DÍPTICO | Marco Goecke / Marcos Morau
BLUSHING by Marco Goecke explores the fragile, involuntary moments in which emotion breaks through the surface of the body. Marco Goecke's signature movement language shapes a world where inner vulnerability becomes visible through physical impulse.
The work revolves around the idea of the blush as a human reflex: a sudden flood of colour that betrays desire, fear, shame, or joy. Dancers move in restless patterns, as if caught between wanting to hide and wanting to reveal themselves. Their bodies pulse with tightly coiled energy, shifting between intimacy and agitation.
Through fragmented motion, haunting musical textures, and a sense of nervous urgency, Blushing becomes a portrait of emotional exposure: a delicate space where everything felt on the inside is pushed outwards, uncontrollably. It is a study of sensitivity, of the body's honesty, and of the beauty that emerges when we allow ourselves to be seen.
In VALSE, Marcos Morau transforms the familiar elegance of the waltz into a strange, dream-like ritual where time seems to fold in on itself. The piece begins with the illusion of classical order — circular patterns, poised figures, echoes of ballroom tradition — but this world quickly unravels. The dancers drift between harmony and distortion, as if the memory of the waltz were being replayed through a fractured lens.
Morau's unmistakable theatricality charges the stage with surreal imagery: bodies move as a collective organism, then break apart into isolated gestures, caught between stillness and frenetic precision. The choreography plays with repetition and interruption, creating a sense of déjà-vu, as though the dancers are trapped in an endless loop of celebration that has lost its original meaning.
Valse becomes a meditation on nostalgia, ritual, and the bittersweet beauty of cycles that never quite resolve. It invites the audience into a world where grace and strangeness coexist — a waltz that dances on the edge of memory and transformation.
Program Premiere will be on the 5th February 2026 at Teatro Municipal da Covilhã.
