Slap Me Soft

Hitting and being hit or Impact play, isn't a conventional context to look for softness and gentleness. Yet, this is precisely what we shall do. We will try to approach this Kuan and insist on staying in this Paradox: How could hitting someone, submitting myself to the blows of another - could be a gentle act of care?

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This workshop is intended for people who wish to explore tenderness in the context of striking. For those who want to research how trust can be gradually built and given, and how a vast richness and meaning could be discovered through small and simple physical happenings.

The workshop is also a space to practice consent and establishing your own authority, so that you can be very precise about where you wish to go.

What to Expect 

We will be building towards a classic (Face-Slapping), passing through many approximations, intermediate steps and pauses.

We begin with a solo physical warm up, to connect to sensation and clarify the physical happening of impact without the interpersonal component. From this state of deep listening to ourselves, we start interacting with others, exchanging impact in a variety of physical and relational contexts. 

Actual face slapping would be reached only towards the end of the workshop.

We won’t be hitting each other hard at any point.

Everything is optional.

it is possible to participate also without actually slapping/getting slapped on the face.

Another arc of the workshop, meant to support the quality of care and softness, is engaging with others through physically holding/being held by them. Asking for someone to be big, so that I could be small, and inviting this big one to slap me, to take care of me, through hitting. 

come wearing comfortable clothes for movement. 

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A note on pairing:

You can come by yourself or with a partner/lover/friend. The workshop is very suitable for getting to know someone inside the context of striking. For those coming on their own, An assistant will help with pairing, but we cannot guarantee partners of a specific gender. You can always step aside from any exercise and rejoin in the next round.