The Portuguese presence at this international dance meeting opens with “Guintche”, a solo from 2010 by Marlene Monteiro Freitas, on September 12 and 13 at the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse, with live percussion, followed by Marco da Silva Ferreira, on September 15 and 21, with “Fantasie Minor”, in the urban dance area.
Portuguese-speaking artists will also include Portuguese choreographer and researcher Catarina Miranda, as well as Brazilian choreographers Lia Rodrigues and Carlos Garbin, in a program that brings together some of the biggest names in contemporary dance, such as Boris Charmatz, at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa Por Keersmaeker and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.
In this 20th edition of the biennial – the first since the direction passed into the hands of the former artistic director of the Municipal Theater of Porto Tiago Guedes – the team also worked on the programming with some decisions made by the former director, Dominique Hervieu, highlighted the Portuguese creator in a text placed on the site of the event dedicated to contemporary dance.
“This edition […] It is a Biennial of transition, in which half of the artistic choices were made before my arrival by Dominique Hervieu, to whom I address my most cordial greetings and thanks”, writes the choreographer, who has also assumed the direction of the Maison de La Danse. de Lyon and the Ateliers de la Danse of that city.
With a program of 48 shows and projects by creators from 14 countries, “the biennial is affirmed, more than ever, as the place to explore and discover the latest innovations in choreography, […] committed to equitable programming that offers a diversity of aesthetics, formats, poetic or political narratives, generations and origins of artists”.
Tiago Guedes, who has been in charge of the Teatro Municipal do Porto – managed by Rivoli and Campo Alegre – since 2014, and directed the Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva Center for Residences and Artistic Creation since its creation, in 2021, previously founded, in 2009, the Materials of the Diverse Festival and Dias da Dança Festival.
Graduated from the Escola Superior de Dança, the dancer and choreographer went international in 2006 as an associate artist at the Le Vivat theater in Armentières, France.
Source: Observadora
