our Facilitators
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Sara Ablinger
she / they
Big Body Love
#Workshop #Body-positive
Sara Ablinger is a Vienna based bodyworker and workshop facilitator specialised in body positivity, radical self-care & self-love, consent culture, intimacy and conscious sexuality. Bringing Big Body Love to Austria and Europe, she creates spaces of empowerment, authenticity, connection, pleasure and healing, focussing on the empowerment and participation of marginalised bodies such as queer, fat, disabled bodies.
www.big-body-love.com
Wild Sensual Embodiment
you are body.
you are earth.
you are water.
you are blood.
you are breath.
you are soul.
this workshop aims to ground and connect you to yourself, the senses, the body as well as all those around you. feel your aliveness through breath and movement.
become present.
sharpen your senses through body awareness and mindful self touch.
Paint your embodiment onto your skin with body paint. take up all the space you deserve. show yourself in all your colors. let yourself be witnessed with the body you come in.
let’s meet each other as the creative, wild and sensual beings we are. in your unique body. with your individual expression and speed. fully present, fully alive connection to others is true intimacy. welcome body, welcome you!
workshop will include:
breathing and mindfulness exercises, movement / expression / dance with or without music, body painting, witnessing / looking at each other sequence, solo / pair / group exercises, you can wear as much or little as you like (body painting is excluding the genitals due to sanitary reasons) –
I suggest an extra pair of underwear if it gets paint on it
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Dorian Bonelli
he / him
#Workshop
Dorian Bonelli is a vienna based artist who switched from solo work to creating spaces for collective creativity. In his social sculptures installation and performance art merge with methods of mindfulness, choreographies of power and embodiment practice.
Dorian is passionate about pain sexuality and bike culture and also expresses himself through abstract calligraphy in print and tattoos. In various fields and communities (queer, men-only, poly ..) he teaches non-dualistic thinking and non-linear writing.Born a twin and a transgender he is most interested in finding methods to (re)built connection, trust and community by exploring and dancing on the edges.
Playfight + objectification
workshop & a participatory art installation
Playfight
By getting in contact with our opponent´s power we get into contact with our own strength. It is an encounter between dominance and dance in which we search for our own unique expression of power and perseverance. The process will be induced by specific exercises around the various aspects of physical contact: boundaries, settingintention, lead/follow.
In the second part of the workshop we challenge each other in an one-on-one confrontation in the middle of attentive spectators.
This is an intense and unique opportunity to share our vulnerability, dedication and beauty.
Objectification – a Social Sculpture (Workshop)
A combination of performance art and encounter group. A conjunction of constellation work and installation art. A playground to explore feelings, sensations and manifestations of power and empowerment.
In a radically non-dualistic manner we approach objectification as a source of bliss and oneness.
As Objects we are free of responsiveness. We can focus on the sensations and emotions coming up in our speachless bodies, fully focusing on our physical presence. As Objects we are self-contained.
We will be shifted and handled with care while fully diving into the joy of solid passivity and judgefree perception.
Somatic Exercises will warm us up for this experience of collective creativity. Tools of Consent will help us to achieve the ease we need to play lightheartedly. Different matereals will provide inspiration.
Finally we will open the lab for improvisation and see what creations emerge from becoming / handling a human object.
Being moved
Simon Mayer, performer/dancer, choreographer and musician, born in 1984 in Austria, studied at the Vienna State Opera Ballet School and the Performing Arts, Research and Training Studios (P.A.R.T.S) in Brussels and was member of the Vienna State Opera Ballet. In 2009, he founded the band ”Rising halfmoon“ as singer, guitarist and songwriter.
As dancer, choreographer and musician he was involved in productions of Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker,
ROSAS (“The Song“), Wim Vandekeybus (“Frisking“) and Zita Swoon. His choreographic repertoire includes solos, duets and group pieces that have been performed internationally (o feather of lead; dancing with the soundhobbyist/Zita Swoon; Monkeymind and others).
Meditation
stretching exercises for your consciousness
open eye meditation • 35min • no previous knowledge necessary
SMELL
marin marie
they / them
#Workshop
#Consent
http://marinmarie.art
Tentacular Tenderness
workshop
Marin Marie is a white dyadic FtX living with chronic illness. They works as a multitasking artist, social worker,intersectional activist, energetic healer, sexological bodyworker and sexpositive workshops facilitator.
🐙Tentacular Tenderness is a collective sensual exploration, deeply rooted into what is here and now. It invites you to let your sensual self expand beyond the usual one-to-one romantic setting.
🙈Here, with eyes closed, we are connecting to our intuitions and deeper selves, and start a collective journey into touch, sound and smell.
🐝The workshop will start by a welcoming ritual followed by embodied consent games, in which you will gather and practise physical consent tools which will be used althrough the next exploration part.
🐌Partial nudity will be welcome, and clothes on as well: some creatures wear fur, other don’t! Though, all beings that night will keep panties on, and we have a no-hand-in-panties rule 🍑
🐍Arousal, sensual and sexual expressions will be welcomed, within this frame and with consent, as well as any other kind of feelings and emotions. Let the group welcome you as you are✨
🐠As you dress up comfortably for movement, chose your textures! We are embarking on the Vessel Of Senses and will dive into a luxuriant landscape. Wether your journey will take you to become one limb of an underwater creature, an old crab crawling on top of it, the edge of a growing cliff, or a fire planet rotating around them, come with curiosity to meet yourself anew in this soft and creative realm of sensuality.
🐣Beginners welcome!
DELICIOUS DELIGHTs
workshop
Experience yourself sensually, taste yourself and other consistencies. How does it feel your oral experience, how does your body reacts to it. Whatmakes you satisfied, what fulfills you?
We will approach these questions on a somatic level and give space to the experience.
Exploring, experiencing, curious
into an experiential space and give the sense of TASTE a special perspective perspective as an important sense of the daily sensory
experience and being. We will
savor it down to the deepest pores
of your aliveness.
This workshop supports your
ability to become more present with your body with your body, to explore new dimensions of your being and to bring both the conscious system
system as well as parts of the central nervous system into a more awake presence – with greater
flexibility and regulatory capacity. You will be guided by us with mindfulness, love and lots of space for self-determination and self-care through this small experimental journey. Trust what your body has to offer you and come with us into this experiential space of experience. We look forward to seeing you!
Kuem
Kuem likes gardening in the vast landscape of humankind. Exploring, watching, grooving with beings of all expressions, always curious about nourishing factors, roots, growth, symbiosis and grafting experiences… What makes your buds sprout, your foliage unfold and your fruit ripe and juicy? Let`s discover together!
Tentacular Tenderness
workshop
Sensing Fat tissue
workshop
Mäks is a psychologist, systemic therapist, artist and somatic practitioner (Somatic Academy Berlin), centering their work around radical health and fat tissue on a collective and cellular level. Asking themself how to transform the traces of discrimination in the body to build resilient communities, the endgame is the anticapitalist revolution_transformation!
Since 8 years they research and facilitate new relationsships with fat tissue in workshops like “Meeting Fat Tissue”, One-to-One Settings and their art.
Their positioning is relevant because powerstructures don’t end at the door of somatics: They are queer, fat, middleclass, nonbinary transgender, white. And excited to meet you.
lets dance
musical performance
Oluchukwu Akusinanwa (aka Lovemore) from Nigeria is a Singer/Song writer and performance Artist.
Co-founder and Vice chairperson QueerBase Austria (Emeritus), active member TGEU, Board member Afro rainbow Austria. He has been living in Vienna Austria since 2014 with different Artist work experience and integration.
Oluchukwu always been passionate about Art and humanity since his childhood, he loves and enjoy finding ways of putting creativity into and in the form of performance, above all he loves the way art unites people!
Oluchukwu was part of the Project; goddesses in diaspora Wienwoche 2019, How long are you planning to stay with complicit theatre a project performance for Wienwoche 2020 and also project group Silencing Gaze for the Wienwoche 2020. And also in a Solidarity Matters price winning Art project with QUESTION ME AND ANSWER 2022, has collaborated with Sodom Vienna among others. Oluchukwu is so Looking forward to this event!
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Katja von der Forst
she / her
Get what you want + Explore your Senses
#Workshop #Meditation
Get what you want + Explore your Senses
workshop & a participatory art installation
In this workshop we create a playful sensual explorational frame inspired by the Five Senses and the Wheel of Consent. With a self-chosen partner you will practice how to communicate and negotiate your wants and how to navigate your own pleasure. You will experience how fulfilling it is when your desires are fully matched. Get inspired by the 5 senses – play with them, try them out, ask for something new.
Ohh wow!
Explore your Senses – Meditate with fruits
workshop
In this workshop we will dive into the manifold ways of sensual objectual exploration. In a witnessed partner frame you explore your free chosen object, dance with your senses, choose and change, taste, and enjoy. Dive into your whole body sensuality and enjoy yourself!
Katja
As a Somatic Sex Educator, Intimacy Coach and Tantric Spirit , Katjas aim is to inspire peoples „erotic“ souls, bodies & minds in a natural, sensual, authentic and playful way. She offers shared group spaces to make people experience or witness intimacy in a save, respectful, non-judgemental, consensual, empowering, pure and open hearted way. Each event is meant as a unique and collective celebration of diversity in body shapes, colors, genital constitutions, preferences and bodily/emotional expressions.
Dj Set + sensual sound journey
Liberation through sensuality. That is what DJ and producer Alma Linda wants to create. Lean in, trust and let go.
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Ariana
they / she / he
Consent workshop + The power of mark making
#Workshop #Art
Consent workshop + The power of mark making
Ariana/Genkisoda is the co-director of the Consent Academy. They identify as a Them Fatale/Femme Boi/weird little forest fae-demon.
They are also an ordained Buddhist monk, an activist, a professional artist, gamer, violinist, an armchair philosopher, and all around huge nerd. They are passionate about consent as a tool for greater satisfaction, pleasure, intimacy, and harm-reduction. They are also passionate about art, dance, and consent as tools of healing and self-love.
Playfight + Sensual Yoga
workshop + offering
Lian
lives and works in Vienna as a physiotherapist, yoga teacher, and activist mostly around the topics of Body/Sex Positivity, Consent and FLINTA* Empowerment through means of dance and theatre. She accompanies people in different phases of life and supports them to reach their (physical) goals, increase their quality of life, and feel comfortable, strong, and pleasurable in their bodies.
Marek
works as a rhythmician, music and movement educator in a therapeutic setting and as a consultant in the fields of environmental education, social counseling, and violence prevention. His MA thesis “Awareness through Discomfort” was published as a book by the Department of Peace Studies and Conflict Transformation at the University of Innsbruck. He also performs as a singer, songwriter, actor, puppeteer and dancer, and facilitates workshops in the areas of Consent, Sex and Body Positivity.
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Nino Mar Seliz
he / him
Delicious delight
#Workshop #Embodiment
Delicious Delights
workshop
Experience yourself sensually, taste yourself and other consistencies. How does your oral experience feel, how does your body react to it? What makes you satisfied, what fulfills you?
We will approach these questions on a somatic level and give space to the experience. Exploring, experiencing, delving into an experiential space and give the sense of TASTE a special perspective as an important sense of the daily sensory experience and being. We will savor it down to the deepest pores of your living form.
This workshop supports your ability to become more present with your body with your body, to explore new dimensions of your being. We will bring both the conscious system as well as parts of the central nervous system into a more awake presence – with greater flexibility and regulatory capacity.
You will be guided by us with mindfulness, love and lots of space for self-determination and self-care through this small experimental journey. journey. Trust what your body has to offer you and come with us into this experiential space of experience. We are looking forward to meeting you!
nino
Nino is a white trans male, queer living and loving, and is not disabled. In addition, Nino is a somatic systemic counselor, somatic facilitator and teacher of Embodiment and a parent to a child.
Nino works in his his own embodiment studio in Berlin with individuals and couples and offers 1:1 sessions and workshops around the themes of Themes of sexuality, relationships, identity and the body. He is one of the co-founders of ISB Berlin, which provides spaces for collective engagement around the topic of sexuality through the method Sexological Bodywork and supports people in their self-determination, their empowerment and encourages discovery, which is very close to Nino’s heart.
PlayFull Intimacy
workshop
Simon Magnus is a movement practitioner who specialises in encouraging individuals to connect more deeply with their bodies and their own emotional realities.
He has been connected with tantra and other conscious sexuality practices for a number of years alongside a training in somatic trauma work and improvisational theatre.
He has worked creating transformational arts events in the UK and across Europe for the past 15 years. He has worked around the world helping people connect intimately with themselves and others. My participants are diverse; from children to those living with acute mental health issues, clowns to office workers in full suits and ties. For him it is super important to create brave spaces where risks can be taken by participants within their own boundaries and choice.
Free movement and somatic communication
workshop
This movement workshop will combine several elements – self exploration and expression through movement / facial expressions and using voice and communication / connecting to others through different ways using techniques of contact improvisation and partnering.
Shady
Shady is a contemporary dancer started in 2014 and is into interactive shows , improvisation and collaboration between artists of different disciplines of performing and visual arts.
Trained in different workshops of local and international instructors in egypt and outside egypt. As silsilah program for contemporary dance training in Alexandria by center rezodanse egypte Editions 2,3,4. Shady attended one week of the summer intensive of HJS 2018 by a partial scholarship from dancing on the edge organization, also attended the summer intensive of deltebre dansa 2018.
Shady was awarded the danceweb scholarship 2019 and received a grant to be able to participate by mophradate org.
Shady was also chosen within other 15 dancers from the mena region for the online special edition of dancing on the edge 2020 online format.
Shady is also the creator of Amwaj initiative in Alexandria in August 2020 and is now a full time student at Salzburg academy for experimental dance.
Bondage trough*feeling
workshop
Julia is an artist (Trans Arts, Critical Studies), cultural mediator and currently in training under supervision to become a mediator, relationship and sexual counselor (ÖAGG, ÖGS). She is passionate about the diversity of possibilities for intimate encounters and the experience of closeness, which she continues to explore in a vibrant research practice.
Joanna is a media artist, performer, dancer. She graduated from the University of Applied Arts (Transmedia Arts), Sexological Basics at ÖGS, learned the Art of Clowning and has an extensive research and practice in Conscious Sexuality/ Concious Sexuality.
Since 2019 we have been working together as an interdisciplinary collective true feeling. Together we explore the emancipatory potential of interpersonal contact. Can the experience of physical, as well as emotional closeness, intimacy, touchability and consensus be experienced as a rebellion against the patriarchy that is maintained by the repression of named issues on the one hand and their commercial exploitation and corruption on the other? We are enthusiastic about the development of mental and real shelters through the work with feelings. In doing so, we always act as artists and culturally creative women*. The central theme is feeling one’s own limits and positions. Emancipatory touch happens on this border with a living: YES, absolutely!
lisa de la punz
Lisa de la Punz studied costume design and used to work in film and media before discovering her love for self-awareness, personal growth and smashing the patriarchy.
She is a passionate dancer and one of the founders of the Vienna Blues Dance Scene where she is also involved in creating safer spaces for the community and their events.
She truly believes that all bodies are beautiful, and that consent and boundaries make the world a better place. She likes to incorporate both in her workshops which she teaches in different communities and fields.
AKYNOS
My official stage names are The Incredible, Edible, Akynos, Or MFA (MothaFuckin’ Akynos) It’s pronounced (Ah-Key-Nos). My tagline: “The Beast Of Burlesque” was given to me by performer friend Voodoo Onyx. I’m a New York raised stripper. Featured in nude magazines, music videos and adult websites since I was 17. I’m a MILF supreme, nappy hair having, 45” of ass, performance artist. You can find me taking it off in burlesque showcases across the globe but primarily on NYC stages. I’ve featured/headlined in showcases both locally and internationally. In 2009 I was the winner of the best soloist and judge’s choice award at the Boston Burlesque Expo. In the same year I was runner up for the Miss International Showgirl competition in Jamaica; (one day I will compete again). I’ve curated shows in my homeland of Jamaica at the infamous Hedonism II resort, NYC, Vegas, and DC. My last projects were Darkie, THICK and Dark. Nude. Storytellers. which makes a reappearance this October 2017. My upcoming projects are my new one-woman show “Black Pussy”, the scripted web series “Chronicles Of A Black Heaux”, and the social/whore commentary web-series “Whore Logic”, (currently on YouTube) all need your support and attention.
A leadership and program developer/organizer I am also a member of several different sex worker ran/lead organizations where I’ve lobbied in New York State against Condoms As Evidence and helped make recommendations on human rights policies at The UN. Some of these wonderful organizations which I hope you will support are: The Desiree Alliance, The Sex Worker Film & Arts Festival, Best Practices Policy Project, SWOP-NYC, We Are Dancers and The NJ Red Umbrella Alliance; because being a ho should be every woman’s [person’s] fundamental right. And sex work is work. Don’t debate me on that. I’ll tear you down.
I was a dance major in high-school and had a short theater acting stint until I decided to take a long break to raise my children and deal with patriachy. I’ve performed in, competed and won many talent competitions since I was 12. These days I’m a borough famous emerging artist who holds two college degrees, working as a massage therapist and maid because something has to support my artistic habit. All the while I’m wagging my duster at you, screaming for the rights of every human to use their body and energy how they choose. Walk with me. -A
