Marga Alfeirão
WORK

LOUNGE

The word “lounge” is both a verb, meaning to sit or lie in a relaxed way, and a noun, meaning a public room where people may relax. Lounging is both an action and a place, a space that you shape and inhabit and savour. This dual nature of rest, of waiting, of moving and being moved, is at the heart of this piece. LOUNGE is a duet for two female-identifying bodies. Together they move through states of active and passive rest, using each other’s presence to go deeper into themselves and the vibe. Permeating the piece is the notion of the Invisible Lapdance, consisting of small, nearly imperceptible dances that use the gaze to blur the borders between the giver and receiver. Sensuality is integral to this piece, and consequently so too is atmosphere. By relying on erotics and building togetherness, LOUNGE taps into the comfort of rest as an active claim of womanhood.

Credits  


Concept: Marga Alfeirão

Performance: Mariana Benengue, Myriam Lucas

Choreography and dance developed with: Myriam Lucas, Cajsa Godée, Mariana Benengue

Music editing and mixing: Shaka Lion

Scenography: Yoav Admoni

Costume design: Nani Bazar

Light design: Thais Nepomuceno Veiga

Dramaturgical support: Jette Büchsenschütz

Distribution: neon lobster - Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch

Thanks to: Francisca Spuzi

A production by Marga Alfeirão, in co-production with Sophiensaele, Berlin



no c o r a ç ã o dela

no c o r a ç ã o dela examines the heart, what breaks it and how we put it back together again and again. Marga Alfeirão and her team explore the communal dimension of heartbreak and romance: fueled by dancefloor knowledge of togetherness and collaborative writing practices, the group of DJs, writers and dancers attempt to intertwine the cracks of their respective practices with their hearts.

no c o r a ç ã o dela explores the question, how – regarding fabricated romance on politics of violence – a collective can embrace and transform feelings of heartbreak and disappointment.


Credits  


Concept, choreography, performance: Marga Alfeirão

Performance: Myriam Lucas

Choreography and dance developed with: Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benengue

Music editing and mixing: Shaka Lion, Vanyfox

Dramaturgy and Texts: okcandice, Filipa da rocha nunes

Costume design: Isabel Edi

Light design: Thais Nepomuceno Veiga

Production support: Tiphaine Carrère

Distribution and accompaniment: neon lobster - Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch

Video and photo documentation: Rafaela Neto

Funded by the Berliner Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt. In co-production with Sophiensaele Berlin and Kampnagel Hamburg.






TOUR DATES
UPCOMING, PAST
   
Marga Alfeirão
05. - 08.12. Premiere!
Berlin, Germany
no c o r a ç ã o dela at Sophiensaele




BIO

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,
Alfeirão attempts an active claim of womanhood, making room for female and feminine-gazed sensualities. After graduation at from HZT’s BA in dance and choreography in Berlin, she premiered LOUNGE (2023), a lapdance co-signed by 3 artists: 2 dancers and one dj, on the relationship of erotics and rest, in the frame of Tanztage. The work was awarded the 8:tension Young Choreographers Award in the same year.
In the same year she premiered NO BIGGIE DEAL, a solo on Notourios B.I.G., the brooklyn rapper, deriving from tabloidism and nostalgia inciting the question- is Biggie Bisexual?
Her first group work no c o r a ç ã o dela will premiere this December, together with a team of 8 artists, in Sophiensaele in Berlin.