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. 

The event will take place at the BIT Teatergarasjen in Bergen on the 9th and 10th of May 2025. More information and tickets are available on the website. 

About the artist

Catol Teixeira is a performer and choreographer born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1993, who has lived and worked in Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Salzburg, Berlin, and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. Their approach to bodies is entangled with a constant perception of cultural-spiritual-political-organical inscriptions in the flesh. They dance as a way to not forget that bodies are a place of crossing, negotiating between time, a threshold of memories and a field of moving desires