Scattered movements, percussions, deformed faces and fast pace: Marlene Monteiro Freitas’ dance is a world of metamorphosis and overdetermination, that overwhelms the viewer with an incredible force, and yet is able each time to dig into the deep intimacy of human nature. With her new choreography, Mal – Embriaguez Divina, she constructs an intensive performance, to give body to human fascination for the evil and the unease. The Mal, has long been personified by the Devil, also found in different traditions as Antichrist, Satan, Leviathan, Lucifer, as well as Witch, Wizard, Women, Animal, Hybrid, Mutant and so on. Monteiro Freitas’ Mal starts from there to take place on a tribune, where a group, in the form of a choir, remains under the influence of haunting visions, toxic testimonies, bacterial impressions, rotten facts. They see as much as they are surveyed. It is a choreography where the Mal itself might move among its references, between the religious, moral, ethical, political and judiciary discourse. After her worldwide success with Bacchantes, Marlene Monteiro Freitas returns to Brussels – and to its bigger stage in Théâtre National – with a unique choreographic work full of overflowing energy.
 

Confronted with the SARS-CoV-2 crisis, we had to cancel this project