2026
14 - 17 April, La Caldera, Barcelona, Spain
6 – 9 June, CAMPUS – Paulo Cunha e Silva, Porto, Portugal

2025
Conjunctions – Acts of being in relation, Radialsystem, Berlin
Tekstlab, Oslo, Norway

2024
Casa da Dança, Almada, Portugal

SPACE WEAVERS takes gestures of intimacy and dispositives of support (giving & receiving) as a creative and ethical impulse. It delves into themes of affect and examines structures and politics of togetherness through gestures, text, sound and touch. Space Weavers is a lab that researches a choreography that emerges from a cultivation of somatic practices and invites the participants to discover their space weaver - their maker of spaces to inhabit - as an individual and as a collective body. Working across slow gestures, intimacy, presence, holding space, consent and conscious touch, I propose to examine the desire of belonging, of been seen, heard and held. The essence of the lab will be approached through exercises that invite slowing down, connecting and sensing. The deliberate modulation of speed serves as a conduit to (co-)regulate the nervous system, as well as making one aware that both individual and collective processes can be challenging. The process examines the driven force and potentialities that produce an affect: both on the giver and on the receiver.

Space Weavers researches and attempts to formulate what the rituals of gathering of the 21st century are. To this lab I invite what’s present in the physical- and in the emotional body and the desire to make hidden things visible - what is repressed, put aside or ignored - is unfolded by intimate gestures. With softness and slowness, and by calibrating the flexibility and/or the firmness of our muscle of vulnerability, we create a texture of sharing, not showing. Which spaces do I lack and which spaces do I want to create? What do I want to share?

Space Weavers embraces geographies of affection (what is present in us) and is part of an intimate series of projects that share unapologetically our emotions as a political gesture.

photos: João Octávio Peixoto & Gabriela Carvalho

Workshop Duration: 3 to 5 days

Open Studio/ Open day: Possible on the the last day

Target audience: This workshop is open to professional and amateur dancers, choreographers, producers, curators, light designers, musicians, set designers, visual artists, and anyone working within or around performance and embodied practices.

Maximum number of participants: around 27 People (depending on studio size)

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