Friday, 18th of March

Play-Fight:

- 12:00-15:00

- 15:30 - 18:00

- 19:00 : Open Jam in Contact Improvisation (optional)

Saturday, 19th of March

Play-Fight:

- 10:00 - 12:30
- 14:00 -  17:00

How will a session look like?

Every sessions is a cycle, that consists of movement exploration, preparation and a play-fight at the end. In the play-fight the participants can come into contact and moving together.

You can choose from a contribution range of:

Support: 80€

Regular:100€

Soli: 120€

For booking please click on one of the forms above.

If you absolutely cannot afford, please come in contact with us.

Refund policy:

If you want to cancel your participation, you can get a 100% refund until 02/18/2022, until 03/11/2022 you will get 50% refunded.

In relation with COVID-19, refunds will be possible in the case if the workshop would get cancelled unexpectedly.

The workshop is open to all levels. What is required is a desire for moving and some openess to come into physical contact with each other.

Also prior experience in martial arts, dance, somatics or other movement fields can be helpful but is no necessity for participation.

The three Cs:

Consent Culture

 Consent is the base of any Play-Fight. Together we want to practice full commitment in contact as well as setting healthy boundaries. In our setting, if two people enter into a Play-Fight, they first establish consent, choosing intensity and specifying rules.

The following applies in any way: 1) Stop means stop. 2) Every mover always has the right to end a play-fight through a signal. 3) I'm learning to take responsibility for myself, to accept myself and my partner.

Note: While all these forms are valuable in their own right, our Play-Fight workshops are neither a cuddle, kink or sex event.

Culture of Care:

Play-Fighting can bring us a lot of joy and can (but not necessarily must) also make surface emotional themes of power like dominance, inferiority, manipulation or powerlessness. It can let us come in contact with fear, aggression and shame. We do not focus on these topics directly but it is important to know that they can come up. It is not our approach to suppress such emotions but to kindly observe and accept them. They are a opportunity to become aware about our own and collective patterns.

Disclaimer: Movement can support healing processes, but  please note that this is no therapeutical event.

Community is critical

We aim to co-create a space,  sensible to diverse forms of discrimination, be it through gender, race, class, dis/ability, health status or residency. As team we position ourselves as white, male and partly queer in lifelong learning processes. 

Please bring clean and comfortable clothes. Your clothing should be robust and enable you freedom in movement.

For more quieter sequences on the floor you might need some warmer clothes.

Possibly some knee protectors might ease the movements on the floor. More experienced movers, who like it more rough, can also bring a mouth gard and/or jock strap. Not to worry though: the intensity will always be communicated before each Play-Fight.

Please bring you own food.

The workshop will be held under 3G circumstances:

Please come vaccinated, recovered and/or with an up to date test.

To be able to partcipate at the workshop a registration is necessary to enable contact tracing in case of a confirmed infection.

Please note: A test-certificate on each day of the day of the workshop is mandatory.

SomaticsLab, based in Dresden, Germany, is a space for training in awareness, movement and organisational resilience. It serves as an ongoing research-practice facilitating the study and application of embodiment and development of healthy and regenerative learning environments. This is based on an interdisciplinary approach merging theory and practice that includes works in sciences, arts, philosophy and the fields of somatics, movement and social change.

For more info: https://www.somaticslab.org/site/about