- May 28th – 31st, 2025 Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels
- June 3rd – 4th, 2025 PACT Zollverein, Essen
- June 7th – 8th, 2025 One Dance Festival, Plovdiv
- June 16th – 17th, 2025 MUFFATWERK, Munich
- June 20th – 21st, 2025 WIENER FESTWOCHEN, Vienna
- July 10th – 12th, 2025 Julidans, Amsterdam
- August 27th – 28th, 2025 Tanz im August, Berlin
- September 6th & 8th, 2025 Biennale Danse Lyon, Lyon
- September 12th – 17th, 2025 Centquatre-Paris, Paris
- September 19th – 21st, 2025 Théâtre Chaillot, Paris
- September 24th, 2025 L’Azimut, Antony | Châtenay-Malabry
- October 10th – 11th, 2025 Romaeuropa Festival, Rome
- May 22nd – 23rd, 2026 DE SINGEL, Antwerp
60 minutes
Comfort and Hope
Borda in Portuguese refers to embroidery, decoration, but also to a border, the periphery, something that separates. Geographical and political borders create contradictions: hospitality and hostility, native and non-native. Who belongs and who is excluded, who has a right to exist? Metaphorically, the word ‘borda’ also means imagination, the ability to cross borders, to transcend.
With a new generation of dancers, choreographer Lia Rodrigues weaves a porous embroidery of liquid otherness, with edges that fray, float and dance. In her signature style, starting from the energy of the collective and using simple materials like textiles and plastic, she creates a unique ballet between bodies and matter whose recipe only Rodrigues seems to know. Bodies clump together into constellations, form masses and separate again. With great care, what was separated is brought back together. The result is a succession of powerful images and colourful tableaux.
Rodrigues, after the savoured large-venue productions Fúria and Encantado, once again blankets us in comfort and hope.