Yellow Puzzle Horse is a dance for a self made dress in a constructed forest. The dress, as important as the sewing and the dancing, as forbidden labours.
What does it mean to be queer when you are alone away from another’s gaze? What is queerness as a relation with oneself? During the last months, while the world withdraws in isolation, I started spending long periods in the forest whilst thinking, fantasizing, and experimenting this dance. Spending time in the forest made me notice and relate with matter in transformation. The way the same matter assumes shapes as a tree, a bug, a mushroom, a bear or a berry. Also, the way the berry becomes the bear when it is eaten, how the tree becomes a mushroom when occupied by the fungus, how the mushroom becomes part of my body when I eat it. The body, as the forest, as a space for mutable constellations, where one thing can become another but can also decompose and rest in the space in between, when the tree is neither the tree or the fungus but an unnamed constellation in between this process.
choreography, dance, dress, objects, and light Dinis Machado ‧ original soundtrack Odete ‧ photo documentation of the performance Lo River Lööf ‧ coproduced by Weld (Estocolmo / SE), Skogen (Gotemburgo / SE), MARC (Kivic / SE)) e ZDB (Lisboa / PT) // Siobhan Davis Dance (Londres / Reino Unido), Inter arts Centre (Malmö / SE) ) // Citemor (Montemor o Velho / PT) ‧ production support by Metal (Peterborough / UK) ‧ funded by Kulturrådet (SE), DGArtes (PT) and Arts Council England (UK) ‧
October 14 and 15 ‧ mala voadora