Uma ficção na dobra do mapa

“Uma ficção na dobra do mapa” is a reunion in which memory, fiction and the body act as archival sites. Ten years on from the first meeting between the two choreographers and dancers Elena Córdoba (Spain) and Francisco Camacho (Portugal), a new fold is added to their map of shared paths and affections. This is an invitation by BoCA to revisit a founding gesture — the moment when these two artists met, not as biographies but as vestiges of each other.

For years the two only knew each other through their work. Theirs was an indirect dialogue, mediated by choreographies, attendances, tensions. In 2014, Festival Citemor proposed an encounter: to create something based on the impressions and details they recalled from the other’s pieces. The result was a radical exchange of bodies and trajectories — Francisco in the body of Elena, Elena in the body of Francisco. A fiction built on the delicate fold between two artistic maps.

Now, they return to this moving territory, conscious that memory is always shifting and that time changes everything — including the way we experience what we create. This new iteration of “Uma ficção na dobra do mapa” does not seek to reconstruct the past, but to observe how it resonates today. What remains? What has been lost? What is reconfigured? Together on stage, the two artists focus on this re-encounter with the other through the mirror of the piece — a dance between echoes, transformations and potential new fictions.