“I’d like to dance the same way you park your car”, by Dimitri, Eliot and Rita
I’d like to dance the same way you park your car is a performance about the political body, a choreographic essay on imagining a utopian body who inhabits the dystopia. A sequence of attempts, failures, and interrupted gestures. The utopian body is the one that has unlearned how to function: a body of suspended action, that does not master space, that does not respond to the urgency of productivity. We live surrounded by bodies that bend, adapt, offer themselves: useful bodies. This one, by contrast, is the body that refuses, until it becomes dysfunctional, obsolete, inefficient. What emerges is the need to pursue the goal of achieving no goal at all and, in that shared failure, to discover another way of being in the world.
Rita Soeiro was born in Porto in 1989. She studied the body — through dance — and the mind — through psychology. She later refused to separate one from the other and founded FOSCO, where art and science, instead of opposing each other, engage in dialogue.
Dimitri Thouzery is a French digital artist and designer. Originally trained in the sciences, he later turned to the visual arts and contemporary art, before dedicating himself entirely, from 2017 onwards, to digital and generative arts. His practice explores the intersection of visual arts and technology, where algorithmic processes become tools for creation and aesthetic expression.
Eliot Benoist, born in 1993, is a musician, dancer and actor based in Toulouse. He began with the electric guitar and played in several rock bands during his adolescence, before turning to the performing arts. Trained at Cours Florent in Montpellier, he completed his formation with workshops by Maguy Marin, Katerina Andreou, Rébecca Chaillon, I-Fang Lin, Argyro Chioti and Dimitra Trypani. Since 2022, he has collaborated with Futur Immoral, where he works as both dancer and musician. At the same time, he joined the Kerman / Sébastien Ly company for the piece Explorer (2025). His work develops at the intersection of experimental music and choreographic performance, seeking to create tension between gesture and sound. His performances emerge from minimalist sound devices, where an economy of means opens a space for raw presence and direct engagement with the audience.
Dance, M14 – 45 min
body – utopia – non-production – obsolescence
Premiere
Mar 6 and 7 / Sala Estúdio at Teatro Campo Alegre
Created and performed by: Eliot Benoist, Rita Soeiro, Dimitri Thouzery
Original music: Eliot Benoist, Dimitri Thouzery
Sound engineer: Luís Faria
Digital arts: Dimitri Thouzery
Co-production and residency support: Instável – Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto*, PAZ – Performance Arts Zone, CRL – Central Elétrica
Artistic mentorship: Anna Vasof
* As part of the Palcos Instáveis cycle