The contact between different social groups, between rich and poor, is often minimal. The existence of the other is sometimes even totally invisible. Theater visitors are usually at a safe distance from crime and chaos, within a social order. However, the enforcement of that order is accompanied by oppression and intimidation.

The work of Brazilian choreographer Alice Ripoll is driven by the polarized social reality in Rio de Janeiro. In aCORdo, four performers turn the existing hierarchies and relationships between attendees inside-out through movement and interaction. In a subtle and seemingly innocent manner, a new order arises in which both dancer and spectator must inevitably reorient themselves. Who is who now? Who steals from whom?

aCORdo is a performance for rooms, created in 2017, which was presented at the Panorama Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Wienner Festwochen (Vienna) Centre Pompidou (Paris) and other festivals.