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Diana Niepce (Portugal) - The other side of dance

In her solo The Other Side Of The Dance, Niepce analyses the history of dance and the hierarchical principles that spur the body on to movement. She does not spare her own body anywhere – quite the opposite, she puts it to a severe test. With minimal staging and sometimes biting sarcasm, Niepce shows the non-normative body not as a victim but as a revolutionary entity.

Diana Niepce, considered one of the most appealing new faces of Portuguese dance, describes her dance piece as "a survey of the invisible in dance history". In a fascinating journey, she turns the laws of physics around movement upside down, drawing inspiration from artists who have elevated their non-normativity to artistic identity – for example, Bill Shannon, Claire Cunningham, David Toole and Neil Marcus.

In the 35-minute solo, Niepce is joined on stage by three 'performer assistants', who accompany her on this demanding, brutal journey through an alternative dance history archive.

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