NORMA ["norm"] is a dance, circus and performance piece that is site-specific and under constant construction. The spectator is invited to be part of the work, and the body acts as a discourse of intersection between art and life. The body is observed as a unique experience, in the duality of a gravitational space and a space without gravity. Witnesses to a game of resistance and risk, where limits are relative, in that they will always be restricted, but not restrained.
The work is inspired by Heinrich Von Kleist's text On the Marionette Theatre and reflects on the context of Portuguese eugenics, in which the Mitra asylum (abolished in 1960) served to institutionalize people who fell out of the norm. A piece that encourages us to look at history and reflect on the place of social violence that contributed to exclusion practices and the marginalization of communities that were not within the norm.
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