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.
© Pedro Jafuno
© Pedro Jafuno
© Pedro Jafuno
Credits
Concept, coreography 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
PINY was born in Lisbon to Angolan parents. She began studying Middle Eastern dances in 1999 and turned her focus to Hip Hop culture beginning in 2003. She holds degrees in Architecture and Dance. In 2012, she formed the Orchidaceae collective, bringing together street dance, clubbing, contemporary dance and fusion belly dance. In contemporary dance, she has worked with Filipa Francisco, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Ricardo Ambrózio, Tânia Carvalho, Cristina Planas Leitão, and Marco da Silva Ferreira. Recent choreography and creation highlights include Periférico by Vhils for the BoCA Bienal and a 2019 solo, HIP. a pussy point of view. She is currently developing a group piece, .G Rito. She has taught dance classes and workshops since 2006 (internationally, since 2014), which allows her to keep learning. She believes in many things that can’t be seen and other things.