Diana Niepce
Bio
Diana Niepce is a dancer, choreographer, and writer based in Portugal. She studied at the School of Dance, Erasmus at Helsiniki Theater academy (Teak), Forum Danca, and New University of Lisbon. She has collaborated with many other dancers, choreographers, and companies including Company Rosas, Felix Ruckert, Willi Dorner, La fura del baus, May Joseph, Jérome Bel, João Galante, and many others. She was on the Jury (basically meaning she earned an award) at the 2018 Acceso Cultura award and on the official Jury at the screen-dance festival Inshadow. Additionally, Niepce is a published author, having written an article that appeared in the book “Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker in Lisbon," a children's story called “Bayadére," a poem called "2014" in the magazine Flanzine, and the article "Experimento o corpo" in the journal Coreia.
(All information from Diana Niepce's website)
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Video Description
A woman is illuminated in red light as she hangs from a rope. Intense music plays in the background. The video pans down to show approximately four other dances beneath her. Each dancer is in an acrobatic position. The shot changes angle and four dancers spin suspended from ropes. The camera angle again changes and shows one woman stand up from a position lying on the floor. There are three dancers lying on the stage, doing floor work. One woman is attached to a rope and starts flailing as she is pulled upward to a suspended position. The scene changes to a group of women standing on a stage. Two squat while four stand. One of the standing women has both hands on the arms of a walker. The other women all have their eyes on her. The lights flash and the image freezes with the words “Forgotten Fog” on the screen as the music continues to play.