XANA NOVAIS

THE MUSEUM AS PERFORMANCE

#ELECTRA VAI AO #TECHNO, 120’

Museum

12 OCT

Performance

12 OCT | 22:00

Age rating 18+

Xana Novais, #Electra vai ao #Techno @ Mário J . Negrão

#ELECTRA VAI AO #TECHNO proposes a body receiving electric shocks produced by the vibrations of a dismembered drum set. Her skin dances, not of its own accord, but because the sound makes it move. The body moves through stimuli, assuming itself available for movements in response to what surrounds it and to the words invoked by Electra. What dances arise in the involuntary search for a body that starts moving again after the world came to a halt during a pandemic situation? What gestures arise in the voluntary search for revisiting a classic? It is a manifestation made by a single person, where the body is sacrificed by entering a state of trance for the sake of her desire to be reborn from painful situations, from muscles in tension and, finally, for the sake of her art.

#ELECTRA VAI AO #TECHNO shows that a dancer's body has memory - but it also forgets that a body gets tired of the lack of social stimuli and, above all, that it can die if it doesn't have discipline and control over itself.

* This show includes full nudity, explicit sexual scenes, blood, body fluids and mutilation.

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Xana Novais

Xana Novais was born in Porto in 1995 and develops her work in transdisciplinary artistic direction and as a performer. She graduated in Theatre from the Balleteatro Professional School in Porto in 2013 and later took the FAICC dance course at Companhia Instável. Her career highlights include participating as a performer in plays by Pedro Zegre Penim, Teatro Praga, Hugo Calhim Cristovão and Joana Von Mayer Trindade, João Pedro Vale and Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Estrutura and Carlota Canto Lagido.

Since 2017, she has collaborated regularly with the artist Florentina Holzinger on the works APOLLON, A DIVINE COMEDY, OPHELIAS GOT TALENT and SANCTA. In 2019, she starred as Dolores in the series DOLORES by Tota Alves (RTPlay). She created and is the author of the shows (VS) POPCORN, Un Teknè, (G) Dysphoria APP, co-created One Way To Pandora with photographer Diogo Bessa and premiered Como Matar Mulheres Nuas at the Teatro Municipal do Porto in 2022. In her creative, research and performance work, she uses her own body to explore and question the limits of the work of art, and the boundaries between fiction and reality.