BIOLENCE
Cristina Planas Leitão
Balleteatro
2016
Exercise for the 3rd year students of Balleteatro – Class of Dance 2015/ 2016
12 & 13 February 2016
Salão Ático – Coliseu, Porto (PT)
I was told they want to dance... to dance, The dance.
They will dance, the slow dance of violence, the dance of love and hate, the dance of the ungraspable pleasure, of an intense pain. Breath getting softer, taking and reaching, never stopping, relentlessly restless.
A Transe out of Context.
A Vision‐like experience.
When it becomes clear that art must be conscientious of life and that life, has, for sure, the potential for a lot of horrific violence, the question is: Where does all this violence fit within the spectrum of art? How can, this monolithic force of our work be represented on stage, and if yes, why? to what extent? What power does it have on stage? How can this violence, represented on stage, impact our lives, and the lives of who is performing and who is watching?
Choreography
Cristina Planas Leitão
Performance
Ana Ester Ribeiro, Ana Lia Moura, Ana Margarida Silva, Ana Maria Ferreira, António Teixeira, Bruna Silva, Diana Moreira, Inês Macedo, Isa Silva, Iuri Costa, Joana Silva, João Costa, Mariana Marcelino, Patrícia Viana, Paula Barata, Raquel dos Santos, Raquel Nicolau, Rita Ribeiro, Sara Araújo, Sara Gonçalves, Sara Moreira, Sebastião Beki, Tânia Tedim, Telma Gomes, Tiago Martins, Vanessa Cunha (alunos do 3º ano de Dança do Balleteatro Escola Profissional)