La Ribot / Volmir Cordeiro
Hamburger Kunsthalle Performance Special: La Ribot & Volmir Cordeiro
Performance program at Hamburger Kunsthalle (in addition to the Kunstmeile performances), showcasing two international works at the intersection of fine and performance art.
La Ribot – LaBOLA (2022)
In LaBOLA, the La Ribot Ensemble conjures a dynamic, human sphere in perpetual motion. Three performers dance, spin, and continuously transform – gathering objects, costumes, and personas, swapping identities, and breaking boundaries along the way. Spanish-Swiss choreographer La Ribot, awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale 2020, envisions a community that constantly dances and evolves – an endless interplay of bodies, stories, garments, and lives, uniting all within its flow. The result is an energetic choreography of exchange, where the stage becomes a space of infinite transformation.
Set against the Old Masters and 19th Century paintings at Kunsthalle, LaBOLA extends La Ribot’s radical fusion of dance, performance, film, and visual art. Since the 1980s, La Ribot has been a pioneering force, appearing in venues like Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and Reina Sofia – renowned for her boundary-crossing artistry that blends performance and visual expression.
Volmir Cordeiro – Outrar (2021)
»Outrar,« a word coined by Fernando Pessoa, means »to become another.« In 2021, during the global lockdown, Lia Rodrigues sent this poetic call to her dancers—and to Volmir Cordeiro. His response: a passionate solo bridging continents, from Brazil to Europe and back. Amidst intense gestures and vibrant masks, the joy of change unfolds—the celebration of the other within ourselves. Through shimmering ambivalences of pain and joy, Cordeiro emerges on stage with playful strength, rediscovering community and transcending boundaries. Outrar celebrates what unites us—a dance as a rousing festival of transformation, and thus also a congenial counterpart to the work of La Ribot.
Volmir Cordeiro, founder of Compagnie Donna Volcan (2018), lives in France, where he explores societal margins through dance. In 2021, he received the SACD Prize for Young Choreography.
