How can the party be a tool for transforming spaces? Can dance be a tool for fairer and more sustainable urban mobility? A year after our experimental workshop on choreography and mobility, Theatrum Mundi and à la sauvette present a day of movement taking you to a Wonderland where these ideas come true.

In the afternoon, we invite you to open your eyes and body with collective choreographic movement led by Rafael Alvarez and Takako Hasegawa. In the evening, we dive deeper into these ideas with readings, discussions, and films by Theatrum Mundi and à la sauvette, in a scenography inspired by the dancefloor, installed in the garden of the Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea.

The acts can be experienced individually or in sequence as part of an immersive day in which one gradually dives into Wonderland.

Image by Takako Hasegawa

Three Parties in Wonderland is curated by Theatrum Mundi and à la sauvette collective and in partnership with Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa as part of Lisbon Architecture Triennale 2022.

The event is co-funded by the Institut Français & Instituto Camões as part of the Saison France-Portugal 2022 and is part of the LINA European Architecture platform 2022-23 programme.

Programme

Introduction of Wonderland story by à la sauvette collective.

Act 1 Care – Takako Hasegawa

Free workshop – 14.30pm-16.30pm

How can new forms of interdisciplinarity between city-making and dance-making help engender care for bodies in space? Takako Hasegawa will open up our perceptions to different bodies and experiences in relation to the city, so that the world becomes a kinder place.

Act 2 Body Maps – Rafael Alvarez

Free workshop – 17.00pm-19.00pm

How do our bodies relate to the objects around them, and how do we navigate all of these micro-relationships? Rafael Alvarez sees the body as a map, as a possibility to travel, to come together and to isolate oneself.

Act 3 Wonderland – Theatrum Mundi & à la sauvette

Topographies of Body and Landscape

Free event. No registration required – 19.30pm-20.00pm

Screening of the film “Topographies of Body and Landscape” documenting the choreographic movement research and spatial observation experiments that took place during Theatrum Mundi’s Movement Lisbon Lab in October 2021. Produced by Metafilmes  and directed by Vítor Hugo Costa.

Encounters

20.00pm-21.00pm

Launch of “Encounters” book, the latest TM Edition with a panel including the editors Fani Kostourou and Elahe Karimnia, invited respondent Meriem Chabani, and contributing authors, Takako Hasegawa, Rafael Alvarez, John Bingham-Hall, and à la sauvette collective.

Moving Layers

21.30pm-22.30pm

“Why is that people don’t dance in the streets today?” Through an installation and a dj set from Canarian Islands, à la sauvette collective will challenge our embodied relationship with collective celebrations and physical space.