Little inventory of the commonplace

"Life is just what happens to you, while your busy making other plans".
Jonh Lennon



According to Roman philosopher Seneca, the part of life that we really live is small. For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time. In this sense, these small memories and actions of everyday life – though devoid of relevance – are the exact materialization of the passage of time. And although time is important to us because it leads us to death, it remains often unconsciously acknowledged, as well as most of our daily thoughts, actions, gestures, and chats. In other words, we seldom feel the flow of time, even though we know it is passing each minute.

Escalators: Movement and control in public spaces

What is allowed and what is forbidden in public spaces? What is suspicious?
On who or what shall we mistrust?
What are the codes and rules of behavior we follow to belong to a certain group?
How do we take part in the controlling structures in everyday life?

She and something else - study for a banal solo

A speculation about the daily poetics, the ordinary actions that constitute the everyday life, and, however and for that very reason, pass unnoticed. Study created for the 2008 SESC Dance Solos/Rio de Janeiro.

Real life in 3 chapters

A trilogy composed of three autonomous but interconnected works: the solo performance Strategy No. 1: in between; the group performance Instruction Manual and the installation I is someone else. Real life in 3 chapters explores the possible connections between life and the stage and shares in the collection of significant questions posed by Dani Lima's work, such as the development of a “body’s everyday life poetics” and the cultivation of strategies for a possible “utopia of proximity”.

Chapter 3: I is someone else

An installation that recreates the performance “Strategy No. 1: in between” through the traces and vestiges - polaroids, audio, objects - left behind by the participants, and collected since the first exhibition of this performance, in Rio de Janeiro, November 2004. An experience recreated through the vestiges left by those who have lived it. An attempt to bring permanency to what is, by nature, ephemeral. Time, small memories that build us daily, everyday life poetics.

Chapter 2: Instructions Manual
Public and private spheres intersect through the use of games, rules and instructions taken from the memories of the participants. A recollection of the references that have established us as individuals, as dancers, as Brazilians. The notion of identity - of a body, a dance, a group, a nation - as a construction marked by the view of the “Other”. The “neo-colonialism”, the “Brazilian body”.

Chapter 1: Strategy nº 1: in between
A meeting between two people, a spectator and a performer, whose roles are defined a priori, but whose experiences are managed in the singularity of the moment. Intimacy as a sensitive experience, memory and the perception of the present, reality versus fiction, identity versus Otherness. Individual sessions of about 50 minutes.

Do the parts speak of the whole?

a body that sees and is seen
listens and is heard
touches and is touched
feels and is felt



Do the parts speak of the whole? is the intersection of dance and visual arts. An interactive choreographical installation that explors the relationship between body and space, confronting the spectators with their habitual perceptions of space: body spaces, space for art and their own space as audience.

Arm, part, reflex, word, foot, face... do the parts speak of the whole? Is it possible to perceive the whole ? Does the point of view modify what is perceived?