Concept: Willi Dorner

Assistent: Esther Steinkogler

Performers: Adriana MacKenzie, Ana Catarina Pereira, Ana Costa, Ana Patrícia Moreira, Bárbara Ramos, Catarina Saraiva, Cristiana Neto, Inês Oliveira, Isadora Rosa, João Oliveira, Juliana Fernandes, Lucia Nordhoff, Mafalda Dias, Maria Cargnelli, Myrto Krasaki, Raquel Coutinho, Salomé Rodrigues, Sara Monteiro &Victor Filipe Gomes

Co-Production: Companhia Instável & Casa da Arquitetura

21st of November 2022 - Matosinhos neighbourhood, Portugal

Bodies in Urban Spaces is a moving trail, choreographed for a group of dancers. The performers lead the audience through selected parts of public and semi-public spaces. A chain of physical interventions set up very quickly and only existing temporarily, allows the viewer to perceive the same space or place in a new and different way – on the run.

Appropriation of city spaces, architecture that exercises power over us and behavioral conventions in public spaces are put forward to discussion…

The project boycotts underlying commands and dictations that are poured in concrete, it points them out by breaking them. It is a political statement on residents living in cities that have to fit into given architectural structures.

The project has been performed in more than in 140 cities in the world i.g. NYC, London, Moscow, Vienna, São Paolo, Hongkong, Montreal, Macau, Paris, Sydney, Copenhagen, Berlin… and this time in Porto.