Hydra
Hydra is a research process related to water and its change of state as a starting point to generate questions about transformation, boundaries, and intimacy; the space unfolds from an initial sculpture and its inevitable collapse, emerging on stage entities and creatures that, like posthumanist fictions, merge into a liquid, living landscape in constant mutation, proposing contemporary mythological beings in continuous metamorphosis.
The Hydra project advocates for a reclamation of failure, as an apology for falling and collapsing, and for antiheroic mythologies with a dose of drag humor, reflecting on the always complex and mutable nature of relationships.
Lucas Damiani
Lucas Damiani is a Uruguayan artist based in Lisbon and Berlin, working at the intersections between performing and visual arts, with training in photography, psychology, contemporary dance, and performance.
In the field of dance, he studied and trained with various artists, including Mónica Valenciano (ES), Lucas Condró (AR), Maya M. Carroll (IL), João Fiadeiro (PT), Faye Driscoll (USA), and Diana Niepce (PT), among others. He completed the SNDO intensive course (Amsterdam, 2018) and the annual training program TanzIntensive at Tanzfabrik Berlin (2019-2020).
Lucas has worked with several artists, including Guillermo Weickert - Tocar Con-Mover (SURGE Madrid 2019), Lee Mingwei - Our Labyrinth (Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2020), João Fiadeiro - R|EXISTÊNCIA (Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon 2021), Marcelo Evelin - Barricada & Batucada (Transborda, Almada 2022 and 2023), and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz (new project, in creation), among others. He also collaborated with Noumissa Sidibé (FR) in creating performative installations, such as While there is still room (Berlin, 2020). Lucas was part of the PACAP program in its fifth and sixth editions (Forum Dança, Lisbon).
His visual work has been exhibited both individually and in collective exhibitions in Uruguay, Italy, Peru, Spain, and Bulgaria.