BLINK mini unison intense wail

tirsdag 05 juli 2022

Ravnedans presenterer: BLINK mini unison intense wail av Michelle Moura

Eyes wide open. Eyes shut. Eyes rolled back.

The stare turned inwards. Michelle Moura has taken up a formidable challenge: to write a score for the essentially involuntary movements of eyelids. By paying attention to something as tiny, evanescent and instinctive as a blink. By building up in a magisterial way a study of its hold on faces and bodies. The choreographer is thus standing up for an exploratory, generative approach: creating practices that induce transformations in physical and psychic states. Expressive sensations, postures and movements construct emotional experiences. The challenge is to remain as close as possible to the body, that factory of emotions. Introducing disturbance into a stare. Cultivating phenomena of resonance. The multiple figures embodied by Michelle Moura and Clara Saito swerve between the ecstatic and grotesque. This meteorology of affects both eludes us and draws us into its powerful presence.

Credits

Creation: Michelle Moura

Performance: Clara Saito and Michelle Moura

Collaboration: Clara Saito and Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Dramaturgy: Alex Cassal

Sound creation: Rodrigo Lemos

Sound (public entrance): Steve Martin Snider

Sound performance: Kaj Duncan David

Light: Lucas Amado, Annagret Schalke

Costumes: Lisa Vereertbrugghen

Advisors: Elisabete Finger, Jeroen Fabius, Katerina Bakatsaki

Co-production: Bienal SESC Sao Paulo, DasArts