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Composing movement & perception
Certified somatic movement educator, SAB
Choreography MA, HfS/HZT
Workshops & upcoming shows ⬇️

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Flashback to the very beginning of our filming process that started in Hamburg at @hajusom When we used to be all together until fate separated us.

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 & Nikolay Oleynikov @oleynikov9

Partners:

@stellarfrequencies_
@juedischesmuseumberlin
@goetheinstitut.jerewan

Performers/Contributers:

Angelina Davydova @angelinadavydova2604
Alexey Markin alexeyfmn
David 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_touch

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A movie director, a performer, and a choreographer are practicing some sunset ballet.

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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.jerewan

Performers/Contributers:

Angelina Davydova @angelinadavydova2604
Alexey Markin alexeyfmn
David 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_touch

Stunt @asya.vilenskaya

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First “Move With Pride” photo recap! And plenty more to come ✨
📸 @eyglogisla & @nadirapictures

@klubbur.listahatidar
@reykjavik.arts.festival
@icelanddancecompany

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Vera Shchelkina AKA Bepa Schnips - Intern, choreographic assistance
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What gives you Pride?
To be able to act out of love, not out of fear.
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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

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Our history of connection shapes us…
Director and choreographer of “Move With Pride”, Rebecca ‘Ondina’ Hidalgo, shares brief words on the piece:

“Move With Pride is a dance theatre piece about the importance of queer nightlife, and it’s also about all of our individual relationships to queer nightlife- whether that be good, bad, ugly, beautiful, sexy, sweaty, scary, vulnerable, bright…all of the above. We’re here to take you on a journey through all of our timelines, and we’re here to welcome you into our club…”

Video description: Ondina teaching choreography, clips from vintage queer nightlife scenes in the 1980s, and clips from rehearsals with the full cast.

🎥 @mua.kalli

30 May // 21:00 // Opening night party of the Reykjavík Arts Festival
@idno.rvk

@icelanddancecompany
@klubbur.listahatidar
@reykjavik.arts.festival

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Exhibition "Stiched Connections" is opened in Hamburg at Hajusom with performance «Beneath the concrete skin» - thanks to all particiapnts for your great work and everyone for coming and enthusiastic response

please follow our public program

26.04._________________Concert_______18:00
Friedrich Merzbow band plays emigrant noise
03.05__From Destruction to Repair___19:00
Angelina Davydova Radio talkshow
09.05_____Lecture perfromances_____19:00 David Osaodion Odiase and Egana Dzhabbarova
12.05_____Hier und Jetzt______________19:00
Is repair possible?
Discussion around the performance and film
16.05.____Working class karaoke*_____19:00
and closing assembly with working class dance

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Next voice Overlay Perfomance at 24.4. im Bunker. I'm so excited to be part of. Hope to see you all there ✌️

#bunker
#soundsculptures
#liquidvoice

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Urban Mending Lab: Interim Exhibition & Public Program

Urban 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.

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The reason I couldn’t come see your show this past year. Happy belated Gotchaday, Eskawunsch Runt Sir Pony von der Traumwolke-Opitz ❤️

Anfragen für seine Bühnenkarriere nehmen wir an 🐕‍🦺

#gotchaday #pudel #stagedog #singledogmom

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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.gorke
From a short class about vision

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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 hrs
Let’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 hrs
We 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

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