Este Mundo arises from the magic that might exist in everyday gestures: simple, recurring, sometimes fragile. This is the first collaboration between Bouchra Ouizguen—one of the most important current choreographers—and Dançando com a Diferença, a Madeira-based company of dancers with and without disabilities.
Drawing connections between Madeira and nearby Morocco (where Ouizguen lives and has developed her practice), they build a choreographic language to explore what exists beyond words. The process unfolded over weeks, not just in the studio, but through days, evenings, and dinners spent together, allowing joy and vulnerability to emerge, giving true meaning to this thing we call “life”. Now, on stage, everyday gestures are displaced and transformed into dance.
Their choreography is shaped by states—light, warmth, weight, stability—that circulate between bodies, connecting them in ephemeral unions. Inspired by writer Fernando Pessoa’s attention to silence and poet Mahmoud Darwish’s sensitivity to what transcends language, Este Mundo touches on the things we share daily, but cannot name. Ouizguen opens the festival with a joyous and profound journey into the small moments of a shared life: an ode to what, despite everything, this world, este mundo, might still quietly offer.
Chorégraphie et mise en scène : Bouchra Ouizguen | Danseur·euses/Dançando com a Diferença : Bárbara Matos, Joana Caetano, Sara Rebolo, Sofia Marote, Telmo Ferreira | Costumes et scénographie : Bouchra Ouizguen | Conception lumière : Cristóvão Cunha | Conception sonore : Bouchra Ouizguen, Márcio Ferreira
Dançando com a Diferença | Direction artistique : Henrique Amoedo | Assistante à la mise en scène : Cláudia Nunes | Production exécutive : Nuno Simões | Production : Milton Branco | Communication : Cláudia Caires Sousa | Consultante pour le 25e anniversaire : Paula Mota Garcia
Coproduction : Fundação de Serralves (Festival DDD-Dias da Dança), Alkantara Festival (en collaboration avec le Centro Cultural de Belém), Teatro Viriato Dançando com a Diferença est une organisation financée par la República Portuguesa - XXIII Governo / Direção-Geral das Artes (2023-2026) et par le Governo Regional da Madeira par l'intermédiaire de la Direção Regional de Educação da Madeira, Direção Regional da Cultura et de la Câmara Municipal do Funchal.
Dançando com a Diferença est la compagnie résidente du MUDAS. Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Madeira.
09.05.26 -> Aftertalk moderated by Fabienne Aucant ( FR+LSFB)