Desabar to Collapse
Marina Dubia (BR/DK)
The performance seeks to generate a space of affective charge that tethers on the edge of aggression, joy, and their mutual transformations. Desabar means to collapse in Portuguese, and desabar is all around us.
Bones collapse, affections shatter and relations overflow. Hello world. How did we get here? In the detail of you-with-me: these violent afflictions, everyday pulse, everyday disgrace, what have I got to do with it? Make way, brace, pace, train your /self/, give it up: are we still together now? In Desabar to Collapse, performers express personal engagements to everyday violence in a challenging and intimate piece with a celebratory twist: can we move through strong emotional expression while keeping spirits high? Fall over, release!
The performance premiered at Overgaden during Art Week Copenhagen 2023.
ABOUT MARINA DUBIA
Marina Dubia is a Copenhagen based artist born in São Paulo. Marina Dubias projects seek destabilization of ordinary perceptive routes, inquisitive observation and to untangle bodies, narratives and language.
CREDITS
PERFORMANCE BY Marina Dubia (BR/DK)
MUSIC: Gustavo Lemos (BR)
PERFORMERS AT SELECTED WORKS FESTIVAL 2025: Oriane Paras (FR/DK), Paulina Rewucka (PL/DK) and Sophia Mage (US/DK).
PREVIOUS PERFORMERS AND INPUT FROM: Carol Cantelli, Isis Andreatta, Julie Schmidt Andreasen, Lara Vejrup Ostan, Teresa Moura and Tiago Amate.
THANK YOU TO: Alice Martucci, Amilcar Packer, ARIEL Feminisms, Miriam Frandsen, Mônica Hoff, Paolo d. v. Gile, Vera Østrup and Vinícius Maffei.
PR PHOTOS: Katja Crevar
SUPPORTED BY: O-Overgaden, Fonte, Pivô Pesquisa, ICI-CCN, Statens Kunstfond, Husets Teatret/TOASTER and Det Frie Felts Festival.
