Touch & Play Cologne

We love our kitchen team; great vibes, AMAZING food, lots of fun and... they look sooo good 🫠

You can look forward to being treated by their yummies throughout the festival 😋

🌍Acting Upon the World, From the Inside Out - with Arvid Jense

How do we act in the world without losing ourselves in reaction, burnout, or abstraction?

This workshop offers a rehearsal space for meaningful action — where intimacy, reflection, and responsibility meet ✨

👥 Meeting the Unwelcome Guest - with Arvid Jense

This workshop explores community shadow work through embodied and relational practice. We begin with movement and stillness, sensing what in us wants attention 🌒

The intention is not catharsis but integration: making shadow material contactable and gaining tools to work with difficult inner states and collective dynamics.

🔮 Beyond the seen - with Kiku Roth‍

Exploring the unknown within yourself and in relation to others.

In a world that demands speed ⚡ and numbness 🧊

attuning to your senses 👂 and moving at the pace of trust 🐢 becomes an act of resistance.

Start with discovering the juiciness of movement 💃 and the touch you can offer yourself 🤲 then enter a blindfolded CI Jam 🌀 dancing together beyond what can be seen 👁️

As soft 🪶 sensual 💋 or sexy 🔥 as you want it to be.


✊ Patriarchy in motion - with Kiku Roth

A shared experiential space to explore how patriarchal structures shape our lives and inner worlds 🧠🫀

A place for feeling 💧 moving 💃 and shifting what often becomes frozen ❄️ stuck 🪨 or overwhelming 🌊

Through witnessing 👀 expression 🗣️ and shared presence 🤲 we create space for what has been held alone for too long.

From there, we move toward our collective capacity for change 🌅

Reconnecting with agency 🔑 resilience 🌳 solidarity, and the power of community 🌺

🖤 Guilty Pleasures 🖤

CHAPTER II: PERMITTED - with Tom Segal
Days 3+4 of the intensive

We long to be authentic, loving and rebellious 🌊 At the same time, we long for safety, predictability, belonging and conformity 🍂

Between these polarities, we fear mistakes. We fear hurting others, being criticized or being seen too clearly 👁️

Do we dare to meet our shame and guilt, neither sinking into them nor running away from them? Can we let our stumblings inspire us into deeper contact with ourselves?

What would it be like to playfully compete over whose story is the most shame-soaked or guilt-loaded? 😈

What happens when you confess your “sins” inside a church of your own design? ⛪

We will approach our shame and guilt shyly but deliberately. We will use tools from conscious BDSM and kink, playback and improvisation theatre and authentic relating ⛓️🎭🤍

Touch&Play Cologne: 28 April - 3 May

Come play with us! http://cologne.touchandplay.org/

🧬Attuning Permeability — with David Schäppi 🌀

At the core of this dance intensive is our ability to be permeable — in encounters, in movement, and with touch.

Our longing for flow, connection, and intimacy is tricky — these states can’t be produced on demand.
Like falling asleep, they come to us

Rather than adding more through trying and wanting, we explore how to be reached — how to be moved — how to let the world come to us.

Our journey begins in the body.
We dance 💃
We play 🎲
We meet 👥

We explore falling and expanding through relaxation — not forcing, but letting go and welcoming the unknown ✨

Falling can become flying… 🕊️

A space to research with soft precision — to slow down, settle the nervous system, and relate from within 🤲

🖤 Guilty Pleasures 🖤

CHAPTER I: FORBIDDEN - with Liisa Fatuma (they/she)
Days 1+2 of the intensive

A mission to travel to hidden places in us.

Who else can we be if we allow it? Which uncomfortable things in us can we value? How vulnerable can we be about our weirdness?

A kinky invitation to go into aspects of ourselves that we feel ambivalent about, hopefully have some fun with it, and maybe create more peace about how we are.

Addressing nuances of temptation that feel slightly dark or forbidden, we will create settings of intentional power hierarchies and play with exposing, holding, maybe grabbing, pressing, slapping, scratching and more.

No need to be experienced in the field of kink to participate, and you can always skip any part of any suggestion that we give you. If you want, you can explore and also challenge yourself here.

Touch & Play Cologne: 28 April - 3 May

Come play with us! http://cologne.touchandplay.org/

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Becoming Less — with Trinidad Garcia

A 4-day intensive of deceleration, eros, and the identities that live underneath our performances 🎭

In this intensive we practice a soft stripping-away of the “should,” the polished self, the efficient self. We slow down until we can feel the somatic body again — the body that freezes, reaches, braces, performs ❄️🤲🛡️🎬 and the body that can also listen, choose, and play.

Across four days we invite unfamiliar parts of us to take the lead. To speak through movement, voice, gaze, touch, and silence 💃🗣️👁️🤍🤫

We practice decentering the “main character” of our identity, and noticing the inner hierarchies.

We pause ⏸️ We rest from the demands 🍂

In silence, listening appears 👂 In listening, need emerges 🌱


From there, eros and improvisation begin.


Come if you’re curious about becoming less of what you think you should be 🌸 and more of what you actually are, when you’re not rushed 🌌

We have selected https://cologne.touchandplay.org/team/ who will facilitate the 3 intensives, several individual workshops and rituals ✨

- Will you permit yourself to explore the forbidden?

- Do you wish to research falling and expanding through relaxation in your dance?

- Are you curious about becoming less of what you think you should be, and more of what you actually are?

Check out the https://cologne.touchandplay.org/offerings/ on our website.

After years of exploring cultures, kitchens, and human connection, Sahara, Head Chef, expresses her creativity through vibrant vegetarian & vegan food. 🌱✨


Now in her 3rd year with Touch&Play, she leads an international kitchen team offering nourishing meals as a sensual, embodied experience, with offerings inviting participants to explore the sensuality of food

We still have some early bird tickets available, so join the experience and register today 🧡