Anna Natt (Berlin), U. YA. (Berlin), Juliette Caryl Morgan (Berlin), Tori and Fi (Manchester)
Playing Times: Friday 11:00 – 21:00
Location: Speicher (Kachelhaus, attic)
All proposals within this space will emphasize different kinds of group play. Together we will dissolve the boundaries of the individual and slip into a collective body of imperfect, vulnerable, possibly loud, possibly smelly humans. Bodies that sweat, play, breathe, laugh, fail, and try again.
The focus in Bitches on Top is on being together in the mess of it.
The day is conceived not as a collection of separate workshops, but as one unfolding journey. An arc that begins the moment the festival opens, with the simple rhythm of the in-breath and the out-breath. From there the collective body forms, dissolves, reforms. Voices overlap. Energy circulates through the room. Intensity builds. Connection, absurdity, and tenderness are shared.
It ends when the collective body can no longer contain itself in a shared, unapologetic orgasmic roar.
Anna Natt is a performing artist and dominatrix whose multimedia work explores the intersection of dance, performance, and visual arts. Her video works, stage performances, and interactive pieces have been shown internationally in theaters as well as galleries and alternative spaces. Her background includes dance, BDSM, Body Weather, hypnosis, tantra massage, among other practices, and she draws from these experiences in her artistic work.
Although originally trained as a flamenco dancer, she incorporates somatic and contemporary practices to abstract the body. Through this process, she seeks to explore the textures and qualities of movement, cultivating a deeper understanding of the body and its nuances.
A connection to trance and dream states is also a central theme in her work. She was raised a charismatic Christian, a branch of evangelical Christianity that uses techniques such as speaking in tongues and receiving visions. Early contact with these mystical practices led her to experiment with secular methods that reach similar states, such as Vipassana and Osho Dynamic Meditation, Holotropic breathing, and experimental bodywork. This has fostered an interest in metamorphosis and transformation, and in how subtle, often unspoken forms of intimacy and embodied communication manifest in everyday life.
She has created interactive spaces, curated the 3 day role-play performance space at the Berlin Xplore Festival, and offers immersive workshops in both on and offline contexts.
U.Y.A. likes to find the sweet spot between poetry, healing and sexuality in all its glory. She tasted the (back then) underground kink scene in Tokyo in the early 2000s to then discover Schwelle7 when she moved from there to Berlin. Since then she has been participating and initiating workshops. In the last years she continued to create poetic scenes as interpretations of fantasies that came to or were shared with her. Using voice, particularly moaning and narrating, is her favourite element of kink. This is her first workshop at xplore where she shares her experiences and experimenting further in the realms of sound.
Juliette Caryl Morgan is a kinky roleplay professional, interactive erotic educator and somatic sex coach with a passion for dance and improvisation. She loves to explore the potential for transformation through pleasure and composition, creating shifts in her life and perspectives in particular through CI and ritual play.
As a workshop facilitator her focus currently lies on exploring and transforming habitual sexual dynamics. Diving deep, becoming nerdy, curious and experimental – through the deconstruction, enactment and sensual expansion of fantasies.
Juliette also has her own bodywork and sex coaching practice where she works with Sexological Bodywork, lucid masturbation & BDSM coaching, Tao & Tantra and many other forms of bodywork and somatic approaches. Trained in Interactive Erotic Education, she has developed many of her own creative methods to support people in developing their potential for sensual and sexual pleasure and working with sexual challenges.
She has been part of the Institute for Somatic Education, Sexuality and Bodywork Berlin (ISBBerlin) since 2019, offering professional training in Sexological Bodywork.
Tori and Fi are best known as erotic rope educators, having taught Shibari around the UK and Europe for the past 5 years. However, they are also experienced kinksters, with over 40 years between them, spent exploring a wide range of topics, with all of their kink and rope being highly erotic and sexual. Through running classes on exposure and using embarrassment, they encourage people to really look at and enjoy their partners, and are often found in possession of many dicks on sticks (voice operated sex machines) which they enjoy seeing put to ‘good’ use! In the UK, they own Studio Strawberry, a dedicated rope space where they help others to grow their experience with rope in a risk aware and erotic manner.
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