Mani-bonding–festo is an artistic research project exploring sustainable choreographies for co-existence. How do we collaboratively imagine, practice, and reinvent togetherness and collectivity in times of polarization? Searching for answers and in an expedition to listen to the voices of others, Maria invites people into a manicure session: Mani - the nail salon sessions. By holding their hands, she commits to sense the other’s otherness. The hands become a site for encountering the other through touch, weight, texture, temperature and smell. The conversations generated in these encounters will be the starting point for Festo. In Festo - dancing together, Maria works on translating aspects of Mani through a choreographic and performative vantage point.