About Vanio Papadelli

I am an interdisciplinary performance artist, educator and performer based in London. I teach across HE Performing Arts Institutions (mainly Rose Bruford College and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) and as a freelancer. Movement is at the core of my practice and informs the way I interact with other mediums such as video, text, everyday objects and natural materials.

My artistic practice explores raw and tender territories of vulnerability, memory, care and candidness in human relationships imbued in more-than-human worlds. I have dealt especially with mother-daughter relationships, female friendships, experiences of giving birth and mothering. Perceiving the world through a tactile and kinesthetic sensibility, I seek to create intimate, multi-layered, poetic and surreal environments as spaces of connection, reminiscence and change.

My work is based in collaborative and interdisciplinary processes and has travelled in Greece, UK, Italy, Poland, Germany, Egypt and Lebanon.

Above all do not waste time passing from the outside to the inside. Don’t waste time wiping your feet before entering. The first sentence takes off like an arrow and sticks in the heart of internity. It plants the earth of internity. Before it there was no earth. And already, right away, under its feet (the feet the hooves of the sentence) bursts forth the expanse of a land to discover.

(Cixous, Stigmata, 2005, p.195)