REVELAR
São Paulo
19-23 February 2025
TEAM: Meet your Hosts
Karin Flores
Local Curation
She has been a movement researcher for 17 years. Her desire to delve deeper into somatics led her to study body therapies and since 2010 she has dedicated herself to studies related to body sensitization and sexuality.
Karin is a somatic therapist (Somatic Experiencing) with expertise in trauma work and personal development, accompanies partnerships (non-monogamic relationalships), is a bodyworker and facilitates experiences related to exploring and listening to the body. She is deeply interested in weaving experiences connected to touch, eroticism and healthy communication. Building conscious human relationships is her priority in life and in the professional sphere.
Maiene Horbylon
Local Producer
Maiene Horbylon has spent more than 15 years working in the creative and cultural market in Brazil. Initially trained in architecture and urbanism, the artist’s career has been totally permeated by the search for synergy between people, spaces and causes, driving collaborative and networked formats.
As well as being a cultural producer and manager of collective spaces, in 2017 her career path was given a precious boost when her constant musical curiosity led Maiê to her first performances as a DJ. Now she brings all this knowledge together to provide cosy, light and fun experiences.
Dr. Daniel J. Hayes (DeeJay)
Touch&Play Founder
Social Entrepreneur, Community leader, Practical Idealist with an MD. and Ph.D. in Tropical Medicine. He’s been dancing, playing, meditating and conversing Contact Improvisation (CI) for over 20 years. He is the founder of the Touch&Play Movement and the Vidàlia eco-village outside Barcelona. He is the current Executive Director of Earthdance the oldest CI based Intentional Community located in Western Massachusetts and partner in CAMP an arts and cultural retreat center on the Coast of Oaxaca. He’s been exploring the intricacies of the Relational Body for over 15 years and is committed to building a more peaceful and authentic world through his social entrepreneurial and creative endeavors.
Lyngar Daluz
Facilitators
My practice integrates affirmative sexuality, creativity and inclusion, with a focus on exploring identities and relationships in an imaginative and conscious way. I have a solid foundation in therapeutic photography, a tool that connects image and emotion, promoting self-knowledge and self-expression. My facilitation is recognised for reaching deep layers of self-knowledge through lightness and joy, allowing vulnerability and celebration to coexist.
I work as a facilitator at Tantrika Flow Expression & Sexuality, MasterSoul Healthy Homosexuality and Queeros retreats, as well as festivals such as the internationally recognised Sexsibility (Brazil and Sweden) and Divertere – Arte, Cultura e Sexualidade LGBTQIAPN+. I am the founder of Orgasticah, an initiative that promotes a queer community focused on affirmative sexuality, relational freedom and artistic expression.
Inge Veldscholten
Facilitators
At age 24 I started travelling full-time. Before that I got an interdisciplinary university degree in cultural anthropology and conflict studies. My love for life, people and teaching has since then developed towards holistic and somatic practices like ayurveda, yoga, bodywork and other forms of somatic movement and dance. For the past 13 years I have travelled the world and studied and taught these disciplines as well as contact improvisation, butoh, tantra, authentic movement, Rolfing, trager approach, and some EFT, BMC and Feldenkreis.
Liisa Fatuma
Facilitators
She is active as a workshop facilitator, Gestalt therapist, dancer & dreamer, based in Cologne, Germany. Passionate about sexual empowerment, emotional & therapeutic work, intuitive body expression, queerness, diving deep & not taking things too serious. Among other projects, their current yearly sexpositive festivals in Germany are LOVE RYOT (summer) and PANDORA (winter). In 2024 she also completed a documentary feature film called ‘SEXPLORATION – How Do I Really Want IT?’.
Lu Celestino
Facilitators
She is unilaterally deaf, a woman with roots in the waters of the Goiás savannah. Teacher, artist in dance and cultural production. She dedicates herself to seriously celebratory dances and the subtleties of potable encounters. She is currently researching water as a poetic, therapeutic and pedagogical matrix; and as a support for dancing, playing, meditating and caring.
She weaves a path where her body is the driving force behind a spiral of knowledge and paths. She actively listens to the flows of the Energetics of Essence, a method developed by John Pierrakos (1921 – 2001), and is a postgraduate student in Teacher Training in Somatic Practices and Dance (IFB, 2023/24). Dancer-researcher with the ¿por quá? dance group since 2004, with a degree in Physical Education and training in aquatic therapy techniques: Watsu®, Janzu, Aguahara and Halliwick Concept.
She is the creator of the reToque Festival, which in its four editions has promoted two Meetings in Contact Improvisation in the state of Goiás (2017 and 2019), a Meeting in Improvisation and Dance (2022) and a Festival in Water Dance (2024).
Bruno Garrote
Facilitators
He is an experienced and multifaceted doctor, teacher, body therapist and theorist, dancer and artist.
Bruno is passionate about movement, reflection and the countless possibilities for two or more bodies-consciousnesses to meet and interact. He has been working for years both in private sessions and leading groups in his various areas of theoretical and practical knowledge.
His written work includes a PhD and Master’s degree in Philosophy and General Theory of Law (USP), as well as books, articles, reviews, translations, poetry, etc. in various fields of knowledge. With various certifications, education and training, she works mainly with AcroYoga, Yoga, Tantra, Philosophy, Mobility, Contact Improvisation, Massages, Therapeutic Flights, Sexuality Expansion Therapies and Watsu.
Carol Esteca
Facilitators
Passionate about all expressions of dance, she is an eternal researcher of movement, a student of theatre and has participated in self-knowledge groups for over 20 years. She directs work with forest medicines, is a reiki and tantric therapist, and teaches body practices in the postgraduate course in Integrative Therapies with an emphasis on TANTRA at the Transformar Institute.
She facilitates free experiential courses at the ATMAN Institute, where she was in charge of all production and communication for six years. She created an experiential proposal of dance and body practices from a TANTRA perspective called Mushroom Sensation, which makes use of mushrooms and is now in its 14th edition. Active meditations, bioenergetics, theatre games, non-violent communication, contact and improvisation and other forms of art and expression are part of the repertoire that make up a varied menu of experiences for feeling more.
Raynefyre Grayce
Facilitators
Raynefyre Grayce is a visionary artist, sacred intimate and nomad who has travelled the path of a queer mystic for 18 years, weaving meditation, yoga, tantra, tao, breathwork, tarot, dance and psychedelic exploration into their practice. They interweave and transcend the cultural binaries of sacred sexuality, translating the teachings into a playful and embodied language for curious erotic beings who live beyond dominant structures.
Based in Montreal, Raynefyre’s mission as a Somatic Sex Educator and Certified Sexological Bodyworker is to guide transformation through rituals rooted in erotic embodiment, movement, breath and touch. Their work emerges from a foundation of self-love, gender fluidity, empowerment and authentic creative expression, meeting people where they are and awakening joy and pleasure in their journey.
Raynefyre is currently building QUEEROS, a travelling retreat for kinky queer and trans erotic practitioners, educators, artists, performers and collaborators. This initiative co-creates ‘safe enough’ erotic spaces where those who share an understanding of power, boundaries and consent can connect, share skills, create erotic art and explore their limits together in a playful way.
Ismael do Anjos
Photographer
Ismael dos Anjos is Francisco’s father. He is a journalist from UFMG, has a master’s degree in photography from the University of the Arts London and is a consultant on masculinities, gender equity and race. Co-founder of the Institute for the Defence of Black People, he coordinated the project ‘O Silêncio dos Homens’ (The Silence of Men), a research project and documentary that addresses the social constructions of men in Brazil, and directed the award-winning short film ‘Origens’ for UOL.
ABOUT THE TOUCH&PLAY MOVEMENT
“Leave your relationships more beautiful than you found them”
Touch&Play is an exciting and growing global network of local communities that come together around a set of shared practices and a common culture. We’ve been organizing retreats and community gatherings since 2010 and have held events in 16 different countries and 4 different continents. Our events strike a balance between the local context and culture where a retreat takes places and the global embodied, humanistic and spiritual practices and values that underpin our work. In the end we are striving to build a deeply caring and seriously playful world where we can live authentically and in peace with ourselves and our communities.
DANCE & EMBODIMENT
EROS & CREATIVITY
KINK & SELF-EXPRESSION
RELATIONSHIPS & COMMUNITY
The first Touch&Play gathering took place in 2010 in Berlin and explored The Chemistry in Contact Improvisation (CI). While Classical CI focuses on what happens when two physical bodies meet in space, Touch&Play asks what happens when two human beings meet in space.
Our current frame is a wider one and is described as an exploration of “The Relational Body”. We will experimentially (both experimental and experiential) research the questions and nuances of our dancing bodies as they constellate in any given context and time. Contact Improvisation is one of the main tools we use for this exploration along side Dance, Kink, Somatics, Tantra, Authentic Relating, NVC, Playfighting, Grief Work, Eco-sensuality, Oracling and more. Our values center on emergent play, authenticity, inclusion, embodied consent, care and community.
For years we have been dreaming about T&P Brasil, and it looks like the time has finally arrived!