MEDIATHEK

To be another me. To feel the other body. To feel the body heat. To allow myself to be me again. To feel vulnerability, my authenticity. To remember. To breathe stones. To cross the line and not freak out. My world is broken, absurd, incoherent, redundant, accidental, funny, conicidental, confused, joyful, useless, full of doubts, humour, embarrassement and bad timings. Thousands of questions banging in the back of my mind. But then: if you hear what I hear and if you see what I see, would you still care about answers? A choreographic and performing research going out from diferent impulses, sometimes physical, sometimes subjectiv. The interpreter is a duo with herself. Being herself and being the other. Trying to be the many others, which one has inside oneself. Put in an emotional, political and even irrational context. The body in transformation, the body as a storehouse of emotions. To communicate in an objectiv, clear and direct way through the language of dance. Cristina Moura like an idiot is a performance that combines a brilliant unique dance vocabulary with performance art, and theater. Utilizing otherworldly recorded music and her own idiosyncratic choreographic movement, Cristina moves about the stage as if possessed, drawing pictures in midair speaking with her hands, head, arms and body creating a mosaic of images, sounds and gestures. Childlike pedestrian movement morphs into stamina driven excerpts of physical dance prowess. The piece explores the multifaceted personalities and the multiple impulses and expressions that constitute self-identity. The performance portrays the body in transformation and as a storehouse of emotions. It aims to communicate personal evolution in an objective, clear and direct way through the language of dance. like an idiot plays to the child in all of us. As an audience we can all commiserate with Cristina when she says, "sometimes I feel like an idiot!" Cristina Moura's was booked for the San Francisco International Art Festival after Cultural Odyssey's Co-Artistic Director Idris Ackamoor visited Brazil as part of the curatorial team of the National Performance Network's Performing America's Project. His job was to find exciting, innovative Brazilian artists to tour to the United States. After visiting Cristina in her Rio de Janeiro studio he was smitten by her audacious and energy infused dance and choreography. (Quelle: http://www.sfiaf-archive.org/2008/artists/dance/info.php?5) egd