Fragmented gesture, fragmented word, fragmented time. As the word suggests, fragmentation creates fragments, but in between the fragments it also creates gaps. the word of the gap explores the potential of the gap (the absence of information between related events) as a form of interaction with the perception of the audience. Parallel fragmented narratives are carried out by separate media. Potential meanings are constantly re-shaped in the inter-play between content and form.

Raul Maia is a Portuguese physical performance artist. His primordial focus as a maker and practitioner is in creating artistic practices that generate performative forms of physical behaviour and communication between performers. These practices are the raw materials that define the identity of his performances. He also creates soundscapes in the frame of his own performances. His work has been shown in festivals and houses such as ImPulsTanz, Xplore dance Festival (Ro), Potsdam Tanzfabrik (DE), Idans Istanbul (TR), Tanzquartier, WUK, brut Wien and D.D.D. (PT) among others. As a performer he has collaborated with Ultima Vez/ Wim Vandekeybus, Tino Sehgal, Fanni Futterknecht, Alexander Gottfarb, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Paul Wenninger and Catarina Miranda amongst others.