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“Segunda 2” [Monday 2] (2021) puts us in mind of “Sábado 2” [Saturday 2], the inaugural choreography of Companhia Paulo Ribeiro, premiered in 1995. 26 years apart, one thing connects them: the restart of a new cycle of work. “Segunda 2” does not want to recollect the past or reflect on the future. What drives it is a desire to inscribe itself in the urgency of the present. As if to say: “We are here to dance. Tomorrow, we’ll see about it.” In times of lockdown, it signals the euphoria of returning to choreographic creation, using the notion of fault as a springboard. But let us not be afraid of paradoxes: here, fault acts as a “catalyst of energy and emotion”, a combination of risk and action. Six performers with different backgrounds – classical and contemporary dance, street dance and new circus – bring a multiform physicality to “Segunda 2”. It is in the company of these bodies that Paulo Ribeiro moves forward, without looking back. “We are going to be both individuals and a collective. We are going to rediscover joy. We are going to keep on dancing.”