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berlin | 31 december - 01 january | 19:30 - 09:00
futuring 2023
anticipanting your year through different senses
1 night

from 19:30 on 31.12 till 09:00 on 01.01
10 participants

we want this experience to be a personal one
7 senses

with somatic, sensory, and performative practices we are clearing our own perception to envision (ensense) the year 2023 clearly, and invite you with us
sliding scale

30/50/70 euro (economic/regular/supporters price)
what exactly are we going to do?
  • Speak
  • Sing
  • Move
  • Explore
  • Be a querent and an oracle
  • Whatever else might come up in your personal journey

This overnight immersive experience will last 15 hours and will consist of somatic, performative and gently experimental practices related to or inspired by the possibility of clairvoyance.

Our aim is to take you through a sensory ritual to help you clear your senses from the noise of the everyday, of the tension of New Year’s expectations, of the weight of intention setting and the perceived struggle of letting go.

We want to gently and easefully step into the New Year with clarity, as an empty vessel.

For this, we will be tuning in to the perceptions of the body in a way which tells a story. Inspired by the idea that our bodies are carriers of the future as well as the past, we will use the tools of movement, breath, touch, and imagination to tap into a future which might want to manifest from within us.


Warning: This is not a therapy workshop.

Our plan
preliminary schedule
  • 19:30 - 20:00 || arrival
    arriving and first meeting in the circle
  • 20:00 - 20:30 || oracle
    a vision. an offering. what do you see?
  • 20:30 - 21:00 || clairtangency
    exploring our tactile sense as a means of positioning ourselves in the world
  • 21:00 - 22:00 || clairaudience 
    hearing the future, catching each other mid-air. letting go
  • 22:00 - 23:00 || clairsalience and clairgustance
    dinner pause: nourishing smell and taste
  • 23:00 - 23:30 || clairvoyance
    seeing through the now into the vision of your future
  • 23:30 - 00:30 || futuring
    a simple practice of lightness and clarity
  • 00:30 - 03:30 || jamming into the future
    from this point in the future you are welcome to stay or leave
  • 03:30 - 08:30 || communal sleep
    for the ones who stay
  • 08:30 - 09:00 || dissolving
    leaving the space
who is it for?

For you, if you want to clear your senses to sense your future year,

If New Year’s resolutions freak you out and parties put you off this year,

If you are curious and just a little bit brave,

And want a spectacularly unspectacular transition into a new present.

where is the location?

Remise NeuKölln

Ringbahnstrasse 22

12051 Berlin

your facilitators
  • Vera Shchelkina
    Dance artist, somatic practitioner, student of the Somatische Akademie, teacher of contemporary dance, movement, and performance for professionals, amateur and inclusive projects, curator of the inclusive project “Normal Dances”.
    Main Art Works: CO-TOUCH, My(Ex)Body, Imposter Lab, Discomfort Lab, SMRTъ
  • Maria Vitanova
    Emerging performance artist and somatic practitioner, whose research centers around embodiment practices and personal development. BA in Theater Studies and Philosophy, student of the Somatic Academy in Berlin and a sex and relationship counselor in training. She specializes in experimental workshop formats surrounding the topic of (self-)intimacy such as A Workshop on Closeness, Stories of the Body and Sich Sammeln.
  • Elena Korchagina
    Elena Korchagina is a psychologist, specialist on Sensory Integration and Neuroscience MA student. She is using techniques from Embodiment, Psychodrama and Playback Theatre, exploring how different kind of movement and sensations are working from neuroscientific perspective.
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