Please note: We are adding another “What’s Love Got To Do With It?” workshop due to high registration. For the last available spots, this workshop will prioritize BIPoC, trans, and queer identities. Please write a few sentences about your identity and your interest in the workshop to workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de in order to register.

 
The core of this dance workshop is a queer love centered survival practice of time travel/communion/habitat/performance/ritual where everything deserves to breathe. We will work with grand gestures that go nowhere, bonding/grappling/napping/fainting, professing love, falling and falling together, contact improvisation, climbing mountains, singing love songs, soul shaking practices, and hot sweaty dancing. We will work with how who is informs how we move. We will work with a kind of bonding that is only possible through bathing in each other’s sweat. We will be wet and pleased. How many ways can we move – move with – be moved by – each other? What is leftover? The central questions of our research are: What can we do together that we cannot do alone? What is possible when love is stronger than fear?

Accessibility Note
The workshop will be taught in spoken English and is open to all levels and abilities. There will be durational scored improvisational dancing practices that include physical contact, disorientation, momentum, impact, and resting. There will also be options/adaptations as needed. The research material includes building skills and practices of agency, consent, touch, positionality, generosity, endurance, risk-taking, decision-making, and collaboration. We will develop our individual and collective capacity through dancing and verbal discussion. If needed, a free workshop place for an accompanying assistant will be facilitated for participants with disabilities. Information about our location & studio access in Kreuzberg can be found here. For questions or more information, please contact Zoé Duflot & Elisabeth Leopold at workshop@tanzfabrik-berlin.de