Swerve

Margarida Neto: “Back Home”

“Back Home” is an intimate dance and experimental music work that explores longing as a magnetic pull or force. One that draws us inward plus into a place outside of us we feel called to. A place we want to call ours.

In this piece, longing is not about possession, but about inhabitation: a search for a space where we can willingly stay for hours.

It dives into the idea that certain situations or connections feel familiar not because they repeat, but because they awaken something deeply rooted in the body.

“Back Home” asks: Will you want the same thing when you have become a different being altogether?

Live music will be played in parallel supporting the story’s emotional layer. The voice, embodies the woman’s inner awareness/subconsciousness, while the piano, performed live by Thomas Wansing, focuses in the man’s internal quest.

Pier-Loup Lacour: “Perspectives”

“Perspectives” is a work that investigates how an audience’s perception can be shaped. Centered on the recurrence of a single duet, the piece examines how emotion, and meaning of a choreography shift when identical mouvements are placed in radically different theatrical settings. The dance invites the spectators to reflect on how easily emotions can be guided and what that reveals about the act of watching art.

Beatriz Hack-Canabal: “The Weight of Stepping”

“The Weight of Stepping” is inspired by Viagem à Antártida (Trip to Antarctica), a diary published in El País by Eliane Brum, one of Brazil’s most influential journalists. In this text, Brum reflects on the meaning and consequences of existing in the world, addressing the physical and symbolic weight of our actions and the traces we leave, on one another and on the planet. Every action, every choice carries consequences. Yet when traveling to one of the most untouched places on Earth, this awareness becomes profoundly real. In Antarctica, the impact of human presence is no longer abstract, it is immediate, fragile, and undeniable.

Before embarking on this journey, Brum, who lives in the Amazon, writes: “Today, in the 21st century, our challenge is to measure the impact of human action that has altered the planet’s climate and to seek ways to reduce it. I leave behind a forest in convulsion, ever closer to the point of no return, to venture into a universe that is, quite literally, melting.”

Oscar Alonso: “Tinnitus”

“Tinnitus” is a contemporary dance piece that aims to explore the physical and emotional experience of living with chronic inner noise. The work explores the tension that provoke this injury, tracing a journey from disturbance and fatigue toward moments of relief. Through a newly created electronic soundscape and a collaborative choreographic process, “Tinnitus” asks how music and movement might help us cope with — and briefly quiet — the noise within.

Livia Gil

Researching dancers bodies and the power of music shapes this work. Aiming to explore how classical music and contemporary sensibilities intersect through movement, space and perception. Taking the canonical opening Aria of “The Goldberg Variations” by Johann Sebastian Bach as a point of departure, the piece unfolds through a reimagined score composed by Paul Calderone and an abstract physical language shaped by repetition, variations and subtle shifts in connection and longitude.

Created specifically for the architecture of Z-Bau, the work treats space as an active choreographic partner, inviting fluid proximity between performers and audience. The venue’s atmosphere allows attention, presence and encounter to constantly renegotiate, aligning with inclusive values and democratic views on dance and culture. Rooted in tradition yet searching for renewal, the piece asks how inherited forms can remain alive and how the classical can be challenged and still guide us toward new, authentic expressions.