Open Studio: Vânia Doutel Vaz at Espaço Alkantara
violetas
- 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 is a Portuguese-born Angolan dancer and choreographer. Vaz studied dance at the Royal Dance Academy, Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, and Forum Dança. She was a member of Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Nederlands Dans Theater, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet (CLCB), and PUNCHDRUNK. As a freelance artist, Vaz has collaborated with: Trajal Harrell, in Maggie the Cat at the Manchester International Festival, Medea at the Onassis Foundation, Séance de Travail at Schauspielhaus Bochum (2019), and Friend of a Friend, a...
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