January 28—February 7, 2026
Dance, performance, visual arts
Festival of international emerging artistic practices
Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
Marseille and Aix-en-Provence
Catol Teixeira
ODE
2025
February 6 at 21:00
Friche la Belle de Mai, Grand Plateau
Danse
Duration: 1h
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10€ / 15€
In partnership with Friche la Belle de Mai
Synonymous with homage, an ODE is a poem traditionally accompanied by music, dedicated to a person or event. Here, ODE unfolds as a dance dedicated to gaps, to ruptures and to transformations. Catol Teixeira’s choreographic research becomes a lament for what slips through the fingers, for what never arrives, for what once was almost here. ODE becomes a rehearsal for farewells. he body, caught between what was and what will be, absorbs the after-effect. There is sorrow, yes. A shift in path is never clean. It bears the weight of what was loved and left, the tension of what refuses to stay. In this performance, Catol embody this state of departure: the body as a map of previous movements, an archive of steps taken, hesitated, or resisted, a surfacing event. This solo proposes a return to choreographic materials left behind—traces of past works, procedures, and experimentations that remained on the way. Parallel to their on going group compositional works, initiated in 2023, Catol remain curious to dig artistically in between collaborations and dancing formats that can vary its forms. ODE searches to inhabit the raw space where traces linger, where steps are haunted by what came before. The residue of a movement, the echo of a choice, the afterimage of contact — all remain. In the tension between loss and grace, the dance unfolds — not to resolve, but to stay, for a moment longer, with what has already changed.
Biographie
Catol Teixeira is a brazilian dance artist from Porto Alegre, based in between Geneva and Rio de Janeiro. With training in ballet, circus, and contemporary dance forms, Catol approaches performance as invocation — an ongoing study and experimentation for transformation, presence, and embodiment. They have worked with dance and circus companies in Brazil, including Palácio das Artes, SESC MG, Mário Nascimento, and Intrépida Trupe, before expanding their practice through studies and collaborations in Europe, at first at SEAD-Bodhi Project in Salzburg, ROAR in Berlin, at La Manufacture in Lausanne, and HEAD in Geneva, in Switzerland — where they keep researching and elaborating their choreographic works at La Manufacture in Lausanne, and HEAD in Geneva. Catol craft compositional works that are grounded on queer affection, ways of living and challenge notions of capture. Their choreographic works, shaped by lived experience and physical research, have been presented in festivals and venues such as Pavillon ADC (Geneva), Théâtre Vidy (Lausanne), La Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), ImPulsTanz (Vienna), and the Dance Bienal SESC (São Paulo), among others.
Credits
Distribution
Concept, Performance, Artistic Direction: Catol Teixeira
Sound Creation: Mbé & Luisa Lemgruber
Scenographic Design and Embroidery: Barbara Tavares & Catol Teixeira
Poetic Conversation: Gabriela Perigo
Technical Direction: Gautier Teuscher
Lighting: Catol Teixeira & Gautier Teuscher
Production and Administration: Rabea Grand
Production and Touring: Assia Ugobor
Co-production
Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Support
Fondation suisse des artistes interprètes SIS
Support
Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique
Photo
© Solene Hoffmann
