Anonymous bodies that move at high speed, where are they going?
Why such a hurry?
Walking, running, falling, getting up, but never touching.
They are alone.
They communicate through a screen – a cellphone, a tablet, a pc – who are they?
What do they feel?
A female universe that wavers between strength and fragility.
Characters who metamorphose that are never exclusively one: they are many overlapping, showing and hiding themselves through the narrative.
They want to communicate, they want to speak, but sometimes the voice isn’t enough.
The voice can’t express the feelings.
The words are empty and the relationships virtual.
Discomfort overflows and the eyes show it, the body shows it.
A woman alone, a woman absent in present.
Many women.
A woman, alone.

The choreography was created around four women who take on different characters throughout the play. They bring to the scene a female universe that between the lines reveals dense layers of racial/cultural discrimination as well as gender discrimination too. Women who carry a diffuse and indefinable heritage: between cultures, between languages, between genders, between countries, between colors and gestures. They want to communicate, but there is always a cut halfway through the speech, through the gesture. A fall that does not quite fall because there is an urgency to continue. They also write long virtual paragraphs that are lost in translation. They never say what they mean, or say it, but it isn’t understandable.

 credits

Choreography Sofia Soromenho
Performance Anouschka Freitas, Daniela Serra, Rebeca Sacasi, Sofia Soromenho
Dramaturgy support Daniel Tércio
Sound Vítor Rua
Collaboration António Tavares
Design and video Miguel Serra
Support Direção Geral das Artes; Resto de Nada – Associação Cultural; Teatro do Vestido; Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes de Lisboa (ESTAL); LARGO Residências; Sociedade Musical da União Paredense (SMUP), Alto Comissariado para as Migrações, SOS Racismo