O outro corpo ["the other body"] is a work based on the piece O outro lado da dança (which premiered in Coimbra in 2022) and on research into the historiography of the body outside the norm in Portugal and abroad. It also includes a text to be presented at the exhibition Para uma timeline a haver. Operating in the fields of performance, Live Art and lecture-performance, the work seeks to give voice to the violence disseminated by the norm, allowing the political place of a new body to emerge. A body that is no longer a victim of its own history.
A dancer, choreographer and writer, Diana Niepce has a degree in dance from the ESD (Lisboa), completed the Erasmus program at Teatterikorkeakoulun (Helsinki), a Master's degree in Art and Communication at Universidade Nova de Lisboa, and completed the CPGAE training course at Fórum Dança. She is also a qualified hatha-yoga teacher. She is the author of the contemporary circus piece Forgotten Fog (2015) and the dance pieces Raw a nude (2019), 12 979 Dias (2019), Dueto (2020), T4 (2020) and Anda, Diana (2021). As a dancer and performer, she has collaborated with Bal-Moderne - Companhia Rosas, Felix Ruckert, Willi Dorner, António Tagliarini, Daria Deflorian, La fura del baus, May Joseph, Sofia Varino, Miira Sippola, Jérôme Bel, Ana Borralho and João Galante, Ana Rita Barata and Pedro Sena Nunes, Mariana Tengner Barros, Rui Catalão, Rafael Alvarez, Adam Benjamin, Diana de Sousa and Justyna Wielgus. She was artistic director and taught the Introduction to Performing Arts for Artists with Disabilities course at Marvila's Public Library (2020). She recently published the book Anda, Diana (ed. Sistema Solar).
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