You’re invited to spend a weekend dancing with faeries in a private resort in the German woods, where you can express every nuance of intimacy, emotion, sexuality and vitality. Don’t just “think” about your self-expression. Don’t just “talk” about it. Live radical self-expression in bodily wholeness, spiritual enlightenment, and shaking your groove “thang”! Express your true sexuality in wild costumery, street clothes, or wearing nothing at all. Celebrate your unique Being in how you touch yourself, and how you touch others, whether it’s hands-on-skin, an eye gaze, or touching deep into another’s spirit and beyond.

So will we just dance all weekend? (as if something is wrong with that?)
Yes, and no. We are mainly getting together to dance in the 5 Rhythms tradition because we have found such value, transformation, and healing from it. Yet, there are other ways to connect and enjoy each other, so between several dances throughout the weekend, there will also be workshops and free time to enhance our connections. Although I, Sexologist Jallen Rix (DJ Whee-zel) have taken on the job of “steering the ship” the weekend will be designed by a number of facilitators who have years of experience in creating environments that maximize intimacy.

All are welcome with consent and awareness
All are welcome at this event regardless of your orientation, gender, labels, size, shape, adult age, ability or skill level. Are you uncomfortable in your body? – you are welcome to the dance. Do you feel like you’ve never been able to “get” dance, but you are curious to try? – You are welcome, too! Although the weekend will be spoken in English, the great thing is that dance transcends any language. 

Since we are advertising this experience primarily to a fae audience, chances are the experience will be populated by mostly open-hearted gay men. We will be celebrating our sexuality at every opportunity throughout the weekend. Indeed, the online dances have always welcomed gay men’s sexuality to be expressed however they like as long as it is in respect to the movement of the dance – all engaged with sex-positive consent and respect.

Although we want to swing our arms as wide as possible to include everyone, we realize the weekend will not be everyone’s particular cup ‘o tea. We recognize that perhaps for some, the degree of sexual freedom might be too “in your face” or too explicit. That’s okay. We can’t be everything to everyone. However, if it is both a little scary yet exciting for you to imagine mostly gay men expressing themselves in shades of masculine and feminine and non-binary ways, with or without costumery, celebrating their sexuality, and bodies, and phalluses without shame, you are welcome here whether you actively participate in eros or touch, or you just dance your brains out – it’s all good! But we want you to know what you’re walking into, what you’ll most likely see/experience, what you’re welcome to participate in, and we want everyone to have as wonderful a time as possible.

Why Dance? Why 5 Rhythms Dance?
Some time ago I watched a young child hear the rhythm of music and unconsciously translate it into joyful movement. She wasn’t more than a dozen months old. She could barely walk, and yet the music made her effortlessly move —up, down, jiggle, wave, stomp— whatever! The music went right from her ears directly to her body without the brain filtering it. She was a bubbling euphoric conduit of unabashed expression. I noticed myself with the natural urge to move with her, as did everyone who saw her. I was envious, wondering, “What happened to me? What was holding me back from moving so freely? Why didn’t I dance like that anymore?”

The 5 Rhythms and Ecstatic Dance Movements have been the key to setting free that vibrant child in me and thousands of other people. Music and movement can bypass all our well constructed emotional barricades of “respectability” and help us plug into our pure emotions, our pure primal, our pure child, our integrated selves as we were whole right out of the womb. Music, dance and movement can recalibrate us, heal us, and set free our purest selves. This weekend we will hold space for all of us to express our true selves. Each wave of music will be a laboratory of experimentation for all our whole Beings to journey into new and diverse audio landscapes where we can express the ancient wisdom of our ancestors as well as blossom into new creatures beyond any explanation.

The 5 Rhythms model of mixing music is a loose structure originally conceived and developed by the late Gabrielle Roth. Its 5 “stages”: Flowing, Staccato, Chaos, Lyric and Stillness, provide a “Wave” of music that often takes a dancer on a journey of movement and creative exploration. Despite the structure, music is highly subjective, and so is the interpretation of each DJ as they put their own spin on the 5 Rhythms. This faerie group is welcoming of a very wide variety of music that doesn’t always fall neatly into the 5 rhythms. The great thing is you don’t have to know anything about the 5 Rhythms to enjoy dancing to the music. Ya just gotta move, bab-ee! Who knows what audio landscape the music might take us to explore?

What’s Touch got to do with it?
We live in a world where sexuality is exploited every way possible for financial gain, yet allowing an individual to express their true Sexual Being is often condemned, or more often reserved only for the privacy of a bedroom or perhaps on an online cam. Sexual expression and connecting with like-hearted beings is mostly censored to the shadows which then becomes a breeding ground for shame and abuse. We want to go in the opposite direction. Touch is as natural as moving and dancing. Just as we use words to express our inner-most thoughts, so too, can we use touch, the body, and movement to express our connections, desires, and joys. Within a safe and always consensual environment, this weekend will celebrate the importance and healing of engaging as much or as little touch as you would like to enjoy. Workshops and ground rules will be outlined to make the weekend safe for anyone to explore touch, boundaries, “yes”, “no”, and intimacy.