2004

The vocabulary of this piece plays with the idea of exploring image and movement conventions related to dance educated bodies.

The bodies are displayed and shown in series of simple exhibition situations appearing to the audience as if the stage was a kind of “shopping window” where they are available to give aesthetic pleasure, to provoke the senses, to be consumed. The physical and formal qualities of space, time and sound are used to create a non-stop and excessive influx of visual excitement, introducing a constant change of combinations, configurations and sequences.

The images are a collection of body portraits and body landscapes in continuous and frenetic transformation. They are fragments of a broken, multidimensional and melted mirror.

Joclecio Azevedo

The Melted Mirror was created and presented as part of Movimento4. Movimento4 is the first instalment of a new annual festival showcasing the best of innovative Portuguese contemporary dance and dance-based movement in Britain. www.movimento.co.uk The project is run by the hub, a London-based arts development practice in conjunction with partner organisations Laban, NOW Festival and Sadlers Wells. It is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Arts Council England and supported by Vida Nova magazine.