A Tale for the Rootless Performance

A Tale for the Rootless is a choreographic solo developed and danced by Teresa Noronha Feio. The work is part of an investigation that allows the artist to reconstruct and embody a memory that she does not want to be forgotten. It is born from a desire to belong and be part of something, and for this, it was fundamental to understand in the body aspects of its cultural heritage, including historical, linguistic, and landscape heritage. A Tale for the Rootless is intended to be a mixed-race work and explores how inherited memories are stratified. It does not aim to represent a truth or be a historical documentation, but rather to investigate the meaning of memory, to recognize and appropriate the rhizomatous identity of its own body as an immense container of lived and inherited history.

Creation and Interpretation: Teresa Noronha Feio

Teresa Noronha Feio

Performer and choreographer, Teresa graduated in the Netherlands in 2010. She collaborates with several choreographers, among whom Vânia Gala, Einat Tuchman, and Ornella D'agostino stand out for the impact they had on the maturation and construction of her artistic practice. As an author, Teresa is a co-creator of "Lionel, a bull in a china shop" (2016), and she developed "Imma, in memoria di Aisha Kandisha" (2018), thanks to the National Dance Foundation - Aterballetto in the Brussels-Marrakesh residency project. She also worked on "Until my heart stops" (2020) at the request of Casa da Dança Lavanderia a Vapore in 2020, making its debut. Her work focuses on the various forms and languages that memory contains. In her practice, the body is central and is assumed as an organism in constant transformation and becoming. Teresa investigates the idea of a tattooed body, understood as a container marked by aesthetic, historical, and social constructions. Teresa is a co-founder of the Fabbrica C collective, with which she directs shows, interprets, and accompanies training projects in several professional schools.