Interfusion Festival X (IFX)

Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

This workshop will emphasize flow in Thai massage, as you lift, move, and sink, letting gravity and breath guide your movements while you drop into the physical connection between giver and receiver. Students will embody both roles. Note that there will be more bodily connection in this sequence, and while Thai massage can feel intimate, it is not sexual. Bring a massage partner, or find one in class that you feel comfortable with. 

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Do you wanna keep your friends safe?? Do you wanna toss higher and more confidently?? Do YOU want to BE THE SAFETY?!? Well then THIS IS THE CLASS FOR YOU!! In this spotting workshop we will go through the foundations of what makes spotting so effective and allows our entire practice to exist!! From tumbling to tossing we will go through it all and keep everyone safe while doing it!! Even though this is an ALL LEVELS offering you can expect to do challenging moves and big skills where spotting is NEEDED!!
 
Level: All (but we will do big skills still!!)
Pre-reqs: Open mind, keen eyes, fast hands and a willingness to work in groups!!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Spice it up, soar, and spin your way in class, on the dance floor, and onto your socials. This is an exhilarating acro dance workshop for dancers of all levels with challenging yet accessible skills. Led by experienced instructors and performers, participants will master the art of dance lifts with grace and flair. This will be the kind of stuff you’ll want to post on Instagram and whatever social media you have. The skills will be visual and broken down so that you can learn them in a safe and effective manner. With instruction on basing, flying, and spotting, attendees will be able to explore synchronized lifts and acrobatic sequences with confidence. This workshop opens the door to captivating choreography, empowering dancers to elevate their performances with lifted artistry. And yeah, you’ll want to post what you learned and show off a little. 

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

Give yourself a treat and learn how to care for others in this sweet workshop.  Through skillful guidance, you'll learn how both giving and receiving Thai Bodywork can help your brain quiet down and allow your body to unwind.
While exploring traditional Thai techniques and other tools for respectful connection, you will assist and support a partner while keeping your own body in proper alignment to stay comfortable.  We'll take turns giving and receiving, allowing you to both care for another and also explore the depths of your own relaxation. In the end, you'll sail on out thoroughly ready to meet whatever comes next.  
This workshop is open to everyone, and no previous experience is required. You are welcome to sign up with a partner with whom you want to work, but also feel free to come alone and we'll pair you up with a new friend!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Welcome to the world of AcroYoga, where we are all powerful enough to base, nimble enough to fly, and trustworthy enough to spot! This intro level class will cover some of the basic poses as well as dive into the AcroYoga philosophy. Come ready to challenge your boundaries and assumptions about what we all are able to do. Enthusiastic consent is as important a concept as physical safety and the mechanics of the movements.
Class Level: Beginner
Class Prerequisites: Willingness to try new things and respect each other’s boundaries.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

 Prepare your wings for blast off with these two gregarious teachers from NYC. This class will run through a dynamic washing machine that has multiple options to challenge the experienced and lower the challenge for others. Come prepared not just to connect, grow, and learn but to have the time of your life. 
Level: Beginermediate
Prerequisites: Some side star experience

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

Dive deep into the intricate world of advanced Thai bodywork in this workshop. Designed to teach you complex and unique Thai bodywork moves and transitions, this session will make your practice stand out.
You will be guided through a comprehensive floor sequence, learning how to properly assess when and where your skills are most needed, ensuring the safety and well-being of your partner during bodywork.
Prerequisite: This workshop is not recommended for beginners; some experience in Thai bodywork is required.

Note: This workshop is not suitable for individuals with injuries in their ankles, knees, or wrists.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

“A partnering practice is centered around building a relationship with reality”
-Tom Weklser 
In this experience, we explore working with another. Whether we look at our partner as a human being, the space, the floor, an apparatus, the music, or a blank canvas, there is a clear response you receive when working with something outside of yourself—a response that is true and informative. We utilize a practice that draws from many others with the goal of finding common themes and principles across movement disciplines to explore connection, attunement, and discovery through a lens of serious play. Join us for an hour and a half full of partner games, exercises, and explorations that are certain to level up your ability to move within another in your favorite disciplines.

Your guides will be Dr. Harnoor Singh (@movementwithnoor), a doctor of physical therapy, and Logan DiTillo (@logamotion), a nomadic movement teacher and acrobat. They are well-educated and extremely welcoming teachers of this art, and their goal is to guide you through a playful, eye-opening, and liberating hour and a half of Partner-based Movement.


🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Join us for "Raising the Barre: An Acro Lifts Workshop with a Twist!" where you'll explore the art of dynamic acro dance lifts and spins. Learn to balance delicacy and dynamism, execute fluid and intentional transitions, and master overhead lifts, standing transitions, and twirly-spinning movements. Prerequisite skills include comfort with spinning while holding a partner. No ballet experience required—just a passion for acro lifts and the desire to take your dance skills to new heights!

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

Day 1 - Precision Icarian
The first day we will focus on cleaning up Icarian skills to make them precise and tempo-able. Expect to refine skills you have done before - working towards mastery of these skills. We will also incorporate some unique pops and drills you may not have worked on before! This lesson will build towards linking skills together for seamless icarian flows.

Prereqs: Straight throws in bird and throne

Day 2 - Whip Mastery
We will work towards building whip technique for more dynamic skills. We have specific techniques that we have learned from teachers all over the world as well as developed through our own training that we love to share. This lesson will give you a deeper understanding of these skills and all of the building blocks needed for progressing toward more dynamic whip pops. We will touch on nervous system regulation, dynamic spotting, and how to keep these skills safe.

Prereqs: Comfort in bird, throne, reverse bird, and reverse throne. Some experience attempting whips is helpful.

Day 3 - Jump Start your Whip Pops
Whether you’ve done a handful of whip pops, or you’re still working towards your first one, this class will have content for you. We will have a short recap of the first two lessons leading into dynamic entries in and out of whips. Multiple levels of content will be offered and students can work at their own pace. Our goal is to offer a clear and safe pathway - it is most important to us for our students to learn when they are ready for the next progression, and when they need to continue repping out certain drills.

Prereqs: Comfort with whips, and basic icarian transitions such as bird to throne. Doing the first two workshops covers these prereqs.

APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE - Registration for this add-on requires meeting prerequisites and completing an application process. In order to participate, it is necessary to have a full pass for the Festival. After submitting your application and responding to the check-out questions in full, your request will be assessed by the Interfusion Team. If additional information is required, such as a video of your skills, it will be communicated to you by email. If you do not meet the qualifications for the intensive this year, you will receive a full refund of the intensive ticket. APPLY HERE FOR THIS ADD-ON INTENSIVE

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.

Acroyoga Jams are play spaces where we share what we have learned with each other and have fun.  Come to support others and in turn be supported.

This workshop combines the techniques of Traditional Thai Massage with the theory of Myofascial Trigger Point therapy. Trigger points are like little knots in muscle fibers that are located in the belly or center of a muscle. The application of pressure and the movement of muscles in Thai Massage is very effective for relieving these knots. You will learn some common trigger point locations in the feet and legs and how to relieve them on another person. This is perfect for anyone who is on their feet dancing all night.

🌶️ 🌶️ Medium: The workshop invites sensuality, moving touch, cuddles, or extended close physical contact with others, but does NOT invite sexuality or nudity.