NORM is a site-specific dance, circus, and performance piece that is constantly under construction. The spectator is invited to be part of the work, and the body acts as a discourse of intersection between art and life. The body is observed as a unique experience, in the duality of a gravitational space and a space without gravity. Witnesses to a game of resistance and risk, where limits are relative, in that they will always be restricted, but not restrained. The work is inspired by Heinrich Von Kleist’s text On Puppet Theatre and reflects on the context of Portuguese eugenics, in which the Mitra institution (extinct in 1960) responded to the institutionalization of people outside the norm. A creation that encourages us to look at history and reflect on the place of social violence that contributed to exclusionary practices and the marginalization of communities outside the norm.
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Duration: 70 minutes
Age rating: 16 years old
Credits
Artistic Direction
Diana Niepce
Interpretation
Diana Niepce, Eríc Amorim dos Santos, Lucas Damiani, Rebecca Mateus, Sara Garcia, Tarlie Lumby
Music
Diogo Melo
Costumes
Silvana Ivaldi
Technical Direction and Light Design
Roger Madureira
Dramaturgical Support
Rui Catalão
Movement Support
Ana Sofia Leite, Joãozinho da Costa
Production
Joana Costa Santos
Illustration
Maria Abrantes
Pre-production
Produção d’Fusão
Co-production
As Niepce’s, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Co-production in Residency
O Espaço do Tempo, OPART, E.P.E / Estúdios Victor Córdon
Support
República Portuguesa - Cultura I DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes, Institut
Diana Niepce
Diana Niepce is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. She graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança, did an Erasmus at Teatterikorkeakoulun (in Helsinki), and a Masters in Art and Communication at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa. She is an associate artist at Espaço do Tempo and the creator of the pieces Forgotten Fog (2015), Raw a nude (2019), 12 979 Dias (2019), Dueto (2020), T4 (2020), Anda, Diana (SPA Prize, 2021), O outro lado da dança (2022), Enfreakment (2024), Utopia (2024) and Norm (2024). Curator of the Political Bodies Cycle of conferences and performances (2024, Culturgest). As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with national and international artists. She is the curator and trainer of the Introduction to the Performing Arts for Artists with Disabilities (2020), Fora da Norma (2023, Biblioteca de Marvila) and Norm (2024, TNDMII). Her most recent publications are the article “Experimenting with the body” in the newspaper Coreia, the book “Anda, Diana” (ed. Sistema Solar) and the story “Broken and stinky, they are the pebbles.” for the Rota Memorial do Convento.