**Women’s Touch : Skin stories with Vanio Papadelli**

Embodiment - Community - Develop self-enquiry and agency- Be in touch - Share reflection + Experiences + Food
What stories do our bodies carry? How do we move and encounter one another through our skinscape?
In this edition of Women’s Touch, Marie Chabert and Vanio Papadelli invite you to explore the body as a living landscape carrying sensations, memories, traces, restrictions and possibilities.
First we'll explore various ways of touching and responding to touch, tuning to our sensing and listening body.
We will then co-create a temporary archive of body stories, tracing, writing and responding through touch, mapping sensations, witnessing dances and allowing words and sounds to emerge.
What is Women's Touch?
Women’s touch is an event curated by Marie Chabert, that offers a space for those who identify as women and non-binary to explore movement practices that are mainly based on touch (Contact Improvisation, somatic practices, improvisation) in a safe environment. It aims to empower women to claim their space and redefine it within a framework that challenges prevailing patriarchal norms. It offers both a place to embody and share our experiences verbally.
The intention is to foster a supportive environment, where women and non-binary participants feel safe to take risks, be vulnerable, and share their humanity, free from the pressure of dominant dynamics.
Cultivating such spaces requires trust, shared language, and mutual care. It allows us not just to survive, but to thrive in connection.
About Vanio Papadelli
I am an interdisciplinary performance artist and educator based in London. I teach across HE Performing Arts Institutions (mainly Rose Bruford College and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) and as a freelancer. With movement and the senses at the core of my practice, I interact with other media including text, video, everyday objects and natural materials to create intimate, multi-layered, poetic and surreal environments as spaces of connection, reminiscence and change.
My artistic practice explores raw and tender territories of vulnerability, memory, care and candidness in human relationships imbued in more-than-human worlds. I have dealt especially with mother-daughter relationships, female friendships, experiences of giving birth and mothering.
My work is based in collaborative and interdisciplinary processes and has travelled in Greece, UK, Italy, Poland, Germany, Egypt and Lebanon.
https://vaniopapadelli.com/
Who is this for?
Those who identify as women and non-binary interested in bringing more awareness to physical interactions in dancing and in Contact Improvisation
It welcomes all levels and can be applied to other practices than Contact Improvisation. In the past people were able to apply it to dance therapy, theatre, psychology...
This lab is open level. No prior experience of Contact Improv is required
If you have financial difficulties and want to take part, please get in touch.
photo by Sol Ji Park

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