Borda: Lia Rodrigues' new dance creation at Chaillot

Brazilian choreographer Lia Rodrigues returns to Paris after the success of Encantado, with a new piece entitled Borda, presented at the Théâtre national de Chaillot from September 19 to 21, 2025. Rooted in the social reality of the Maré favela in Rio de Janeiro, where she works with her company, this creation explores the multiple dimensions of the Portuguese word "borda" - between couture, margin and imagination.

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Through a choreographic language that is both raw and poetic, Lia Rodrigues questions how bodies can inhabit the margins, connect and interweave. On stage, movement becomes an act of living embroidery, an attempt at collective weaving, where boundaries are erased to make way for shifting forms, open to the unexpected. The piece takes the form of a constantly recomposing territory, nourished by differences and cohabitation, resonating with the social and political tensions of contemporary Brazil.

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Borda is part of a deeply committed artistic approach, in which dance is a tool for resistance, bonding and the creation of common spaces. By staging multiple, interdependent bodies, Lia Rodrigues continues to reinvent the stage, giving it a power that is at once sensory, political and universal.

This article is based on publicly available information and is not based on a direct view of the show.

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