violetas

violetas is an intimate dance piece where one exists and resists in a minimalist environment. The dancing body is proposed as unique and sufficient.

What do we project and what do we assume as we allow ourselves to be carried away?

violetas plays with expectation and perception. The space it inhabits becomes a reflection on itself, where the fluidity, complexity, and subjectivity of each of the five performers invites reflection on performativity, boundaries, centers, and the spaces in between.

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bio
Vânia Doutel Vaz, an Angolan born in Portugal, is a performer and dance creator. Since 2018 she has been working as a performer and rehearsal director with Trajal Harrell. In 2024 she began a collaboration with Legia Lewis, replacing her in the solo “A Plot | A Scandal”. She studied with the Royal Academy of Dance, EDCN and Fórum Dança. She was a member of CPBC, Revista à Portuguesa at Parque Mayer, Trumps nightclub, NDT II, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, PUNCHDRUNK in “Sleep No More”. Collaborates/has collaborated with Sónia Batista, Tânia Carvalho, Shannon Gillen, Adam Linder, Uri Aran. She is movement director for Zia Soares, Teatro Griot, Aurora Negra, Gio Lourenço. She created and performed the solo “O Elefante No Meio Da Sala” (2022, PT/FR), video performance “ad aeternum” (2020, PT), pop-up durational performance Bureauc’Art (2019, BE). In 2023 she was featured on Bantumen’s POWERLIST. Since 2021 she has been a member of UNA.