MEDIATHEK

By accepting the CCB’S challenge to be the 2009/2010 season associated artist, I decided to create 3 works during this time period, works which are part of a whole, and the outcome of an intense reflection on my own path as a creator. The three works - different in scale (small, medium, large) and in the themes are, however, unified by the questioning of the role of the body within the choreographic and theatrical speech. Thus, the challenge was also to accept this forthcoming season as a moment in time for a creative reflection, a permanent lab where I will try to figure out some of the answers to the several questions disclosed by my own artistic path. I decided to create a trilogy. In the first work, Talk Show/until the body fades out, I question the body as a communicating system and raise the issue of its disappearance. In the second work, The Tears of Saladin, I discuss the saturation of the body and the way of looking to other’s body, within the complex relational system which are nowadays our cities and the territories with no boundaries we inevitably share. Cultural body, political body, territory of simultaneousness, of power and negotiation, inevitably a space of social tension, but also a space for discovery and compassion. Local Geographic, the third work, is a reflection on identity and evidently discusses an intimate body, a personal geography using the body as a tool to discover the world. These three works also represent a bigger challenge, as I decided - instead of what I usually do - to invest in the traditional/ritual theatre hall. In fact, in my latest works (Pixel, Set Up and Scope), the audience has always been involved in the sets, as a modifying agent, part of a space of erratic geometry, contaminator of the perception. In this trilogy, I revisit the common relationship audience/performer, and I decided to invest in the three CCB performing halls and scales (the Small Auditorium - Eduardo Prado Coelho Room, the Main Auditorium and the Rehearsal Room), where the major challenge is to keep me loyal to the primacy of perception and questioning of the look, elemental themes of my creative speech. (quelle: ccb.pt/sites/ccb/en-EN/programacao/Pages/TEMPORADA'09'10.aspx) isrr