Facilitated by Auro Orso
Date & Time: 16.11.25 — 18:00
Duration: up to 3 hours
Location: room 110, University of Arts Berlin
Capacity: max. 20 participants (depending on space)
Registration: freieklasse@interflugs.de
Limited capacity — first come, first serve.
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About the Workshop ASS-PLORATION invites participants into a somatic and decolonial exploration of the body through attention to the pelvis and the ass — places often neglected, stigmatized, or eroticized, yet full of sensation, contradiction, and memory. The workshop creates a space to unlearn cultural conditioning around these charged areas of the body and to re-approach them through softness, curiosity, and care. Through breath, rest, sound, and movement, we’ll explore how this part of the body holds tension, emotion, and social imprint — and how reconnecting with it can open new forms of presence, humor, and pleasure. This process is guided by a trauma-informed practice that blends somatic awareness, consent-based touch, and playful experimentation. Participants are invited to listen deeply, move intuitively, and experience the body as a site of both resistance and joy. Please bring comfortable clothes to move in, water, and something to lie on (a mat and a firm pillow).
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About the Facilitator Auro Orso is a Berlin-based dancer, choreographer, and performer who identifies as Trans and Two-Spirit. A graduate of the Inter-University Centre for Dance (HZT Berlin), Auro has presented work in venues such as Dock11, HAU, Sophiensäle, and Ballhaus Naunynstraße, and has performed in several countries. Their artistic practice is inseparable from lived experience as a racialized person and from ongoing political and spiritual engagement. Drawing from Indigenous worldviews, Auro’s work bridges movement, activism, and healing, developing projects and workshops that empower Queer and BIPoC communities, cultivate embodied sensitivity, and nurture collective transformation. Their artistic research investigates decolonizing practices across daily life and art-making, questioning Western notions of universality, binaries, and the “appropriate.” In their performances, movement is informed by somatics, perreo, consent, and physical theatre — creating spaces where humor, gentleness, and political pleasure coexist. Auro was awarded the Supporting Act Foundation Stipend for Emerging Artists and the ngbk grant for their artistic education project Decolonizing Food. They have shared their community practices at institutions such as the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam, Floating University, Schwules Museum, and Whole Festival. Their poetic performance series inspired by Gloria Anzaldúa’s writings has been presented at HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and the Vereinigung Bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs. Their solo work PERREO ENTRE LOS MUNDOS premiered at Tanztage 2025, continuing their exploration of care, Indigenous futurism, and imaginative gender riots.