The skin is boundary, envelope and exquisite potential for sensual bliss and connection.

Drawing on sensing, feeling and moving techniques from Body-Mind Centering, Contact Improvisation and Bodyweather somatic and dance practices, you will first get to know your own skin. You will then practice contacting through skin with other bodies.

No training is required, simply a curiosity to be present in your own delicious skin.

Lian Loke is an interdisciplinary artist, based in Warrane/Sydney, working with the body and movement as material. Drawing from Bodyweather, somatic and shamanic dance traditions, her work blends performance, costume and installation to explore shifting hybrid identities, ritual, energy and metamorphic embodiment. She likes to perform in non-traditional performance spaces to stir up the sediment, spirits and status quo - most comfortable in the in-between spaces shaped by her Malaysian-Chinese and Anglo-Australian heritage. Her working processes are often bottom-up, generating actions, meanings and new movement languages from improvisations and interactions with props, costume and interactive machines. Her approach to costuming the body in performance explores costume as sculpture and environment, opening the sensuous and liminal space between the body and cloth.