is a project seeking the paradox: we are all included in exclusion.
The two rows of seats have no back and require each spectator to use the other as a backrest.
To be back to back is after all to lay back on someone who is, at the same time, the person to whom we just turned our backs to.
This condition will also be a base to reflect on realities that, in spite of the fact that we are not looking at them, they cannot cease of touching us.
Concept Lígia Soares and Rita Vilhena
Co-Criation Diogo Alvim
Video Mariana Castro
Production (Portugal) Máquina Agradável
Production (Holanda) Baila Louca
Co-production Rotterdamse Productiehuis
Residencies Devir-Capa, Alkantara,Polo Cultural das Gaivotas
Support Malavoadora.porto, GDA – Gestão dos Direitos do Artistas.
Language english Duration:50’
Lígia Soares is a Portuguese choreographer and playwright who has been questioning in her work the scenic space as a space distanced from the viewer framing the performance actions as a gesture of presence.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, in international programs of contemporary dance and theatre. She toke part in several programs of contemporary dance and artistic residencies including Capitals-Encontros Acarte 2002, residency Tanzfabrik-Berlin, Danceweb Vienna 2008, Fabrik Potsdam, Centre National de la Danse Paris, European Capital of Culture- Guimarães 2012, among others.
Her plays “Romance” (2015) and “Cinderela” (2018) were edited by Douda Correria.
Rita Vilhena is a choreographer and researcher on dance and movement looking at the body as culture or sacred place; walking through different ethnic and historical realities. Her main motivation is the idea of transformation and participation, driven by intuition. Foundaded in 2005 the Baila Louca performnce and improvisation (Rotterdam / The Netherlands). She is a facilitator of Contact Improvisation Amsterdam and in Lisbon, and has teached at the Modern Dance School of Theater (Amsterdam), Arnhem Dance Academy – ARTEZ, Dansateliers in Rotterdam, Dance for professionals in Station Zuid Tilburg and several international festivals. She has a Master in Performing Arts from FCSH and works as a scholar at the Center for Scientific Research of Dance and Musicology INET-md. www.ritavilha.com/www.bailalouca.com
Diogo Alvim studied architecture and composition in Lisbon. His PhD in Composition/ Sonic Arts at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast focused on the relations between music and architecture.
His work (both electronic and instrumental music) has been presented in several events, of which: Gulbenkian Orchestra’s composers’ workshop (2008 and 2009),Festival Música Portuguesa Hoje (Orchestrutopica, 2008); Festival Synthèse 2009 (Bourges); ISMIR Conference 2012 (Porto); ICMC2012 (with Unlikely Places, Ljubljana);Festival Musica Viva (Lisbon, 2013); Goldsmiths University (London, 2013), Ibrasotope#60, (São Paulo, Brazil); Belfast Festival (with Matilde Meireles, 2014) and Sonorities Festival (with the Royal String Quartet, 2015), Do Liminar#6 (Zaratan Gallery, Lisbon, 2016), Habiter l’exposition The House of Dust (CNEAI, Pantin, France).
He also makes music for dance and theatre has been developing collaborations with other artists/performers.
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