Vânia Doutel Vaz
Open Studio: violetas
- 30.11 2024
- Casa da Dança
- Free. Reservations via casadadanca@casadadanca.pt
- 15H00
- 60 min
violetas is an intimate dance piece where dancers exist and resist in a minimalist environment. Here the dancing body is unique and enough. violetas – which dispenses with music, set and light – plays with our expectations and perceptions. Set in the shadows, the work allows for multiple readings. It creates a malleable, complex, and subjective universe, proposing a reflection about what we imagine and what we presume.
— Vânia Doutel Vaz
Open Studio is an invitation to meet artists in their place of work for an informal showing or a conversation about an upcoming premiere. This year, dance-maker Vânia Doutel Vaz opens the doors of Casa da Dança in Almada for a glimpse into her first group piece, violetas, will be presented at the Alkantara Festival in 2025.
Credits
Directed by Vânia Doutel Vaz Collaboration/ performed by André Cabral, Piny, Sara Graça, Wura Moraes, Vânia Doutel Vaz Residency collaboration Natacha Campos Assistants Zia Soares, Nina Botkay Producer Joana Costa Santos Management agência 25 Coproducers DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Alkantara Coproduction residencies Alkantara, Casa da Dança, Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo
Vânia Doutel Vaz, of Angolan-Portuguese descent, trained with the Royal Academy of Dance, the National Conservatory Dance School in Portugal, and Fórum Dança. Since 2018, she has been working as a performer and rehearsal director with Trajal Harrell on Séance de Travail; the Porca Miseria trilogy (Maggie the Cat, Deathbed, O Medea); The Romeo; Tambourines; Monkey Off My Back or The Cat’s Meow; and Welcome to Asbestos Hall, created for Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Holland Festival 2025. Since 2024, she has been replaced by Legia Lewis in the solo A Plot | A Scandal....
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