A series of talks by artists from the international contemporary dance scene, published in podcast format during the season of 2023/2024, both in english and portuguese, in a co-production between Estúdios Victor Cordon and Parasita Association.
It aims at giving account of the richness, diversity and scope of current choreographic thinking, as well as the many discourses to which contemporary dance has given rise, covering a variety of issues that show how profuse it is as a terrain of experimentation, problematization and thinking. Alongside the singularity of each artist’s work, lines of thought are exposed in relation to politics in dance, social choreography, the relationship between dance and language, creative processes and their respective products, and the cognition of corporealities. The word is given to those who make dance, making us think.
In the first episode of Wording Dances, English dancer and choreographer Siobhan Davies reads to us “Postcards from a life which dances”, a text which she wrote for this occasion.
In the second episode of this series, Brazilian dancer and choreographer Marcelo Evelin invites Neguxa Uau, an artist, performer and influencer from Teresina, to read to us “Life is life, and life is babado”, a text which he wrote at our invitation.
In the third episode of Wording Dances, we welcome deufert&plischke, the Artistwin, to read to us from a text which they wrote for this episode, titled “Grand Opening”.
In the fourth episode of the series, we invited english choreographer Jonathan Burrows to read to us from a couple of texts which he wrote in recent years and which were also compiled in a book published by Varamo Press in 2022, titled “Writing Dance”.
In this new episode of Wording Dances, we invited the essayist and curator André Lepecki to read us from a text he has been working on, titled “The dispute for movement and the non-time of struggle: a delirium in four movements”.
For this new episode of Wording Dances, we invited artists Ana Borralho & João Galante to write and read to us their text “Dark Room”.
For the 7th episode of these series, we invited theoretician and researcher Bojana Cvejić to read to us an adapted excerpt from a book chapter in manuscript, titled “We work with the materials that resist us”.
For the eighth episode of the Wording Dances series, we invited chorographer Ivana Müller to read to us a text written for this occasion, titled “Thoughts on Togetherness”.
The series is published on the following platforms:
Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Casts, Radio Public, Castbox and Soundcloud.
Its translation (Eng/Pt) and subtitles can be accessed on YouTube.