With this show, the author, dancer and acrobat Diana Niepce invites her audience to step into her life story, after the eponymous book she published in 2021. She recounts the long journey she has been on since the fall that caused irreversible damage to her spinal bone marrow, through a highly technical, detailed study of movement using the circus techniques of contact and release. In doing so, she questions bodily norms and turns the non-normative body into a revolutionary body.
Anda, Diana is programmed as part of the Plateforme 2023.
2021 / creation for three performers
Casting
Art direction: Diana Niepce
Performers: Diana Niepce, Bartosz Ostrowski, Joãozinho da Costa
Assistant playwriting: Rui Catalão
Light design: Carlos Ramos Son Gonçalo Alegria
Costumes: Silvana Ivaldi
Video and promotion: Eduardo Breda
Photograph: Alípio Padilha
Management: Patrícia Soares
Production and communication: Filipe Metelo
Production: Produção d’Fusão
Coproduction: avec TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
Coproduction in residence: O Espaço do Tempo With support from Directorate General for the Arts (DGArtes), Ministry of Culture, Municipal Library of Marvila, Lisbon City Hall, Embassy of Poland in Lisbon, Portugal and l’Adam Mickiewicz Institute
Length: 60 min
Photo © Alípio Padilha