Borda

A dialogue of bodies and materials, metamorphoses, overflows: Borda by Lia Rodrigues is not a geographical border lined with walls or barbed wire. It is a place of invisible passages and frictions, a space of care, fertile contaminations and joyful hybridisations.

Borda transports us into a space in motion, a territory of metamorphoses where bodies and materials meet, transform and reinvent themselves. Here, there are no fixed borders — only invisible passages, fecund frictions and joyful hybridisations. In Portuguese, Borda designates both a limit and the delicate gesture of embroidery. A word that evokes separation as much as the possibility of weaving new bonds. Through dance, Lia Rodrigues questions these in-between spaces: can we, through the body and the imagination, redraw the contours of the world?

The third instalment of a trilogy begun with Fúria and Encantado, this new work draws on the company’s archives to bring forth an organic and vibrant world. Onstage, textiles, objects and bodies slide from one state to another, interweaving and hybridising into a shifting organism. At the edges of the real, new forms of life emerge, carried by the energy of the collective.

A dance as a promise — an impulse towards the future.