Holding Hands

Holding Hands is a workshop that aims to explore a body that not only decides to move, but also allows itself to be moved by what happens through contact, listening, and shared presence. It is addressed to elderly people of all genders and cultures.

We hold hands, touch, lean on each other, give and receive weight. The body soften, stretch, and open to the moment.

The body is approached as a living, responsive organism, porous, adaptable, and always in relation. There is no fixed boundary between self and other. The skin is not a wall but a bridge where exchange becomes possible. Holding hands becomes a poetic and political gesture, a simple act of care, love, and resistance in the encounter between bodies. We explore how to move with others not by performing, but by being present and allowing ourselves to be transformed by the connection.

This workshop came to life with the people of the Centrul Rezidențial pentru persoane vârstnice "Amalia şi Şef Rabin Dr. Moses Rosen" during Bucharest International Dance Film Festival, thanks to the care and attention of Carmen Cotofana, of Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bucarest, of the people who stood by me, and of all those who took part in it in their many different ways.