INTENSIVES

Rosalind Holgate Smith

Contact in Depth

In 1972, Steve Paxton started an experiment to investigate the movement of two or more bodies in contact in relation to the physical forces of gravity, momentum, speed, friction and inertia.
In this Intensive we will cultivate a beginner’s mind to explore this original proposition named Contact Improvisation. Returning to the roots, we will revisit the early practices of falling, rolling, spiralling, inverting, standing and sharing weight. We will slowly build awareness through touch to sense and feel our emotional and energetic needs and desires in relation to the collective landscape.
Moving through layers of skin, fascia, fat, muscle and bone we will investigate how we can safely place weight.
Working slowly will allow us to also examine our boundaries, how much can we support?
How much do we want to give? and what does it mean to move as an attuned and responsive ecological system?
As we develop a depth of connection with our partners, we will stretch to incorporate more players and witnesses in our performance constellations.

Come ready for somatics, soft acrobatics and martial arts techniques to awaken alert states of ease and navigate dynamic dancing, including falling and flying.

Niall Fallon

Take off your mask and wear mine for a moment

Join us for this intensive across the festival, channelling embodiment practices and ensemble theatricality, exploring the subtle magic of the many masks that we wear. These masks serve as portals between ourselves and the world, revealing new ways of being.
Through movement and presence, we’ll investigate the playful, empowered states that can arise when we embody this together. The intensive draws on identity work, theatre anthropology, and psycho-magic, delving into kinetic sensitivity, and embracing the unknown: the liminal, the in-between space.
Beginning from the principle of the neutral mask, which reflects the non-neutrality of the world around us, to the masks that we share with others, and ending in a discovery of the clown.
We’ll explore the physical and symbolic act of masking and unmasking – how they shape our ways of seeing and being seen, how they can offer protection or restriction.
Through breath, eye contact, touch, and movement, we’ll explore the charged space between us.

Together, we will explore intimacy and vulnerability and try to enter into a state of collective spirit – through play, expression and sensuality. 

SINGLE CLASSES

Janina Viviane

TRE – Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises

Get an introduction to TRE—a powerful body-based technique designed to help release deep muscular tension and stress. Developed by Dr. David Berceli, TRE utilizes a series of simple exercises that activate the body’s natural tremor mechanism, facilitating the release of trauma, anxiety, and stored tension.
This practice helps regulate the nervous system, supporting the body in completing the stress response cycle, which can become stuck after trauma or prolonged stress. It can bring relaxation, restores balance, and improves your physical and emotional resilience.

Rebecca Frances

Giving Space. An approach to massage

This workshop is about space—who creates it, who fills it, who gives it, and who vanishes inside it.
Tantra massage assigns roles, sets a ritual, draws a frame and asks us to step inside. It tells us who gives and who receives. Within that frame, space is being shaped, held, offered, abandoned.
Control and surrender weave around each other, indistinguishable at times. And perhaps, through the constraints, something in us loosens.
How does it feel to create space for another? To hold them in it?
Can I follow the impulses of another without losing myself?
Can I listen without vanishing?
How does it feel when arousal is permitted rather than ignored? What shifts when we allow for that possibility without demand, without a script that tells us what should come next? And how does it feel to be on the receiving end of such a space? And then, the question that lingers at the edges of all rituals: Who is this for?

Because when something has a design and a direction, isn’t it just theatre? And when I step into a role—am I more myself or less?

Asis Aviv

The PRAY•GROUND!

A Mystical Journey – Exploring Possibilities It’s time to dive deep, get curious and playful with our research question ‘WHO CAN I BE WITH YOU?’ In this ritual, we will embark on an embodied journey to meet our sacred inner selves and receive their wisdom and blessings.
Through Somatic Shamanic Voice Dialogue (SSVD)—a practice of deep inner parts work—we will explore the dynamic dance of polarities within us.
Together, we will step into the introvert and extrovert aspects of ourselves, embodying each in solo exploration, in pairs, and within the group.
Through guided exercises, we will move between these polarities, witnessing and reflecting them in one another.
As we interact—through voice, movement, and presence—we allow these inner forces to shift our perceptions, shape our connections, and transform the way we move through space. By visiting and playing with these so-called “polarities,” we aim to integrate them into our lives, discovering new possibilities for self-expression and authenticity.

Welcome to the PRAY•GROUND—a sacred space for play, discovery, and transformation.

Asis Aviv

Yasss Queen! :Divine Diva Activation

Hey Queenssss! Are you ready to unlock the hidden magic passed down from our dazzling queer lineage, and embark on a transformative journey?
This workshop is more than just dance—it’s a spiritual experience where we draw inspiration from the art of Voguing, allowing us to own the SUPERSTAR within.
Together, we’ll channel our inner royalty, step into our authentic power, and dance with purpose, while supporting each other to shine our magnificent soul. We’ll harness the superpowers of our inner diva, using the elements of Vogue Fem as a portal to activate and express the highest versions of ourselves.
Whether you’re an outgoing Supermodel or a the shyest diva, all are celebrated as Queens among Queens!
Optional dress code: Sexy c*nt

Note: This is a Voguing-inspired workshop. If you’re looking to learn the gorgeous art of voguing, please seek out a professional teacher.

Matthias Lange

Trusting myself in the presence of you

“Only take action, when every part of you is aligned“
What does it mean to give real consent? Why do we sometimes say yes, even though other parts of our body are hesitating? How do we perceive a “Clear No“ or a “Full Yes“?

In this workshop we practise an encounter format that enables us to get back in touch with our body, our instincts and the joy of movement and touch with a safe feeling.

At the same time, we try to be as aware as possible.

There will be exercises for self-awareness, self-regulation of the nervous system and sensing and communicating impulses and boundaries. We will utilise elements from trauma body therapy, such as ERAP (Embodied Relational Awareness Practice), MBSR and Authentic Relating.

Only when our bodies have a clear sense of safety as a basis, we can enter into conscious and mindful (physical) contact with ourselves and others.

The resulting encounters can be gentle or wild (and also both at the same time), with or without touch, in any case playful and benevolent and are often perceived as nourishing or even healing.

Ell Rutkat

Anal explorations of strength & softness

Imagine a warm finger circling around your rosette, slowly and soft, attuned with the rhythm of your breath.
Imagine how your nervous system relaxes, how you sink deeper into the touch, opening yourself to invite the other in.
What can your anus – this strong muscle and at the same time an abyss of deep vulnerability – be for yourself and for others?
How does it feel to discover its power to stretch and expand itself beyond limits, to enclose fingers and fists.
Anal meditation, a hands-on-method of sexological bodywork, will help us to somatically explore this often-taboo area of our bodies.
Take a shower shortly before the workshop, grab a towel and your favorite massage oil or (ideally silicone-based) lubricant, gloves for safer sex will be provided. Come with a partner or find one at the beginning of this workshop, bring your fears and wishes, and prepare yourself for meeting your own and others vulnerabilities and strengths!

Barbara Bess

Morning Class: Cycling the sources

Framing the experience of the five day process with somatic practices, we meet on the first and last morning of the T&P festival.
By exploring in relation to the fascia of the body and the surrounding structures of the land, we tune into the beginner’s mind.
The morning breath of the specific space gives us the opportunity to wake up on the ground, by moving together and growing gently from the individual to a communal body.
Anchoring and resourcing practices can become your daily rituals for the upcoming days.
On Friday morning we check in again to integrate the multilayered experiences through another cycle of sense making somatic practice.

Sura

Singing Circle: All creatures sing

To sing is a basic human need. to unleash our inner vibrations, to massage our organs with our own voice, to express with pleasure our pain, hopes, aspirations, love, bodily sensations, confusions, all of this is possible & happily encouraged through my concerts, musical guidance and expression workshops. welcome to dare, to voice. in the most wierd, creatury, soft, loud, ugly, beautiful, ways, with words, sounds, bodies, alone, together, listening deeply, inside, around, all around within, listening to the air alchemized in song through our own bodies. magic exists.

RITUALS

Janina Vivianne

4 Circle Selflove Ritual

The four Circles Selflove Ritual offers a playful, empowering space to step outside familiar roles and experiment with different aspects of your sexuality.
The ritual creates a setting where you can explore all the facets of who you are and how you connect to the world —embracing the fluidity of self-expression in connection with others. In this structured space, you have the opportunity to move fluidly between four different circles: one for stillness and holding space for the group, one for personal exploration of your body including your sensuality & sexuality, one to Dance with yourself and one for sensual interaction if you choose. This clear separation of areas helps make the consent agreements of each space easy to see.
Through this ritual, you might gain a greater sense of self-acceptance and confidence in setting your boundaries.
It’s a chance to explore your desires and express yourself freely, with or without interaction with others, in a supportive and non-judgmental environment. The Four Circles Ceremony empowers you to embrace the many possibilities of who you are —by yourself, with others, and in the shared space we create together.

Barbara Bess

(BE)LONGING_nightwalk

A space between imagination and reality. A space between being and longing.
How can I be with you? How can I sense belonging?
Our ritual is a path divided into three sections, starting at sunset and leading into the darkness. It begins and ends at the Nature Community with a somatic intro and outro. We are swarming out in groups of organic numbers of people (2-7) into the unpredictable.
The risk of the natural environment with all its secrets, surprises, entities, signs, subterranean networks, and other living beings. It is as if we leave the surface skin and enter the internal body.
Along the way, questions are asked that open up different spaces between physical and emotional sensation. With whom or what are you most strongly connected at the moment?
Where is the resonance? How does the actual experience connect or inform cellular memory?
What atmospheric realities of the specific environment do you encounter? What space do we dream of in our individual or collective vision?
When do we need a radical shift in perspective?
How can we relate to the more than human reality?

Ell Rutkat

Sensual-kinky Speed Dating

Who can you be with a stranger that feels familiar? How can you invent yourself anew if almost nobody knows you? How does it feel to explore an unknown face with closed eyes, to kneel down before someone’s feet, to get your ear licked by a soft tongue, to gaze into someone’s eyes and maybe feel like looking into your own soul? Whose presence invites you to surrender and what do you need to step into your dominant power?
A guided, mostly non-verbal speed dating allows you to explore different bodies, skins and their textures as well as your own desires and longings.
Experience the power of silence as you engage with others in an almost non-verbal setting.
Feel the energy, the warmth, and the unspoken stories that unfold through touch and presence.
Discover new senses, new kinks that come along with encountering new people in an intimate way.