Your hosts

Production Assistant, Customer Care, Work-exchange Coordinator

I finished a university degree in cultural anthropology and conflict studies – while teaching snowboard- ing and gymnastics for a living. My love for life, people and teaching has since then developed towards holistic practices like ayurveda, yoga, bodywork and other forms of somatic movement and dance. For the past 13 years I have studied, practiced and taught these disciplines as well as contact improvisation, butoh, tantra, Rolfing, Trager approach, and some EFT, BMC and Paula method. I make a living off massage therapy and movement classes.

Sooth&Care Coordinator

I’m a queer bi+ poly undetectable quite noticeable smiling human.I was born in Bolivia and lived there most of my life. I’m the founder of a cheese factory coop and an avid team leader and team worker. Community and co-creation are my paths.Lover of life, traveller, family constellation facilitator. Into hugging trees and humans, dancing, deep complex tantric meditations, crystals, spiritual growth, yoga, mental and physical health.Exploring and enjoying having discovered kink as a switch.

offers Liquid Movement and Breath Play

Performer/teacher, researcher/choreographer and gender activist.

Contact Improvisation trained at the Barcelona 1994 theater institute, Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (1997) where she received CI from pioneers such as Mary Prestidge, Karen Nelson and Steve Paxton. New York (jams, bmc, Dancespace, Movement Research) Berlin until 2001. Feldenkrais practitioner since 2005, craniosacral and movement analysis.

Part of colectivo deria+rectificadora 2001 Where organize jams.

In these 20 years he has worked in festivals such as the Asturias contact festival, ara en moviment Barcelona festival, Freiburg Contact festival, Madrid contact festival, in touch festival, etc…

Dance Here Project. Equally interested in somatic, performative and improvisation contact, postfeminism and gender politics, she has been working against gender violence since 2006; since 1994 in the field of cabaret; Lover of writing and painting.

offers Permission to Play – the Antidote to Shame

Haneen is your resident sexpert, flirting queen, and communication nerd. She empowers women to connect to their desires – away from “pleasing & living for others” and towards their full authenticity and rage (a place of aliveness). She also LOVES helping men feel empowered in their sexuality – to speak up, flirt and initiate interest with women – without it feeling weak, offensive or emasculating. Haneen is the creator of a sex & intimacy conversation card deck called Scenario Cards, she also offers 1:1 coaching journeys together with her signature group programme: the Sex Homework Society.

offers Tea & Ropes – attentive practice

and Waxplay

I am a rope artist based in Cologne with a deep passion for people and a curiosity about psychology, sensuality, and the diverse ways humans can connect. My journey with ropes began in 2018, evolving to include tying, performing, and organizing events.

Ropes, for me, are a means to explore sensuality, fostering connection and play. I do not stick to one idea about what ropes are or should be about and I enjoy introducing other practices and elements and engaging in projects that blend ropes with performance art, contemporary dance, and music.

My recent passion is waxplay, exploring the spectrum of sensations from tender warmth to intense heat. I manufacture candles, teach the technique, and incorporate candles into my rope practices and performances.

I am a part of the RopeFest St. Petersburg organizing team and contribute to sex-positive events and rope happenings, including Eurix, as well as create rope-related interdisciplinary events in NRW.

Musician

offers Sensual Transformation Dance and Raumschiff ins Ich

I am Dirk from Cologne. As Transformation artist “Sacred Fool“ I give creative expression to my human experience as a playful wisdom seeker.

As such, I explore and play with polarities in order to find integration in the core in forms of poetry, live music, music journeys and workshops as expression of my ongoing transformation.

Musician

offering acoustic and loop sets for our jams and joint classes.

When I was a Child i started playing classic Piano with notes. My favourite moments were when I could memorise the music and play free.

So Later I focussed on inventing my own music. I started this with making beats and writing and freestyling rap.

In my early twenties I learned guitar and went more into singing. I played many concerts in little venues and created 2 EPs.

I Studied music managent (Bachelor of Arts) in Saarbrücken and got a degree music therapy.

To me music is like a mediation and enjoy most the authentic moments when we just flow with music.

Now I give music courses in which I teach to get in touch with the music in yourself and I release music as Kai Richarz & Hi!

Artist in Residence

offers the art project: Fluid to Solid

Hi, I’m Sanni from Cologne and founder of Viva la Vulvina.

During my studies as a cultural educator, I designed a project in which I dedicated myself to the topics of empowerment, feminism, diversity, body positivity and visibility of the vulva.

I´ve a profession as a dental nurse. I´m an outdoor trainer, experiential pedagogue, a nature and wilderness educator and dance and movement pedagogue and I love to create and hold conscious and sensual workshops and women’s circles.

I love to be creative, to design with my hands, to dance, to drink cacao and to go out into nature. Water is my element, I like to flow and let life work its magic on me.