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Open Studio: Vânia Doutel Vaz at Espaço Alkantara

violetas

ALKANTARA - In the background of a crumpled piece of brown paper, two feet can be distinguished, in a human silhouette that fades vertically. - ©Theo Gold
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  • 24.01 2025
  • Espaço Alkantara

violetas is an intimate dance piece where one exists and resists in a minimalist environment. It presents the dancing body as unique and self-sufficient.
violetas plays with expectation and perception, moving from the initial challenge to an eventual stimulation of the senses.
Set in an environment that recreates a space of intimacy and reflection, it creates universes of malleability, complexity, and subjectivity, inviting reflection on margins, centers, and the spaces in between. What we project and what we presume.

— Vânia Doutel Vaz


Vânia Doutel Vaz is in residency at Espaço Alkantara with her upcoming piece, violetas. Join us for the open studio session on Friday, January 24, at 6:30 pm.

Vânia Doutel Vaz

Vânia Doutel Vaz, Angolan, born in Setúbal, is a performer and creator working in the field of dance. In a hybrid territory between performance, choreography and interdisciplinary collaboration, she uses the idea of the body as an archive and a vehicle for fiction, focusing on relational questions. She is interested in creating a rotation of points of observation, allowing different subjectivities to emerge through the dialogue between bodies, gazes and presences. In this way, she seeks, through the relationship between performer and audience, to foster the emergence...

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