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Nymphalis Antiopa is a contemporary dance piece that unveils the creative complicity between two artists, exploring the dialogue of contrasts and interactions. The choreographic performance highlights dance as a universal language, where two bodies intertwine, challenging balance and fluidity, exploring the boundary between movement and stillness.

In a utopian setting, free from gender biases and social expectations, the protagonists gaze into each other's eyes, dancing in an intimate and untransferrable harmony. An emotional journey accompanied by an original soundtrack composed exclusively for the choreography, with a sound intensity that multiplies and amplifies gestures and movements, playing with the scales of vibration perception, aiming to create multiple layers of sensory experience.

© Rui Palma
© Rui Palma
© Rui Palma

Credits

Artistic direction, choreography, interpretation
Papillons d'éternité (Tânia Carvalho & Matthieu Ehrlacher)

Light design, technical direction
Anatol Waschke

Musical Composition
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Executive direction
Vítor Alves Brotas

Executive production
Janine Lages

Communication coordination
Maria João Bilro

Production
Agência 25

Co-production
Le Gymnase CDCN (FR), Teatro Viriato (PT), Teatro São Luiz – Egeac (PT)

Co-production residencies
O Espaço do Tempo (PT), Le Gymnase CDCN (FR), Teatro Viriato (PT)

Acknowledgments
Commune de Prendeignes, Association Le Pilou

© Rui Palma

Papillons d'éternité (Tânia Carvalho & Matthieu Ehrlacher) is an artistic duo working in different fields. They joined in 2021 and from then on, have created Pieris Napi, an always-in-process concert that works on traditional Portuguese music through the collection of notes, harmonies and rhythms; Greta Oto, a sound experiment/ musical journey and a vehicle into the night in the format of a concert; and Lyropteryx Appollonia, a project that explores an alternative side electronic dance music.

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