Lia Rodrigues ›Borda‹

In the organizer's words:

Lia Rodrigues' new work 'Borda' is a performance about overcoming the geographical, political, social and personal barriers that visibly or invisibly surround us: Walls of barbed wire, concrete and hedges, but also of beliefs, views and differences. In Portuguese, the word "borda" not only means border, but is derived from the verb "bordar" - to decorate, embellish or, in a figurative sense, "to imagine something". Imagination gives us the opportunity to overcome what separates us from one another. How can we take the land of our visions, wishes, memories and futures with us? Perhaps by patiently and painstakingly weaving together a porous place of flowing otherness, an embroidery in which edges move, float and dance.

Creation Lia Rodrigues Danced by and created in close collaboration with Leonardo Nunes, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey da Silva, David Abreu, Raquel Alexandre, Daline Ribeiro, João Alves, Cayo Almeida, Vitor de Abreu Choreographic assistance Amalia Lima Dramaturgy Silvia Soter Artistic collaboration and photography Sammi Landweer Lighting Nicolas Boudier Stage manager Magali Foubert and Baptistine Méral International booking Colette de Turville Production coordination Astrid Toled Production & booking Brazil Gabi Gonçalves / Corpo Rastreado Administration Gloria Laureano Teaching staff Amalia Lima, Leonardo Nunes, Valentina Fittipaldi, Andrey Silva

Production Lia Rodrigues Companhia de Danças
Co-production Le Kunstenfestivaldesarts - Bruxelles/ Maison de la danse, Lyon/Pôle européen de création,
With the support of Biennale de la danse 2025 -Chaillot - Théâtre National de la Danse - Paris /
Le CENTQUATRE - Paris/ Festival d'Automne à Paris / Wiener Festwochen - Vienna /
Festival La Batie - Comédie de Genève - Genève / Romaeuropa-Rome/ Pact Zollverein - Essen /
One Dance Festival-Plovdiv /Theater Freiburg/ Muffatwerk - Münich, Passages Transfestival - Metz /
Festival Perspectives - Saarbrücken, Le Parvis scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées,
Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer - Berlin, théâtre Garonne, scène européenne - Toulouse, Redes da Maré and Centro de Artes da Maré

Lia Rodrigues is an international associate artist of CENTQUATRE-Paris, Maison de la Danse in Lyon,
Pôle européen de création and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon, France