Dana Michel

Unfortunately, the presentations of CUTLASS SPRING, scheduled for November 25th and 26th at Lux Frágil, have been cancelled.

REFUNDS

If you have a ticket for the November 25 performance, you can request a refund by contacting your sales point by 20 December 2020. As the performance on November 26 is sold out, no ticket exchanges are possible.

HOW TO CONTACT YOUR SALES POINT:
If you purchased your ticket through BOL, please contact ajuda@bol.pt | 214 160 350.
If you purchased your ticket at FNAC, Worten, CTT or ABEP, please contact the sales point directly.

• If you purchased your ticket at São Luiz Teatro Municipal or LU.CA – Teatro Luís de Camões, please send us an e-mail at bilheteira@teatrodobairroalto.pt

She is not present in their pornography. She is not found in their eroticisms.
She is not even a part of her own fantasy world.

CUTLASS SPRING is what sex might mean to me right now.

I will roam inside a question : How might I locate my sexual identity within a multitude of complimentary and seemingly contradictory identities – as a performer, as a mother, as a daughter, as a lover, as a stranger? I will map a sexual education – with all of its embodiments, fabrications, and disassociations. I will follow these trajectories toward their softest core so as to discover what I hold back and what I make explicit.

She will solicit her body and all of the many things that go with her person. She will realize what remains within her for sexual contemplation. Inching towards uncensorship, engaging the infinite potential of everyday objects, CUTLASS SPRING is, at once, a manifesto and a heated reflection, an ethnography of sexual understanding and an archaeology of desire.

Dana Michel & Michael Nardone

This is Dana Michel's Portuguese debut.

Created and performed by Dana Michel Artistic activators Ellen Furey, Peter James, Mathieu Léger, Heidi Louis, Roscoe Michel, Karlyn Percil, Yoan Sorin, Alanna Stuart Sound consultant David Drury Lighting design and technical direction Karine Gauthier Distribution Key Performance, Koen Vanhove Producer Dana Michel Executive producer Par B.L.eux Co-produced by Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne (Lausanne, Switzerland), Rosendal Teater (Trondheim, Norway), Black Box Teater, (Oslo, Norway), Centre Chorégraphique National, d’Orléans (France), National Arts Center (Ottawa, Canada), Festival TransAmériques (Montreal, Canada), Julidans (Amsterdam, Netherlands), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium), Montpellier Danse (France), Moving in November (Helsinki, Finland) Co-produced with the support of the Visiting Dance Artist Program, a joint initiative of the National Arts Centre and the Canada Council for the Arts.

CUTLASS SPRING is presented in Portugal in partnership with Teatro Municipal do Porto.

Dana Michel is a choreographer and live artist. Her works interact with the expanded fields of improvisation, sculpture, hip-hop, comedy, cinematography, dub, and social commentary to create a centrifuge of experience. In 2014, she was awarded the newly created ImPulsTanz Award (Vienna) in recognition of her outstanding artistic accomplishments and was highlighted among notable female choreographers of the year by the New York Times. In 2017, Michel was awarded the Silver Lion for Innovation in Dance at the Venice Biennale. In 2018, she became the first ever dance artist in residence at the National Arts Centre, Canada. Recently, she was awarded the ANTI Festival International Prize for Live Art. She is currently touring three solo performance works, Yellow Towel, Mercurial George and CUTLASS SPRING. Based in Montreal, Dana Michel is an associate artist of Par B.L.eux.