Diana Niepce stages bodies balancing on a steep slope.
Do you ever feel as though reality is slipping through your fingers? According to the Portuguese writer, choreographer, and theatre-maker Diana Niepce, nothing is coincidental. Even the most incomprehensible chaos follows a pattern.
Niepce is considered one of the most striking voices in contemporary Portuguese dance. A life-altering accident at the age of 28 changed her relationship with movement and dance forever. In Hornfuckers, she explores her own physical presence with minimal scenography, placing the non-normative body at the centre - not as a victim, but as a force.
Six dancers move across a steep slope. They slide, cling, and constantly seek balance. From this unstable situation, Niepce presents the body not as a passive object, but as a force that reacts to a world out of balance.
The performance thus examines how political and social systems shape our behaviour. Who are we? How free are we really? The result is a physical, provocative choreography that questions universal principles. As Niepce puts it: ‘We play a game of obedience, following a logic that questions hierarchy.’