Maurícia Neves | anesthetize

Maurícia | Neves

(Portimão, 1989)
Choreographer and performer, has been producing her own dance, performance, installation and music creations, while also trying her hand at costumes and light design in her works. In 2009, she started focusing in creating her own performances. Since 2010, she developed “KITSCHCAMP - JUÍZO FINAL”; in 2013, she began creating a trilogy piece, composed of one installation called “This is not entertainment”, a musical track, “This is not for sale e é um manifesto”, and a dance piece called “This is not a love story. This is A and B”; in 2014, she developed “I’m not comfortable talking to you from up here”, a 15 minute dance piece; in 2015, while in Germany, she designed and presented a 5 hour long installation/performance, “I can’t die because of Global Warming”; in 2016 “WE WILL USE SMOKE MACHINES”, done in collaboration with 5 artists from different areas, presented at Festival Cumplicidades and, afterwards, in Portimão; in 2016/2017, she set new creative goals and designed “The power of unknown CHAOS” and “We are NOT so pretentious”; in 2018, “I can’t see the sea”, “This is not for sale e é um manifesto” and “anesthetize”.
Worked with RADAR 360 (“Arrumadores de Pessoas”, 2011); Martim Pedroso (“Penthesilia”, 2012); Margarida Mestre (“Corações ao alto”, 2013); Joris Lacoste (“Encyclopédie de la parole”, 2014); Ana Borralho e João Galante (“Atlas”, 2014); João Sousa Cardoso (“Mima- Fatáxa”, 2015); Collectif Jambe (“AQUI HÁ REGRAS”, 2016); André Uerba (“Burn time”, 2017); Gustavo Ciríaco (“Onde o Horizonte se move”, 2017); Ligia Soares (“Cuore”, 2018).  She has presented her creations in Lisbon (CCB, Teatro Cornucópia, Teatro Ibérico, Negócio – ZDB and Temps d’Images), Serpa (Musibéria), Montemor-o-Novo (PT.17), Almada (Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite), Torres Vedras (Cine-Teatro), Portimão (TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portimão), Romania, Lithuania and Germany.