Piny is currently one of the most daring and potent artists working in the Portuguese contemporary dance scene. With a wide range of influences in her work, such as architecture, set design, clubbing or urban, african and oriental dances, she is known for her challenging and provocative approach to ideas such as the decolonization of the female body, erotism, desire, pleasure and pain.
- O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO
Our ancestry is future and present, and we are many bodies in dense, intense, erotic, fraternal relationships.
There is an annulment of linear time, of concrete space, and this cry takes place in a misaligned but precise narrative, with the geographies of our past and future histories. They are our great-grandmothers, grandmothers, mothers and ourselves, daughters of a story that has to be rewritten, because whoever told it didn’t have the truth, only the power. These bodies are politicians, they celebrate, desire, rebel, love, protest. They are working bodies, violent bodies, poetic bodies, pleasure bodies. Bodies that are not conformed and formatted. This is such an ancient time that we still haven’t found it ahead.
BIO & CREDITS
Concept, choreography and artistic direction: Piny
Interpretation and co-creation of movement: Adrielle ‘Nala’, Aina Lanas, Catarina Ribeiro, Leo, Lúcia Afonso, Piny, Carincur, Carolina Caramelo (Julianne Casabalis, Maria Antunes, Monaxi and Vânia Doutel Vaz in Residencies)
Sound design, voice and live act: Carincur
Light design: Carolina Caramelo
Costumes: Louise L’Amour & Veronique Divine, Piny
Co-production: Teatro Municipal do Porto / DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Centro Cultural de Belém
Support: Rita Soeiro, DGartes, Bolsa O Espaço do Tempo e La Caixa
Artistic Residencies: Teatro Municipal do Porto – Teatro do Campo Alegre
O Espaço do Tempo
Espaço Alkantara
Estúdios Victor Cordon – Residências Artísticas
Production: Joana Costa Santos