Mark Tompkins

28 March 2024, at 18h30
Espaço da Penha – Lisbon
Approximate duration: 2 hours

Free entry, subject to capacity.

An American dancer, choreographer, singer and teacher, he founded the I.D.A. Company in 1983. His way of making unidentified performance objects, mixing dance, music, song, text and video, has become his signature. Solos, group pieces, concerts and improvised performances are all elements of this journey, which began in the 1970s, with the complicity of set and costume designer Jean-Louis Badet in 1988. His passion for real-time composition has led him to collaborate with dancers, musicians, light designers and video makers. Recognised for his teaching, he travels all over the world. In 2008, he was awarded the SACD Choreography Prize for his work as a whole (Society of Dramatic Authors Composers).

Fascinated by the frictions and resonances between high and low entertainment, his shows are inspired by popular forms such as cabaret, music hall, musicals and burlesque, as well as themes of ambiguity and ambivalence. She sings and dances in the concerts of Sarah Murcia & musicians, NEVER MIND THE FUTURE and MY MOTHER IS A FISH, and collaborates with choreographer Mariana Tengner Barros in A POWER BALLAD and RESURRECTION. He recently published ONE SHOT dialogues on real time composition, with Meg Stuart and the images of Gilles Toutevoix at Editions L’œil d’or. His most recent performances: a solo STAYIN ALIVE (2018) and a trio CELEBRATION (2021).

Photo © Denise Luccioni