Diamonds

In the organizer's words:

DANCE

Small House

by Renan Martins / Unusual Symptoms

Connections - between people, places, bodies and communities - are a theme that repeatedly drives the Brazilian choreographer Renan Martins. Influenced by his personal experiences as a queer person of color in Europe, Renan Martins combines contemporary dance and musical references with political reflection in a fun and critical way. Having recently explored club culture as a collective practice in his ensemble pieces, he now turns his attention to the personal. Inspired by bell hooks' book All About Love: New Visions, Renan Martins explores our relationship to relationships and intimacy. His new work is a dance from separation to connection, about a society that constantly reinforces individualism. But if we are neurologically wired to connect with others, how long can we endure without relationship, without belonging, without togetherness?