A Monster of Moss and Metal

A surrealist dance work on perception, sensation and emotion while migrating as a transfeminine body. 
 
In the work, anxiety and trauma are  given physical and poetical forms. It becomes some kind of healing  ritual - both lonely and shared, sad and hopeful. 
 
As a starting point, several queer  people were interviewed who have moved from one country to another, an  experience that Machado shares themselves.
 
They create a surreal landscape with an  inflatable, where the audience is also sitting, experiencing the work  from the inside. By being in the same space, the distance between the  dancer and the spectator is bridged while conveying sensations that can  be contradictory, "as if moss grew on metal".
 
In Machado's dance work, scenography  and costume are intimately linked to their physical expression. Often to  the extent that the clothes clearly affect the movement, and the dance  transforms the room.