Black Box: Boavista Social Club is a choreographic duet that explores human connection, blending inner creation with external encounters to nourish the piece and question social dynamics. This project is a sensitive immersion in the public space, designed as a response to the omnipresent violence, aiming to reconnect with “lost sensitivities.”
Directed and performed by Elena Vertegel and Maeva Lambert
(in progress)
Installation solo performance FIXE IT
This project is a journey into the unseen—a search for the forces that shape our world but often go unnoticed. Inspired by by Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element, it re- flects on the fragile balance of existence, where something essential feels just out of reach. Like in the film, we sense that a key is missing—something invisible yet vital, a force that, if lost, could plunge us into darkness.
Directed and performed by Elena Vertegel
(in progress)
On the stage, chaos is represented by yo-yos. Small mirrors embedded in them reflect light. In a hypnotic atmosphere, two bodies from the future, in mutual interaction, recall the complexity and the resonances that inhabited their bodies in the past. From particles to celestial bodies, from the inert to the living, from cell to organism, from brain to thought, from consciousness to action. Out of this journey through time and space, an unknown world emerges that invites us to reconnect with the universe and with each other.
Dance performance FIXE, directed by Elena Vertegel & Maeva Lambert
Staging in Theatro do Bairro, Portugal
‘May it flow from now on. May it flow as forever on. And may body follow…’
Performance NO on, directing by Claire Huber
choreography assistant Elena Vertegel
Staging in, P.A.R.T.S, Belgium
A synthesis of dance, poetry and music. Inspired
and rhythmically driven by the ‘ Rebonds’,
Iannis Xenakis.
Dance performance “Rescue of archon” directed and choreographed by Elena Vertegel
Supported by Udt ( Ukrainian Dance Theatre)
Premiered on May 30, 2018 in Molodoy theater, Kyiv, Ukraine
Rescue of archon is a dance performance based on the myth of Saint Sophia, which came to us from the times of Gnostic teachings (II-III centuries), nothing more than “ignorance” destroyed the creation of a perfect world in which there is no place for darkness. The greatest mistake of Saint Sophia led to the emergence of imperfect beings who called themselves “archons.”
Plastics, music, lighting and sound – all together they symbolise the sacred knowledge, love, enlightening, which are all hidden deep inside each of us.
The dynamic rhythm and loud splashes expressively represent the uneasy and painful path of self-knowing.
Dance performance “the Cube”
Directed by Kristina Shishkareva
Premiered at the Gogol fest 2015, kyiv, Ukraine
The concept of social life is divided into four dimensions. Bottom-up processes of transformative change and their potential to challenge patterns of excess consumption are analysed through the lens of transformative learning.
Interactive performance “Cultural dialogues 2015”
supported by goethe institute, Bremen, germany
A project led by the produser and choreographer Alexandra morales
If there are no images in the newspapers that speak to you, or that have images of people that you love, you have to produce them.
Zanele Muholi
