Marga Alfeirão

LOUNGE is a duo for two moving bodies that identify themselves as feminine. The word “lounge” signifies both an action and a place. Together, Mariana Benenge and Marga Alfeirão go through different states of rest, both active and passive, and use each other’s presence in order to plunge deeper and deeper within themselves and the space. Running throughout the piece is the notion of an "invisible lap dance". It consists of a series of minute, barely perceptible gestures in which the gaze itself becomes movement, thereby blurring the frontier between offering and receiving. This choreographic strategy sheds light upon and questions the relationship between the performers and the audience, as well as public and private space, seeing and being seen. In this piece, sensuality is anything but an ornament. Perhaps paradise is a place on earth, but here we find ourselves in a waiting room, in no hurry.