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Poliana Lima

Poliana Lima

 
Choreographer and dancer
 
 
“To dance is to make a poem of our finite existence.”
Poliana Lima

Works

2023 | Piece
2023 | Piece
2020 | Piece Performed by an all-female cast and with a sound score created by dancers live performance presence, the choreography evokes the dual processes of transformation and repetition.
2020 | Short Piece A short choreography for multiple female dancers created for outdoor non-conventional spaces that celebrates feminine strength and resilience.
2017 | Piece A solo performance work that explores through the concept of transformation notions of identity, origin and time.
2014/2015 | Piece | Short Piece A choreographic work that exposes the memory of violence in the body and how those memories are transposed and repeated over time.
2011/2012 | Short Piece A short performance work that reflects on how individuals find or undercover their individual direction in the world.
Choreographic-documentary intergenerational performance project for four female dancers exploring their distinct autobiographies, their relationship to dance, time, space and each other. 2018/2019 | Piece
A durational performance created within the framework of the European project ‘Performing Gender’. The work deals with identity by exploring themes of the (in)visibility of gender, social class and immigration. 2014 | Performing Gender
2023 | Piece
2023 | Piece
2020 | Piece Performed by an all-female cast and with a sound score created by dancers live performance presence, the choreography evokes the dual processes of transformation and repetition.
2020 | Short Piece A short choreography for multiple female dancers created for outdoor non-conventional spaces that celebrates feminine strength and resilience.
2018/2019 | Piece Choreographic-documentary intergenerational performance project for four female dancers exploring their distinct autobiographies, their relationship to dance, time, space and each other.
2017 | Piece A solo performance work that explores through the concept of transformation notions of identity, origin and time.
2014/2015 | Piece | Short Piece A choreographic work that exposes the memory of violence in the body and how those memories are transposed and repeated over time.
2014 | Performing Gender A durational performance created within the framework of the European project ‘Performing Gender’. The work deals with identity by exploring themes of the (in)visibility of gender, social class and immigration.
2011/2012 | Short Piece A short performance work that reflects on how individuals find or undercover their individual direction in the world.
Poliana Lima

Calendar

Next - CALENDAR 2023

18/7 12 and 19h
Tabakalera
Donostia
16 to 30/7
La Briqueterie
Paris
6/9 17h
35th Art Biennial
São Paulo 2023
22/9 21h
Centro Párraga
Murcia
18 to 30/9
CondeDuque
Madrid
7/10 13:30 - 16:30h
Centro Cultural Puerta de Toledo
Madrid
21/10
BAD
Bilbao
28 and 29/10 premiere
Surge Madrid
Réplika Teatro
November 4th
Claustro Comfama
Medellín . Colombia
6 al 10/11
Comfama Cloister
Medellín/Colombia
November 11th
Cali Biennial
Cali - Colombia
1, 2 y 3/12
Réplika Teatro
Madrid
3 to 14/1
La Briqueterie
Paris
12/2 to 20/3
Centro Cultural CondeDuque
Madrid
21 and 22/3
Centro Cultural CondeDuque
Madrid

Past

16/1 to 16/2
180 Dance
Madrid
February 24th to 26th
Central Elétrica
Porto
March 4th
El Salinero Theater
Lanzarote
March 9th, 10th and 11th
Mercat de les Flors
Barcelona
March 18th
Raíz del Pueblo Cultural Center
La Oliva - Fuerteventura
March 18th
Raíz del Pueblo Cultural Center
La Oliva - Fuerteventura
1/4 to 13/5
Tetuán Cultural Center
Madrid
May 14th
Eduardo Úrculo Theater
Madrid
5/27 to 6/30
CC Maris Stella/CDM Orcasitas
Madrid
June 8th
Azcuna Zentroa
Bilbao
July 1st
CDM Orcasitas
Madrid
september 22nd
Párraga Center
Murcia
October 21st
BAD Bilbao
Bilbao
8th to 12th August
Sala Sabil
Asturias
4th September
SKCNS Fabrika
Serbia
9th September
Private Art Event
Madrid
16th October
CondeDuque
Madrid
29th October
TEM
Valencia
1st and 2nd November
Teatro de la Estación
Zaragoza
22nd and 23rd November
Festival de Otoño
Teatro de la Abadía, Madrid
17th December
Tenerife Auditorium
Tenerife
18ht to 23th July
Pradillo Theatre
Madrid
1st, 2nd and 3rd July
Cuarta Pared
Madrid
30th June
Leal Theatre
Tenerife
April-June
Professional School of Dance of Castilla y León
Burgos
27th May
Espacio Tangente
Burgos
6th May
Rosalía de Castro Theatre
La Coruña
5 March
Bustarviejo
Madrid
14th to 18th February
Carampa Circus School
Madrid
29th and 30th January
Espai La Granja
Valencia
28th, 29th and 30th January
Carme Teatre
Valencia
15th de December
Mapas
Las Palmas, Gran Canaria
18th December
Corral de Comedias
Alcalá de Henares
23 and 25 September
La Briqueterie
París
6th to 18th September
Cáceres/España
20th, 21th, 22th August
Sala Sabil
Asturias
07th to 22th de July
Residencia nueva creación
Auditorio de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España
11th y 12th June
Galería NF - CAMPING
Madrid, España
18th and 19th June
Camping
CND/ Pantin - París / Francia
21th to 25th June
Camping
CND/ Pantin - París / Francia
27th June
Summer ReCollection - 25 years of Aerowaves
Spanski Borci, Eslovenia
30th June
Croatian Cultural Centre
Rijeka, Croacia
13/09
Teatros del Canal
24, 25 y 26/09
Conde Duque
26/09
Jaén. Necrópolis dinástica de Cerrillo Blanco (Porcuna)
20 y 21/10
DUOLOGOS CON IGNATIUS
Conde Duque
29 y 30/10
Festival Baila España - Bremen/ Alemania
07/01 a 20/06
MoverMadrid 2020
Sala Cuarta Pared, Madrid
31/01 y 01/02
Audición “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada”
Oporto
10 y 11/03
Duólogos con Ignatius
Conde Duque, Madrid
24 y 25/03
Cuerpo de Guardia - Ficciones
Sala Cuarta Pared, Madrid
22/04
Estreno portugués “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada”
Auditorio Municipal de Gaia, Oporto
28, 29 y 30/04
Estreno español “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada”
Teatros del Canal, Madrid
23/05
“Aquí, Siempre”
Centro Párraga, Murcia
18 y 19/06
Estreno francés “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada”
Centre National de la Danse, Paris
22, 23, 24, 25 y 26/06
Workshop Festival Camping
Centre National de la Danse - Paris
11, 12 y 13/10/19
Presentación de Cuerpo de Guardia
Conde Duque Madrid
23/10/19
Hueco
Málaga - El contenedor
30/10/19
Hueco
Barcelona - Casa Elizalde
15, 16 y 17/11/19
Hueco
Vigo - Teatro Ensalle
23/11/19
Aquí, Siempre
Holanda, Utrecht Festival What you See
13, 14 y 15/12/19
Hueco
Valencia - Carme Teatre
17/12/19
Hueco
Cáceres - Festival Danza Extrema
19 y 20/12/19
Hueco
Madrid - Teatro Pradillo
01 y 02/02/19
Hueco, Mover Madrid
Sala Cuarta Pared, Madrid
05 y 06/02/19
Duologos
Conde Duque, Madrid
07/03/19
Extracto de Hueco
Museo Cerralbo, Festival Ellas Crean, Madrid
25/03 a 13/04/19
Residencia de Creación Aquí, Siempre
Conde Duque, Madrid
09/04
Aquí, Siempre - Festival Dansa Valencia
Valencia, España
11,12 y 13/04/19
Estreno de Aquí, Siempre
Conde Duque, Madrid
23/11/18
Festival Danza Ñ
Centro Párraga Murcia
1 y 2/11/18
Festival Mes de Danza de Sevilla
23/11 y 1/12/18
Residencia Aquí, Siempre
Centro de Danza Canal
01/12/18
Aquí, Siempre (Extracto)
Cia Invitada Certamen Coreográfico de Madrid
18 Al 03/7/18
Residencia Aquí, Siempre
Centro de Danza Canal, Madrid
06/7/18
Extracto de Aquí, Siempre
Be Festival, Birmingham, UK
27 y 28/7/18
Hueco
Festival Plataforma Berlin, Berlin
2/6/18
Las Cosas Se Mueven Pero no Dicen Nada
Plataforma, Teatros Del Canal. Madrid
11/6/18
Hueco
Festival Cadiz En Danza, Cadiz
23/03 al 02/04/18
Residencia Aquí, Siempre
Eima Creacio, Maria de la Salut, Mallorca.
30/04 al 06/05/18
Residencia Aquí, Siempre
L'animal al L'esquena, Cataluña.
3/03/18
Aquí, Siempre
Festival Pies para que los quiero, Zaragoza, España
Febrero
Residencia de Aquí, Siempre
Centro de Danza Canal.
9/12
Atávico
La Cabrera, Comunidad de Madrid.
26/11
Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada
Festival Intacto, Vitoria-Gasteiz
17 al 24/11
Proyecto Hoy, Ayer, Mañana
Residencia artística en el TEM (Teatre el Musical), Valencia.
27/10
Hueco
Festival BAD, Bilbao
16 al 22/10
Proyecto Hoy, Ayer, Mañana
Residencia artística en el TEM (Teatre el Musical), Valencia.
07/10 y 08/10
Estreno HUECO
Teatros Canal, Madrid
29/09
Downtango
Colaboración con Lucía Marote.
Dantza Hirian, Errenteria, País Vasco
23 y 24/09
Anatomía del Sentimiento
Colaboración con Lucía Marote.
Teatro Victoria, Tenerife.
14 al 17/09
Anatomía del Sentimiento
Colaboración con Lucía Marote.
Carme Teatre, Valencia.
05 al 10/09
Residencia Técnica de HUECO
L’Struch, Sabadell, Cataluña.
14/07
Downtango
Colaboración con Lucía Marote.
Festival Huellas, Aracena, Huelva.
10 al 13/07
Taller de improvisación y creación
Centro Bambudanza, Madrid
08/07
Flesh
L'Struch, Sabadell, Cataluña.
06/07
Downtango
Colaboración con Lucía Marote.
Festival Corpo al Terra, Ourense, Galícia.
19 al 30/06
Beca en el Centre National de la Danse
Festival Camping, París
10/06
Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada
Act Festival, Bilbao, País Vasco
Poliana Lima

BIOGRAPHY

 

Poliana Lima (Brazil, 1983) is a choreographer, dancer, and teacher living in Madrid.

Since childhood she wanted to dedicate herself to dance and continues to do so today. Dancing is a way to discuss the human conditions and the mysteries of our existence. As well as training in classical ballet and contemporary dance, Poliana holds a degree in Social Science from the Campinas State University in Brazil.

In 2011, she made her first short professional choreography, Palo En La Rueda/Stick in the Wheel. One year later, she collaborated with Lithuanian choreographer Ugne Dievaityte. Their collaboration resulted in the piece Es Como Ver Nubes/It’s Like Watching Clouds’ which was awarded the Audience Prize at the 26th Choreographic Contest of Madrid; second prize at the One Piece Contest, as well as first prize at the Vila Real Dance Festival in 2014. They also created Flesh, the piece with which she toured nationally and internationally, including to the Fringe Festival (Edinburgh), Spring Forward Aerowaves, el Mercat de Flors, El Dansa Valencia, the New Baltic Dance Festival, the Window of Dance (Madrid in Dance) as well as at the Korzo Theatre.

In 2013 she was invited to participate in the European ‘Performing Gender’ initiative, where she created Cuerpo-Trapo/Rag-Body’ for the Contemporary Arts Museum of Zagreb.

In 2014 she launched Atávico /Atavistic’, her first ensemble piece, which was awarded the First Prize at the 28th Choreographic Contest of Madrid, as well as the Audience’s Award, the Critics’ Award, the 2015 Dance Web Scholarship from Impulstanz Vienna, and a residency at Tanzhaus, Zurich. In 2016 she created a short work entitled, Las Cosas Se Mueven Pero Se Dicen Nada/ Things Move But They Do Not Say Anything. The following year she premiered her solo Hueco/ Hollow at the Teatros Canal, Madrid, and at the BAD Bilbao Festival.

From June 2018 she continued touring work internationally. She has been an Associate Artist at the Conde Duque Centre (Madrid) where she created and premiered 2 new works, Aqui, Siempre/ Here, Always and Las Cosas en la Distancia/ Things in the Distance.

Her latest full-length work Las Cosas Se Mueven Pero Se Dicen Nada/ Things Move But They Do Not Say Anything premiered in September 2020 at Teatros Canal and in 2021 has been programmed in Paris, Athens, Ljubljana, Rijeka. The work was selected for Aerowaves Twenty 21.

In 2022, the first part of his trilogy about identity with Oro Negro was premiered at the Festival de Otoño de Madrid. In 2024, the second part will be released with The Common Ground.

"Dance is my home, where I exist and where my identity rests. It is a peculiar identity, because its nature, far from being fixed, is in movement"

Videos

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HERE, ALWAYS

Piece

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THINGS MOVE BUT THEY DO NOT SAY ANYTHING

Piece

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HOLLOW

Piece

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ATAVISTIC

Short Piece

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THINGS IN THE DISTANCE

Short Piece

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WORKSHOPS AND MEDIATION

Poliana Lima

WORKSHOPS AND MEDIATION

Seeing someone dance is the most direct way of seeing them in all their complexity. Dance engages with the intellectual, emotional and physical dimensions of a person. It also highlights their past, grounds them in their present and reveals their desires and their future expectations. To dance is a way to achieve a deep knowledge of life and about oneself.

I build my work as a teacher from the basis of this multidimensional nature of dance. Regardless of the format, the exercises are conceived and focused on affecting these different dimensions simultaneously. Guidance and corrections are guided by a wish to increase the integration and autonomy of the student: characteristic that seems fundamental to me in an artistic discipline. In general, in the pedagogical spaces that I promote, I offer, as well as the physical tools in order to dance, the mental and emotional tools to facilitate the learning process.

I am also aware of the collective nature of dance and of the responsibility that comes with guiding a group, and that is why I consider that creating and sustaining a favorable and safe environment to guarantee that the participants can unleash their full creative potential is a fundamental requirement. Within this framework, my pedagogical axes when leading groups are, on the one hand, to recognize each student in their individuality and integrity and, on the other hand, to build the support of the group, encouraging cooperation through the recognition and celebration of the differences between each one of its members.

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Production

produccion@polianalima.com
Isabella Lima
+34 672859154

Asociate Producer

steve@polianalima.com
Steve Purcell
+44 07783 786 977

Distribution

proyectos@corobonson.com
Coro Bonson
+34 607244429

Black Gold

 

Oro Negro (Black Gold) is a two-bodied solo with live music. It premiered at the 40th Festival de Otoño de Madrid at the Teatro de la Abadía in 2022.

Oro Negro (Black Gold) is centered around the metaphorical idea of petroleum, linking the extraction of the natural treasure to the valorization of elements and identities denied and excluded from the hegemonic western culture. In Oro Negro (Black Gold) the body is both the instrument for digging and what is being dug up, revealing what is demonic: soft flesh, vulnerable and perishable; female eroticism seen through a woman’s desire; blackness and popular culture.

Oro negro (Black Gold) understands the body as a territory of living memory, a place where the biographical, familial and communal, socio-cultural, mythical and spiritual dimensions are articulated and allowed to be perceived. This understanding of the body allows the exploration of the traces of the tacit transmission processes of habits, customs, violence, pain and joy through several generations. Exploring these multiple dimensions, identity, culture and time, that make up the body as a diverse, unstable and dynamic conglomerate, Oro Negro (Black Gold) brushes against and uses clichés to overflow at a climax in which the viewer's gaze is forced to position itself.

  • Direction, conception and choreography: Poliana Lima
  • Dancers: Poliana Lima and Miguel Ángel Chumo Mata
  • Dramaturgy: Javier Cuevas
  • Choreography assistant: Lucas Condró
  • Lighting design: Carlos Marquerie
  • Sound design: Oscar Villegas
  • Original music: Pablo Sánchez
  • Costume design: Carmen 17
  • Makeup: Sara Abigail Álvarez
  • Photos and audiovisuals: Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Graphic design: Cintia Ramírez
  • Mediation: Marina Santo
  • Technical coordination: Cristina Bolívar
  • Production: Isabella Lima
  • Production assistant: Diego Carrasco
  • Communication: Cultproject
  • Social networks: Adrián Pulido
  • Distribution: Coro Bonson
  • Co-production: Poliana Lima and Mapas Fest
  • Collaborators: Festival de Otoño, Ayuntamiento de Madrid, Azcuna Zentroa, Ayuntamiento de San Cristóbal de la Laguna, Auditorio de Tenerife.

Crossing

 

“Cruce (Crossing)” is a site-specific dance piece for two female dancers adaptable to varying spaces. Co-produced by the Centro de Cultura Contemporánea Condeduque, Madrid, premiering in October 2022 in its Patio Central.

Green smoke, futuristic costumes, an ironic, slightly comic tone. Cruce is a fantasy in which two women arrive at an unknown place, transforming it into a different space through fantasy. Two women occupying the place of explorers, an unusual role for women in our culture. Choreographing for open spaces is a challenge because it implies reflecting on the gaze of the public. Cruce plays at destabilizing the usual power relations between the two. It is a work in which we use a traditional and recognisable choreographic language allied to music with eighties overtones, creating an imaginary that takes us back to typical science fiction films. Under the fantasy that we propose, recurring themes of Poliana's trajectory are present, such as power and the female body.

Underneath the harmless appearance of fantasy, “Cruce (Crossing)” reflects on power, the female body and how it relates to the collective ideas of invasion and perceiving otherness as a threat.

  • Country: Spain
  • Genre: Dance, performance
  • Concept, direction and choreography: Poliana Lima
  • Performers: Danielle Mesquita and Astrid Bramming
  • Music: Pablo Sánchez
  • Photography and audiovisuals: Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Graphic design: Cintia Ramírez
  • Production: Isabella Lima

A STICK IN THE WHEEL

 

Time that stops even though in movement.
Time, movement and body.
The choked on, that didn’t happen, that is repeated. Forces that pull forwards and backwards. Split body, so many directions and voices.
Where and how to go?
In the end, what path is that?

Poliana Lima
  • Artistic File
  • Conception, Direction and Interpretation: Poliana Lima
  • Lighting: Pablo Seoane
  • Music: Pablo Sánchez
  • Graphic Design: Denis Forigo
  • Duration: 10 minutes

Atávico - versión corta

 

Atávico, sin intención de crear una narrativa, plantea una experiencia escénica conectada con las sensaciones de violencia y su repercusión en el cuerpo: los paisajes que, como fuerzas ocultas, nos hacen víctimas y verdugos a la vez.

En esta propuesta apostamos por los cuerpos “cotidianos”, fuera de los patrones estandarizados, con la firme voluntad de compartir la belleza del movimiento y la gestualidad cotidianas más allá de los cánones, así como la danza más allá del virtuosismo.

Poliana Lima

  • Ficha Artística
  • Concepción, dirección y coreografía: Poliana Lima
  • Intérpretes: Aitor Galán, Lucía Marote, Maria Pallares, Marina Santo y Poliana Lima
  • Música: Vidal
  • Iluminación: Pablo R. Seoane
  • Vestuario y Atrezzo: Poliana Lima y Marina Santo
  • Duración: 15 minutos
  • Fotografía: Eva Vieira
  • Equipo Técnico
  • Producción: Carmen Fernandez
  • Dirección Técnica: Pablo R. Seoane

THINGS IN THE DISTANCE

 

LAS COSAS EN LA DISTANCIA (Things in the Distance) is a choreographic project created for public spaces and premiered at the Conde Duque Cultural Centre, Madrid in 2020. The performance was created via a series of workshops working with advanced contemporary female dance students.The choreography can be adapted for various public spaces and requires a minimum of 10 female dancers but is adaptable, depending on the size of the allocated performance space, for a large group of advanced contemporary dancers.

    Artistic File
  • Duration: 20 min
  • Idea, Choreography and Direction: Poliana Lima
  • Music: Vidal
  • Photography: Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Audiovisuals: Alexis Delgado y Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Performers: Cláudia Bosch, Laura Cardona, Ada Continente, Cris Manso, Danielle Mesquita, Almudena Perez, Maddi Ruiz de Loizaga y Ainhoa Uzandizaga
    Technical File
  • Press: Cultproject
  • Production: Isabella Lima

THINGS MOVE BUT THEY DO NOT SAY ANYTHING

 

Things Move But They Do Not Say Anything is a dance piece informed by ideas of permanence and persistence. The choreography is performed by a female cast of dancers. The sound score for the piece is entirely created by the live transmission and amplification of the sounds created through the dancer’s on-stage movements and physical presence throughout the performance. The piece draws upon the processes of transformation and repetition that are found in Nature, whilst avoiding any and all attempts at figurative representations of these phenomena.

Things Move But They Do Not Say Anything is a full-length choreographic work that is radically rooted in foregrounding the real-time, lived presence of the women themselves. These are resistant and insistent bodies in equal measure; these are bodies subjected to unpredictable, diverse, intense forces. These are female bodies drawing upon a shared heritage of being resilient and present in this turning world.

  • Idea, Choreography and Direction: Poliana Lima.
  • Choreographic Assistant: Lucas Condró
  • Lighting Design: Carlos Marquerie
  • Sound Design: Arne Bock
  • Costume Designer: Anaïs Zebrowski
  • Costume Assistant: Diego Carrasco Pulido
  • Audiovisuals: Álvaro Gomez Pidal, Alexis Delgado Búrdalo
  • Performers: Cláudia Bosch, Laura Cardona, Ada Continente, Carla Diego, Natalia Fernandes, Cris Manso, Danielle Mesquita, Clara Pampyn, Almudena Perez, Isabela Rossi, Maddi Ruiz de Loizaga y Ainhoa Uzandizaga
  • Press:: Cultproject
  • Production: Isabella Lima
  • Technical Coordination: Cristina Bolívar
  • Co-Production: Teatros del Canal, Teatro Municipal do Porto / DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, CND/Pantin y Porosus Fonds de Dotation

ATAVISTIC

 

Atávico, without the intention of creating a narrative, poses a scenic experience connected with the sensations of violence and their repercussion in the body: the landscapes that, as hidden forces, make us victims and executioners at the same time.

In this proposal we put our faith in "everyday" bodies, outside standard norm, with the determination to share the beauty of movement and gestures from daily life beyond the accepted canon, as well as dance that is beyond virtuosity.

  • Artistic File
  • Conception, Direction and Choreography: Poliana Lima
  • Performers: Aitor Galán, Lucía Marote, Irene Vazquez, Marina Santo and Poliana Lima
  • Music: Vidal
  • Lighting: Pablo Seoane
  • Costume Designer: Poliana Lima and Marina Santo
  • Photography: Eva Viera
  • Duration: 55 minutes
  • Technical File
  • Production: Carmen Fernandez
  • Technical Direction: Pablo Seoane

HOLLOW

 

HUECO (Hollow) is a contemporary dance solo that explores the notion of identity, place and time, through the concept of journeying and through the interaction between movement and live music.

HUECO explores in real time the diverse dynamics and challenges of being present to oneself and to others. It’s in this ‘in-between’, liminal space that the true possibilities of being are first sensed, then lived in and through the body. This is a dancing body in which the traces of a Brazilian past overlap and intertwine with the present moment forging a way into a dynamic movement filled future. This is a space of perpetual motion and change.

At the heart of the work is a journey to find and know this space - a vertiginous void into which the dancer can throw herself and into which her dancing self provides a new grounded and living sense of self. The ‘Hollow’ of the title refers to this constant desire to open up a space for dance as an affirmation of being in the world in the here and now.

I really loved the work… she is totally compelling and intriguing, but also I thought the work was so rich and bursting with ideas and provocations. That was apparent also in the way it clearly touched that straight, middle class, middle aged audience, provoking such varied but altogether empathetically engaged responses. So that is great evidence that audiences want to be challenged and intrigued rather than the prevailing programming that tends towards being so safe and anxious to please. Also, what a pleasure to talk to an artist who talks so intelligently, confidently and accessibly about their work. That was a bonus for the audience after the performance - to get that insight and brilliant articulation of the practice.

Beth Cassani – choreographer and senior lecturer in performance and choreography, Leeds Beckett University (UK).

I found Poliana Lima’s performance ‘Hueco’ fascinating to watch. In parts it was like something from a David Lynch film…it was so interesting to watch someone so involved in the physicality of the movement and so present in what she was doing. It was quite captivating and unnerving at the same time.

Hannah Robertshaw, Programmes Manager, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds (UK).

Hueco seemed to speak to me about the gift/burden of what it means to be a human being and an artist…what it is to be in the process of creation, of being present, of having to express something when you don’t yet know what it is, but you can’t put it aside.

Wieke Eringa, CEO Yorkshire Dance, Leeds (UK).

In 60 years of watching contemporary dance and other dancers, I have never seen anything like this, and I have to say I found much of it difficult to watch… your personal integrity and honesty in this work is commendable…I really appreciated your conversation with us in the audience and your bravery at expressing your inner soul so authentically. Few performers would be that honest or sincere.

Viv Lever, freelance art photographer.
 
  • Artistic File
  • Conception, Direction and Choreography: Poliana Lima
  • Assistant Director: Lucas Condró
  • Performer: Poliana Lima
  • Music: Vidal
  • Lighting: Pablo Seoane
  • Photography: Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Video: Alexis Delgado and Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Technical File
  • Technical direction: Pablo R. Seoane
  • Production: Isabela Lima
  • Duration: 50 minutes
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BODY-RAG

 

Body-rag is a durational performance piece created within the framework of the European project Performing Gender. Questions around the (in)visibility of gender, social class and immigration are related to identity in this performance created for the Zagreb Contemporary Museum, Croatia.

  • Artistic File
  • Conception, Direction and Choreography: Poliana Lima

CONVOCATORIA ABIERTA PARA EL TALLER “LAS COSAS EN LA DISTANCIA"

 

Taller Coreográfico:

LAS COSAS EN LA DISTANCIA

(versión corta de la pieza “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada” adaptada al patio sur de Conde Duque)

Descripción:

En este taller coreográfico recrearemos la versión corta de la pieza “Las cosas se mueven pero no dicen nada” para 30 bailarines, adaptada al patio sur de Conde Duque para ser presentada los días 24, 25 y 26/09 en tres pases diarios entre las 18h y las 19:20h.

Trabajaremos y estudiaremos la repetición de los gestos como recurso coreográfico, los efectos sobre los estados corporales de la persistencia en un único lugar del espacio y la capacidad de escucha y colaboración dentro de un grupo numeroso.

La participación en el taller implica la participación en el coro durante las funciones, que serán remuneradas.


La pieza es especialmente exigente con la movilidad de la espalda, con grandes extensiones, así que es de suma importancia para participar en el taller y muestra que l@s candidat@s no tengan lesiones previas en la columna.

Dirigido a:

estudiantes avanzad@s de danza.

Fechas y horarios del taller:

15 al 18/09 (16:30 a 21:30h)

19 y 20/09 (9:30 a 14:30h)

21 al 23/09 (16:30 a 21:30h)

24 al 26/09 (16:00h a 22h)

Proceso de selección:

Seleccionaremos a 20 participantes para el taller, mayores de 18 años.

Día: 14/09
Dónde: Aula de Danza de Conde Duque
Horario: 16:30h a 21:30h
Resultados: por correo electrónico el día 14/09.

Cómo inscribirme?

Enviar curriculum resumido, carta de motivación y vídeo de 2 minutos máximo con el asunto “LAS COSAS/CONDE DUQUE/NOMBRE Y PRIMER APELLIDO” al email:

talleres@polianalima.com

Fecha límite de envío del material: 15 de julio.

Resultados: 30 de julio por correo electrónico.

Responderemos a tod@s l@s candidat@s.

HERE, ALWAYS

AQUÍ, SIEMPRE is a dance-documentary work created in collaboration with the 4 participating dancers Carla de Diego, Christine Cloux, Irene Ducaju y Mona Belizan. The conceptual framework and choreography of the work was created by Poliana Lima who also acts as Creative Director of the project. The work takes as its starting point the detailed specificity of the lives and dance practices (historical and current) of the 4 dancers i.e. their individual autobiographical maps. The piece explores how those individuated experiences can cohere to celebrate a certain history of dance; a desire to create a shared language of dance; a desire to dance one’s own dance; an opportunity to reaffirm for performers and audiences alike the specificities of time and space through the interrelationship of movement, language and image; an opportunity to reflect on the inexorable passage of time and the intimate and deeply personal way that we relate to time. In short to show: FOUR HISTORIES, FOUR PLACES, FOUR TIMES, FOUR WOMEN: ONE EVENT

 

“This is a work that transcends you; that shakes you through time as age, time as rhythm, time as ritual. Poliana has managed to capture the subtleties of these four performers and manages to capture us in a perpetual present, one with which she connects only through the truth of dance. It is impossible not to be moved by the ancestral wisdom distilled by these four bodies: that for me is ‘Aquí, Siempre’.”

by Belen Santa-Olalla, Theatre Director and Creative Director of Stroke 114

“A magnificent and sensitive work evoking a sense of humanity, that takes the viewer into the most intimate parts of the creative process based on the essence of five women – the four performers and the choreographer.”

by Alba Iranzo, Environmental lawyer

“Present, past and future are constantly colliding in Aquí Siempre. It’s as if the desire of the piece was to think time completely holistically. Thinking of dance as what happens outside of time. Here, in this choreography, it always shows how desire, in relation to the body in motion, erases all temporal notions.”

by Lucas Condró, Choreographer and teacher and Creator of Asymmetrical Motion Company

“With Aquí Siempre, Poliana has managed not only to speak of four women, four ages and four lives but to speak about all of us - of herself and, therefore, also of me. In the work I am invited to reflect upon my doubts, my struggles, on the passage of time, in the desire to express myself and on the cathartic experience that comes out of each one of the performers. The overall impression I am left with after seeing this piece is that each of the performers collectively have woven an image where each one of them is the living mirror of the others.”

by Marta Lorrio Aguirre, Creative Advertising Executive

“It is a game of disturbing mirrors between the process of creation and the passage of time in the body of each the dancers. I was fascinated by the duplication of the bodies on screen, especially in the first section until they dance in silence. The screen images push us to imagine a parallel reality where those bodies on the stage continue to dance, remembering that wherever we are (real or virtual space) our stages are part of a great choreography!”

by Victor Moreno, Filmmaker and director of the film ‘La Ciudad Oculta’ (The Hidden City).

 
  • Artistic File
  • Choreography and Creative Director: Poliana Lima
  • Creative Advisor and Associate Producer: Steve Purcell
  • Performers: Carla de Diego, Christine Cloux, Irene Ducaju y Mona Belizan.
  • Soundscore: Vidal
  • Lighting Designer: Pablo Seoane
  • Video: Álvaro Gomez Pidal
  • Photography: Álvaro Gómez Pidal
  • Graphic Design: Denis Forigo
  • Duration: 55 minutes
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