LOUNGE
Marga Alfeirão with Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benenge & Shaka Lion
- Sat 20.6 20:30 — 21:20 Budascoop
No spoken language
20 years of BUDA!
In 2026, the BUDA arts centre will celebrate its 20th anniversary, and we’ll be marking the occasion throughout the year, on the 20th of every month. On these evenings, we’ll raise a toast to what has been and what is yet to come. Come and join us for a drink at 7.30 pm and be enchanted by two performances.
PROGRAMME 20 JUNE
7.30 pm festive reception
8.30 pm LOUNGE / Marga Alfeirão
10.00 pm Art for Celebration / Lydia McGlinchey
12.00 am party with OK Radio
Marga Alfeirão interweaves dance and music from the African diaspora, lap dance and female eroticism in a choreography of minimal, and sometimes barely visible, movements. A duet, but not only between the two dancers: in LOUNGE, active and passive rest, giving and taking, public and private come so close together that their distinctions completely blur. Conspiratorial, sensual and hypnotic. Sensuality is integral to this piece, and consequently so too is the atmosphere. By relying on erotics and building togetherness, LOUNGE taps into the comfort of rest as an active claim of womanhood.
The word “lounge” is both a verb, meaning to sit or lie in a relaxed way, and a noun, meaning a public room where people may relax. Lounging is both an action and a place, a space that you shape and inhabit and savour. This dual nature of rest, of waiting, of moving and being moved, is at the heart of this piece.
Credits
conception Marga Alfeirão performance Mariana Benengue, Marga Alfeirão choreography Marga Alfeirão, Myriam Lucas, Mariana Benengue music editing & mixing Shaka Lion & Hinna Jafri scene Yoav Admoni styling & costumes Mariana Benenge, Marga Alfeirão light design Thais Nepomuceno Veiga dramaturgy Jette Büchsenschütz & Mateusz Szymanówka distribution neon lobster – Giulia Messia & Katharina Wallisch production support Francisca Spuzi a production by Marga Alfeirão, in co-production with Sophiensæle, Berlin