Embodying the Creativity of Life Force
29th July – 3rd August
Exploring the Relational Body
EMBODYING THE CREATIVITY OF LIFE FORCE
This year we are calling in the Embodiment and Creativity of Life Force in our exploration of the Relational Body. What happens when we call in the very essence of who we are, which moves us and moves through us. Drawing it into our bones, muscles, sinew, our impulses and emotions, what is the shape and creative texture which can burst forth.
Touch&Play is a vessel for the exploration of the Relational Body to explore itself. Offering supported ways in a consensual environment to expand into a fuller expression of who we are. The UK gathering is growing its roots strongly in the principles of Contact Improvisation as an embodied and individuated practice along with a shared language and consent frame works.
Each day we explore, we play, we dance creating connections as we go.
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OFFERINGS
During five days we’ll be offering the space to dance, discover and connect within the framework of the Touch&Play culture.
After starting together in a daily morning ritual, there will be a variety of facilitated intensive workshops and single classes around (the edges of) Contact Improvisation, Movement & Dance, Consent & Communication, Self-Exploration, Sensuality & Sexuality, BDSM, Nature & Wilderness, Community and Spirituality.
We’ll make sure there are also some free slots to breathe, integrate, connect further or to, perhaps, offer something you’re excited about to the community. We also keep a certain flexibility in the schedule to create space for needs that arise through our group process.
Touch&Play UK Organizers Team: Lee Bolton, Jamus Wood.
Workshop Offerings
Contact Improvisation
Embodiment Practices
Sacred Mask Work
Temple Rituals
Zegg Forum
Healing Butoh
Rope Play
Impact Play
Sacred Dance
Wheel Of Consent
Different Dance styles – Tango / Ballroom revisioned
Performance
Love Lounge & Sexy space
Dungeon Play and Fantasy
Intimacy And Nature Workshops
Singing Circles & Fantastic Live Music and still more flavors to be added!
Know more about the TEAM and all the amazing OFFERS
Facilitators, Musicians & Artists
INTENSIVES TEACHERS
Rick Nodine – UK
– Performing Yourself – Ensemble Creativity – Contact Improvisation
Akil Apollo Davis – USA
– Sacred Mask Work: 2nd Chakra, Angels & Pleasure
Pipaluk Supernova – Denmark
– Land Dance
AND MORE
This year we will have a special guest perform at out performance evening: Ken Mai an international Butoh performer will bring ‘Sacred Dance’ to us.
Support Team: Soothe&Care Coordinator – Roisin / Peace Keeper – Molly / Helper Coordinators – Sarah, Finlay and Halina
Photography: Dan Farberoff
SINGLE CLASSES
Ken Mai – Japan/Finland
– Butoh/Sacred Dance & Healing Dance
Neil Morbey & Claire – UK
– Rope and Ribbon Dancing & Deep Impact Play.
Ruth Pethybridge – UK
– Tensions in Tango: Embodying the in-between
Jocasta Crofts – UK
– Creative Eros & Temple Evening
Simba Dara – Turkey
– Earth My Lover & Temple Evening
KėKė Creatur – Germany
– Under The Skin
Container
We will hold a container of embodied consent and boundaries, inclusivity, support, and radical nonjudgment; we hope to cultivate an essential sense of trust for edge-pushing explorations to bravely unfold.
All are warmly welcome, to come as your full, unfiltered, beautiful self.
Here, we can cultivate a space of radical permission – of removing the layers and wounds of shame, stigma, and oppression, and remembering a sense of freedom, choice, authenticity, and deep connection to ourselves, to each other, and to this great earth.
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“Touch&Play turned out to be the sweetest bunch of folks ever! People were welcoming, fun, playful and respectful, from the organizers right on down. The teaching teams had great things to offer, and a wide variety of things, so i think everyone found topics of interest. I’ll be back!“
Betty Martin – developer of the Wheel of consent
“A unique experience“
Kamila – detox emocional
“Touch&Play has been a tourning point in my life. I felt that finally the Ana that lives in myself exploted fully and in complet freedom. This is priceless. Thanks for creating spaces to explore ourselfes in relationship to others.”
Anna
TOUCH&PLAY MOVEMENT
Touch&Play UK is rooted in Contact Improvisation, somatic practice and the exploration of its edges. The UK gathering is growing its roots strongly in Contact Improvisation as an embodied and individuated practice.
The Touch&Play movement has a rich history of exploration through finding out and experiencing through Europe and America since 2010. Evoking a sense of diverse tribe through experimental qualities of play in consensual environments, gives us a rich ground in which to explore and create community together.
The Touch&Play movement has a rich history of exploration through finding out and experiencing. Evoking a sense of diverse tribe through experimental qualities of play in consensual environments, which gives us a rich ground in which to explore and create community together.
The practices and areas of exploration include Contact Improvisation, somatic practice, Embodied Consent, BMC, Healing Practices, Power, Sensation, Role and Rope Play, Authentic Movement, Performing-Witnessing; Conscious Sexuality, Gender Explorations, Queering the Dance, Nature based practices and more.
We invite you to come home to this diverse community of dancers, somatic explorers and embodied humans. This is a gathering about play, vulnerability and building community rich in emotional, sensorial and erotic intelligence.
Embodying the Creativity of Life Force
T&P UK
29th July – 3rd August