[2023]
AND MY HANDS ARE NEVER EMPTY
A production by Cristian Duarte
in company
SYNOPSIS
Touching pieces of memory and reviving sensations to delirious life in the face of an unbearable reality. It is with this tension that the dance proposed in this creation involves itself, aiming to provoke a collective experience driven by everything that makes and moves us, with all the possible arrangements of cooperation and movement, with the desire to remember on the skin and in the imagination that we are flesh full of blood – that dreams, that laughs and that cries.
Will we ever lose the ability to be emotional?
RELEASE
And my hands are never empty is the title of the new production by Cristian Duarte
in company created at Z0NA context with KINTSUGI project supported by 32nd Edition of the Municipal Dance Promotion Program for the city of São Paulo — Municipal Secretariat of Culture.
The title came from the singer Maria Bethânia reciting the Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen:
“Despite the ruins and death/ Where every illusion has always ended/ The strength of my dreams is so strong/ That exaltation is reborn from everything/ And never my hands are empty.” And it is in this reality, still in the midst of wars, devastation and inequalities in different spheres and scales, that dance materializes. The concentration on modulating the tone of the body and space-time, specific to those who dance, makes the matter-movement disorient any linearity and gives form to countless constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions. The insistence on tactile and kinetic senses, the fusion of gestures and layers of sound transform predefined narratives, giving way, clearly, to a new poem, despite several, many deaths, there is a crack, an affirmation in movement, yes, springs, still there is life.
The nine artists that form the cast: Aline Bonamin, Allyson Amaral, Andrea Rosa Sá, Danielli Mendes, Felipe Stocco, Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi, Leandro Berton, Maurício Alves and Paulo Carpino delve into their physical-affective repertoires, bringing pieces of expressions, gestures and movements to the surface to be devoured collectively.
About the Kintsugi project
The term
Kintsugi has been widespread on the internet in recent years and, roughly speaking, it is a Japanese art 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 visibility of the cracks stands out, enhanced by gold, highlighting the imperfections of the trajectories, the stories covered by the ceramic piece, and generating singular meanings of the existence present there.
Kintsugi project adopted this name as a metaphor for Cristian Duarte’s processes of continuity in company, to think about memory, resilience and perseverance. Looking at the most varied pieces of what we have already done, touching on perspectives of what we were and what we are, in gerund, like water, a river-sea that never stops flowing, redefining every moment where you are and what you are capable of understanding. Kintsugi was also a driving metaphor for rediscovering the "site-specific"
DESPEDANÇADA (SHATTEREDANCES) - a choreography carried out in virtual mode during the Covid pandemic, consisting of a website that houses more than 25 ‘pieces’ (chunks) of dance. Pieces composed of dances in audios, videos and photographs, drawn from different artistic references such as Isadora Duncan, Linn da Quebrada, Maya Deren, Anna Halprin, Augusto Omolú, among others.
The project involved several actions and phases, including periods of immersion called shards (cacos). There were 5 cacos – scenic elaborations with the cast divided. Different from the usual rehearsal with the entire cast, the pieces were immersions made by 4 duos and 1 trio, in which the dancers experienced an intensified creation process with the direction. At the end of each caco, a public opening entitled Experimenta was held. Furthermore, the project’s other actions – Jams and Laboratories – also stimulated the project’s investigative field, allowing other bodies and subjectivities to cross this context, vibrating its possibilities and powers.
CREDITS
Choreography and Direction
Cristian Duarte
Creation and Dance
Aline Bonamin, Allyson Amaral, Andrea Rosa Sá, Danielli Mendes, Felipe Stocco, Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi, Leandro Berton, Maurício Alves and Paulo Carpino
Dramaturgical support
Julia Rocha
Lighting
André Boll/Santa Luz
Sound design and costumes
in company
Sound performance
cast
Sound operation
Lucas Brandão
Photography
Mayra Azzi or Haroldo Saboia
Video
Iago Mati
Executive production
Rafael Petri/MoviCena Productions
Subsidy
Municipal Dance Promotion Program for the city of São Paulo — Municipal Department of Culture, Bonobos Produções and Z0NA
Support
Casa do Povo
⭕️ Age recommendation: 14 years old
⏳ Duration: 60 minutes