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© Joana Rodrigues / “Timber”, by Roberto Olivan, interpreted by Joana Couto, João Cardoso/Ilan Gratini, Lara Serpi, Liliana Garcia, Liliana Oliveira and Ricardo Machado
Even having the good fortune to be based in the wonderful city of Porto, Instável tries to take the projects it creates and/or supports to tour beyond it, both nationally and internationally.
FINAL GIRL emerged from an invitation by dancer Rina Marques to clown and director Rui Paixão to direct a dance solo.
Prima Rosa proposes an introspective and resistant journey, where the body becomes the vehicle for constant reinvention.
“Nova refutação do tempo” é uma criação multidisciplinar, onde a fotografia e a dança habitam o mesmo espaço. Onde a imagem não existe sem movimento e movimento não existe sem imagem. Criamos uma performance feita de fragmentos, onde reinventamos um corpo, mas também o espaço em que esse mesmo corpo se transforma.
An area where the land is close to or below sea level is called the lowlands. Lowlands also refers to Freud's theory, which likens the mind to an iceberg—it floats with one-seventh of its volume above water, the only visible part.
Creating an immersive and speculative atmosphere, the audience is invited to place itself. It is not a presentation in space but a presentation of space in permanent development: fleeting and expansive.
I remove myself from this pile of earth and huge stones, I dig out my hand, followed by my arm, my leg, until my entire body is exposed. I look in the mirror and look for transparency, but there is a lot of dust, scratches, and traces of pebbles. I am full of strata, of layers.
"Simulacro" is an exercise in intimacy, repetition and resistance. Two bodies in continuous action explore the limits of their proximity through the degenerative nature of the gesture.
TIMBER is a journey into the depths of our existence, a visit to every corner that we failed to visit due to fear, ignorance or abandonment of ourselves. A personal disconnection from what unites us to our unique and authentic nature.
This is the first piece in a trilogy around the questioning of the concepts of strangeness examined by Mark Fisher in The Weird and the Eerie. These are two terms that are difficult to translate into Portuguese: weird (strange) and eerie (unsettling).
“The search for a line that finds us, an absence that once seemed tender to us and that today remains with us like the distorted trail of memory.”