Touch-as-Technique | Nico Athene at Embodiment

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A four part workshop series exploring consent through relational practice and touch-as-technique. Working through the truth of the body we will explore and discover the art of giving and receiving, the clarity of our yeses and nos, and our attachments to various kinds of pleasure and suffering as points from which to flourish and grow. Movement practices in contact improvisation will help increase our capacity for real-time exploration and our ability to read and respond to more nuanced and complex relations.

As Embodiment, we feel that this work is a critical component of navigating rope and kink spaces with others. How do we consent to experiences that we have never entered into before? How do we empathically navigate the body of the other? How do we hold space for ourselves and for others? We are delighted to have Nico hold space for these discoveries.

Tuesdays in June

7, 14, 21, 28 June: 7-9PM

Address provided with ticket (Salt River, Cape Town)

Preparation

• Wear something comfortable and non-constricting
• Bring along water and snacks if you need
• Read the ethos of the space: www.desirelinesbondage.com/space

About your educator

Nico Athene is a performance artist and ex-sex worker, with training in various psycho-movement modalities including butoh, family constellations technology, and contact improvisation. She has degrees in Social Anthropology, Fine Art, and Public Health, and has exhibited with various galleries including the Stevenson (Cape Town), Kalashikovv (Johannesburg), Pretoria Art Museum (Pretoria), and worked on commissions for the Institute for Creative art and Brett Bailey. She has been Artist in Residence at Sante Fe Art Institute (NM), Vermont Studio Centre (VM), Arts Letter and Numbers (NY), Arteles (Finland), and Any Body Dance Lab in Cape Town.