Temple of Eros

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Casey Vale

Location

DANSpace

Time

6:00 pm - 10:30 pm

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About the Event

6 PM — Boundaries & Desire Workshop
Temple of Eros begins with something very practical: your yes, your no, and what you actually want.

We spend the first part of the evening practicing and opening together. Building our collective capacity for yes, no, come closer, go away, and I changed my mind
— yes, people cry.

This work gives us a shared language of consent before we create a room with so much permission.

8pm — TEMPLE of EROS Ritual
After the workshop, we clear out, the room is reset, and we enter the Temple. We begin with a guided meditation opening the body, and then dance becomes the vehicle for a somatic descent-and-return ritual: from ego, to heart, to the void — and back. EROS here is bigger than sexual. The room can become sensual; attraction, flirtation and closeness are welcome. But Eros is also the life force that makes someone crawl around like an animal, fling themselves across the floor, move beautifully, be grotesque, make contact, refuse contact, become ridiculous, become archetypal, disappear into themselves, or suddenly feel very, very alive.

Feral audacity is the governing spirit of the room.

Every choice here is yours. Move alone. Connect with others. Say yes. Say no. Stay at the edges and watch. Change your mind. Follow whatever your body is asking for next.

To help you imagine it - this event is fully facilitated - yes, Casey is on the mic with you the whole time, moving through the room, guiding the descent and return and actively holding the container as it unfolds.

And YES, by frequent request, we've added extra time for connection and integration together post-ritual.

Come ready to move.

Five blurred dancers in motion on a dark stage, their movements streaked in warm rose and copper light. Text reads ‘Temple of Eros: An embodied ritual of desire, connection, shadow, and self.’