Andar para Trás ("Walking Backwards") is a danced fable that invites the audience to imagine other ways of walking through the world. Created especially for children, this piece proposes an allegory where the movement of walking backwards dismantles the logic of linear time and reveals new ways of seeing, feeling, and transforming reality. This performance emphasizes “walking backwards” as a poetic and political gesture, where each step opens the way to the imagination, where listening to the body and to space thus become the true engine of change, designing a possible world with each movement. This danced fable thus evokes an ecosystem inhabited by hybrid beings, whose allegorical and imagistic character reflects and creates possible points of view for the future. It also asks questions such as: What is your horizon? What do you discover when you walk? What does the future tell you? Accompanying the piece is a deck of 12 scores, which evoke a set of images and ideas to connect the body to the earth. More information about the deck here
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