Oro negro. Poliana Lima

A two-body solo with live music that uses the metaphor of oil to poetically associate the process of excavating a treasure with the enhancement of elements and identities denied and excluded in hegemonic Western culture. Oro negro conceives the body as a territory of living memory, with biographical, family and community, socio-cultural, mythical and spiritual references. This piece moulds and applies clichés to culminate in an overflow in which the spectator’s gaze is pushed into position.

Poliana Lima is a Brazilian choreographer, dancer and teacher based in Madrid. In 2011 she made her first creation, the short piece Palo En La Rueda. A year later, she began collaborating with Lithuanian choreographer Ugne Dievaityte, whose pieces toured several national and international festivals. Taking the body as the central object of her expression, Poliana explores the possibilities of creating poetics on stage that are capable of communicating with the audience in a simple and profound way. Themes such as identity and memory are recurrent in her creations, to which she adds the relationship between creation and pedagogy, which she considers a fundamental part of her work as an artist.