THE BALANCING ACT

Welcome to Touch&Play Germany 2023

For the fifth time we will dance and play at Nature Community, a plush all inclusive retreat center southeast of Germany, surrounded by lush nature and hosted by a community that supports our practice.

Last spots available

We are running a WAITLIST. Please pre-register HERE if you like to join the waitlist. Thank you in advance.

Our Theme

This year’s edition is titled ”The Balancing Act”. How can we balance our need for connection with freedom? The needs of the individual with the groups? Our need for safety with taking risks? On your feet or off the ground? Push or pull? Pleasure or Pain? Give or take? Homeostasis and evolution? Our desire to follow and lead? Our dominant side with our submissive? Our body and the relational body? How can a balancing act become dynamic, effortless and fun? How can tension between two or more opposites create new opportunities for play?

How can a balancing act become dynamic, fluid and effortless? How can tension between two and more opposites create new opportunities for play?

We welcome you to explore and learn together in the ever experimental expanding act of Touching and Playing.

About the Gathering

Over six days we’ll be offering the space to explore and expand the Touch&Play culture through dance, somatic practices and other creative forms of relating to each other, ourselves and the world.

We start our gathering by ensuring a common ground through an opening circle and consent work. Once people feel more grounded and connected they have the opportunity to dive into deeper and more experimental forms of connection.

Every day we are starting together with a meeting, followed by a variety of facilitated intensive workshops and single classes around Contact Improvisation, Movement & Dance, Conscious Sexuality, Sensation, Power and Role Play…, to give an idea of the direction. (This year's program is not yet curated. Once ready, it will be published on our website.)

We’ll make sure this year there are also some free slots to breathe, integrate, connect further or to, perhaps, offer something you’re excited about to the community.

About Touch&Play

The Touch&Play project started in 2010 and grew from an exploration of the chemistry and the edges of Contact Improvisation. It currently frames itself as an exploration of “The Relational Body'' which uses CI as one of a few core practices to do this. The Touch&Play movement has a rich history of exploration and experimentation. Evoking a sense of diverse tribe through experiential play in consensual environments, gives us a rich ground in which to explore and create community.

Pricing Info

In order two complete your registrations two steps are needed.

1. Buy your ticket here for the festival ticket

2. Reserve and pay your accommodation&food on this link

Accomomodation & Food

The prices include food (vegan buffet, three times a day, midnight snacks, coffee -for breakfast- and tea) for the whole festival time (So-Fr) amounting 190,- Euros (38,- Euros a day).

Depending on what kind of rooms you choose, the total around for accommodation and food is:

• Single room: 615 € 

• Double room: 465 € 

• 3-/4-bed-room: 415 € 

• Multi-bed room without linen: 365 € 

• Mattress in dormitory: 315 € 

• Motorhome – campsite: 315 €

• Tent campsite: 290 € 

→ You need to BOOK ROOM & BOARD HERE via an external platform, extra to the festival ticket. 

It’s possible to receive a reduction of 100,- Euro (20,-/day) for work-exchange (support preparing breakfast, midnight-snack, doing dishes, etc.). If you are interested in this, reach out to events@nature-community.de.

Festival Ticket

The festival tickets are ranging between 410,- / 550,- / 690,- Euros, depending on your financial situation.

For people who are financially strained or coping we reserved a limited number for tickets available on request for 260,- and 360,-. Please send us an email to germanyregistrations@touchandplay.org for requesting those. This is only possible if people who are financially stable and more, support others by giving between 410,- and 690,- Euros.

There is also a limited amount of Helper Tickets available for 150,- Euros. As helper you join a team that supports the event during build up, build down and throughout the event. Please send us an email to germanyregistrations@touchandplay.org for requesting those naming very briefly 1) your experience with Touch&Play, 2) some of your skills and experience that might be interesting for this role and 3) from where you’ll be travelling / how early you can arrive at the festival at the 27th of August.

Reserve your Festival Ticket here via Ticket Tailor via paying a deposit.

Find our CANCELLATION & REFUND POLICY here.

More info https://germany.touchandplay.org/