Boca Cova — Michelle Moura
A mouth that swallows everything.
It swallows forests, waters, until it swallows itself.
And all, without exception, will be devoured by the earth.
BOCA COVA – delirium of grandeur, will be the last piece of a trilogy that began with Overtongue (2021) and Lessons for Cadavers (2022). This series of works questions what is artificial and natural in us, and how learning and reproducing a language shapes our behaviours. In BOCA COVA, together with 6 dancers, Michelle Moura will explore physical states between ecstasy and vertigo, human and non-human to generate strange, vulnerable, sculptural bodies in transit, observing how capitalism guides our desire and our relationship with people, nature and ourselves.
In the rehearsal process, the group will draw inspiration from Sebastião Salgado’s epic photos in Serra Pelada, a Brazilian gold mine active in the 1980s, circular dances and non-Western mythologies and perspectives on insatiability, worldly desire and destruction. What does extractivism do to (our) bodies?
Credits
Concept and choreography: Michelle Moura
Performers: Clarissa Rêgo and five more performers to be defined
Sound: Kaj Duncan David
Light: Annegret Schalke
Dramaturgy: Maikon K
Costumes: Thelma Bonavita
Executive Production: Anna Mareike Holtz – ehrliche arbeit
Co-Production Residency: FELD/LAB Espaço do Tempo (PT).
A production by Michelle Moura, with co-production by Sophiensaele and Tanz im August, Berlin. With the support of DKF / Koda Kultur (DK).
About Michelle Moura
Michelle Moura is a Berlin based brazilian choreographer. For several years she had explored strategies to generate psychological and physical changes in minimal pieces. Nowadays, she adds new layers to her work, interested in artifciality and dissociation of elements, she manipulates movement, expression, sound and speech. Her pieces have been consistently presented in international dance and performing arts festivals including Impulstanz (AU), Centre National de la Danse Pantin (FR), HAU – Hebbel am Ufer (DE) and La Biennale di Venezia (IT). As dancer, she has worked with Lea Moro (CH/DE), Wilhelm Groener (DE), Vincent Dupont (FR) among others. Her performance OVERTONGUE, was invited as one of 13 productions to the Tanzplattform Deutschland 2022.
