— Interdisciplinary Community Art Project —
BOWING refers to the verb to bow. In oriental cultures, when greeting each other, people unite their hands in front of the chest and bow before the other as a sign of welcome and respect. In the rural world, the one who works the earth also bows over it, sometimes over a lifetime, in order to touch and fertilize the ground. In dance, it is this curve that Doris Humphrey refers to when describing the arc between a jump and a fall, our response to gravity. The combination of these movements of dance, work and mutual respect forms the ground of this artistic project.
My work: Part of the core group. A year of giving artistic classes to immigrants in schools and greenhouses, with the aim of integration and creative expression in a complex context.
To record the entire process. Create a documentary about the experience. Creation of all the the audiovisual artistic material for the performance. Performer. Singer. Dancer. Projectionist.
+20 videos (in addition to those created in the workshops)
8 Portraits.
6 Cities.
1 Hands of all.
3 Animations.
1 Feature documentary film.
& Trailers, dance videos, tutorials.
— Part of the synopse related to the video installation —
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FAMILY VICTORIES
A collection of portraits of the new Alentejo families, who receive us in their fields, rewriting the history of these plains, these cork oaks and hills. Many of those who arrive from the East come alone, but the families that we see here have managed to stay together as they cross the world. Everyone leaves for a reason and everyone arrives with a purpose, a desire for the future.
FOREST
Through cinema, these faraway territories will be laid out on lunch tables so that you can visit the landscapes and atmospheres of the cities of the East. When the images penetrate the skin, living bodies of dance emerge that offer us the beauty of incomprehension. In the forest there are dark and unknown crossings, clearings opened by music and feminine spaces of penumbra with dances that curl through the maritime pines like boa constrictors. Asia settles on the rammed earth walls that form our new temple, surrounded by the dreams of nameless princesses and the dance of two sisters who move on memory.”
