Elysian Temple VIII
The long-awaited return of the Elysian Temples! Part VIII
Understanding empowerment through intimacy.
The evening will feature performance art experiments, guided journeys, and concepts in swarm intelligence.
Do you want to be played to, gifted, invited, or given a role, to serve, to disappear, or to be objectified? Do you want to expand the prowess of your being to make something, get something, be part of something that is recalibrating? A secular ceremony that harvests your passion for our research. You might be so good at this that it becomes your profession, your addiction. Trust us, you’re perfect for this.
This is a dramaturgy-led experience where theatre and embodied eros converge. Participants enter not as passive observers, but as creative entities.
A Sunday night afterglow to dissolve and re-emerge 🌊 connect and entwine 🫀 re-establishing your contour lines through contact constellations.
We will explore principles of presence, endurance, and somatic indulgence, bridging the worlds of theatre, Berlin nightlife and the wellness world.
The evening includes two sauna rituals led by our expert Aufguss facilitator.
There will also be a vegan buffet.
We are influenced by the work of Dante Alighieri in the structured descent through layers of fantasy, confrontation, and revelation. Our ideas also draw from thinkers such as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and Byung-Chul Han.
Together, we question and redefine our understanding of Eros beyond pornographic exposure or narcissistic self-reference.
Come to Sunday’s perfect afterglow and enter the Elysian Temple.
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✨ Essential information about the Elysian Temple series ✨
The Elysian Temple Night is a relational laboratory workshop space and adult playground. Through embodiment practices and kinaesthetic techniques, we explore questions around enlightenment, social justice, friendship, presence, joy, and environmental symbiosis.
There will be designated spaces for different ways of being and connecting. You will never be pressured to do anything, and every Elysian Temple is an experiment.
We facilitate the evening through prompts, explorations, and exercises. Whether through polite obedience or a lustful resistance to act, we encourage you to move beyond familiar patterns and explore ethical touch.
An awareness team, trained in our consent protocols, will be present throughout the event.
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✨ What to bring ✨
🧺 Towels: At least one per person, and more if you plan to use the sauna.
🛏️ Bedsheet: A self-fastening bedsheet, 140x200 cm.
Snacks/Drinks: A vegan or vegetarian snack, dish, or non-alcoholic drink to nourish and share with fellow participants.
Hand sanitiser and any safe products you think you may need.
Dress Code: Wear whatever makes you feel juicy, naughty or simply safe. Costumes, kimonos, linen-(p)leasure, underwear, loungewear, feather costumes, leather and more.
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Apply by requesting a ticket using this application form.
We curate the group to balance out abilities and to ensure a diverse space. If your application remains in process, it is because we are waiting for those from other criteria, or people's identities, to diversify the group as a whole.
Our principles
Be warm, welcoming, and loving but bold in stating your boundaries, respect each other’s space and journey.
We celebrate both the passion of strong energies and the delicacy of soft energy. We encourage the subversion of conventional gender stereotypes and resistance to social expectations.
Intimacy means being emotionally and intellectually connected, creating a safe space to share vulnerabilities, feelings, and experiences while feeling respected and comfortable.
🔥 Unleash yourself through creation, passion, and play.
With love,
The Playhouse Berlin Collective
Website: https://www.theplayhouseberlin.com/the-playhouse-gallery
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