3 full days of exploration on Intimacy, Kink, Sensual Movement & Erotic Expression
September 18-20 2026 @SOMA HOUSE
Mehringdamm 70, 10169 Berlin
3 full days of exploration on Intimacy, Kink, Sensual Movement & Erotic Expression
September 18-20 2026 @SOMA HOUSE
Mehringdamm 70, 10169 Berlin
MOVING THE EROTIC is an exploration of eroticism as a conscious, creative life force rooted in the lived experience of the body in motion. The festival invites participants to explore how erotic energy can emerge through solo, shared, and close physical interaction, and how it can be sensed, shaped, and expressed in real time. Rather than oscillating between restraint and automatic sexualization, MTE opens a space where sensuality can unfold with awareness, depth, and embodiment.
Through practices such as sensual movement, erotic expression, and kink, participants are encouraged to give form to this energy and feed it back into the collective field. The festival supports the expansion of one’s erotic vocabulary, the discovery of personal desires and boundaries, and the cultivation of intimacy - both with oneself and others. At the same time, it offers a grounded environment to explore vulnerability, work with shame and fear, and develop the capacity to stay present with both subtle and intense sensations within a shared, consensual space.
Explore topics such as:
Embodied consent
Beyond consent
Erotic distortion
Rope Dance
Creative Intimacy
Pain & Pleasure
Dry Humping
Solo movement & self touch
Self image & body confessions
Exhibitionism
The art of worshipping
Conscious Kink
Tease & Denial
Butoh Porn
Erotic Death
Underworld & Honest intimacy
Erotic breathing
Sensual Movement
Erotic attitude
Striptease, Lap dance & Burlesque as erotic empowerment
Dirty Dancing
Play spaces
Julie Velvet is the curator of the festival and a devotee to her body’s mystical intelligence. She serves as space holder, facilitator, conscious kinkster, massage ritualist, yoga teacher, dance enthusiast, and romantic lover of this life.
Stefano is a Butoh dancer, performer and bodyworker exploring movement, intimacy and transformation. He believes the body knows things the mind desperately tries to intellectualize.
He creates spaces where people can feel more free, embodied and alive, and occasionally flirt with their own bodies.
Sara Lu is a Berlin-based performer, choreographer, and movement facilitator working at the intersection of dance, Butoh, drag, and somatic practices. Their work explores the body as a site of memory, transformation, and relational experience.
David Bloom is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, parent, filmmaker, pianist, bodyworker, PhD researcher, and fermenting Jewish mystic.
As a certified psychotherapist and psychologist, Buster Rådvik specializes in embodiment, intimacy, communication, relational trauma, nervous system regulation, and collective healing.
Juliette Dragon (Paris) néo-burlesque cabaret performer since 1993 teaches the art of seduction for 20 years all over the world. Background : dances, martial arts, acting, circus & feminism.
Lukas combines dance, somatic practice, sexological bodywork and artistic approaches into a vibrant research for creative, embodied spaces of experience.
They are a sex worker and sex educator with a professional focus on dis_ability inclusion and a personal interest in all kinds of power dynamics - in politics, relationships and kink. They savor the entire bandwidth of pleasure and pain at least as much as fucking up the binary.
Noam is a workshop facilitator, Feldenkrais practitioner and family constellation guide, offering body-emotional work individually and in group settings. His work is driven by sensitivity and aims to create experiential spaces for people to develop autonomy and trust in their own body and internal processes.
Kaos is a non-conventional shibari artist who enjoys simplicity, playfulness and an intuitive approach to rope, drawing inspiration from contact improvisation, tango and martial arts, with a special focus on floor work.
Hef Heart is a kinky facilitator from Poland with experience in trauma informed bodywork and mindful connection. Trained in multiple consent workshops, fascia bodywork practitioner, educated in energetic connections, he now shares his consent building and conscious touch knowledge with the world.
Katrine Bregnum is a Berlin-based dance and sound artist exploring instinct, embodiment and transformation. Her work seeks the place beneath language and social conditioning, where the body listens, senses, desires and moves from something more primal. Working with voice, electronic sound, field recordings, bass and sub-frequencies, she creates immersive sonic landscapes that invite the body into altered states of listening and sensation.