In a time dominated by speed, urgency, and disconnection, Space Weavers proposes slowing down as a radical act. 

Space Weavers takes gestures of intimacy and dispositives of support (giving and receiving) as a creative and ethical impulse. It explores themes of affect and investigates structures and politics of togetherness through gestures, text, sound, and touch. Space Weavers is a workshop that researches a choreography emerging from the cultivation of somatic practices and invites participants to explore their space weaver—their maker of spaces to inhabit—as an individual within a collective body.

Working across slow gestures, intimacy, presence, holding space, consent, and conscious touch, I propose to examine the desire for belonging, of being seen, heard, and held. The essence of the workshop is 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, while also making one aware that both individual and collective processes can be challenging. The process explores the driving forces and potentialities that produce affect—both for the giver, the receiver, and the one witnessing.

Space Weavers researches and attempts to formulate what the rituals of gathering of the 21st century can be. In this workshop, I invite what is present in the physical and emotional body, and the desire to make hidden things visible—what is repressed, put aside, or ignored—is unfolded through intimate gestures. With softness and slowness, and by calibrating the flexibility and/or 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 explores geographies of affection (what is present in us) and is part of an intimate series of projects that unapologetically share our emotions as a political gesture.

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In a time dominated by speed, urgency, and disconnection, Space Weavers proposes slowing down as a radical act. It offers rituals for togetherness, inviting the emotional and physical body into the studio, welcoming what is present, and cultivating a membrane of care between participants. Through a series of exercises and practices, participants explore consent, power, and boundaries; touch and the art of the embrace; bodywork and somatic awareness; repair and integration; and brave spaces for performance—an offering, not a show—where participants become space holders, inviting others into a field of exchange.

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André Uerba is a choreographer, sexological bodyworker, facilitator and researcher – working at the intersection of dance, somatics, intimacy, pleasure and social healing. Develops body-based practices that center consent, vulnerability, erotic and emotional expression as both choreographic tools and social healing strategies to unlearn conditionings. 

His facilitation is rooted in a somatic, trauma-informed, relational, and reflective framework. He invites participants into embodied awareness through sensing breath, weight, internal rhythms, and the support of the floor and space, framing giving and receiving as ethical and aesthetic acts grounded in consent and mutual care. Emphasising the body as a site of memory, emotion, and connection, the workshop becomes a laboratory of attention, inter-bodiness, and shared choreography through witnessing, being witnessed, and generating forms together.