VÄRA
Contemporary dance
2023
Nominated as Best Portuguese Choreography of 2023 by Portuguese Authors Society and programmed at PT.23 - Portuguese Platform of Performing Arts.
VÄRA is a hybrid point between two cries: that of the birth of a human baby and that of the slaughter of a pig. On stage, seven bodies inhabit a space surrounded by plastics, alluding to the display of meat in a butcher shop. It is here that they seek and enhance an attempt at dialogue through repetition, accumulating errors and amplifying the confrontation with each other's reality, summoning the body as this sensitive field of possibilities.
Echoing references such as Homer's Odyssey, Pier Paolo Pasolini´s cinematographical work and Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and its Double, the body is inscribed as a primitive place, as the transforming base matter of the being and its construction of reality. This naturalized, subjective, and solitary body reverberates its transforming power in the collective voice of the choreography.
