Esta hora de Espanto ENG — beatriz valentim

ESTA HORA DE ESPANTO | Né Barros | 2025

Our world is old; beyond the horizon, a predictable future of catastrophe and apocalypse can be glimpsed. What sort of resistance can the body offer against this tumultuous reality? What can dance do when confronted by an acute awareness of extinction? Esta Hora de Espanto [This Hour of Awe], Né Barros’ new “choreodrama”, inspired in a fictional writing by Tiago Mesquita Carvalho, returns to some concepts already explored in Lastro (2015). Using as a starting point such notions as fear, unpredictability, danger and the extreme nature of catastrophes (both interior and exterior ones), the choreographer meditates on the body in the landscape and as landscape, putting its limits to the test. In 2017, Né de Barros wrote the following about Lastro, which was then performed at the São Bento da Vitória Monastery: “Like in a dead-end, there is no progression; this choreography is a march in an endless continuum, leading nowhere.” A few years later, has anything changed? The hour of awe has come.

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