Cristian Duarte
Choreographer Cristian Duarte is an artist from São Paulo who has been working professionally for over 25 years. His training includes Estúdio e Cia Nova Dança in São Paulo and graduation from P.A.R.T.S. (Performing Arts, Research and Training Studios) in Brussels. His artistic practice has been marked by the creation of contexts for experimentation and training in dance such as APT?, DESABA, LOTE and Z0NA. He has been invited by important educational institutions such as DDSKS (Copenhagen), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), SICW platform – Seoul International Choreography Workshop (Seoul), DOCH/SKH – Stockholm University of the Arts (Stockholm), UFRN – Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal/Br), Arizona State University – ASU The Design School (Arizona/US). He has choreographed for Transitions Dance Company at the Laban Center (London) and for the Cullberg Ballet (Stockholm).
His production has been recognized by the main dance awards in Brazil and presented internationally in countries such as Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Chile, Singapore, Spain, Holland, France, England, Portugal, Uruguay and Sweden. He was one of the curators of the Artistic Actions of the 2019 Sesc Dance Biennale. With 5 APCA awards (São Paulo Association of Art Critics), among his works are: And never my hands are empty (2023), Despedançada (a specific website/2021 ), < play : (Audiovisual/2021), What is really happening when something happens? (2017), Ó (2016), Against the Current, Glow for Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet (2015), Biomashup (2014), Jamzz (2012), The Hot One Hundred Choreographers (2011) and Médelei – eu sou brasileira (etc. ) and I never exist (2006).
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.
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.
JAMZZ
JAMZZ
JAMZZ is a fusion of jam and jazz dance. Jam is the term adopted by the contact improvisation movement in reference to musical sessions carried out mainly by jazz and blues. In both dance and music, it is an opportunity to get closer, to put bodies in dialogue, in play, in practice and sociability. In reverence to the expressiveness and aesthetics of Jazz Dance, the performance is guided by steps, movements and clothes capable of seducing the public (space) to trace a diagonal that puts repertoires and emotions into flow.
JAMZZ invites everyone to a vintage aesthetic and performance experience powered mainly by musical hits from the 80s and 90s. Drezzcode is Jazz Dance and we guarantee you a hairband! To take place in alternative spaces, with a flow of people, common areas, squares, parks, courts, gyms, among others.
Concept and Direction
Cristian Duarte
Dancers in relay
Aline Bonamin, Andrea Rosa Sá, Allyson Amaral, Clarice Lima, Danielli Mendes, Felipe Stocco, Gabriel Fernandez Tolgyesi, i gonçalves, Ísis Vergílio, Karen Marçal, Leandro Berton, Maurício Alves, Maurício Florez, Marcela Costa, Natália Mendonça, Patricia Árabe and Paulo Carpino
