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Onyx is an oneiric ritual of void and presence, the pause before chaos and chaos itself. It blurs the boundaries between intervention and dream, in the construction of metaphors loaded with silence, noise, non-linear information, weight and the fluctuation of time. We call the emptiness, poetry, delirium and loaded and heavy bodies to the limbo of mantras and machines. We move in spirals calling in our ancestors and future beings. We hear the voices of those that brought us here, we talk between-worlds, deities and illusions, about future memories and past times we have yet to live. The monsters that live in our head come to tell us that the only certainty is absolute uncertainty. 

As if the body wasn't a border, as if history wasn't full of absences, with the certainty that imagination is absolutely essential. Revolution can truly reside in the ability to imagine. Before, during and after. 

 

Public Program

18 April, 21h30
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Credits

Creation
Piny

Movement co-created with
André Cabral

Performers
André Cabral, Piny

Sound design and live act
Carincur, Leo Soulflow

Space and dream design
João Pedro Fonseca, Piny

Video
João Pedro Fonseca

Images from personal archive
André Cabral, Piny

Light Design
João Pedro Fonseca

Interviews to
mothers

Text
André Cabral, Catarina Rosa, Helena Palmer, Piny

Structure 
Art Works

Production
Joana Costa Santos

Co-Production
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Materiais Diversos

Co-Production in Residency
Teatro do Bairro Alto - Lisboa, Estúdios Victor Cordon - Lisboa, Grand Studio Bruxelles, O Espaço do Tempo - Montemor-o-Novo, Alkantara - Lisboa

Piny believes in a free artistic creation and a cross-research between academia and informality. She is a dancer, performer, choreographer, researcher and teacher. Born in Lisbon of Portuguese and Angolan roots, she graduated in Architecture and Contemporary Dance. In 1999, she began studying North African dances and their contemporary fusions, and since 2006 she has also dedicated herself to Hip Hop culture, Clubbing and Ballroom. She develops her path between performance, creation and curation.

Piny

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