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Pushing Hands Party推手派對 Body Consent Workshop

📅 May 28 19:00
📍Het Bos (Ankerrui 5/7, 2000 Antwerpen)
Pushing Hands Party is an evening for the Asian community to celebrate and gather through body movement, mapping and tasting. The event hosts a dance floor for pushing hands encounters, an interactive food stand, crafts and a mapping area in the living room (Bosbar).
This event shares our research process during the residency in Het Bos and the traces of the Pushing Hands Collective in Antwerp city.
About informed consent workshop ( recommended to join :)
In this workshop, we would like to introduce the basis of pushing hands as a playfully social game on the dance floor. To help create a welcoming and safe(r) space at the Pushing Hands Party, we will guide participants through informed consent exercises and body awareness practices.
At its original core, it emphasises communication and consent—values we place at the forefront of our practice. Since the game involves physical contact and the exchange of force, we will address the importance of respect, boundaries, and accountability.
This workshop also aims to share and collect community tools for care and mutual support together. We hope to become supporting hands for one another and co-create a more inclusive and caring environment. We hold this space as learners too and continue to grow through the practice.
What is pushing hands?
Pushing hands (推手 tuishou), is a training routine in internal Chinese martial arts following the four principles of pushing hands: 沾 (dip), 黏 (stick), 連 (connect), 隨 (follow), which feature ways of collectiveness through body contact. Two people stand face to face with their bodies grounded.
Their arms move in constant contact against/along each other, enclosing any gaps for an attack. It also exists in many different types of martial arts as a warm-up exercise and introductory training for beginners. Pushing hands practice emphasises the force of listening, allowing for defence while being in the position of a ‘follower’. It is a way for martial arts practitioners to learn how to generate, coordinate and deliver energy to each other. It teaches one to feel for intention and effectively neutralise incoming force in a safe environment.

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