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Dare Home Where Who Organisers Intensive Teachers Headliners Single Class Teachers Registration Schedule Gallery Resources Contact Select Page T&P 2019…SAVE THE DATES – JULY 9-14, 2019 CLICK HERE FOR THE 2019 SITE Touch&Play: Truth or Dare Playing with Courage, Compassion, Consent & Inclusion We welcome a diverse community of dancers and somatic visionaries. This is a festival about play, vulnerability and building community with embodied, emotional, and erotic intelligence. It takes courage, compassion and consent to play truth or dare with integrity. Sharing one’s truth is an act of intimacy. Being daring is about getting outside our comfort zones. If we want something we’ve never had before, we have to do something we’ve never done before. This is a space to explore our personal, tribal, and societal desires! What can dance, somatics, tantra, kink, Contact Improvisation, and communication practices contribute to our intimacy? Come ready to cultivate, express, and feel your desires. Let’s get compassionate and curious about intimacy, sexuality, consent, emotions, gender, privilege, race, power dynamics and inclusivity. There’s an emerging expansion of leadership in the U.S. to better include women, trans, non-binary, and people of color. There’s a growing community of people practicing new models of intimacy. We are shifting from an era of sexual abuse to an era of sexual liberation with accountability. What can we, a festival of dancers, discover and contribute to these cultural shifts? Click HERE to Contribute to our Diversity Fund 2018 Intensive Teachers Lorina Manzanita Juicy Integrations: An Intimate Play with Polarities Alyssa Lynes Poly Playground: Contact Improvisation & Showing Up Generously Maybel Ovalles Belonging: Transformational Rituals in Diverse Ecosystems Sasha Lasdon & Janine Taylor Consent, Social Currency & the Erotics of Our Dance Spaces 2018 Headliners Bernadette Pleasant Emotion in Motion – Exploring emotional freedom through primal movement, SUCK – Opening our hearts wide and practicing using our voices to ask… the fine art of receiving. Orpheus Black Zen and the Erotic Art of BDSM ” Scene” Demo Z (Zahava) Griss 7 Things to Share When Creating an Intimate Interaction in Community Ritual of Grief & Eros 2018 Single Class Teachers Kaitlin June Practicing ProVOCative: PART 1: Interrupting Racism PART 2: Speaking Consent/Vocalizing our Desires Taina Lyons Ritual of Grief & Eros Daniel (DeeJay) Hayes Bound 2 Dance Liquid Love Queralt Jorba (Lina) Fluid Edges ZigZag Peery-Wolf Dancing The Light Of Your Sexual Darkness Dancing The Eros Of Shameless Kinks 7 Things to Share When Creating an Intimate Interaction in Community Moti Zemelman ConSensual: CI & The Wheel of Consent Blindfold Jam Live Music Jam Check out Two of our 2018 teachers interviewed about their upcoming T&P workshops: Orpheus Black Maybel Ovalles Touch&Play History The Touch&Play Project started in 2010 as a platform to challenge the practice of Contact Improvisation (CI) as it existed at that time. Through a first festival in Berlin teachers of CI and a range of other body-based practices were invited to explore the ‘Chemistry in Contact’ by inviting in participants’ emotions, sexuality, aggression, politics and everything else often kept out of our dances. The event was a success and the material reverberated around the European and N. American contact communities raising discussions on the boundaries of our practice and the perceived (un)safety of our attempts to exclude our chemistry from our dances. The first Touch&Play project to occur in the US was facilitated July 2016 at Earthdance on the theme of communication. It was a great success. We have been enjoying witnessing the effect of our festival on many participants and teachers. Many classes, festivals, workshops and labs, that were in large part inspired by the past two year’s festivals have been happening in Latin America, Canada and all over the US during 2016-2018. We are honored to be a part of this personal and community development and wish to deepen our investigation of Communication, Contact Improvisation, and Intimacy again this coming July. Contact Improvisation continues to evolve. We invite you to be active in it’s evolution by exploring the ways in which our verbal and non-verbal communication enhances our connections. Learn to articulate your intentions, boundaries and desires in the dance more clearly and honestly to deepen our connections with ourselves, our partners and our community. The Touch&Play Project is run as a disseminated network of interested researchers, teachers and practitioners whereby any individual or group is encouraged to voice their own questions or concerns and to create a safe space to have them addressed in an authentic and playful manner. Defining a form: Where does Contact Improvisation begin and end? We want to honor that the Touch&Play project has it’s roots in the lineage of Contact Improvisation and simultaneously has a tradition of challenging that same form and introducing such diverse influences such as Non-Violent Communication, BDSM and Tantra. At Touch&Play we are not only researching our individual truths and daring ourselves to take new risks and try new somatic approaches, we are also asking what the essential truths of Contact Improvisation are and daring to push the edges of the form into new territory. What is the basic integrity of this form we call Contact Improvisation? A form that began from a place of curiosity and play, a form that is not institutionalized, codified or owned, a form which is naturally evolving…. We posit that in bringing these other disciplines & practices into our explorations we are enhancing and deepening communication and boundary skills necessary for a healthy and vibrant practice to evolve. Finding the most productive mix of Classical Contact” and edge exploration is a dynamic equilibrium. One does need to understand the center of a form before one can know what it’s edges are. In this light we highly encourage any newcomers to Contact Improvisation who are considering signing up for this event to take classes and go to jams for the next few months before the festival to prepare yourself in understanding the essential physics and social dynamics of the form. For any questions please contact us at: registrar@touchandplay.org Register Here Modalities & practices this event is inspired by : NVC (Non-Violent Communication), Power & Resistance Play, Conflict Transformation, The Work (Byron Katie), Contact Improvisation, Authentic Movement, Somatic mindfulness, BDSM, Roleplaying, Ritual, Tantra, Kink… Our goals for this event include: Building a diverse community with embodied, emotional, and erotic intelligence Deepening our culture of consent and accountability Creating the possibility to find greater freedom and deeper connections individually and as a group Finding greater freedom & deeper connections Creating permission to explore physical & emotional edges while simultaneously defining healthy boundaries. Bringing these communication tools into our creative art and performance making processes.. Click HERE to Contribute to our Diversity Fund Facebook Twitter Google RSS Designed by Elegant Themes | Powered...