Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything / Tanz Platz

The ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ dance peace takes place in SCCNS Fabrika on 4 September at 8 p.m. as part of the festival of contemporary dance ‘Tanz Platz’, within the opening of the Kaleidoscope of Culture.

The ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ is a dance piece based on the ideas of persistence and perseverance. The sound for the piece contains amplified sounds produced by the dancers on stage. The piece relies on the processes of transformation and repetition found in nature, but, at the same time, it avoids any attempt to represent these phenomena figuratively. The ‘Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything’ is a full-length choreography that is radically rooted in real time, in the live presence of the women themselves. It is a piece about equally resistant and persistent bodies, the bodies exposed to unpredictable, diverse, and intense forces. It is about female bodies that rely on a mutual heritage of resistance and presence in this turbulent world.

Idea and choreography: Poliana Lima

Lighting: Carlos Marquerie

Sound: Arne Bock

Costume designer: Anaïs Zebrowski

Dancers: Cláudia Bosch, Laura Cardona, Ada Continente, Natalia Fernandes, Cris Manso, Danielle Mesquita, Clara Pampyn, Almudena Perez, Isabela Rossi, Maddi Ruiz de Loizaga and Ainhoa Uzandizaga.

Production: Isabella Lima

Co-production: Teatros del Canal, Teatro Municipal do Porto/DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, CND/Pantin and Porosus Fonds de Dotation

Programme of this year’s Tanz Platz:

1 September / 8 p.m. / SCCNS Fabrika / Unreliable Narrator (Japan/Sweden)

2 September / 8 p.m. / SCCNS Fabrika / Unlonely Recluse Solo on the Line (Serbia)

3 September / 8 p.m. / SCCNS Fabrika / Vanishing Point (Greece)

4 September / 8 p.m. / SCCNS Fabrika / Things Move but They Do Not Say Anything (Brazil, Spain)

Photo: Álvaro Gómez Pidal