When our heart breaks, how many parts does it split into? Do we then share the pieces of our hearts with others without realizing it? Are love, sharing, and heartbreak separated from each other, or are they linked together?

no c o r a ç ã o dela explores heartbreak, romance and its cheesiness, and the process of mending a broken heart. The project delves into how these individual feelings are profoundly collective experiences that defy quantification. Rather than isolating heartache as a private, internalised experience, no c o r a ç ã o dela investigates how these emotions connect us: how we impact those around us and how they influence us. How do our hearts transform through love and loss? How do emotional fractures create new connections, forming a collective map of our experiences?

The artistic team uses dance, music, and storytelling to convey this collective journey of the heart. This goes from call and response, a freestyle dance floor practice brought in by Myriam Lucas and DJs Vanyfox and Shaka Lion, through okcandice’s writing on grief and Filipa Rocha Nunes’ field research on public policies and poetics, to the visual archive of the project by Rafaela Nato. The musicians, writers, and dancers merge their individual experiences of heartbreak with their artistic practices, creating a shared narrative of romance and loss. It abandons a vision of romance only meant for two, looking for a collective one, ready to embrace and address feelings of heartbreak and longing.

After Lounge (awarded with ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award 2023 and selected for Tanzplattform Deutschland 2024 and Impulse Theater Festival 2024), no c o r a ç ã o dela is the second co-production of Marga Alfeirão with Sophiensæle.

Marga Alfeirão (Lisbon,1994) uses media to carve safe spaces for the exploration of intimacy and sexuality through dance and performance. Heavily influenced by dance-genres and sound textures from the african diaspora disseminated through Lisbon’s social tissue, she delves into secrecy and disclosure of the feminine. Her first work Lounge – a lesbian lap dance duet – was awarded with the ImPulsTanz – Young Choreographers’ Award 2023.

[Source: sophiensaele.com]

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