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Elisabete Finger
Brazilian choreographer and performer. Her creations investigate the materiality and anatomy of bodies and things, exposing textures, densities, forms, and fluids in situations that explore the borders between delight and disturbance. Through the contact-collision of different materials, she experiments logics guided by sensations and eroticisms, which often rub against meanings and social or cultural expectations. Her recent work proposes unexpected encounters between very different partners, as a way to practice political ecologies, rehearsing other forms of empathy.
She studied Law / Public Politics in Brazil, Dance and Choreography in different places such as the Essais program at CNDC d’Angers (France) and the MA SODA (UdK/HZT, Berlin). She is based in Berlin since 2021, maintaining ongoing collaborations in Brazil and other countries. Finger was a fellow of the Martin Roth Initiative 2021/2022, and in 2023 is a resident artist at Radialsystem, in the frame of Weltoffenes Berlin fellowship.
CORRA RÁPIDO, MORDA FORTE
RUN FAST, BITE HARD
ELISABETE FINGER + MANUELA EICHNER
Looking at some “creation myths” – different versions many cultures have for the beginning of everything – we can find references of a time when humanity, animals, plants, things, space, time, future, past used to be together. We can find narratives about fantastic creatures that were at once male and female, old and young, human and serpent, or horse, or plant. Within not always peaceful relations, we can learn about heterogeneous encounters and hybrid anatomies, acknowledging a complex capacity of cooperation, engaged with the challenges of an interconnected existence.
Between choreography and collage, moving through association and disassociation, coupling and uncoupling, RUN FAST, BITE HARD reimagines some gestures and practices of care, to encompass more expansive or promiscuous models for living and dying together in this world.
Monstra
A CHOREOGRAPHY-COLLAGE FOR PEOPLE AND PLANTS
Sequences of independent choreographic cells – blocks of actions that attach and detach from each other rather brutally, as if snipped by scissors. An ecosystem that stands between classic and absurd, analog and digital, domestic and wild, delicacy and delirium. A 335-million-year existence seen in 360 degrees.
Elisabete Finger + GIRADANÇA
A glimpse into the diversity of female bodies and their not always diverse representations. Three performers embody postures and positions, more or less familiar, found in personal archives, women's magazines, advertisements, paintings, and historical sculptures, even reaching decorative objects for sale on amazon.com. From ancient mythology to contemporary life, how have women been portrayed? Which bodies are protagonists in these representations, and what actions are attributed to them? Here, choreography becomes an "economy" - a regime of activities that governs a dance – to embody narratives, to make and unmake our own archetypes of beauty, power, fertility, ecstasy, love, and war.
Graça
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