Level: Dancers / Movers / Performers / Bodyworkers

Desire and Sexuality are omnipresent in advertising, entertainment, and corporate capitalism in general, but the image presented of what is desired and desirable is often fairly far removed from most people’s authentic interests. Work as a professional dancer often involves encountering our own boundaries on a variety of levels. In this workshop, we will breathe, work somatically, and dive into scores based on our own desires and boundaries. David draws on years of working with dance & performance, as well as with conscious sexuality practices such as tantra and bdsm, in order to propose a safer space exploring a holistic approach to making art, that both draws from and affects our personal, social, and political realities. We will not go into physical contact, but rather explore how the space between informs desire in socially distant times.

David Bloom is a choreographer, dancer, teacher, father, filmmaker, pianist, bodyworker, and tea collector. Graduated from the M.A. Choreography course at HZT Berlin and the Urban Tantra Professional Training Program with Barbara Carellas. His dance film trilogy Sex & Space premiered at the Berlin Porn Film Festival between 2013 and 2016 and was screened internationally. David was a 2012 danceWEB scholar and his teaching has included HZT Berlin, Tanzquartier Vienna, Tanzfabrik Berlin, Human Architecture Lab in St. Petersburg, K3 in Hamburg, the Masters of Contemporary Dance Education in Frankfurt, the Body IQ Festival in Berlin, the Rietveld Academie for Fine Arts & Design in Amsterdam, & the ImPulsTanz Festival in Vienna.