La peau entre les doigts
Catol Teixeira’s building blocks are bodies, space, and time – elements that the dancer imparts with the dynamic energy born of improvisation and contact. The audience also plays an active role in this performance: the viewers’ presence, gaze, and movements are all a part of the puzzle. Catol Teixeira dances at the crossroads between poetry and queer thought, decoloniality and feminism, where theory and practice intersect. A place that allows for probing, intimate examination. A place where skin can appear with all its minute flaws, with its spots and folds and wrinkles, hairs, and veins.
is a trans-non-binary dancer. Born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, they have lived in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salzburg, Berlin and are currently living in Lausanne, Switzerland. They passed through classical dance formation, followed by training and work experience with aerial techniques in the circus. Their interest traverses notions of the body as a place of intersection of forces and dancing as a communal gesture and is consistently influenced by carnival, partying and celebration experiences. Healing aspects of dancing and liberation of power structures instigate how Catol Teixeira searches for dancing as a fictional field to reclaim subjectivities, relations, and interactions.
Credits
Concept, choreography, performance Catol Teixeira Lights Justine Bouillet Music tracks Tunga – DEDO, Revelation – Necxya, Chaos Clay – FuckCopace’ic (extract) Sound editing Nico Wasmmer, Luisa Lemgruber Production, touring Rabea Grand
Day tickets are available, including her harsh, high and deep voice: a polyphony.
No seating, the audience can move freely around the space.
Remaining tickets will be available at the evening box office. Waiting numbers will be given out from 30 minutes before showtime.