Bouchra Ouizguen
Este Mundo
octoberoct 8 – 10

Thursday october 8
20h30
Friday october 9
20h30
Saturday october 10
20h30
Artistic direction Bouchra Ouizguen. Performance Joana Caetano, Telmo Ferreira, Sofia Marote, Bárbara Matos, Sara Rebolo. Lighting Cristóvão Cunha. Sound Marcio Faria and Bouchra Ouizguen. Costumes and set design Bouchra Ouizguen. Administration and production Dançando com a Diferença.
Production Dançando com a Diferença; Compagnie O
Coproduction Fundação de Serralves (DDD-Dias da Dança Festival); Alkantara (in collaboration with the Belém Cultural Centre); Teatro Viriato
With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation—French Delegation and the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Chaillot—Théâtre national de la Danse and the Festival d’Automne in Paris present this show as a corealisation.
An ode to tenderness. In the company of the Dançando com a Diferença dancers, Bouchra Ouizguen pieces together dance underpinned by singularity. A world which is both joyous and simple—not naive, but necessary—that owes its existence to abandon and the attention we pay to ourselves, those around us and the world.
The Moroccan choreographer invites the performers to enter into this world, their breathing and gaze untroubled. There is nothing to prove. The piece is built up from simple gestures inspired by the elements, and the unique way each performer inhabits movement. Bárbara is both bird and nest, Sofia water and queen, Sara sun, Telmo earth and stability, Joana suspension and angel. Based in Madeira, Henrique Amoedo, artistic director of the Dançando com a Diferença company, strives for full recognition of bodies that do not correspond to norms. Alongside these performers, Bouchra Ouizguen has taken the time to walk, cook, and draw, far from the confines of the dance studio, until the moment when dance or song emerges. In their company, she furthers her research, that of paying attention to movement, breath and the circulation of movement, in order to summon both presences and shapes in equal measure.
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