"Hale - estudo para um organismo artificial"
MARIA MATOS TEATRO MUNICIPAL
16 and 17 May at 7pm (Saturday and Sunday)
Creation: Aleksandra Osowicz, Filipe Pereira, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Matthieu Ehrlacher Performers: Filipe Pereira, Flora Detraz, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Joana Leal and Matthieu Ehrlacher Sound: João Bento Artistic counselling: Patrícia Portela Light counselling: Carlos Ramos Direcção técnica: Frederico Godinho Photography: Inês Campos Artistic residencies: Espaço Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo, Forum Dança/Edifício Support: Départs Acknowledgments: António Campos, Atelier RE.AL, EIRA, Francisca Pinto, Joana Duarte, Mariana Bártolo, O Espaço do Tempo, O Rumo do Fumo, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Teatro Praga, Teresa Silva Technique: Mix For audiences over: +5 Language: Without words Running time: Approx. 35 min.
Hale - estudo para um organismo artificial, it’s a project started under the context of PEPCC/Programa de Estudo, Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica given by Forum Dança (Lisboa 2010/12)
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Hale is the meeting between five authors, 23Kg of plastic and 1710W of ventilators power. Its collective body in constant transformation lives and breathes. It’s a dance where the choreography manifests itself in a plastic architecture. What at first is inanimated matter gains life in a meeting between the naturally artificial and the artificially organic. We call it “study for an artificial organism”. Hale lives from its hybridity, between dance, performance and visual arts.
“Hale is a work of unusual sensitivity, a rigorous sense of time and structure and poetic use of space, an hybrid object that uses materials and bodies as common ground to create living things and moving thoughts.”
-Patricia Portela
“The thing that most united us was the idea of magic – seen as a means of involve and "absorb" the audience in a powerful and poetic experience that stimulates its imagination. We set out a way to create landscapes that could change into familiar objects or to create shapes that could be transformed into life beings or abstract figures, revealing to the public the mechanism of its construction without breaking the spell of the performance and without impairing the full involvement of the audience in the ‘voyage’. (…) Our interest in this work lies in the contradictory idea of animating a dead matter, giving life and personality to a material produced industrially by humans and their machines, listening to its characteristics and limitations; its "organic" movement and our collective ability to potencialize it. As a result of our endeavors, the choreography became plastic architecture, and our aim to create an "artificial organism" using mechanical ventilators which inflate the plastic and create the different shapes of a body in constant transformation: one which has "life" and "breathes." This creation is the result of a collective work in which each was fully and equally responsible for all the decisions that were made based on a compromise between everyone in order to truly create something together. Thus, Hale is an organism artificially generated, whose body, not being ours, could only exist through our union.”
Hale - estudo para um organismo artificial, it’s a project started under the context of PEPCC/Programa de Estudo, Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica given by Forum Dança (Lisboa 2010/12)
Tickets online
Hale is the meeting between five authors, 23Kg of plastic and 1710W of ventilators power. Its collective body in constant transformation lives and breathes. It’s a dance where the choreography manifests itself in a plastic architecture. What at first is inanimated matter gains life in a meeting between the naturally artificial and the artificially organic. We call it “study for an artificial organism”. Hale lives from its hybridity, between dance, performance and visual arts.
“Hale is a work of unusual sensitivity, a rigorous sense of time and structure and poetic use of space, an hybrid object that uses materials and bodies as common ground to create living things and moving thoughts.”
-Patricia Portela
“The thing that most united us was the idea of magic – seen as a means of involve and "absorb" the audience in a powerful and poetic experience that stimulates its imagination. We set out a way to create landscapes that could change into familiar objects or to create shapes that could be transformed into life beings or abstract figures, revealing to the public the mechanism of its construction without breaking the spell of the performance and without impairing the full involvement of the audience in the ‘voyage’. (…) Our interest in this work lies in the contradictory idea of animating a dead matter, giving life and personality to a material produced industrially by humans and their machines, listening to its characteristics and limitations; its "organic" movement and our collective ability to potencialize it. As a result of our endeavors, the choreography became plastic architecture, and our aim to create an "artificial organism" using mechanical ventilators which inflate the plastic and create the different shapes of a body in constant transformation: one which has "life" and "breathes." This creation is the result of a collective work in which each was fully and equally responsible for all the decisions that were made based on a compromise between everyone in order to truly create something together. Thus, Hale is an organism artificially generated, whose body, not being ours, could only exist through our union.”
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BIO
The five creators of Hale have in common the course PEPCC/Programa de Estudo, Pesquisa e Criação Coreográfica given by Fórum Dança.
Aleksandra Osowicz was born in Wrocław, Poland, in 1987. She completed her training in the Department of Media and Photography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Since her first contact with dance in 1995, she performed in several international festivals and venues. Since 2007, she has been working as an instructor of release technique, floor work and improvisation. Aleksandra received scholarships from various institutions.
Filipe Pereira is graduated in dance by the Escola Superior de Dança do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. As a performer, he worked with Inês Jacques, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Martine Pisani, Felix Rucker, Tânia Carvalho, Tiago Guedes and Trisha Brown Dance Company. In 2013 created "O que fica do que passa", in collaboration with Teresa Silva.
Helena Martos Ramirez was born in Spain in 1984. She studies dance since 1994, in Spain (Córdoba Professional Conservatory), France (CCN Montpellier), Netherlands (SNDO - Amsterdam). She graduated in physical activity and sport science by the University of Granada. In 2008, she was co-creator of the Collective D'akipayá and the play "Le bal des 3 petites têtes", was selected in 2011 for the Circuito de Dança Andalusa.
Inês Campos was born in Oporto in 1990. She graduated in the Escola Superior de Dança from Lisbon in 2011. She completed the "Laboratory of Movement Studies" at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris in 2013. As a performer, she worked with Tânia Carvalho, João Costa Espinho, António Tavares and Margarida Bettencourt. Inês completed the Professional Course of Design and Communication and she is involved as a singer and cellist in the musical projects "Stopestra" and "Sopa de Pedra".
Matthieu Ehrlacher was born in Figeac, France, in 1985. In 2004 begins in contemporary dance with Carla Ribeiro, Ana Borges and Ana Santos Novo and in 2009 is integrates the theatre group amateur Gato in Vila Nova de Santo André. As a performer worked with Carlota Lagido, Fabiola Montiel, Nicola Dias, Martine Pisani, Joana Duarte and S. Cansu Ergin, among others. He studied saxophone in the Hot Club jazz school and is now a member of the Bands Farra Fanfarra, Groove Intercourse, Inner Spaceways and Puntzkapuntz.
Aleksandra Osowicz was born in Wrocław, Poland, in 1987. She completed her training in the Department of Media and Photography of the Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw. Since her first contact with dance in 1995, she performed in several international festivals and venues. Since 2007, she has been working as an instructor of release technique, floor work and improvisation. Aleksandra received scholarships from various institutions.
Filipe Pereira is graduated in dance by the Escola Superior de Dança do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa. As a performer, he worked with Inês Jacques, Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz, Martine Pisani, Felix Rucker, Tânia Carvalho, Tiago Guedes and Trisha Brown Dance Company. In 2013 created "O que fica do que passa", in collaboration with Teresa Silva.
Helena Martos Ramirez was born in Spain in 1984. She studies dance since 1994, in Spain (Córdoba Professional Conservatory), France (CCN Montpellier), Netherlands (SNDO - Amsterdam). She graduated in physical activity and sport science by the University of Granada. In 2008, she was co-creator of the Collective D'akipayá and the play "Le bal des 3 petites têtes", was selected in 2011 for the Circuito de Dança Andalusa.
Inês Campos was born in Oporto in 1990. She graduated in the Escola Superior de Dança from Lisbon in 2011. She completed the "Laboratory of Movement Studies" at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School in Paris in 2013. As a performer, she worked with Tânia Carvalho, João Costa Espinho, António Tavares and Margarida Bettencourt. Inês completed the Professional Course of Design and Communication and she is involved as a singer and cellist in the musical projects "Stopestra" and "Sopa de Pedra".
Matthieu Ehrlacher was born in Figeac, France, in 1985. In 2004 begins in contemporary dance with Carla Ribeiro, Ana Borges and Ana Santos Novo and in 2009 is integrates the theatre group amateur Gato in Vila Nova de Santo André. As a performer worked with Carlota Lagido, Fabiola Montiel, Nicola Dias, Martine Pisani, Joana Duarte and S. Cansu Ergin, among others. He studied saxophone in the Hot Club jazz school and is now a member of the Bands Farra Fanfarra, Groove Intercourse, Inner Spaceways and Puntzkapuntz.
