Ana Renata Polónia

[Portugal]

KAMA

© Ana Renata Polónia

“Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. ”Oscar Wilde
KAMA represents the space in which to explore the relationship between different genders. This choreographic research aims to cross techniques of contact-improvisation while illustrating ancient Indian texts, Kama Sutra of Vātsyāyana, that explore the possible individual sovereignty that occurs in these encounters. Two bodies that construct a narrative about the history of gender and their eternal conflicts.

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Ana Renata Polónia

Ana Renata Polónia is from Ovar living and working in Porto. In her training, she sought to study the possible affiliations between different artistic areas. She completed her Master's Degree at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto exploring the relationship between dance and space in analysis of dance videos in the 1990s. In 2012 she began her video work with A Dimensão Oculta de Renata Polónia focusing on movement as a form of exploring space (Best Portuguese Film Award - InShadow'12). She also made the short films ÊXODO (2013) and MESA (2013) with Teresa Santos and Dídac Gilabert, the latter evolving into performative research.
In 2013 she began her collaboration with a choreography-sharing platform between artists from Porto, actively participating in Mostras desNORTE, a self-organized annual event with the support of the São João National Theater. In 2015 she entered the Formação Avançada em Criação e Interpretação Coreográfica (FAICC) of the Company Instável, where she began a new choreographic research, titled Yeborath, with Joana Lopes. She furthermore collaborates with Nuno Pimenta with whom she creates the ONE by 1 project (2015-2019), a performative research on human dimensions inserted in within the public sphere, , selected to integrate the Prague Quadrennial in 2019. In 2017 she attends the Formação Especializada em Cenografia at the School of Architecture of the University of Minho and begins the creation of CARROSSEL, which debuted in 2018 with shows in 2019.
Her creations have been presented in different contexts of the programme, namely:
Festival MAP/P 2014 (Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória, TNSJ, Porto), Serralves em Festa 2015 (Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto), Palcos Instáveis 2015 / 2018 (Teatro Municipal do Porto – Campo Alegre), Happy Together 2015 (Mala Voadora, Porto), Festival IMAGINARIUS 2016 (Santa Maria da Feira), Noite Branca 2016 (Braga), Festival MITO 2016 (Associação Sol’Alma, Ovar), Festival Dias da Dança 2017 (Teatro Municipal do Porto – Campo Alegre), Festival Temps d’Images Lisboa 2018, Prague Quadrennial of Performance, Design and Space 2019 (Praga, República Checa).
She collaborates as interpreter with Alice Joana Gonçalves in Apocalipse (2012), Willi Dorner in Bodies in Urban Spaces (2013), Vera Mota in Several (2013), Catarina Miranda and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha in DOBRALÍNGUA (2013), SANCTA VISCERA TUA (2014), REIPOSTO REIMORTO (2014-2015), NEXØ (2015) and ECO DA VÍSCERA (2015-2017), Cristina Planas Leitão and Jasmina Krizaj in THE VERY DELICIOUS PIECE XL (2016), Luísa Saraiva and Alejandro Russo in T R I O (2016-2017).