for Motus Dance Project
Premiered at Espaço Vita - Braga
39 Degrees. You can feel the peak of summer on your skin, in this memory of a place that, although it doesn't exist in reality, is very familiar to us.
On the floor, a small water pistol is proof that a battle took place here, a game played by children who, by pretending to be 'good' and 'evil', experience in small doses of violence what it is like to be an adult.
Here, we think not only about the cruelty of children, but about the courage it takes to grow up, to experiment, to really look each other in the eye.
“En garde” starts from a crossing between the creative universes of the creator and the performers, as well as the collection of real or imaginary affective memories that, combined, create the landscape on which these bodies move, as fragile as they are powerful.
Artistic overview
Choreography, light and sound deign: Bruno Duarte
Performance: Motus Dance Project dancers