What is Women’s Touch?

Embodiment – Community – Safe Space
Develop self-enquiry and autonomy- Be in touch – Share impressions + experiences + food

Booking here for upcoming Women’s Touch and workshops (July 12th)

What is Women’s Touch?
Women’s touch is a workshop-lab curated by Marie Chabert. She invites various dance artists, movement practitioners and critical theorists to share their practices and co-facilitate a day together. 

It offers women and non-binaries or GNC a s, that offers a space for those who identify as women and non-binary to explore movement practices that are mainly based on touch (Contact Improvisation, somatic practices, improvisation) in a safe environment. It aims to empower women to claim their space and redefine it within a framework that challenges prevailing patriarchal norms. It offers both a place to embody and share our experiences verbally.

The intention is to foster a supportive environment, where women and non-binary participants feel safe to take risks, be vulnerable, and share their humanity, free from the pressure of dominant dynamics.
Cultivating such spaces requires trust, shared language, and mutual care. It allows us not just to survive, but to thrive in connection.

Who is this for?
Those interested in bringing more awareness to physical interactions in dancing and in Contact Improvisation
It welcomes all levels and can be applied to other practices than Contact Improvisation. In the past people were able to apply it to dance therapy, theatre, psychology…
This lab is open level. 

Past themes and guests:

5th edition- Community as a relational Process with Manuela Albrecht and Marie Chabert – May 2026

Weaving between movement scores and moments of shared reflection, participants are invited to experience connection in and out of contact using yarns, a soft fibrous material used for crochet.
https://manualbrecht5.wixsite.com/manualbrecht/

3rd/4th editions-Refining Nonverbal Communication in Contact Improvisation with the Laban movement analyst Claudia Richli and Marie Chabert – March & June 2025

The workshop addresses touch and non-verbal communication using Laban Movement Analysis (LMA)
Claudia Richli Instagram : @move_your_emotions

2nd edition-(Not) Taking up Space: Voicing our Movement in a Patriarchal World with Chrys Papaioannou and Marie Chabert, June 2024

Marie facilitate a warm-up based on ‘challenging roles in CI’, which will lead us into a Contact Impro jam.

She then invites the critical theorist and activist Dr Chrys Papaioannou (they/she) to facilitate a discussion circle on the relationship between Contact Improvisation, feminism and gender.

https://www.chryspapaioannou.com

1st edition-Women’s touch: a somatic journey into CI, in London and Freiburg with Marie Chabert, March 2024

This nurturing space offers a safe yet exploratory environment for women to be in touch with themselves and others, as an alternative to mixed-gender Contact Improvisation jams.