2006/7

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When I’m working on a choreography, my chief aim is to focus on the possibilities of relationships between the notation system, the interpreter and the viewer. I wish to explore the attempt at materializing the choreographic process, its very constitution.

As one equates the dynamics and the logic of the energy, matter and concept trades that occur, I want to understand what’s left behind, if something actually is. I wish to search the possible articulations between a creative vocabulary, grammar and syntax that are not used up within the notion of style, but rather that find a way to be developed into a poetics that embraces pre-existing forms, but also that allows for itself to swerve from its usages.

The Inventário (Inventory) project explores processes of gathering and selection of fragments, small formulation units that are associated to a scenic existence, transforming that which is more often than not accessory into a “thematic”; things such as the processes of organization, of categorization and of differentiation-production. An inventory of self-contained courses enclosed in a group notation, an inventory of time-bound experiences, an inventory of seduction, of the allure of the form, of plasticity. An inventory of traces, of remnants and impressions. Just as every dance, to a certain extent, speaks of dance itself, so every process speaks of itself, of its agents and its prospects, by questioning its own coherence and evolution.

From a basic vocabulary (entrances and exits, explorations of the scenic space, jumps and falls) a paradoxical body is exhibited, a body submerged in its own complexity. Whether self-possessed or shared, it is a body that is opened to mutation and to a continuous adaptation to the others.

Joclécio Azevedo

Preview 28 Dec. 2006 : Teatro Reina Sofia Benavente, Espanha

Opening 9 e 10 Feb. 2007 : Culturgest (Grande Auditório) - Lisboa

17 May. 2007 : Festival da Fábrica Teatro Helena Sá Costa : Porto