Dançando com a Diferença & Bouchra Ouizguen
Este Mundo
- 20.11 — 22.11 2026
- Performances
- Centro Cultural de Belém - Pequeno Auditório
- 15€ (See discounts)
- ages 6+
- 1H
A collage of fantasies, gestures and chance encounters, built around the singularity of five performers.
In Este Mundo, five performers walk, breathe, curl up, roll around, come closer and move apart. They dance for the pleasure of it, or are simply there. For this piece, Bouchra Ouizguen creates a space of attention where no one has to resemble anyone else, shaped by what each performer brings with them.
Bárbara is lightness. Sofia, verticality. Sara, warmth and energy. Telmo, weight and stability. Joana, suspension and balance. These are not characters, but qualities from which gestures, images and relationships emerge.
Este Mundo brings together things that do not have to fit together. Fado, bells, echoes that bring Madeira and Morocco closer together, the vibrant rhythms and colours of Bollywood. Personal fantasies, everyday gestures, memories, chance, humour, silence and the pleasure of doing something just because.
Perhaps that is what keeps this world alive: people being together, without anyone having to give up what makes them singular in order to belong in the same place.
Accessibility
Both sessions of this show have audio description.
The venue is accesible for people with reduced mobility.
Credits
Performers/Dançando com a Diferença Bárbara Matos, Joana Caetano, Sara Rebolo, Sofia Marote and Telmo Ferreira Costumes and Set Design Bouchra Ouizguen Lighting Design Cristóvão Cunha Sound Design Bouchra Ouizguen, Márcio Faria Audio Description Cláudia Nunes (script) and Nuno Simões (narration) Co-production Serralves Foundation (DDD Festival – Dias da Dança), Alkantara (in collaboration with the Centro Cultural de Belém), Teatro Viriato
Dançando com a Diferença
Artistic Director Henrique Amoedo Assistant Director Cláudia Nunes Production Dançando com a Diferença Executive Producer Nuno Simões Communications Cláudia Caires Sousa 25th Anniversary Consultant Paula Mota Garcia
Dançando com a Diferença (DcD) is a Portuguese contemporary dance company recognized for artistic innovation, technical excellence, and the promotion of bodily diversity. Since its founding in Madeira in 2001, DcD has highlighted the importance of the Non-Normative/Dissident Body on national and international stages. The company fosters artistic literacy, cultural inclusion, and the personal and professional development of its performers. Under the artistic direction of Henrique Amoedo, DcD combines artistic creation, research, and educational action, developing...
Bouchra Ouizguen is a Moroccan dancer and choreographer, born in 1980 in Ouarzazate. She lives and works in Marrakech, where she has been actively contributing to the development of the local choreographic scene since 1998. Her work is enriched by her interests in cinema, literature, and music. In the groundbreaking Madame Plaza (SACD Choreographic Revelation Award), she shares the stage with artists rooted in the Aïta tradition. She continued her collaboration with these artists in Ha! (2013). In February 2014, she created Corbeaux, a sculpture-like piece for 17...