Organizer Team
Daniel (DJ) Hayes – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Founder of Touch&Play, Dani is also a medical doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist & practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over a decade.
read moreMoti Zemelman – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improvisation 30 years ago. Over the past 22 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Central America, Mexico, Europe and Israel.
read moreZ Griss (Zahava) – Diversity Outreach & Support
Zahava Griss (Z, pronouns: They/Them) is a dancer, kink educator for social change, coach, and author. Z directs Do Good Things with Power, a leadership immersion for facilitators transforming our culture around intimacy. Z is a contributing author to Queer Magic:...
read moreBéu Tornaghi – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Born in BraSil, citizen of the world, Béu has been traveling between the USA, BraSil, and Europe for several years, dancing, offering Somatic Movement Therapy & Education, as well as Translation & Interpreting
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Leonore Tjia
Leonore Tjia (“Chee-ah”) is an artist-healer and feminist sexuality educator whose work lies at the intersection of soul, myth, eros and intimacy.
read moreJumatatu Poe
I am a choreographer, performer, and educator based between Philadelphia and New York City who grew up dancing around the living room and at parties…
read moreBernadette Pleasant
Intoxicating and energetic, Bernadette Pleasant is a fiery sensual Speaker, Somatic Healer and Creator of Femme! (http://livefemme.com). She facilitates transformation for those who desire to live out loud through a physical, emotional and immersive journey.
read moreBetty Martin
Betty spent her childhood in a large family and mis-spent her youth in experimental communities, learning about people in more kinds of groups than she can count…
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Juliana Rose Goldstone
Juliana, the creatress of "Boldly Embodied", is a pleasure activist, Somatic Sex Educator, Certified Sexological Bodyworker and birth worker. She is the mother of two wonderful wild children and supports people to source themselves deeply in the joy and power of their...
read moreJWow (Julie Woods)
JWOW (Julie Woods) I’m JWow, The Urban Bliss Shaman™. I come to sacred gatherings to pray and practice living fully into an isness of seculospiritual-love-in-action. I am graced with getting to live, learn, teach, and generally seed what we distill...
read moreKelindah Schuster
Kelindah Schuster is a performance artist, radical educator, community-connector, and maker of queer theater who grew up in Singapore and Indonesia and is ever-reckoning with belonging as a white transplant in Brooklyn.
read moreTru
Tru is a Sacred Intimate and sex & intimacy coach. She works with folks of all genders, abilities, and orientations as they tap into and remember their erotic wildness, their source of power and pleasure…
read moreLeslie Blackburn
Leslie Blackburn woke up from a lifetime of “holding on, numbing out and keeping people out” to reconnect with her body, her power, and deepest authentic purpose in life.
read moreDanny Brave
Danny Brave is a queer transgender man whose mission is to offer himself and others experiences to full embrace the power and liberation of being their authentic self/ves,
read moreDaniel Bear Davis
Daniel Bear Davis(MFA) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and movement educator. He has been teaching and dancing Contact Improvisation, Axis Syllabus, and improvisational composition for over half his life.
read moreVivek Patel
Vivek Patel has been teaching Conscious Parenting concepts to families for over 10 years.
read moreTanya Williams
Tanya Williams is a context artist with a passion for dancing with complex systems… in community, on the land, and in the body. She has been facilitating contact improvisation for 19 years
read moreKaitlin June
Kaitlin June the queer, God-loving, Southern Scorpio songstress here to help you sing your soul…
read moreDaniel (DJ) Hayes – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Founder of Touch&Play, Dani is also a medical doctor, public health scientist, eco-anarchist & practical idealist. He’s been playing, dancing, meditating and conversing CI for over a decade.
read moreAlyssa Lynes
Alyssa Lynes brings her knowledge of Community development in Touch&Play (since 2012) and CI communities (since 2010), Contact Improvisation and movement pedagogy, Contemporary & partner dance forms, Nonviolent Communication, Education (MSed + bilingual education) & Mentor teaching, and her work and study of The Life Coaching Teachings of Maria Nemeth from the Academy of Coaching Excellence.
read moreAnna Maynard
Anna Maynard is an emerging artist in the fields of Photography and Contemporary Modern dance. She has spent a lifetime studying and molding her crafts in to what they are today.
read moreMoti Zemelman – Touch&Play Co-Organizer
Moti Zemelman, MFA, began practicing Contact Improvisation 30 years ago. Over the past 22 years he has taught and performed across USA, Canada, Central America, Mexico, Europe and Israel.
read moreZ Griss (Zahava) – Diversity Outreach & Support
Zahava Griss (Z, pronouns: They/Them) is a dancer, kink educator for social change, coach, and author. Z directs Do Good Things with Power, a leadership immersion for facilitators transforming our culture around intimacy. Z is a contributing author to Queer Magic:...
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