De mim não posso fugir, paciência!

The young Portuguese choreographer, Tânia Carvalho, began dancing at the age of just five. She trained at Lisbon's Escuela Superior de Danza and completed the Contemporary Dance Performers Course at the city's Forum Dança, working with Francisco Camacho, Carlota Lagido, David Miguel, Filipe Viegas and Vera Mantero amongst others. This work, De mim não posso fugir, paciência! (But from me I can't escape, have patience!), was first performed in May 2008, in Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal, and follows on from other productions such as Um privilégio característico (2002), Barulhada (2007) and Danza Ricercata (2008).

De mim não posso fugir, paciência! (But from me I can't escape, have patience!) takes its title from a verse of a poem by Patricia Caldeira. Carvalho says her way of working is a form of subjective art: "Expressionism is the tendency of the artist towards the deformation of reality through an emotional effect... When I begin a dance work, I get myself involved with all the experiences of the world that I've accumulated inside myself and, starting from there, I create a composition. All of us see and feel the things that are around us in a different way. In this sense, when I immerse myself in a work and follow what my feelings and imagination suggest to me, I am distorting the world in the eyes of others. What we have inside us is, in my opinion, a form of expressionism for others. Each of us in our own way, deforms the world."