Norma is a site-specific dance, circus and performance piece that is constantly under construction.
The viewer is invited to be part of the work, and the body acts as a discourse at the intersection between art and life. The body is observed as a unique experience, in the duality of a gravitational space and a space without gravity. Witnesses to a game of resistance and risk, where limits are relative, in that they will always be restricted, but not restrained.
The work is inspired by Heinrich Von Kleist's text On the Marionette Theater and reflects on the context of Portuguese eugenics, in which the Mitra hostel (extinct in 1960) responded to the institutionalization of people outside the norm. This creation encourages us to observe history and reflect on the place of social violence that contributed to the marginalization of communities outside the norm and exclusionary practices.