How can we make a decision together without knowing who is leading and who is following? How can we share an encounter where the decision is made between us? In this movement-based workshop, the ways that consent is negotiated without words.
Through acts of service, we can find our own deep pleasure and mutual gratitude. Allowing yourself to purely receive these acts can also involve crossing some personal thresholds and that surrender allows the deep pleasure of having your needs satisfied and being touched by another, physically and emotionally.
What is our affective relationship with absence? So often we think about love in terms of presence, but in truth there is no love without separation, distance and even grief (in both senses). In this workshop, we will explore how absence is not necessarily a negative thing, how it can be cultivated romantically and erotically.
“Can you have wicked sex with someone you love?” In fact, can you have any sex other than the tamest vanilla version with a long-term loving partner? It’s a fraught area that leaves so many couples stuck within very limited ‘safe’ boundaries of sexual relating.
In this experiential and discussion-based workshop Jacqueline will lead couples though processes that allow them to develop the skills and understandings that enable constant negotiation and through that ongoing sexual growth within a loving relationship.
Words can be powerful in wooing lovers, in love letters and during erotic and sexual encounters. Words and poetry continue to play a role in love and relationships, to excite, entice, tease and penetrate minds and bodies. Have you ever become aroused by an word or a phrase uttered by someone? What kinds of words? What would you love a lover to whisper into your ear or breathe into your mouth?
The Beast With [Two] Backs by Paul Walker and Gideon Payten-Griffiths is an evolving body of research and material with a choreographic core fused with live-art, theatre, participatory and installation elements. The work seeks to distill the physical acts of sex into performative expressions, celebrating sex as shame-free pleasure, as play and as a creative/artistic act.
