C A C O S is a proposition of 05 different dances - 4 duos and 1 trio - created by the artists from Cristian Duarte in company. Naming these dances "shards", as they refer to stages, parts, pieces of a creation that was in process in the KINTSUGI project (carried out by the company in 2023 through the Municipal Dance Promotion Program for the City of São Paulo).


Roughly speaking, Kintsugi is a Japanese craft in which a broken piece of pottery is repaired with a varnish containing gold. In this art, instead of hiding the patches of broken ceramics, the cracks stand out, enhanced by gold, highlighting the imperfections, trajectories and histories covered by the ceramic piece and generating unique meanings of the existence present there.

For choreographer Cristian Duarte, kintsugi served as a metaphor for the processes of his continuity in company, as well as an opportunity to think about memory, resilience and perseverance, looking at the most varied pieces of what we have already done, and touching on perspectives of who we were and what that we are.

In this way, C A C O S exposes a way of organizing a creation in dance that values and gives new meaning to the moments that are usually called process. From this perspective, what would remain in the past as a stage, or part of something bigger, becomes emancipated onto the scene, as a piece capable of producing knowledge and exciting perception.

SHARD#1
BITES LIKE A DOG
with Aline Bonamin and Paulo Carpino

Nothing escapes, we continue in a discontinuous space of frenetic synapses. We salivate gracefully and bite hard. Between the desire to move forward together and falling apart, a vigorously unstable dance emerges.

Creation and Dance: Aline Bonamin and Paulo Carpino
Directed by: Cristian Duarte
Music: Tom Monteiro
Costume: in company
Photography: Mayra Azzi

Duration: 15 minutes

SHARD#2
POISON ME, COME HERE
with Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi and Maurício Alves

How do social networks and the internet resonate with you? And in your gestures? In this duet directed by Cristian Duarte, dancers Gabriel Tolgyesi and Maurício Alves look for ways to establish connections with each other, with the audience and with the world, verbally reverberating in words-dances what circulates in their feeds, from memes to tragic news. Thus, the dances in this choreography seek to expand understandings not only of the body in displacement in time and space, but also of imaginaries that surround us, penetrate our organisms and our subjectivities and echo in our personal relationships - less like a manichaeism of that that we experience virtually, and more like a paradoxical relationship between poison and antidote.

Creation and Dance: Gabriel Tolgyesi and Maurício Alves
Directed by: Cristian Duarte
Edition of the track Cristian Duarte and Carla Boregas on Guitarra Baiana by Moraes Moreira
Costume: in company
Photography: Mayra Azzi

Duration: 37 minutes

SHARD#3
POUNCE
with Danielli Mendes and Leandro Berton

The body desires movement. When we move we can become delirious, as the apparently dense and fixed form becomes a moldable, malleable, delirious environment! Provoking delirium means constant negotiation with the material, pressing, releasing, generating heat, searching dance archives or not. While the human creature raves, it builds beings and architectures. While the movement lasts, an inaugurating fictional environment that will exist for the duration of an arm movement, for example, will also last. In this fragment, we use strategies to delirium, to make the form so malleable to the point of sprouting an unimaginable land that will need to be used, just as the animal takes advantage of the moment of pounce. The animal trusts in all its anatomical wisdom in an organization of life and death that will be, and can only be, in a fraction of seconds. Whether it hits the prey or not, the pounce is true hunger and nothing more!

Creation and Dance: Danielli Mendes and Leandro Berton
Directed by: Cristian Duarte
Music: Tom Monteiro
Costume: in company
Photography: Mayra Azzi

Duration: 26 minutes

SHARD#4
EVERYTHING BECOMES
with Andrea Rosa Sá, Allyson Amaral and Felipe Stocco

Together in two here and two there. A ritual? A laziness? A fear? A desire? A problem? Everything becomes what? Grab a bench and climb on it to see all this shit from above. We advance like a wave that hits you in the face mercilessly but with joy. Who said that joy is something soft, light, smooth? Joy is an emotion equal to sadness that makes us feel life stronger. It hits us, it hits the wall, it hits the window, it makes us see outside, it's not about you, you are about/everything a reference that between you and Mars there is space, there are nameless things, there is vibration, there is the time passing. Yes, my love, time passes. Even if it isn't linear, it passes, and creates wrinkles, creates memories that we don't always remember, creates paths, creates desire, creates more desire to slap each other to realize that we are here passing through. Two here and two there. Beans with rice. Just like that, basic, for complex dreams.

Creation and Dance:
Andrea Rosa Sá, Allyson Amaral and Felipe Stocco
Directed by: Cristian Duarte
Music: Carla Boregas
Costume: in company
Photography: Mayra Azzi

Duration: 45 minutes