Core Team
Olivia (Liv) Frank
Co-Organizer
Liv (she/her) is a community creature, connection steward, somatic worshiper, relational adventurer, eternal student in the deep realms of justice and healing, and a cozy cuddle fairy. She lives a prayer for collective care, restorative justice, radical self love, consent culture, and intersectional wellness and freedom. She doesn’t feel like telling you her resume. Come dance in a river, exchange bodywork, read poems to each other and/or watch TikTok, grieve, sing, analyze queer media, have a heart to heart, and join an orgy with her instead.
Kaviar
Kaviar is a lover, a dancer, a vessel for transmitting and expanding consciousness, and a creator. With a background in medical sciences and anatomy, Kaviar then found yoga and Tantra. His spiritual path became his true calling, as a wanderlust and change maker, and community organizer. Certified in teaching Tantra and Hatha yoga, and with other offerings ongoing, Kaviar continues to offer vectors for healing and expansion with a heart to the divine.
Daniel (DeeJay) Haye
Founder
Dani Hayes is a Medical Doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist and practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over 15 years and actively sharing his curiosity and knowledge and doubts for the past decade. He is the founder of the Touch&Play Project, which explores the edges of Contact Improvisation by inviting our (al)chemical bodies into the dance. Through artistic and academic research he hopes to highlight the potential of CI as a tool to create authentic connections with oneself and the other by bringing it into play, communication, BDSM, therapy, education, sexuality, somatic mindfulness and more.
Workshop Facilitators
Laura Von Nordheim
I am a psychologist with a passion for bringing people together to connect to themselves and one another. My craft is dance, my trade is connection. I organise dance events, play parties and conscious sexuality events. I support festivals through movement and dance classes, authentic relating exercises, dream journeys, speed mating and speed dating, body positive life drawing, safer spaces and care team guidance, and boundary, safety and consent workshops as well as festival wellbeing services, catering and production office. At Touch&Play this year, I am looking forward to offering Fusion Dance and breath play workshop(s) and creating sexy dance spaces and sensual love lounges.
ZinnDa
ZinnDa: means to be alive! A free spirit and a bundle of pure joy. His evolution has been quite a journey, from being a techie running his internationally operated IT company to transforming into an Osho sannyasin. He was born with the heart of a nomad and has been a traveller for most of his life now. What’s his purpose? One might wonder!
ZinnDa studied Yoga and Naturopathy gaining knowledge leading him to the practice of Homa Therapy – healing and purifying of the atmosphere with fire as the medium. The science of Homa Therapy comes from VEDAS, the most ancient body of knowledge known to man.
On his journey he has been closely working with the Osho Communes, spiritual festivals all around the world and the Contact Dance Community to help in bringing spiritual awareness and spreading peace in communities everywhere.
Ingrid Quiroga
Ingrid Quiroga is a trained professional who helps people with sexual, intimacy and relationship challenges. She helps them achieve their goals, solve their concerns, develop their sexual skills, and unlock their sexual power. She uses meditation and BDSM activities to guide her clients towards an experience of transformation, to help them connect with their inner power and help them heal those wounds that are blocking them from living the life they always wanted.
Certified Sex Coach, Certified Member by the World Association of Sex Coaches, WASC 2020 Training in Reassessment and Restructuring of Sexual Attitudes, SAR 2019 Personal Exploration Advanced Sexual Experience Training.
To learn more: https://en.ingridquiroga.com/
Ulli Wittemann
Ulli is a studied actor & performer and a teacher for acting, movement, awareness & communication. A passion for movement and growth has drawn him to new directions since he was a child. Besides practising Ballroom Dance and Hip Hop as a teenager and 28 years of studying different Martial Arts forms he also fell in love with Contact Improvisation in 2001 during his actors studies at the University of Performing Arts in Frankfurt, Germany. After performing more than 1000 shows in the German State Theater system he decided to change his focus to sharing his love for CI, Acting, Awareness in Relating and Communication in Munich and abroad. Since 2010 he taught Workshops, Classes and Retreats in China, Japan, India, Thailand, Bali, Israel, Palestine, Russia, Crimea, Georgia, USA, Canada, Turkey and
many European Countries. On a regular base he coaches individual clients and teaches CI,
communication and his own PLAYFIGHT system in the region of Munich, Germany.
He is one of the Founders of the festivals TanzTageTempelhof and the BODY MIND SOUL Festival in Germany and the Conscious Flow Festival in India and co-organized eight editions of the Touch&Play Festival in Germany, England and Bali. Since 2015 he shares his love for nature and human growth in his retreat BEING HUMAN. It invites people to connect deeper with oneself, nature and water. https://beinghuman.cc/
With his wife Isabelle Pyttel he founded the retreat format ACHTSAME SINNLICHKEIT (Conscious Sensuality) and they started into the adventure of parenting in December 2020.
To learn more: www.consciouscontact.de
CJ O’Reilly
CJ is a passionate communitarian, dancer, martial artist, and life-as-artist, and community organizer. They conspire for a world where dance and physical expression are commonplace and even taken for granted, rather than a spectacle. They currently live in Asheville, NC.
Tatiana Musi
I am a mother. A painter, an art therapist, a dancer. I play and I pray.
My creative practice and spirituality live and nurture from each other, cultivating in myself and others deep creativity that sprouts from the connection to self, to the heart and nature. I believe in the superpower of giving space for the wisdom of everything and everyone to emerge.
Out of all the teachers and all the training of my life, I consider motherhood the master of it all. Deconstructing and Constructing everything I am.
Andrea Scheel
Mexican artist trained in contemporary dance in AREA, espai de movimento; (Barcelona, 2006 – 2008) and the dance conservatory of Sevilla (2009 – 2010). She started her professional dancing with CAD- centro andaluz de danza (Sevilla, 2010 – 2011) with different choreographers such as Johan Inger, Isabel Vasquez}. Now in constant exploration with somatics, biomechanics and evolutionary movement on land and water. She has practiced Contact Improvisation since 2008, facilitating spaces for its practice since 2013. She also started practicing aquatic therapies like Aguahara and Wasser Tanz while creating spaces for its sharing. Part of her mission is to create safe spaces for facilitating processes of inhabiting the body from a somatic approach, and contact improvisation from a creative, collective and performing view. She has been organizing the Contact and Flow festival, before Liquid Flow, since 5 years now. Her passion is drawing, painting, and handpoke tattooing.
To learn more:
Instagram: andyscheel https://andreascheel.wordpress.com/ https://www.facebook.com/animalvrbano
www.contactandflow.com
Echo Wildmer
As a human being with years of unhealthy relating to myself and others, I have been able to experience myself, my decisions and my reactions retroactively with a new found self awareness that has allowed me to purify my interpersonal relationships, and intrapersonal for that matter, with continuing education and resourcing I give myself more depth and space to thrive in more healthy and whole ways of relating. This has given me a new found drive to bring tools, resources and awareness to others suffering in unhealthy attachment patterns, limiting belief systems, disregulated nervous systems, unconscious living and trauma bonding