POLIANA LIMA

This sextet works on the relationship between diversity and community from a fictional choreographic approach that evokes fantastic dimensions, passing through the monstrous and the mythical. Four of the interpreters are migrants in Spain, with different migration profiles, and two are Spanish. Each of them has a specific cultural heritage and multicultural artistic careers, with an embodied experience, in their identities and in their physical bodies, of the crossover of cultural lineages.

Poliana Lima is a Brazilian choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Madrid. In 2011 she made her first creation, the short piece Palo En La Rueda. A year later, she began collaborating with Lithuanian choreographer Ugne Dievaityte, whose pieces toured several national and international festivals. Taking the body as the central object of her expression, Poliana explores the possibilities of creating poetics on stage that are capable of communicating with the audience in a simple and profound way. Themes such as identity and memory are recurrent in her creations, to which she adds the relationship between creation and pedagogy, which she considers a fundamental part of her work as an artist.

Direction and choreography Poliana Lima / Artistic accompaniment Javier Cuevas / Direction assistant Diego Carrasco / Cast Almudena Pérez, Darío Barreto, Darío Sigco, Malvin Montero, Natalia Fernandes i Poliana Lima / Musical composition Pablo Sánchez / Light and space design Cube.bz / Technical coordination Cristina Bolívar / Costume design Carlos Carvento / Costume assistant Paul Santos / Photography Álvaro Gómez Pidal and Luis Domingo / Audiovisuals Álvaro Gómez Pidal i Brenda Boyer / Press Cultproyect / Graphic design Cintia erre / Production Isabella Lima / Distribution Austin Rial Eshelman
With the support Condeduque – Centro de Cultura Contemporánea (Madrid) i el Festival Dansa Metropolitana (Barcelona), Madrid City Council and Madrid Comunity / With the collaboration La Briqueterie (París) and Azcuna Zentroa (Bilbao)

Una Hora Abans: Saturday 7 March