hornfuckers

HORNFUCKERS

We keep questioning the norm, its hierarchy and its logic. We forget what we are and what we should be, suspending ourselves in an apocalyptic universe, existing and resisting within a daily perversity, a kind of delirium that celebrates cruelty and violence while we struggle to survive in a sadistic search for a logic that transcends the comprehension of the body’s reconfiguration and re-signification.
Here, we question stereotypes and defy gravity, intertwining lyricism and violence in an image that reveals a body in constant confrontation with its limits and boundlessness. In a landscape composed of order and chaos, submission and revolt, Hornfuckers question what we are, what is imposed upon us, and how the system that sustains us can also be a source of unpredictability and oppression. 

Hornfuckers operates in a hybrid language between dance, performance, and circus.
By transforming reality into fiction, an imaginary is constructed and distorted, seeking to reveal mechanisms of control and mass manipulation.
A hypnotic and transcendent poetics unfolds, in which order and chaos coexist. A landscape emerges from the fragile balance of these contradictory forces that inhabit the bodies and the eternal hiatus they dwell in.
In constant tension with norms, hierarchies, and oppressive systems, and through the revolt, emancipation, and reconfiguration of these bodies, an abyss emerges between the dominated and the dominator, where their interdependence is recognized.

ARTISITC DIRECTOR |  Diana Niepce
PERFORMERS |  Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Baxi Ostrowski, Daniel Seabra, Inês Cóias, Izabel Nejur, Margarida Montenÿ, Marta Cardoso
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE |  Lucas Damiani, Batata
MOVEMENT SUPPORT |  Ana Sofia Leite
DRAMATURGY SUPPORT |  Rui Catalão
EXTERNAL PERSPECTIVE |  Batata, Diana Anselmo, Maurícia Barreira Neves, Silvana Ivaldi, Teresa Silva
SET DESIGN | Eric da Costa
MUSIC |  Gonçalo Alegria
LIGHT DESIGN | Leticia Skrycky
COSTUMES |  Silvana Ivaldi
PRODUCTION DIRECTION | Joana Costa Santos
RIGGERS |  Margarida Ralha, Roger Madureira
RIGGING |  Evil Angels Rigging
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR |  Roger Madureira
A PRODUCTION | Niepce and Culturgest
CO-PRODUCED BY | Europe Beyond Access (Culturgest, Skånes Dansteater, Project Arts Centre, CODA Oslo International Dance Festival, Holland Dance Festival, Kampnagel Hamburg, Mercat de les Flors - Casa de la Dansa, Onassis Stegi, Oriente Occidente Rovereto IT, and ZAMEK Culture Centre), co-funded by the European Union; DDD - Festival Dias da Dança; deSingel International Arts Center; Un Label
CO-PRODUCTION IN RESIDENCY |  O Espaço do Tempo, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras
DIFFUSION |  Culturgest, Something Great
SUPPORT |  República Portuguesa - Cultura, Juventude e Desporto | Dgartes - Direção Geral das Artes; Câmara Municipal de Lisboa - Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, Área de Leitura para Deficientes Visuais da Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
THANKS |  Pedro Barreiro