As part of the Festival d’Automne. A sensual duet guided by slow-motion movements, LOUNGE explores letting the body unwind and the comfort of rest as an act affirming femininities.
On stage, two performers support each other, brush against one another, and exchange glances. Through simple, erotic, slow-motion gestures, they create a space where desire flows without ever imposing itself. Touch, breath, and gaze become the main vehicles of a sensuality in which the boundaries between the one who acts and the one who receives are constantly shifting. The title plays on two meanings of the English word lounge: a verb meaning to laze around; and a noun referring to a public space where people can relax. A Lisbon-based artist immersed in the cultures and sounds of the African diaspora, Marga Alfeirão has developed a choreographic language in which the body becomes a political and sensory space. With LOUNGE, she unfolds a dance of gazes, details, suggestion, and desire. By creating safe spaces to explore intimacy and sexuality through female and feminized perspectives, the choreographer champions an aesthetic of rest and pleasure as acts of resistance against the pressures of exposure and performance.
Price: From 10 to 22 euros.
Source: paris.fr — photo: Mayra Wallraf