She has been described as "Brazil's miraculous choreographer" by the Financial Times. The last time she visited Dansens Hus was with the work Encantado (2023). Now Lia Rodrigues is back at Dansens Hus with Borda!

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Venue

Main stage, Barnhusgatan 12-14

Duration

70 minutes

6 Nov

19:00

7 Nov

19:00

Borda is an exploration of the fluid nature of borders: geographical, political, social and personal. Transcending the barriers that visibly or invisibly extend out and stretch all around. About the fact that borders are alive because humans create them and can therefore change.

Nine dancers move through a landscape, partially dissolved in fabrics, plastics and recycled materials that create sculptures from previous works; remnants of stories are given new life. Patiently and painstakingly, a porous space of fluid difference is woven, an embroidery where margins move and boundaries flow and shift. To come together instead of separating. Accepting rather than rejecting. Opening a door rather than closing it. A beginning over an end. A yes over a no.

Borda (2024) is the final instalment in a trilogy that began with Fúria (2018) and continued with Encantado (2021). Borda is created in Centro de Artes da Maré, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Lia Rodrigues and Companhia de Danças.

She was last seen on our c/o stage Elverket with Encantado 2023.

 

Portrait of Lia Rodrigues.

About Lia Rodrigues

Lia Rodrigues was born in 1956 in São Paulo, Brazil. She studied classical ballet and history at the University of São Paulo, where she participated in the city's contemporary dance movement in the 1970s. In 1980, she joined Maguy Marin's company. After a number of years abroad, she returned to Brazil in 1990 and founded the Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças in Rio de Janeiro, a centre that offered a programme of research, creation, courses and rehearsals. In 1992, she established the Panorama Festival in Rio and ran it for 14 years.

Since 2004, her company has helped develop outreach and artistic activities in the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro, in collaboration with the NGO Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré. This collaboration led to the Maré Art Centre, opened in 2009, and the Maré Free Dance School, open since October 2011. Rodrigues believes in synergies between art and social processes.

Her previous works include: Ce dont nous sommes faits (2000), Formas Breves (2002), Incarnat (2005), Chantiers poétiques (2008), Pororoca (2009), Piracema (2011), Pindorama (2013), Para que o Céu nao Caia (2016), Fúria (2018), Encantado (2021) and Borda (2024).

She has received the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters medal from France, the Prince Claus Award from the Netherlands in 2014 and the Prix Chorégraphie de la SACD in France in 2016. In 2019, she was named best choreographer of the year by Tanz magazine 2019 and in 2020 she was awarded the Prix de la Critique Danse for "dance personality of the year".

Borda by Lia Rodrigues
Borda by Lia Rodrigues
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