Wasteland Photos © Augusto Cabrita
António Carita and São Castro Co-production Vo’Arte Silke Z./resistdance
2012
Wasteland
is a duet. Begins as a physical intervention of a body in another and an awareness of two bodies in the same space. We’ve started to see the expressive, never ending language of the body, becoming avoided, transforming itself in a ‘dumpster’ territory where the body is easily abandoned and forgotten. We gave ourselves the responsibility to create concurrency and tune between two bodies that can easily dive into physical confrontation. We challenge ourselves trying to remember again the pleasure of discovering where the creative body takes part on the game of the creative process. We found a body becoming a instrument of abstract speech and the process becoming a poetic unfolding of the body.
Photo © Augusto Cabrita
SYNOPSIS
is fascinated by any extension of himself in any other material besides himself. A collection of stories and moments in the organizing and configuring process of reality extended to the imaginary, the physicality of ideas. To conquer the territory with the body The body becomes the territory.
Is a project of artistic collaboration between the two dancers António Cabrita and São Castro, in which they propose an interaction of interests and creative materials such as movement, image and sound.
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This is our territory ... devastated, apocalyptic, fertile. What happens when we think that we don’t have anything to say, nothing to see. How does our body react, facing a hostile space and a physical emptiness of an individual who
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António Cabrita has a degree in
dance by the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon and is graduated by the National Conservatoire Dance School. He also studied dance at the Joffrey Ballet School in NY, cinema at the New York Film Academy, and studied advertising at Restart. He works in different subjects as dance, cinema, photography, advertising, music and production. In 2003, he creates the alternative and cultural structure called Espaço M. He already worked with Rui Horta, Né Barros, Romulos Neagu, Escena Subteranea, Teatro em Branco, Compota, Companhia Instável, Balleteatro and Paulo Ribeiro. He also works as an interpreter in “Private Spaces”, a Resistdance (Germany) project, with the choreographer Silke Z, with whom he won the award for best play of Cologne in 2008.
São Castro studied in Balleteatro and
she is graduated by the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon. She joined the Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, under the direction of Vasco Wellenkamp, the Componhia Lisboa Ballet Contemporâneo, under the direction of Benvido Fonseca and the Companhia Rui Lopes Graça in the “Arte da Fuga” project. She also created for the Companhia de Dança do Algarve and Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional. Her main works are “Feminine” and “Maiorca” by Paulo Ribeiro, “Sagração da Primavera” by Olga Roriz, “Suggestions for Walking Alone” by André Mesquita, “Durações de um Minuto” by Clara Andermatt and Marco Martins and “Icosahedron” by Tânia Carvalho.
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ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL CREDITS Choreography, performers, light design, costumes António Cabrita and São Castro Music Hildur Gudnadóttir, Nine Inch Nails, Godspeed You Black Emperor Sound Design São Castro Artistic Consultory Silke Z.
Technical Direction João Frango Production Silke Z. / resistdance (Germany) in cooperation with Vo’Arte (Portugal) Management Mechtild Tellmann (Germany) Ana Rita Barata (Portugal) Length Aprox. 40 min.
Premiére 21st April 2012 at Teatro Municipal de Almada (Portugal) Ciclo Sala Experimental
Video http://vimeo.com/41409959 (password: handmade)
PRESENTATION April 2012 ESTREIA Teatro Municipal de Almada Ciclo Sala Experimental September 2012 Teatro das Figuras | Semana da Dança November 2012 Teatro Viriato Mostra New Age . New Time December 2012 Teatro São Luiz InShadow 4º Festival Internacional de Vídeo, Performance e Tecnologias
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