2022

CARCASS

Choreography and Artistic Direction

Marco da Silva Ferreira

Artistic Assistance

Catarina Miranda

Performers

André Speedy, Fábio Krayze, Leo Ramos, Marc Oliveras Casas, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Maria Antunes, Max Makowski, Mélanie Ferreira, Nelson Teunis, Nala Revlon

Sound and Technical Direction

João Monteiro

Light Design

Cárin Geada

Muusic

João Pais Filipe (percusionist) e Luís Pestana (eletronic music)

Costumes

Aleksandar Protic

Scenography

Emanuel Santos

Antropological Studies

Teresa Fradique

Portuguese Folk Dance

Joana Lopes

Production Direction

Mafalda Bastos

Executive Production

Mafalda Bastos e Joana Costa Santos

Production Structure

P.ulso

Diffusion

Art Happens

Co-production

Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Cultural de Belém, Big Pulse Dance Alliance, co-produced by New Baltic Dance (Lithuania), Julidans (The Netherlands), Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Germany), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland) and ONE Dance Week (Bulgaria), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, La briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Maison des arts de Créteil, KLAP- Maison pour la danse, CCN-Ballet National de Marseille, Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie - Bruxelles, December Dance (Concertgebouw and Cultuurcentrum Brugge), La rose des vents – scène nationale Lille, Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, TANDEM Scène Nationale Arras-Douai

Support

República Portuguesa – Cultura, DGARTES – Direção Geral das Artes

Artistic Residencies

A Oficina (Guimarães), Ballet National de Marseille, Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-novo), Teatro Municipal do Porto

Upcoming dates

10 Dec 2024
Ludwigshafen (DE), Theater im Pfalzbau
18 Dec 2024, 19 Dec 2024
Santa Cruz (ES), Auditorio de Tenerife
25 Jan 2025
Covilhã (PT), Teatro Municipal da Covilhã
1 Feb 2025, 2 Feb 2025
Londres (UK), Sadler's Wells
7 Feb 2025, 8 Feb 2025, 9 Feb 2025
Perth (AU), Perth Festival
19 Feb 2025
Villars-sur-Glâne (FR), Equilibre-Nuithonie
26 Feb 2025, 27 Feb 2025
Brest (FR), Le Quartz
4 Mar 2025
Le Mans (FR), Les Quinconces et L'Espal
6 Mar 2025, 7 Mar 2025
Caen (FR), CCN de Caen / Basse-Normandië
10 Mar 2025, 11 Mar 2025, 12 Mar 2025
Quimper (FR), Théâtre de Cornouaille
14 Mar 2025
Angers (FR), Cndc Angers
28 Mar 2025, 29 Mar 2025
Mainz (DE), Tanzmainz festival
2 Apr 2025, 3 Apr 2025, 4 Apr 2025
Clermont-Ferrand (FR), La Comédie de Clermont
8 Apr 2025
Nîmes (FR), Théâtre de Nîmes
11 Apr 2025
Sète (FR), Théâtre Molière
15 Apr 2025
Pau (FR), Espaces Pluriels
30 Apr 2025
Montreal (CA), Danse Danse
1 May 2025, 2 May 2025, 3 May 2025
Montreal (CA), Danse Danse
16 May 2025
Braga (PT), Theatro Circo
8 Jul 2025, 9 Jul 2025
Stuttgart (DE)

Physical, intuitive and unpretentious flow of the body, dance and cultural construction

 

In C A R C A S S, Marco da Silva Ferreira uses dance as a tool to research about community, construction of collective identity, memory, and cultural crystallization. The choreography, which initially starts with jumping footwork as an agitator and accelerator, progressively draws a vibrant, rebellious and carnivalesque body towards resilience and togetherness. This research started in 2020 in the dance piece CORPOS DE BAILE to Companhia Nacional de Bailado. A cast of 10 performers form

a collective that researches their collective identity in a physical, intuitive and unpretentious flow of the body, dance and cultural construction.

They start from familiar footwork, coming from clubbing, ball’s, cypher battles and the studio to approach standardized and immutable folk dances related to their memory/heritage. These dances from the past crystallized and were not able to integrate new definitions of bodies, groups and communities that were considered minor. It was necessary to break with the authoritarian, totalitarian, and paternalistic past. In C A R C A S S , an exercise that integrates the past and the present is proposed. Thinking about:

How do you decide to forget and make memory? What is the role of individual identities in building a community? What is the driving force of an identity? What world is the individual and collective body going through? Or, rather, what bodies are crossing the world?

The steps, complex but made with simple sneakers, will bring not only the sound to the stage, but also the exchanges between kinetic, thermal, and light energy. The physical sounds are accompanied by

drums played by João Pais Filipe and electronic music by Luis Pestana.

These elements, performed live, constitute an accelerated soundtrack that interconnects references from traditional music (for example, fanfares and marches), postmodern music and clubbing music (Techno/trance/dub).