Doing a Dance Residency at Lake Studio (Berlin) on my Own

September 2025 is the first year for the past few years than I am spending the month in a radically different environment than I have been; in the past, during my exchange in Tic Tac Art Center, I would share the dance room with other 50 artist from different nationalities and dance on a daily basis for over six hours. Doing a Solo Residency to work on a solo performance and rehears teaching methodologies, feels like a completely different story.

It kind of bring me back to my realisation during the Himalaya hike - when I was completely alone and I thought I would not be able to make it to the other side. I was found by a mountain guide who was there with his well trained-client. And thanks to him, I did not only make it, but I also made it faster than anyone else; than my friends on their horse, than the five trained Israeli boys and his guide, faster than the Nepali Army that was seeking a lost soul in the mountain.

This experience taught me about the strength we get from others; how other people make us physically and mentally stronger. And to this fact, I can not call it other than the power of love. The power of love, union, human connection that is so underestimated by a society that values individual success.  

A part of me is still a lonely wolf- a hermit, a wise woman living somewhere remotely and sleeping naked on the cold rock. But when it comes to dance; when it comes to survival; when it comes to resistance- my creative and physical body craves for others. I found myself taking strength and inspiration from the way others dance and from the interconnection that can be build as a group. “You can take the whole room the whole room can take you” David Zambrano would say during the Flying Low and Passing though intensive.

Still for me, the question is, how can I re-take this leanings and apply it while I am at my own. There is only one easy answer to this, an is not even an easy one: imagination. Imagination to connect me to the raw truth that we are never alone. “There are infinite invisible beings in the space. You are never alone— not even when you think you are.” We bring the whole package of who we are and our stories when we move. And like this, I can bring every sunset, every day I lived, from the peak of the Himalaya, into my dance.