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Vera Shchelkina

@moving_touch

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Composing movement & perception
Certified somatic movement educator, SAB
Choreography MA, HfS/HZT
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A movie director, a performer, and a choreographer are practicing some sunset ballet. by @moving_touch

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Chto delat collective @chtodelatemergencyprojectroom is shooting a new film installation at the Orgov Radio-Optical Telescope ROT54. The first part of was filmed in Hamburg at @hajusom Film by: @chtodelatemergencyprojectroom Director: Tsaplya Egorova @olga_tsaplya_egorova Producer: Dmitri Vilensky @dmitry.vilensky DOP: Dmitrii Lukinykh @dmitrii__lukinykh 2nd Camera: Andranik Sahakyan @andranik._sahakyan Choreographer: Vera Shchelkina @moving_touch Musical Director: Maria Markina @manyasya Costume & Set Design: Evgenia Loginova @sheisaqueenofperformance Ksenia Vidyaykina @kseniadance & Nikolay Oleynikov @oleynikov9 Partners: @stellarfrequencies_@juedischesmuseumberlin@goetheinstitut.jerewanPerformers/Contributers:Angelina Davydova @angelinadavydova2604 Alexey Markin alexeyfmnDavid Osaodion Odiase @thedavidodiase Egana Djabbarova @egana_djabbarly Leonid Kharlamov @leonid_kharlamov Mariya Gyurova @mashagyurova Maria Markina @manyasya Max Evstropov @max_stropov Nikolay Oleynikov @oleynikov9 Polina Fenko @polya__v__ogne Sasha Karpov @sashakarpov.1 Taya Sapurina @sapurina Vera Shchelkina @moving_touchStunt @asya.vilenskaya by @moving_touch

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Yesterday, I was sending a report to the Erasmus Mobility program after my 2-month internship. Now it is time to report to myself.How should I report on 2 short but very intense months of everything? I chose 9 photographic glimpses to give my memory dramaturgy. 1. NorthI first fell in love with the North during a trip with my mum through Scandinavia. Then came language school in Bergen, burned skin that left freckles on my shoulders, work in Stockholm, and now I am the furthest yet. As Boris Grebenshchikov sings, "The Key to the North Is Where No One Looks."2. Iceland Dance CompanyIceland started for me with an amazing @lovisaosk_ — in her piece @whenthebleeding I danced during "Tanz I'm August" last year and asked if I could do my Erasmus at @icelanddancecompanyThanks to her, it all started.IDC is a national dance company with unbelievable dancers and a really powerful creative and production team, who I learned so much from about how to create sustainable and supporting dance processes, solve difficult situations, have fun while working hard, keep schedules life-friendly, create high-end productions, and so much more.3. OceanIceland is an island surrounded by the North Atlantic. I was lucky to live in Reykjavik 105 — near the Geothermal Beach of Nauthólsvík. So once a week I went to lie in the warm sulfur water and then dip into the ocean. Cold water is so addicting; no surprise this is a cultural tradition. Also, here I notice my favourite thing about perception: every new, unusual sensation the body retranslates as pain first, just in case, and then can slowly separate into actual sensation.4. PrideI have been supporting a project "Move with Pride," a collaboration between @ondinathequeen and IDC, a dance show opening @reykjavik.arts.festivalDuring that time, something shifted in me. I was raised in a country where everything that I am was put into a box on the shame spectrum: from a creep to a sinner. The concept of pride was always not easy to feel. It is slowly waking up now. Pride is the opposite of shame. So thankful for this project with bright, colourful, loud, professional people who are not afraid to be fabulous. TBC in comments. by @moving_touch

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Vera Shchelkina AKA Bepa Schnips - Intern, choreographic assistance-What gives you Pride?To be able to act out of love, not out of fear.-Move With Pride is a dance performance piece by Rebecca “Ondina” Hidalgo in collaboration with Iceland Dance Company. The show is a part of the Opening party of Reykjavik Arts Festival’s Festival Hub and will be followed by a celebration where DJ Seth Sharp will spin us into the night! 🌟One night only - May 30th, 21.00 at IÐNÓ - FREE ENTRY The venue is wheelchair accessible. For more information visit listahatid.is 📸 @ondinathequeen by @moving_touch

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Here, now — one month into Iceland and one month before I leave this wild place — I feel settled in the present: on this island, in my work, in the rhythm of rehearsals, in deep sleep, in cold water, and in the ease of not forcing myself to grow roots.From here, my mind can turn toward the future.From September, I am looking for new projects.Short-term or long-term, in Germany or across Europe (I am a tax resident of Germany).~ My preferred roles ~choreographer, choreographic assistant, movement educator (especially in contexts of art education)~ What I bring ~In movement research, I bring a somatic perspective and speculative practices that queer ways of sensing — shaping them into movement.In choreographic composition, I work across layers of attention, creating complex, non-narrative dramaturgies through the visual, sonic, spatial, and relational. I play with bodies, movement, light, sound, staging, angles of view, and states of the nervous system.In production, I bring a freelance dance artist’s perspective and enjoy working across the full process — before, during, and after — with all its challenges and wonders.~ 5 highlights from the past year ~– Currently: choreographic assistant (internship) with @icelanddancecompany on “Move with Pride” by @ondinathequeen– Facilitating a seminar on non-human perception with students at @muthesiuskunsthochschulekiel including a collaborative showing (with Annika Larsson and Geza Ghadyani)– Choreographing the site-specific performance “When Roots Moved” for @chtodelatemergencyprojectroom at @kampnagel_hamburg Sommerfestival 2025– MA in Choreography, @hzt_berlin (@hfs_ernst_busch ) with a full-length dance work "Everyone here is a bit of a horse"– Choreographing the film “Songs of Hope and Despair” for @chtodelatemergencyprojectroom recently shown at @iffrOngoing: further teaching and choreographic projects in development phase. Full CV available upon request.If this resonates, feel free to reach out or share. 🤍P.S. This picture shows my deaf name (Щелк/Snap/Schnips) and the name of my last piece. by @moving_touch

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Some processes are finding unexpected forms that sing right into my heart. Group perception movement sessions I designed for @fruehling.ling and her master project "Sleeping Through The Film", inspired this Zin by @fruehling.ling @lovelykumari_i and Sarah. This is just one of the steps on the way to other forms and processes. Because life never stops changing forms.And teaching is letting go into this change. by @moving_touch

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April 24th, in Hamburger Bunker,There will be an opening of an exhibition “Stitched Connections” in @hajusom as part of the Project Urban Mending Lab by @chtodelatemergencyprojectroomTo open the exhibition, we present a performance BENEATH THE CONCRETE SKIN~We are~Vera Shchelkina (choreographer) @moving_touchMaria Markina (music director and performer) @manyasya~Co-authors and performers~Azadeh Rahbar @azadehrahbar55Mariya Gyurova @mashagyurovaKsenia Vidyaykina @kseniadanceAlexey Markin @alexeyfmnTaisiia Sapurina sapurinaZoé Champagne @zoe__champagneOlga Egorova Tsaplya @olga_tsaplya_egorova~The performance is~playing with visible and invisible, with calling and listening, with scars and their healing, with presence and absence, with the space and bodies inserted in this space, with the personal and collective.~To experience the performance and the exhibition~come to Hamburg Bunker (Feldstraße 66, Hamburg) 24.04. at 19:00 and follow the call!The exhibition in @hajusom will be open afterwards!Both performance and exhibition are free. by @moving_touch

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Urban Mending Lab: Interim Exhibition & Public ProgramUrban Mending Lab began its activities in January 2026. Over the course of four intensive months, the Lab has initiated a series of four workshops that have shaped its conceptual direction: Body Practice: Scar Tissues; Songs of Repair and Catastrophe; Mending and Reweaving of Clothes; and Urban Narratives.Each workshop has fostered its own community, developing distinct practices and shared processes with participants. This interim exhibition offers a moment to open these processes to the public. The project deliberately foregrounds incompleteness, inviting visitors to engage with an open question: what kind of visual and performative language is possible today for addressing complex, often contradictory realities of the city which demands intervention of communities and repair?The exhibition brings together both collective expressions emerging from the Lab and individual projects by participants. Most of works remain in progress, as a sketches for the future possible realization. We also make an exhibition premier of the project “Here – Now - Everyone” which was realized by many current participants of the Lab as a performative intervention in August 2025. Over the course of a month, the exhibition will continuously evolve, activating the space through an extensive public program. This includes lectures, performances, screenings, discussions, open workshops, karaoke seminars, assemblies, and concert. The format reflects Hamburg’s vibrant culture of critical artistic exchange, where artistic practice intersects with social inquiry and collective experimentation.Alongside participants of the Urban Mending Lab, the program also features invited collaborators — artists, researchers, and practitioners who share a commitment to exploring processes of repair, care, and transformation in contemporary urban life.Urban Mending Lab positions itself as an open platform: a space for learning, making, and reweaving connections between bodies, materials, and narratives. We consider this interim exhibition marks as a public invitation to take part in shaping what comes next. by @moving_touch

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As a part of Urban Mending Lab (a project by @chtodelatemergencyprojectroom ) We combine 2 of 4 workshops - “Scar Tissues” by @moving_touch and “Songs of repair” by @manyasya during an intensive workshop on 11-12.04 in @hajusomCome to perceive, listen, move, touch, and tremble bodies and soundwaves in the space of the Hamburger Bunker.~ When11-12.04From 12:00 to 16:00~ WhereWe will start in the studio of Hajusom~ How muchIt is free~For whomFor those who have attended either of our workshops, or anyone interested! by @moving_touch

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Right now I’m preparing teaching sessions for five different projects.I also regularly join other people’s teaching.This creates a kind of inner statistic, a clearer sense of what it is that I actually do.So, this is my teaching statement: 1. I teach as artistic research.This is not a therapeutic process.Not something I want you to “learn.”Not a model I want to impose on you.Not about moving correctly or perceiving things in a specific way.Not about feeling better or changing the world. 2. I work with speculation.I borrow body models from different scientific fields (for example, I’m hugely inspired by embryology).That does not mean I am telling you the truth about the body.On the contrary: I name these practices clearly speculations.We cannot turn back time and return to the embryo to re-decide our form of development.This is speculation.So: double-check everything I say, if you are a critical mind.Create your own model of thinking. 3. Playing.We are playing together, constantly reframing the rules of the game, for the sake of the game.This also applies to choreographic rules.In teaching outside of production context, I am not your choreographer, even though I propose compositional strategies.Choreographic forms, scores, and methods are there as examples.Create your own scores, forms, and rules.Let us play your game. 4. What can you take from this type of teaching?Whatever you want.A practice to practice.An inspiration for an art piece.A new thinking model.You can also take nothing.This is how I teach.Join if you like.Photos by @alenka.na.gorkeFrom a short class about vision by @moving_touch

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We invite you to the 𝗨.𝗠.𝗕.𝗥.𝗔. workshops(𝗨n.𝗠asking.𝗕odily.𝗥ealms.of.𝗔wareness)👤Who are we?2 choreographers (@moving_touch & @ming.apur), 2 approaches, 1 collaboration.🌀 What is it?After listening to the feedback, we feel that it would be good to try out a new format: two separate workshops, each with its distinct approach to perception, movement, and emotion research on shadow. We believe this will give us the space and time needed to go deeper into each practice. We are seeking participants to test out this format.✳️ Workshop 1: Shadow Space (Vera Shchelkina)🗓️ 5 & 6 April @ 15-20 hrsLet’s hypothesize together: There is a Shadow Space — everything beyond conscious attention, everywhere not seen, felt, heard, smelled, or sensed in this moment. In this artistic research workshop, we will tune into these dark matters of body and perception — from the darkness of an embryo growing its eyes to the unseen everywhere — through somatic, neurophysiological, optical, and performative tasks: tracing with our skin, mapping blind fields, seeing with eyes closed, casting and being cast as shadows, and encountering our own dark twin in duos. The process will culminate in a group composition in our shared shadow space.✳️ Workshop 2: Dancing with our S.H.A.D.O.W. (Ming Poon)🗓️ 25 & 26 April @ 10-15 hrsWe embark on a journey with our personal shadows, the parts of ourselves that we are unconscious of, fear, or suppress. This is an invitation to pause — letting ourselves sink gently toward our shadows, guided by non-judgmental attention, compassion, and curiosity. Through a process of listening, sensing, feeling, and dialoguing, we move with our shadows and transform our relationship to them. Note: this is not a therapy — it is an awareness and movement research workshop: you decide how deep you wish to go.Details• Venue: Kienitzer Straße 98, 12049 (Neukölln) Berlin• Participants: max. 8 (No prior experience required)• Cost: Free• Requirement: You can choose to join one or both workshops, but should commit to being present for both days of your chosen workshop(s)👉𝗗𝗠 to take part! 🌑✨ #ShadowWorkshop #UMBRA #EmbodiedResearch by @moving_touch

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We invite you to theU.M.B.R.A. WorkshopUn.Masking.Bodily.Realms.of.Awareness~ What is it?A two-day workshop on perception, movement, and emotion research.We are seeking 4 more participants to test out our workshop model. ~ Day 1: Shadow Space ToolboxWe hypothesize: There is a Shadow Space that you can tune into. Shadow Space is everything beyond your conscious attention, everywhere not seen, felt, heard, smelled, and sensed at this moment. We will research this space through various tasks: we will become an embryo that senses light with all its skin, map blind fields, learn to see with eyes closed, cast shadows, be cast as a shadow, and become our own dark twin in duos and group scores. ~ Day 2: Dancing with our S.H.A.D.O.W. We embark on a journey with our personal shadows, the parts of ourselves that we are unconscious of, fear, or suppress. The session is an invitation to pause — letting ourselves sink gently toward our shadows, guided by non-judgmental attention, compassion, and curiosity. Through a process of listening, sensing, feeling, and dialoguing, we move with our shadows and transform our relationship to them.* Note: this is not therapy — it is a research workshop: you decide how deep you wish to go.~ Who are we?Two choreographers (@moving_touch & @ming.apur ), two approaches, one collaboration.~ Details•Date: March 14 & 15, 2026 @ 15-20 hrs•Venue: Kienitzer Straße 98, 12049 (Neukölln) Berlin•Participants: 4 places left (No prior experience required)•Cost: Free•Requirement: committed to being present for the 2 whole sessionsDM to take part! 🌑✨ #ShadowWorkshop #UMBRA #EmbodiedResearch by @moving_touch

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