LOUNGE
Marga Alfeirão
As a verb, ‘to lounge’ means to sit or lie down in a relaxed manner. As a noun, ‘a lounge’ signifies a public space where people can relax. ‘Lounge’ is therefore both an action and a place, a space that you can shape, inhabit, and enjoy. This dual nature of rest – of waiting, of moving and being moved – is central in this performance.
LOUNGE is a duet for two bodies who identify as women. Together, they move through states of active and passive rest. In doing so, they make use of each other's presence to delve deeper into themselves and the atmosphere.
The notion of the Invisible Lap Dance plays a role throughout the piece, consisting of small, quasi-imperceptible dances that make use of the gaze to blur the boundaries between giver and receiver. Leaning on eroticism and forms of togetherness, the comfort of relaxation emerges as an active statement of femininity.
Marga Alfeirão (Lisbon, 1994) uses different media to create safe spaces in which intimacy and sexuality can be explored through dance and performance. Strongly influenced by dance genres and sound textures from the African diaspora that have permeated the social fabric of Lisbon, Alfeirão tries to actively lay claim to femininity, through which she creates space for feminine forms of sensuality and forms viewed from a feminine perspective. Lounge (2023) was awarded the [8:tension] Young Choreographers Award. In that same year, she premiered No Biggie Deal, a solo piece about Notorious B.I.G., the rapper from Brooklyn, stemming from the sensationalism and nostalgia that raised the question: was Biggie bisexual? Her first group work, no c o r a ç ã o dela, premiered last December with a team of eight artists, in Sophiensaele, Berlin.
Conception Marga Alfeirão Performance Mariana Benengue, Marga Alfeirão ⎸ Choreography Marga Alfeirão, Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benengue ⎸ Music editing and mixing Shaka Lion and Hinna Jafri Scene Yoav Admoni ⎸ Styling and costumes Mariana Benenge, Marga Alfeirão ⎸ Light design Thais Nepomuceno Veiga ⎸Dramaturgy Jette Büchsenschütz and Mateusz Szymanówka ⎸ Distribution neon lobster Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch ⎸ Production support Francisca Spuzi ⎸ A production by Marga Alfeirão ⎸ in co-production with Sophiensæle, Berlin
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