Æffective Choreography

André Uerba

Intimacy, regarded as a practice of being together, is the theme of this show for seven bodies and one musician. Vulnerability and exposure in an exquisitely beautiful creation featuring bodies and what is concealed.

How does your body feel today? At a time of speed and violence, the Lisbon-based, Berlin-residing choreographer André Uerba explores the concept of intimacy as a counterpoint. This inquiry has been a part of his career from the very beginning. In this new show, it is regarded as an exercise in a series of naked bodies being together as they approach and separate from one another, touch each other or show what is seldom seen. Seven performers (some from the company and others from local venues) and a musician share time and space to explore the boundaries between sharing and withdrawing, movement and stillness, vulnerability and exposure. The performers you’ll see on stage feature in a slow-paced encounter in which their bodies attune to one another, sink and merge together. The desire to make hidden things visible unfolds via the intimate gestures of performers who collectively turn their gaze toward inner landscapes, where slowness and touch become a main practice.