Diana Niepce's long journey towards reclaiming her body takes the form of a trio. This long process of self-affirmation, of her difference, of her disability, became the subject of a book published in 2021, and then of a dance work: Anda, Diana. A tender piece for three different bodies and three different characters, hovering between attraction and repulsion, letting-go and resistance, with impressive and complex acrobatic lifts. At the heart of this "struggle," Diana Niepce always leads the dance and exudes great power as her fragile body is manipulated and set in motion. She succeeded in finding herself in the body of the other, "in the secret agreement that made her body a storyteller," exploring gravity through patterns of constraints and forces and release techniques. She evokes the extensions of the body, bringing different bodies together. It's not about suffering here but redemption and vital momentum: it's a way of investigating the fragility of being. Anda, Diana challenges the norms associated with the body, making the non-normative body into something revolutionary.
Anda, Diana
Diana Niepce
Lisbon
Anda, Diana (Walk, Diana) sounds like a challenge! Lisbon-based artist Diana Niepce, who was paralysed after a serious accident, turned her reconstruction into a creative force, rediscovering a dancing body. In a dialogue between body and mind, logic and chaos, her performance is a profound autobiographical journey that raises the question of non-normative bodies in the arts.
Practical information
Duration: 50'
Age: 12 and over
Warning: nudity
Bar and restauration on place
Where ?
La Criée - National Theater of Marseille
Carsharing available here from June 3