Dec 16–19. L’Après-midi D’une Faune / Dinis Machado (SE/PT)

L’Après-midi D’une Faune is a solo for dancer Mandi Tiukkanen by choreographer Dinis Machado with original soundtrack by Godill.

In this dance, they investigate and ask themselves about a butch femininity that would be in Machado’s body, often misread as a male manifestation. They get lost in this choreographic and intimate labyrinth where looking for the feminine is also realizing the intangibility of defining it. This dance takes place where Mandi lends her body to materialize Machado’s trans-feminine subjectivity, and Machado in turn builds a space for Mandi’s body, a feminine rarely imagined and materialized in the history and stages of contemporary dance.

Thus, L’Après-midi D’une Faune is about a femininity that exceeds individual bodies, about a collective and social gender experience that happens between bodies and in the places where they cross and meet, in the way they question and potentiate each other. About how we can become the place where others can happen closer to how they imagine themselves.

Godill’s music neither guides nor follows this Faune, but rather accompanies her while she daydreams, like a sister or a spell for the walk of this dance of a fairy pedestrianism.

L’Après-midi D’une Faune is also about the intimacy of the feminine plurality of the three bodies that created it. It is about taking the space of this bucolic afternoon for its subjectivity, for its drift, self-sexuality and autonomy. It is the occupation of “a room of one’s own”.

L’Après-midi D’une Faune is about a trans experience as concrete as it is spiritual.


Artistic direction and choreography Dinis Machado
Danced by Mandi Tiukkanen
Original Soundtrack by Godill

Coproduced by Weld (Stockholm), MARC (Knislinge), ZDB (Lisbon) and Companhia Instável / Teatro Municipal do Porto within Palcos Instáveis (Porto)


DINIS MACHADO (SE/PT)
(They, Ela, Hen)

Born in Porto in 1987. Based in Stockholm since 2012. Machado creates work as a choreographer since 2007.

Holds the MA Choreography DOCH (Stockholm) dir. by Jefta Van Dinther / Frederic Gies; Finished the Independent Studies Program at Maumaus – Visual Arts (Lisbon) led by Jürgen Boch; Holds the BA in Theatre by ESTC (Lisbon);
Studied Ballet and Contemporary dance at Balleteatro (Porto) from 1994 to 2002.

In 2020 Machado was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Stipendium by the Swedish Art Grants Committee / Konstnärsnämnden. Their works Site Specific For Nowhere and Cyborg Sunday were part of Moderna Museet’s quadriennial Moderna­utställning­en 2018. In 2013 they received the life Long Burning co-production by Cullberg Ballet for their project Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen. The work was performed within the [8:tension] series at ImPulsTanz 2014.

In 2016, the company Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte in Portugal, commissioned Machado the work In a Manner of Speaking and appointed them as an invited curator for the year of 2017. Through this partnership they developed a program with a series of three works by the Swedish choreographers Rebecka Stillman, Litó Walkey and Anna Pehrsson.

In collaboration with the Swedish visual Artist Conny Karlsson Lundgren developed the videos (Dissident) Dance Actions (2017) exhibited at Moderna Museet Malmö, and Gesture / Labor / Leisure (2018) exhibited at Haninge Kulturhus. In 2017 in collaboration with the dance artist Anna Koch created a performance presented at the opening of the first exhibition of the curatorial program of Corina Oprea for Konsthall C. In 2018 developed the video collaboration Scener härifrån with the visual Artist Sebastian Dalqvist shown at Art Lab Gnesta.


Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm