The Skin in Between the Fingers by Catol Teixeira

La peau entre les doigts (The Skin in Between the Fingers) is a choreographic short performance, close upon the audience in red neon glow, that questions our norms of perception. Brazilian Catol Teixeira plays with poses and social signs of identity by offering the body as a projection surface. Repeated violent movements increasingly alienate this body, but instead of a confused distance, they establish an almost tender warmth between themselves and the audience. 

The performance is built on the oscillation between presence and absence, on offering and denying one’s own body, and on the looks and movements of the audience. La Peau entre Les Doigts is a dance about intimacy, distance and (un)separation. A dance dedicated to what is left behind, abandoned. The work wishes to evoke the collective archive that one’s body carry – and move with, from, against, through it.  

La Peau entre Les Doigts does not seek clarity or purity, it goes hand in hand with uncertainty, with the unknown, observing opposition and the surrender of the body to gravity. Catol dances, moving where there is a crack to be crossed, surrendering and resisting, in perpetual transition, without a destination.