The elephant in the room
Vânia Doutel Vaz
Vânia Doutel Vaz is in artistic residency at Espaço Alkantara in September, creating her first solo The elephant in the room. The show will premiere in November at Teatro do Bairro Alto (Lisbon) as part of the Alkantara Festival 2022.
“The elephant in the room” suggests that in the presence of something evident it can be ignored. Elephants I carry, elephants brought with the audience and those emerging from this relationship between observer and observed. Now, with so many of us in a room, how many possibilities for a plural and fragmented elephant can be experienced?
In O Elefante no Meio da Sala elephants inhabit the room and dialogue.
Vânia Doutel Vaz
Credits
Conceived, created and performed by Vânia Doutel Vaz Dramaturgy Josefa Pereira Video Daniela Stubbs Levi and Vânia Doutel Vaz Light, Scenography and Technical Director Leticia Skrycky VMusic Adriana João Costumes Nina Botkay Residency collaborators Josefa Pereira, Luara Learth, Piny, Nina Botkay Produced by Alkantara Coproduced by Teatro do Bairro Alto, Teatro Municipal do Porto / DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, A Oficina / Centro Cultural Vila Flor Residencies Alkantara, Casa da Dança, O Espaço do Tempo, Estúdios Victor Córdon/OPART, La Fabrique Chaillot Thanks Rui Horta, Josseline Black, Ana Trincão, Giovanni Lourenço
Project supported by the residency program “La Fabrique Chaillot” – Chaillot- Théâtre National de la Danse (Paris) and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
Vânia Doutel Vaz, Angolan, born in Setúbal, is a performer and creator working in the field of dance. In a hybrid territory between performance, choreography and interdisciplinary collaboration, she uses the idea of the body as an archive and a vehicle for fiction, focusing on relational questions. She is interested in creating a rotation of points of observation, allowing different subjectivities to emerge through the dialogue between bodies, gazes and presences. In this way, she seeks, through the relationship between performer and audience, to foster the emergence...