Diana Niepce
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- Live performance
- Maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
- 50min
Anda, Diana
“I want to talk about the things we hide..” After being involved in an accident, Diana Niepce lost most of her physical mobility. In Anda, Diana, she offers us an opportunity to share the long journey which brought her to dance, while also examining our perspectives on non-normative bodies.
With Anda Diana, Diana Niepce, a writer, dancer and acrobat — offers audiences an autobiographical immersion following her eponymous book, published in 2021. In the book she details the process of the reconstruction of her body after her fall, in raw, yet factual terms. The piece Anda, Diana (Walk, Diana) approaches this journey using senses more than words, showing her experience with a body outside our norms, proposing a study of movement and verticality which is always pushing its limits. Two performers of impressive stature hold her and manipulate her with a sustained technical precision involving contact and release, tools from the circus world. Ambiguously switching in between strength and fragility, violence and accompaniment, she makes her body an object for exploring and challenging norms, and allows the audience to join her in the tensions which drive her.
The performance will be followed by a « Cœurs critiques » debate led by Les Démêlées
With the support of the Lieux Culturels Pluridisciplinaires de la Ville de Lille
Biography(s)
Dancer, choreographer and writer, graduated from the School of Dance (ESD) and Erasmus at Helsinki Theater academy (Teak). She completed her studies with a Performing Arts Management and Production Course, at Forum Dança, Hatha-yoga teacher course and Master in Art and Communication at Universidade Nova de Lisboa (UNL). Creator of the pieces “Raw a Nude” (2019) with Mariana Tengner Barros, “12 979 Days” (2019), “Duet” (2020), “T4” (2020) and “Anda, Diana” (2021). As a contemporary dancer and performer, she collaborated with Bail-Moderne with Company Rosas, Felix Ruckert, Willi Dorner, António Tagliarini, Daria Deflorian, La fura del baus, May Joseph, Sofia Varino, Miira Sippola, Jérome Bel, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Rita Barata and Pedro Sena Nunes, Mariana Tengner Barros, Rui Catalão, Rafael Alvarez, Adam Benjamin, Diana de Sousa and Justyna Wielgus.
Published an article in the book “Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Lisbon” (ed. Egeac / INCM), the children’s short story “Bayadére” (ed. CNB), the poem “2014” in the magazine Flanzine, the article “Experimentar o corpo” in the performing arts journal Coreia, the book “Anda, Diana” (ed. Sistema Solar) and the short story “Broken and stinky, it’s the pebles.” to the Memorial Route of the Convent.
Jury of the 2018 Acesso Cultura prize, official Jury of the International screen-dance festival Inshadow 2018 and Jury of the application NCED – Eu solidarity 2021.
Credits
Artistic Direction : Diana Niepce
Performers : Diana Niepce, Bartosz Ostrowski, Joãozinho da Costa
Dramaturgic Support : Rui Catalão
Light Design : Carlos Ramos
Sound Design : Gonçalo Alegria
Costumes Design : Silvana Ivaldi
Technical direction and light operation: Roger Madureira
Management: Patrícia Soares
Head of Production: Filipe Metelo
Tour production: Joana Costa Santos
House of Production: Produção d’Fusão and As Niepces
Coproduction: TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto
Coproduction Residency: O Espaço do Tempo
Support: Direção Geral das Artes / Ministério da Cultura, Biblioteca Municipal de Marvila/ Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Embaixada da Polónia em Portugal, Adam Mickiewicz Institute
