Vânia Doutel Vaz
Open Studio
- 30.11 2024
- Casa da Dança
- Free
- Reservations via casadadanca@casadadanca.pt*
- 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 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...