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, having power over them like this, submitting myself to the blows of another – could be a gentle act of care, of connecting to someone in a very real and bare way – whether I am hitting or being hit.

How embracing power and it’s dynamics could make me softer instead of harder. Who am I when I have power/when someone has power over me – and who do I want to be? And how to get there? And what happens in this moment where I lose the power/gain it back?

For this purpose we will enlist the Feldenkrais method and some other principles from martial arts.

Our exploration will be very slow, detailed and will not focus on pain or intensity. Rather, we will try to sense very delicately our physical responses to hitting/being hit, and use this feedback to look for a way to do so that is acceptable for our body-mind system. A way to hit/being hit – without pushing through, where our whole self is involved and not even a slight discoaction is needed. There will be many pauses, approximations and intermediate steps. A lot of time to verbally process the experiences as well.

For tickets and more information check: https://www.libelle.at/events/slap-me-soft/