch with ourselves and the others when ‘listening’ is a base for communication. It is an approach to sensing and perceiving viewed as reciprocal activities of whole body with its environment. We will use all available senses and their synergies to connect and touch whatever is there. Let's dive into a space where the language is the least immediate way to communicate.
Sunday
11:00-12:00
Rafał Pierzyński
I was born in Poland in September 1991 as a Libra. I am a professional dancer/performer based in Austria where I’ve received my training and my BA in Contemporary Stage Dance and BA Movement Studies and Performance (Dance Education) at the Institute of Dance Arts in Linz. Where currently I am also closing my MA studies with the practical research and the thesis titled "Embodied Communication - attending to the Modes of Touch".
Restrictive Intention
Bringing together the practice of 'Ichinawa' (One rope) and intention. Caritia will offer 120 minutes of basic tools to get you started or continue your journey into rope. Single, double column and no knot free form ties will be the aim, to bring the mind away from structure and into the body present and in front of you.
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Caritia
Caritia is a wildly erotic, London born, Berlin based artist/creative of Afro-Caribbean decent, with over 18 years of experience within BDSM. A conscious kink practitioner, a lifestyle Dominant, a presenter, and strong advocate of self-empowerment for all, working from a female led perspective. Caritia's aim is to share her knowledge and experiences from a perspective of honoring oneself (body, mind, spirit) through the vehicles of R.A.C.K - risk aware consensual kink, self-responsibility and open communication.
Bodyflow
This massage incorporates massage, kneading, effleurage and holding into one seamless flow using hands, arms, legs and the whole body as massage 'tools'. It includes some close body contact creating a strong sense of connection, care and trust. The massage positions show how giving can be as relaxing and enjoyable as receiving.
We will use massage powder to create different sensations to oil or lotion. You can be fully naked or partially clothed.
Please note: the BodyFlow massage is done on a floor mattress that demands a certain level of flexibility and fitness. You need to be able to sit comfortably cross legged with both your hands free to massage for up to 20-30 minutes.
Please bring a sheet.
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Andy Saich
Andy Saich is a Body Electric school-trained sacred intimate who weaves therapeutic touch with body, sexual and relationship coaching. He created the exquisite BodyFlow massage technique, founded MenInTouch in the UK, and was a pioneer of tantra for all genders in 1990 in California. Currently Andy lives in London and offers one-on-one sessions and group workshops exploring love, sexuality and intimacy.
Cloudbusting
Cloudbusting is a game of magic and sensuality. To the music of Kate Bush's dreamy tunes we'll embark on a journey to find a secret, sensuous dimension and live in it. For a short moment, I invite you to dare and live your dream life, to love yourself and others, let your heart guide you.
Sunday
12:30-14:30
Idan Sagiv Richter
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.
Medieval Queer
Ballroom
Renaissance and medieval dances are a particular mixture of dance and theater, they often show us that gestures associated with gender rolls might not have always been as they are today. We will use ancient music and explore some traditional dancing steps to create a fantasy/cross-dressing ballroom in a playful, carnival like, and flirtatious atmosphere. We will not focus in learning long codified sequences, but rather in building a group connection, and a playground where we can improvise and have fun with the joy and the curiosity of a child who uses movement to discover and to develop life.
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Madame Irma
Born in Colombia, biologist, and Ph. D. in the field of plant molecular biology; during the last 25 years Miguel has practiced several body work techniques like Tai Chi, Chi Kung, Yoga, Feldenkreis, eutonie and dance. A certified Tai Chi instructor from l'école de la voie intérieure; he has been teaching this internal martial art for the last 15 years. Furthermore exploring other healing tools like Tarot, alchemy, spagyrics, alchemical bone structure (SOA), kinesiology, and tantric massage, have helped him to build up a personal paradigm where different aspects of his own experience can co-exist and interact.
The Circle in Me Is the
Circle in You
We are alive. We are humans. We are moving. We are all in this together. We are all in this alone. We are connected through the web of life. This is an invitation to a ritual on togetherness.
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!
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Jo Koppe
Jo Koppe is a freelance dancer, performer and facilitator, and is a self-appointed expert at navigating in-between spaces of many sorts. He is interested in creating spaces for unlikely encounters, feeding queer monsters, and building impossible bridges.
The Pleasure in Your Hands
An inquiry into how we Give and Receive with our hands.
With our hands we are able to provide pleasure to the other person: Our hands as tools to give. In this workshop we will focus on: Our hands as tools to receive. What happens to our system when we bring our attention to receiving - while giving? Can we find a balance between giving and receiving pleasure through our hands?
Sunday
16:00-17:30
Dirk van den Eede
48/172/73/18/uncut
Dutch (Flemish)/English/French/German
More pix available
Here to explore touch and meet curious men.
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
18:00-19:30
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) 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.
Holding My Man
How can we improve the quality of our cuddling and intimacy with a partner?
“Holding My Man” takes the mutual act of cuddling and breaks it down to giving and receiving.
We will bring attention to how it feels to hold someone and to be held. We will hone our ability to understand what we really want, how to ask for it and how to listen to the needs of our partner and support them in the best way.
Sunday
18:00-19:30
Roman, Julian und Uffe
the cuddle collective:
Roman, Julian and Uffe have skills and backgrounds from many different areas. Roman is an internationally renown breath worker, actor and one time berghain barman/celebrity. Julian is a physical performer, whole body focuser and certified temple whore and Uffe is a erstwhile political scientist now moonlighting as a professional cuddler with his new donation based initiative “cuddleNcompany”.
Together they are interested in exploring comfort, connection and consent in collective inclusive spaces.
They run a monthly Cuddle Puddle at the Village.
Bonobo Birthing Ritual
Enable social/sexual interaction, using Bonobo group dynamics, culture to teach Power/Conflict resolutions, through play.
Bringing Bonobo social skills into our society, using Bonobo culture to engage. Through play we explore how Bonobos use sex to defuse aggression or power, to say hello and to develop strong bonds, to develop an awareness of tribe and connection of Sisterhood/Brotherhood. For folks who want to discover ways to communicate; using touch to understand groups during pleasure and conflict.
Sunday
18:00-19:30
Bonobo Woodland
As a heart activist, I use joyfulness as a medium to introduce Bonobos’ to humans. Sex/touch is language, so let's get talking. Playfulness inspires creativity and learning. Play is a process that helps test boundaries and discover new realms of possibility.
I run Bonobo retreats that engage in the playful, emotional, sexual, practical and creative. My training is in Sexological Bodywork and Fine Art. I am an NLP practitioner and art teacher.
Closing Circle &
last Hugs
TBA
Sunday
20:00-21:30
TBA
STRETCH Easter 2017
