What is gender? What does it mean to be transgender?

71BODIES 1DANCE is an interdisciplinary and choreographic initiative by Daniel Mariblanca. The work is inspired by 71 personal experiences and testimonies from transgender and gender non-conforming individuals living in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Spain. The original dance performance is 71 minutes long, embodying 1 minute for each personal experience that inspired this work. The physical work is based on the body, its qualities and its textures. No distractions nor ornamentation; just the body and its physicality. The naked body is an emotionally loaded space; holding vulnerability, strength, shame, pleasure, intimacy and empowerment.
With this production the intention is to give visibility, awaken curiosity and to generate knowledge around the transgender community from a human level - through an artistic work.
By exposing diverse ways of being, the performance wishes to insight new references and ways of appreciating beauty and generating desire.

"... a liberating pause from all wordly attempts on describing, categorizing and sorting the world and the people in it." Scenekonst.no

"An admirable visibility project, which gives access to personal stories from trans people from all over the world" Norsk Shakespeare Tidskrift

Concept, choreography and performer Daniel Mariblanca Tour technician Thomas Bruvik Company and tour manager Davone Sirmans

71BODIES is a transgender inclusive dance and performance company based in Bergen, Norway. Created by Daniel Mariblanca in 2016, the company continues to naturally evolve in a sustainable way whereby one project inspires the other and the next and so on. A core intention of the company is to work with/in marginalized communities; in particular communities where the body is at the center of the discussion.

www.71bodies.com