DDD 2025 at TMP
Vânia Doutel Vaz
violetas
April
2025
premiere
Fri
25
Sat
26
Sinopse
violetas [violets] is an intimate dance piece where one exists and endures in a minimalist environment. The dancing body is proposed as unique and sufficient. What do we project, what do we assume as we let ourselves go? violetas plays with expectation and perception. The place where it is installed serves as a reflection on itself, where the malleability, complexity and subjectivity of each of the five performers proposes a reflection on performativity, margins, centres and the places in-between. — Vânia Doutel Vaz
expectations
senses
intimacy
places
© Theo Gould
Aditional info
- Price
9€
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Duration
To be defined
- Age rating
6+
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Author's bio text
Vânia Doutel Vaz, an Angolan born in Portugal, is a performer and dance creator. Since 2018 she has worked as a performer and rehearsal director with Trajal Harrell. In 2024 she began a collaboration with Legia Lewis, replacing her on the solo “A Plot | The Scandal”. She has studied with the Royal Academy of Dance, EDCN and the Fórum Dança. She was a member of CPBC, Revista à Portuguesa at Parque Mayer, Trumps nightclub, NDT II, ??Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, PUNCHDRUNK in "Sleep No More". She collaborates or has collaborated with Sónia Batista, Tânia Carvalho, Shannon Gillen, Adam Linder, Uri Aran. She directs the movement for Zia Soares, Teatro Griot, Aurora Negra, Gio Lourenço. She created and performed the solo "O Elefante No Meio Da Sala" (2022, PT/FR), video performance "ad aeternum" (2020, PT), durational pop-up performance Bureauc'Art (2019, BE). In 2023, she is featured in Bantumen's POWERLIST. Since 2021 she has been a member of UNA.
Ficha Técnica
- With
Lua Aurora, Lucília Raimundo, Piny, Vânia Doutel Vaz and Wura Moraes
Direction and choreography
Vânia Doutel Vaz
Plastic gesture
Sara Fonseca da Graça
Scenic lighting matéria leve
Bee Barros and Ska Batista (creation), Leticia Skrycky (monitoring and mentoring), Priscila Altivo (writing about the lighting project)
Support for creation
Filipa Peraltinha
Dramaturgical assistance
Zia Soares
Costumes assistance
Nina Botkay
- Collaboration in residence
André Cabral, Natacha Campos, Sara Fonseca da Graça
Production
Joana Costa Santos
Management
Agência 25
Co-produced by
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Alkantara
Co-production residencies
Alkantara, Casa da Dança, Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo
Support
Repu?blica Portuguesa - Cultura I DGARTES – Direc?a?o-Geral das Artes
Thanks to
Josefa Pereira
