Tender City: The Silent Slow Dance Project is a participatory workshop inviting men to experience intimacy, connection, and presence through a guided slow dance in silence. Rooted in socially engaged dance and somatic inquiry, this workshop explores how public space shapes male intimacy and how simple, intentional movement can reimagine urban environments as sites of care and vulnerability.
Through guided exercises and a simple choreographic score, participants will be invited to move beyond verbal communication and experience the embodied, nonverbal exchange of trust, weight, and presence with another. Together, we will explore how the body holds and resists intimacy, how it responds to public space, and how slow movement can invite a reimagining of masculinity, connection, and queer expression.
