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No Corpo: Assim se Conhece o Mundo
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It premiered on 10 April 2025 at São Luiz Teatro Municipal.
“What can human knowledge
do to restore your mutilated sense?"
Cordelia, in King Lear, William Shakespeare
As soon as you enter, it begins. As soon as you leave, it's not over yet.
Going through a show by Vânia Rovisco is like running off in all directions and finding the entire universe in a pore of skin.
It is recognising by repeating, continuing to coexist, unfolding between four dignities: standing, lying down, sitting, walking. Four ways of being fully ourselves: Rovisco seeks what makes us feel at home in our own skin.
bodies and what makes us travel the world. Asking about what afflicts, moves, stirs, agitates, consoles. Questioning the regular gesture of stepping on the ground.
How do we move between tasks and between meanings if we are 23, 5, 47, or 64 years old? What is it like to love, create, fail, disagree, listen, or stop as an action and as a word? Where do they clash? Where and how do they fit together?
Vânia Rovisco invites us to an immersive experience where each person is a fundamental part of the wheel they choose.