_King Size_ analyzes how masculinity is constructed with the aim of resignifying the relationships between nature, gender, and sex, focusing on figures that embody myths of masculinity, as well as on their parodic revisions, thus staging a game of disidentification that resists the pressures of sexual binarism in both society and art. _King Size_ confronts the creative and dramaturgical devices of contemporary drag performances with the rigid gender representation codes of traditional dance and theater, questioning these codes and blurring the differences between what is natural and what is a cultural or stage construct.

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_King Size_ analisa como se constrói a masculinidade para ressignificar as relações entre natureza, género e sexo, focando figuras que incorporam os mitos masculinos, bem como as suas revisões paródicas, encenando um jogo de desidentificação que resiste às pressões de binarismo sexual, na sociedade e na arte. _King Size_ confronta os dispositivos de criação e dramaturgia de performances _drag_ contemporâneas com os códigos rígidos de representação de género na dança e no teatro tradicionais, e interroga essas representações, esbatendo as diferenças entre o que é natural e o que é construção cultural ou cénica.

King Size — Sónia Baptista

With the aim of supporting independent artistic creation, this program hosts artists and collectives working in the field of dance or in areas of artistic intersection, both national and international, for a maximum period of two weeks.

Applications are accepted continuously throughout the year, and residencies are scheduled in our calendar on a first-come, first-served basis. Since their beginnings, the EVC have been a space where multiple languages coexist, directly meeting the needs of the artistic community.

King Size — Sónia Baptista

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