16 May 2026, 19:03 UTC291 views4 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Here is more about my internship in choreographic assistance.
I feel that many things need to be integrated into this process.
When I arrived at the company, there were two interns — J. and me — who were meant to be here this season. J. knew clearly that he wanted to dance. I arrived knowing that I am not a dancer, and that I never had the ambition to become a professional dancer, but rather to pursue my choreograph…
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29 Apr 2026, 17:42 UTC268 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 After two weeks of this internship, I am noticing where I am making myself smaller.
Comparing myself to the professional dancers.
Judging myself for not being able to catch counts and long choreographic texts in an instant.
Thinking, why didn’t I take all 7 times a week a dance class in Berlin to prepare myself for the dance company.
Why didn’t I take a ballet class, when I could?
At the same time, I am great in th…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
26 Apr 2026, 09:32 UTC234 views12 reactionsread 7 August 2026 I am tired.
I am sleeping 10 hours per night, and waking up tired.
I am surrendering to this life phase that I consciously stepped into.
I am getting tired of my own identity, the story I am telling myself since adolescence.
That I can become anyone I want.
That I can do anything, if I try hard enough.
It is becoming tiring, to overcome myself all my life.
At the same time, I am deeply grateful for everything I w…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
17 Apr 2026, 08:04 UTC190 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Yesterday was my second day of an internship as a choreographic assistant in the Iceland Dance Company in Reykjavik.
Today the third day starts.
What do I do here?
I am finding out how the ways to support.
Dancers are for the first time in their company’s history creating a piece for themselves, because a project by an external choreographer did not get funded.
They have two interns to work with (there is another …
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
31 Mar 2026, 09:25 UTC228 views9 reactionsread 7 August 2026 So, after having my residence permit extended for three more years, I can finally breathe easy — I’ll be traveling to Iceland in two weeks for my Erasmus+ internship.
Some friends have been asking me how it all happened.
This is how.
After completing our master’s degrees, we had the opportunity to do an Erasmus+ internship in one of the program’s partner countries. The only conditions were not to stay in Germany an…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
27 Mar 2026, 08:11 UTC170 views13 reactionsread 7 August 2026 These months from November on took quite a toll on me by waking me up at 3 and 5 AM from anxieties about the future. Will I get my residence permit prolonged, do I earn enough and pay enough taxes to stay in the country where my live is actually centred right now? What have these 4 years shown about my worth and my professional choice?
This tension cleared yesterday, when I got my residence permit prolonged for 3 mo…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
24 Mar 2026, 16:25 UTC184 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 In preparation for yet another perception research class, I am researching different theories of emotions and body states as their main source. I just want to leave here a link to the talk with Dr. Lisa Feldmann Barrett, whose theory of constructed emotions I really appreciate.
In this video, she speaks among other things about depression being not a sickness, but a symptom of energy bankrupcy.
Being treated agains…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
22 Mar 2026, 08:17 UTC225 views4 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Photo
✳️ Workshop 1: Shadow Space (Vera Shchelkina)
🗓️ 5 & 6 April@15-20 hrs
Let’s hypothesize together: There is a Shadow Space — everything beyond conscious attention, everywhere not seen, felt, heard, smelled, or sensed in this moment. In this artistic research workshop, we will tune into these dark matters of body and perception — from the darkness of an embryo growing its eyes to the unseen everywhere — through somat…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
22 Mar 2026, 08:17 UTC115 views4 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Each Friday I wake up at 5AM, get on the bus to Hamburg, facilitate 6 hours, get on a bus to Berlin, and fall asleep by midnight again in my bed.
I get all the upsides: I do not miss unbelievable sunset that supports my mental health and feel safe at home, with all the adventures of working in another city and meeting all the great people in both cities. I facilitate perception practice in an academic context, devel…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
18 Mar 2026, 15:54 UTC121 views5 reactionsread 7 August 2026 I’ve written a few snippets of text for this channel—some about starting to take antidepressants, some about March 8th, which we spent on a 7-hour artistic research instead of protesting (because research is also a protest), and some about visual practices that seem to suggest I want to explore my own visibility.
All of this has been abandoned halfway through, because there are always more important and complex thin…
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Signed Vera Shchelkina
26 Feb 2026, 13:19 UTC202 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 Forwarded from @angelinadavyd0vaPhoto
Друзья в Берлине: в следующую пятницу, с 19.30, мы делаем дискуссию в Lettretage, представляем книгу "Climatic Subjects. Cultural Interventions, Writing Climate, and a Burning Planet" о которой я писала вот тут
Программа:
> > 19:30 – 19:45 Opening with Martin Zähringer, Simon Probst and Matthias Grotkopp.
> > Idea & Network (MZ + Jane Tversted)
> > Book (SP)
> > Evening (MG)
> > 19:45 – 20:15 Reading…
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26 Feb 2026, 13:19 UTC134 views3 reactionsread 7 August 2026 В пятницу делаю перформанс вот тут. Мне было сложно: климатические субъекты не моя основная тема, я занимаюсь спекулятивными практиками, в том числе и собственным вымиранием из мира. Но я попробую.
Мы попробуем: я, интерактивная программа Isadora Troikatronix, исследование восприятия и спекулятивная соматика в форме стенд-апа (или сит-дауна). Вот и посмотрим (одним глазом).
Спасибо Ангелине Давыдовой!
On Friday, I'm…
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