Walking Backwards is a dance fable that invites the audience to imagine other ways of walking through the world. Created especially for children, this piece proposes an allegory where the movement of walking backwards disarms the logic of linear time and reveals new ways of seeing, feeling and transforming reality.
This show highlights "walking backwards" as a poetic and political gesture, where each step is an opening to the imagination. And where listening to the body and space is a driving force for change, designing a possible world within each movement.
This dance fable thus evokes an ecosystem inhabited by hybrid beings, whose allegorical and imagistic character reflects and creates possible points of view for the future. It also poses questions such as: What is your horizon? What do you discover when you walk? What does the future have in store for you?
Some pictures of the creation process.
This work took place in Oficinas do Convento, Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal) in May 2024.
