Marusya Byzova, Jakob von Kietzell & Renan Capivara

By Chance of Circumstances is one of the three works selected for “Support for Creation 2025”, a partnership between Forum Dança and Casa da Dança.

By Chance of Circumstances is an ongoing investigation into scenic space as raw, plastic and mutable matter. The creators Jakob von Kietzell, Marusya Byzova and Renan Capivara began this project as part of Forum Dança’s 7th PACAP and have been exploring speculative imagination as a choreographic tool ever since. Instead of focusing on a specific theme (what), they investigate speculation and imagination as tools (how), asking themselves: How does fiction become an action verb? Under a shared pact, performers and audience collectively speculate around time, space and bodies and thus create what Johan Huizinga calls the “Magic Circle”, a suspended space where the rules of reality are replaced by the provisional laws of an invented world.

Renan Capivara, Jakob von Kietzell and Marusya Byzova are performers and collaborators based in Lisbon and Europe.

Renan (BR) is a dancer, actor and teacher with a degree in Dance, with creative work in movement research, factual/fictional narratives and collective creation.

Jakob (DE) is a multidisciplinary artist with a degree in Design, passionate about collaboration, research and site-specificity in performing arts and design.

Marusya (UK) works at the intersection of visual arts, contemporary dance and performance. She has a degree in Architectural Environment Design and her research explores transitional states, symbolism and layered storytelling.

The trio met during PACAP7 (Fórum Dança) and continue to research performance in collaboration.

Image © Joana Linda