Portugal
From Portugal to Poland: coming to Warsaw as an international disabled artist-in-residence
OpinionResource
April 7, 2020
The first disabled artist to receive the EU’s i-Portunus fund, Portuguese dancer Diana Bastos Niepce speaks about her experience undertaking a residency in Poland with learning disabled-led company Teatr 21. During the residency, Diana collaborated with the choreographer Justyna Wielgus, performing in her directorial debut “PokaZ” at Warsaw’s Zachęta National Gallery of Art. The piece interrogated the act of looking, what we see and what remains hidden, the limitations that stereotypes place on our identities – a challenge to the ‘socially acceptable’.
Diana Niepce
Artist
Diana Niepce is a dancer, choreographer, and writer. At the age of 28, a life-changing accident reshaped her relationship with her body, dance, and performance, leading her to explore language and hybridism as political action. Her work challenges and redefines the identity of the performative body beyond conventional norms.
Dançando com a Diferença
Artist
Dançando com a Diferença’s daily challenge is to change the image society has of the disabled and to carve out a space for human diversity within the professional universe of the contemporary arts.