I want to speak of what we conceal. I did not exist almost my entire life because of the belief of having to exist in a body that was not my own. I will no longer apologize to the norm-police, that destroys everything that diverges from it. I am not incomplete. I want to stop this violation of my intimacy and no one shall tell me how to be. I stopped looking for my body in the body of the other and I found myself as the other. In the secret deal that makes my body a storyteller, I found the meaning of its intimate and real condition.

In Anda, Diana (Come, Diana), the dancer and acrobat Diana Niepce portrays the process of her self-reconstruction (after a fall that caused her a spinal cord injury) in an honest dialogue between body and mind, logic and chaos, until finally creating the dancing body. In this performance, we are suggested to question what the norm is, defying prejudices and ideas extant in society related to the aesthetics of bodies. Here, despite being present, the disability does not represent a victim of the system. On the contrary, this non-normative body stands as revolutionary.

The project Anda, Diana also has an autobiography edited by Sistema Solar. An inner narrative developed from cruelly real facts, contaminated by the author’s artistic perspective.