Dose of Pleasure
Dance Floor Activation | Dealing in Distance|By Alvin Collantes (PH/DE)
- Price Free admission
- Part of series: Dealing in Distance
In 2020, when clubs and dance studios were closed due to the pandemic, Alvin developed a movement practice that curates an intimate online experience, emulating moments shared on dancefloor spaces in Berlin. Over the last three years, Dose of Pleasure has become an evolving practice that questions what it means to share dancefloor spaces, to celebrate diversity and inclusion through the work of the body. What a space like ‘Dose of Pleasure’ reminds us of is that when individuals dive into the sensations of the body in a dancefloor space, and understand how their bodies are in relation to others, it allows for non-verbal communication that speaks to the collective desire to connect, and stands in contrast to ego-centric patterns of consumerism, conformity, and insecurity. In this workshop, we will explore what it means to build dancefloor spaces rooted in sustainability, where bodies can nourish each other through intuitive listening. We will delve into the movement language of Gaga to make the body available for physical sensations and from there curate a collective space where we explore what it means to share a dancefloor space and amplify moments of awe, pleasure, and presence.
About the Artist
Alvin Collantes
Alvin William Collantes (b. 1989, New Jersey) is a Queer Filipino performance artist based in Berlin (Germany). Their interdisciplinary body-centered practice merges improvisation, contemporary dance, decolonial perspectives, the art of drag, and queer dance floor histories as both archival and embodied sites for resistance and transformation. Through movement and performance, Alvin explores migration, displacement, and the diasporic struggles of loss, memory, and belonging while imagining new possibilities for queer-centred worlds. They are a participant of the Performance Ecologies Residency hosted by the Goethe-Institute Philippines under the curation of Eisa Jocson and Franchesca Casauay, where they continue to deepen their artistic research. Alvin often has premiered works in Futurium Berlin and collaborate with artists such as Kiani Del Valle of KDV Performance Group; Leeroy New, RambaZamba Theatre and Alvin Tolentino of Company Erasga Vancouver, and recently exhibited at Schwules Museum in Berlin for Young Birds in Strange Mountains. In 2026, Alvin will be premiering their solo work entitled Bibingka at Tanztage in Sophiensaele and Goethe-Institut's Dealing in Distance, Traveling Festival across Southeast Asia.