Ana Rita Teodoro’s two new works Plateau and Pavillon are part of a project she has been working on for several years: Délirer l’anatomie, a series of four choreographies centred on the body’s orifices (mouth, anus, nose, etc.) and on the organs that link inside and outside (intestines, lungs, stomach, etc.). Each performance in this project is devoted to a part of the body which, in isolation, becomes a poetic object. Ana Rita Teodoro’s work as a performer and choreographer crosses disciplines and draws on her research into palaeontology, anatomy, Chinese medicine and qi gong. This invariably results in fascinating and free pieces that explore and shift the function and fiction of the organs that she chooses to celebrate. 

Pavillon 

As well as being an organ for capturing sound, the ear structures our perceptions by creating a multi-dimensional cartography of space. Our auricle (pavillon in French) captures not only sounds but also silences, thereby making it possible to locate objects in space. Like a radar or a stethoscope, Pavillon also explores the labyrinthine vestibular (inner ear) that guides bodies in their relation to gravity and the weight of the world. Pavillon  tries to capture inaudible languages and lets itself be guided by imperceptible movements. 

The Portuguese Ana Rita Teodoro has a Master from the CNDC in Angers and from the Université Paris 8, where she started working on her project Délirer l’anatomie, drawing on her scientific and philosophical studies. She recently received a grant 

to study with Yoshito Ohno from the Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian and was
a recipient of the Aide à la Recherche et au Patrimoine en Danse from the CN D, to continue her research into butoh. She has choreographed the works MelTe, Orifice Paradis, Rêve d’intestin, and Assombro (Fantôme Méchant). Ana Rita Teodoro is an associate artist at the CN D.
 

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Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).