About this Event
What is The Movement Lab?
The Movement Lab is a practice-based project that invites participants to explore how the body organizes itself in motion. Drawing from bellydance, contemporary dance, and somatic practices, each Lab session focuses on a different principle of movement as an entry point into bodily investigation.
Through guided prompts, participants are invited to sense how movement initiates, travels, and reorganizes itself across the body, attending to patterns of coordination, effort, and release.
Rather than learning set forms, the practice opens space for each person to develop their own ways of moving, cultivating awareness, responsiveness, and states of presence. In this process, dancing emerges from curiosity, listening, and from a direct connection with one’s own sensations and flow.
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The Movement Lab - BODY ENVELOPE
The proposal for this next Lab is to approach movement through an investigation of the skin as a living surface, noticing how the body is touched by space, and how this contact shapes perception, organization, and the intention to move.
Workshop general information
16+
Open to all levels
What to Wear: Comfortable clothing that allows free movement
Footwear: Barefoot or soft shoes/socks suitable for movement
What to Bring: Water bottle, notebook, and pen for notes
Level: Open to all levels; no prior dance experience required
Health & Safety: Please inform of any injuries or limitations (exercises can be adapted to individual needs).
Who is the proponent?
Paloma Durante is an artist, educator, writer, and performer whose practice unfolds in the space between art and pedagogy. Drawing on processes of mediation, encounter, and collective experience, she explores how art can operate as a shared practice - one that generates learning, care, and transformation.
She has worked with institutions such as the São Paulo Biennial Foundation, SESC-SP, and the Ema Klabin Foundation, developing projects that invite audiences to take part in experimental, participatory forms of creation. Her work brings together performance, walking practices, writing, and the design of participatory devices. In the field of movement, she studied classical ballet, contemporary dance, and bellydance, becoming a professional in the latter. She also maintains regular studies in Eutony and Somatic Practices with different practitioners in the field.
Paloma is a two-time recipient of the New Perspectives Award from MIS-SP to innovative proposals in arts and education, and her research has been recognized through publications and international residencies.
pic by Murilo Bidoia
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Patch Twickenham, 42 York Street, Twickenham, United Kingdom
GBP 16.96
