VANISHING is an encounter, a play in two moments, with two performers, two speeches, where each of us composes a choreographic score for the other, repeating patterns, recurrences, organisms. Based on reflections on the ephemerality of dance and the performative act – “dance always vanishes in front of our eyes in order to create a new past” (André Lepecki) – we researched the gesture, presence vs absence, appearance vs disappearance, contemplating the various losses of what was/is no longer.

We delve into the daily life of the body and its particular gestures, in the contaminating observation of others, in the negative spaces in prose, confusing subject and object, mixing action and reaction. We use the “look” as an iconography of observation, research, search, in an ambivalent dialogue of connection, dominance, rejection.

Cycles of time – day metamorphosing into night – as a reference for representation/failure, capture of form, impossibility of it, repetition, transformation, overabundance of movement. Choreographing the invisible, destroy the cycles: now you see me, now you don’t, you disappear inside me, I disappear inside you – you who are seeing me. We find in-between spaces: un-looking, un-formatting, projecting desires, nightmares, dust. Presence in transit, in transition, in a constant demand for places of belonging and memory. Telma João Santos, Beatriz Valentim and Bruno Senune

It must be nice to disappear, To have a vanishing act, To always be looking forward, And never looking back.

Lou Reed