Lia Rodrigues Borda

In the wake of the intoxicating Encantado in 2021, the Brazilian choreographer, who works with her company in the heart of the Maré favela in Rio, returns with a piece intertwining the meanings of the word “borda”: to braid, what pulls apart, to imagine. How to weave together a place made of differences, embroidery with shifting, flowing and dancing edges?
location
time
1h
category
- Saison Brésil France 2025 |
- Dance
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19h30
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17h00
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15h00
- Full price24€
Focusing on the idea of the border, Lia Rodrigues continues to work on contemporary social and political issues. In Portuguese, “Borda” comes from the verb “bordar”, which translates to “embroider, enrich, elevate and conceive.” In the figurative sense, the term also means to imagine, to fantasize. The choreographer acknowledges this polysemy to explore these geographic and political spaces, places of flow, segregation or transition, fear and hope. She brings ten performers of her company into the cracks of these areas, infusing them with the wind of imagination and the power of the collective, the only elements that can turn those areas into open and inclusive places. True to her taste for large-scale groups spread into living and shifting masses – affirmed and refined over 40-plus years – Rodrigues weaves together an embroidery of moving, floating and dancing edges. Once again, Borda highlights a searing dance language attuned to the issues of our time and the plays with scale, juxtaposing general reflections and local actions. Like all the pieces by the choreographer since 2004, this one came about at the art center that she established in the heart of the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro where she carries out art appreciation actions, a symbol of another border to obliterate.
Vincent Théval








