WORKSHOP: Waistline Rituals — Sensuality in Black Queer Bodies
Pole Paradise Ticketshop
Waistline Rituals — Sensuality in Black Queer Bodies
Reclaim your hips. Move with intention. Honour the sacred energy of your sensuality.
This workshop is a sensual journey through waistline work, lap/chair dance, strip-inspired flow, and spiritual embodiment. Directly inspired by an Afro-Carribean background and long experience as a gogo-boy, rooted in rhythm and ancestral memory, we explore how to move with presence, confidence, and joy — in our own ways, in our own bodies. Carving our own ritualistic resistance.
Together, we’ll pulse, undulate, groove, and slow grind. We’ll awaken the spine, let the hips speak, and cultivate power through pleasure. A celebration of Black Queer bodies, erotic expression, and embodied spirit.
Come with your body, your story, and your rhythm — everything else will unfold.
Language: English
Registration under: blackandqueer.nrw@gmail.com
Safer Space
Guest
Kalil Bat began his artistic journey with Afro-Caribbean dances and street styles. He later expanded his repertoire to include pole dance, acrobatics, and contortion. He is currently studying at the renowned La Manufacture in Lausanne. His work moves between dance, performance, and narration, shaped by collective experiences, intersectional perspectives, and a desire for connection. His solo AFRO-TRANS DIARY premiered in Berlin in 2022. Kalil’s artistic language is marked by versatility, expressiveness, and a deep commitment to contemporary dance. In Cologne, he presents the short film BEYOND THE GOLDEN LINE, in which he plays the lead role, and offers a safer space workshop for the Black queer community.