for Almada Dance Company
In this new work, designed for unconventional spaces, Bruno Duarte proposes to cross his choreographic universe with the artistic domain of another creator, taking as a conceptual basis the work of the multidisciplinary artist Horácio Frutuoso (1991), whose production includes visual poetry, painting, installation, digital image and performance, and which has already been recognized and presented in major institutions such as the Serralves Museum, MAAT, the São Paulo International Art Festival, the National Museum of Contemporary Art – Museu do Chiado, BOCA Bienal, among others.
“Carbono” (Carbon) explores the idea of translation as a process that is not only technical but creative and, in a way, transformative – the American expression “lost in translation” illustrates this well: in a translation process, whether textual or communicative, or even from thought to concrete movement, there is a danger (real and almost inevitable) of the result being contaminated by the experiences, expectations and prejudices of the translator who, here, functions as a fallible sheet of carbon paper.
By creating to an unconventional, real, palpable space, different from the uncharacterized space that is a traditional stage, he seeks to expand this concept towards spatiality - such as Frutuoso's work, which seems to explode and print itself against the walls of each space where it is presented - and to question the idea of the ephemeral nature of dance, asking: can dance leave a trace?
Conception and sound design: Bruno Duarte
Choreography: Bruno Duarte in collaboration with the performers
Performance: Bruno Duarte, Inês Barros, Lúcia Salgueiro, Luís Malaquias, Mariana Romão, Raquel Tavares and Vítor Afonso
Costumes: Micaela Sapinho
Music: Bon Iver, Hugo Therkelson, Joselito, Nikhil Nagaraj and Víkingur Ólafsson
Rehearsal Direction: Maria João Lopes