Susana Domingos Gaspar - Andor | 12 - 18 june
Free residency at EiMa
Synopsis

Andor is a choreography constructed from a text of an autobiographical nature, which weaves relationships between a personal situation of trauma and the broader struggle for rights related to gender issues. How does a mother assure her right to motherhood? What happens in the viewer's gaze if a story about the right to motherhood is told by a transfemale non-binary person? From a profane approach to the communication mechanism of sacred art, the attributes of a body, the spatialization of a speech and the movement of assisting the displacement of one person are worked, as a gesture of propulsion of the other and of oneself, in the act of walking collectively. Andor is a work of reconnection to the collective.

 
Biography
 
Susana Domingos Gaspar
(1980, Torres Novas, Portugal). Artistic direction, choreography and text. She graduated in Dance/Performance, at Escola Superior de Dança (2002), studied Choreography in the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program (2005) and Dance in the Community at the Fórum Dança (2007). She post-graduated in Fasciatherapy/Somatology (2007). In 2014, she joined the residency and mentoring program of the Polverigi Festival in Italy, with the accompaniment of Cláudia Dias, Francesca Lattuada and Iris Karayan. She studied with Emannuelle Huynh, at Minde. She is doing the Somatic Movement Education Program in Body-Mind Centering, with Movimiento Atlas Association in Spain, with the support of DGArtes and GDA Foundation. She worked with Né Barros, São Nunes, Madalena Vitorino, Ainhoa Vidal, Marina Nabais, Filipa Francisco, Vera Alvelos and Aldara Bizarro. She assisted Manuela Pedroso, Costanza Givone and Sílvia Real. Choreographed "Register" (2005), "Enleio", with the Follow up of the Gulbenkian Choreography Course (2006), "Trees connect birds to the earth", with the support of DGArtes (2007), "It was as if the floor swallowed her" and "The Chestnut’s Rid" (2009), "I die where I am trapped" (2010), in the context of the commemoration of the centenary of the Republic, "Ostinato Cantabile" (2015), "Lava" and "Ka" (2016), "Catalága", for the programming Caminhos (2017), "Classe do Jaime", with the Creation Scholarship Filhos do Meio, given by Materiais Diversos (2018), "Housing Collective" with the support of GDA Foundation and DGArtes, "À Sombra de mis cabels" for the programming Volver (2021) and “As Amigas da Gaspar”, with the co-production of International Puppets and Animated Forms Festival 2022, Artemrede and Materiais Diversos. She collaborated with the Montemuro Theatre and Amarelo Silvestre , in the theater area. She has been developing pedagogical work since 2002 and was responsible for the educational service of the Carlos Reis Municipal Museum, between 2015 and 2018. She developed political, trade union and associative work. She collaborated with the Housing Movement and was a member of Ação Cooperativista and Lopes Graça Choir.