How Do You Prefer To Be Bitten?

© Paula Almiron
© Paula Almiron

How do you prefer to be bitten? is a dance performance that examines the relationship between materiality and spirituality through blood, the body’s sacred liquid. Suspended in acontinuous circularity between life and death, the work reclaims the vampire as an earthbound, erotic, and decolonial figure. What kind of vampire resides in each of us? Can we be both guardians and predators at once?

Through blood-choreographies and South American vampiric imagineries, the piece unfolds within a nocturnal landscape that weaves together film, singing and dance.

Direction: Paula Almiron - Dance and choreography: Jimena Perez Salerno, Mar* Szydlowska, Paula Almiron - Dramaturgical advisers: Simon Asencio, Catalina Insignares, David Weber Krebs - Film: Anna Lugmeier - Light design: Caroline Matthieu - Production: HIROS - Co-production: KAAP, Beursschouwburg, Viernulvier, C-takt netwerk - Residency support: Fundaziun Nairs, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Bodies in Space, kunstenwerkplaats, KAAP, BUDA, Beursschouwburg, Viernulvier, workspacebrussels, C-Takt

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Residencies

12.10.2026 - 18.10.2026

workspacebrussels