In our eyes, a cascade @WhyNot

Attention! In your eyes, a cascade takes place at W139, Warmoesstraat 139.

Since 2009, WhyNot has organized a biennial festival, which aims to open up the dance scene from within by connecting dance and performance art to other creative worlds and disciplines, letting new forms emerge. In this edition (22-25 january) WhyNot focuses on the body and movement in relation to architecture and space.

In collaboration with Veem House for Performance, WhyNot invited Clara Amaral with her performance In our eyes, a cascade. In this lecture performance, Clara explores the fall of a smartphone and the shifts in perspective of space that come with it. Just like a cascade that keeps on falling again and again – downward and onward – she stares into the same surface in order to produce porosity, depth and poetics. 

Clara Amaral 

graduated from SNDO in 2013 and is currently doing her MA at the Dutch Art Institute. Her last work “Do you remember that time we were together and danced this or that dance?” premiered in Julidans in 2017 and was presented in Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam, and in Something Raw Festival at Frascati, Amsterdam. This work has also been presented in Circular in Vila do Conde and in Festival Temps D’Images in Lisbon.

In 2018 her publication “The distance between your voice and my voice is what your eyes can read but I can’t say” was part of “Sleeping with a Vengeance, Dreaming of a Life”, a group show curated by Ruth Noack, with iterations in Athens and Prague. 

Her texts have been published in the Theaterkrant and in Contemporary Cruising. As a performer she collaborated with Ivana Muller, Oneka von Schrader and Becket Mingwen.