GUIdance will spotlight the company Dançando com a Diferença, in the edition that takes place between February 2 and 11, and will receive the national debuts of Akram Khan, Cassiel Gaube and Jacopo Jenna, the organization announced.
“Nature, transformation and other sensitive practices: the happiness that awaits us. From here we set out to compose a series of unexpected probabilities, in that meeting place that is the GUIDE, guided by the internal light of movement and by the contrast of singular bodies. In this edition, the ongoing transformation will pose new problems and suggest (more) sensitive ways of looking to rescue the happiness that escapes us”, can be read in the presentation of the dance festival, visible on the website of the cooperative El workshop.
The festival, presented in Guimarães, will open on February 2, at the Vila Flor Cultural Center, with “BAqUE”, by Gaya de Medeiros, a show that opens on Thursday, at the Teatro do Bairro Alto, in Lisbon.
A day later, the company Dançando com a Diferença presents the pieces “Blasons” and “Doesdicon”, in which she joins the choreographers François Chaignaud and Tânia Carvalho. At the end, there will be a conversation with the artistic director of the company, Henrique Amoedo.
Dançando com a Diferença returns to the stage, in Guimarães, again at Teatro Jordão, on February 9, with “Beautiful People”, in collaboration with Rui Horta, which premiered in 2008, in Madeira, where the structure is based.
“’Beautiful People’ doesn’t hide the disability, nor does it wrap it in feelings of pity. In a way, what Rui Horta does is make visible the brutality and injustice with which society treats people with disabilities. Some gestures will seem shocking, like the body that is cruelly thrown out of the wheelchair”, can be read in the synopsis on the ‘site’ of A Oficina.
“Dançando com a Diferença emerged as a pilot project in 2001 in the Autonomous Region of Madeira. It was intended to implement Inclusive Dance activities, which did not exist in Madeira at that time, and years later it was established as a professional company that currently has several objectives, including the possibility of bringing together people with and without disabilities on stage for a sole cause: Dance”, explains the company, on its page.
On the 7th, the complete recording of the show “Endless” will also be presented, followed by a conversation with Henrique Amoedo.
Within the framework of GUIdance, Henrique Amoedo will visit schools in the municipality, such as Gaya de Medeiros.
On February 4, the Black Box of the José de Guimarães International Center for the Arts will receive the national premiere of “Some Choreographies” by Jacopo Jenna, which is “a dialogue between the dancer Ramona Caia and a series of videos projected from different styles of dance and movement sequences”.
On the same day, two more works will be presented: “Gran Bolero”, by Jesús Rubio Gamo, a national premiere of Maurice Ravel’s composition, and “Silent Disco”, from the theater turn around and then to the left when I say so
“Carcaça”, by Marco da Silva Ferreira, on the 8th, “Soirée d’études” (10th), by the Belgian Cassiel Gaube, and “The elephant in the middle of the room” (11th), by Vânia Doutel Vaz, are other shows that complete the programming.
Closing GUIdance 2023, on the 11th, the large auditorium of the Vila Flor Cultural Center receives “The Jungle Book Reimagined”, by the Akram Khan company, which reimagines “The Jungle Book” in the “near future”, in the that “a family is separated while fleeing their homeland devastated by the impact of climate change”. After the show there will be a conversation with the British choreographer, who will also give a ‘masterclass’ on the 9th.
Source: Observadora
