3 full days of exploration on Intimacy, Kink, Sensual Movement & Erotic Expression
September 18-20 2026 @SOMA HOUSE
Mehringdamm 70, 10169 Berlin
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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
Sex as portal
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
Orgasmic breathing
Erotic Hypnosis
Sensual Movement
Erotic attitude
Striptease, Lap dance & Burlesque as erotic empowerment
Dirty Dancing
Play spaces
Facilitators
Facilitators
David Bloom is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, parent, filmmaker, pianist, bodyworker, PhD researcher, and fermenting Jewish mystic.
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.
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.
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.
Denise Agua creates spaces where the body becomes a doorway through sensual bodywork, massage therapy, erotic dance, and movement. Her work is an offering of authentic sensuality, rooted in tenderness, depth, and embodiment.
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.
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