For the 35th anniversary of her Companhia de Danças, Lia Rodrigues returns to the Romaeuropa Festival, presenting her piece Borda at the Teatro Argentina, a fragile and powerful performance created at the Centro de Artes da Maré, which the Brazilian choreographer has been following for over twenty years in one of the largest favelas in Rio de Janeiro.
Born in São Paulo in 1956, Lia Rodrigues became involved in the contemporary dance movement in the 1970s. Her choreography has always interwoven tradition and innovation, creating a dance where ancestral rituals merge with the new forms of urban life. Since 2004, the company has focused its activities on artistic and educational projects in the da Maré favela, in collaboration with the NGO Redes de Desenvolvimento da Maré. This synergy has given rise to the Centro de Artes da Maré and the Escola Livre de Danças da Maré.
In Portuguese, Borda means not only “to create” or “to decorate”, but also “to trace a boundary” or “a barrier”. On stage, nine performers move through fluid spaces where dreams and memories intertwine and reinvent themselves in a new tapestry of bodies and matter, fabric and plastic, merging and separating to give life to vivid and powerful tableaux vivants.
Photo Romaeuropa Festival © Sammi Landweer
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