Instructions to open the body in case of emergency/2007

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Açorianos Award nominated soundtrack.
Created in conjunction with the dance pieces and with collaboration of the choreographer and dancers.
Explores synthetic body sounds and musical improvisation.
Meant to be an extension of the dance.

Instructions to open the body
in case of emergency
Soundtrack

Stickers with Laban notation and the said "instructions", by Alexandra Dias:
#1 Lay down on the cold floor and #5 Swim with sharks.

These instructions to open the body assume as a starting point that this search is no easy feat: whats turned inside out is a field of perception - a reality that stole the power and place of flesh, the meaning and dignity of the body - instead of the body.

But what the hell is the field of perception? A darkness, some kind of abyss where we go fumbling, as having in hand the three flashlights or remarks or normative marks said so before. They are 1. The blood circulating inside us; 2. The Other that move us and that moves inside us; 3. The courage. The first thing we see is that the blood circulates, despite and with all the darkness around it. The pair Alexandra Dias and Michel Capeletti double in size in stage. They are actors and this is disconcerting. By one side we can experience the dramatic possibilities that dancer miss and, on the other, the flow of the project through a lesser tailored body being conducted, sometimes by force, as part of the - glorious - task of finding and opening the body.

Alexandra Dias and Michel Capeletti

Transmission / Support / Connection

The plasticity of this blood, this red thread, linking the two dancers on stage is astonishing. And from it ligatures develop, the bodies holding and enchasing and pushing and supporting. The body to be open, wherever it is - is dark, indeed, very dark and the sound is nervous (also, what a soundtrack!). There is no minimal, elementary, singular shaking on stage.

No acrobatics, no excesses. The work is a task amidst darkness. And the instructions seem to be surreptitiously left aside.

Headlong Dance

Emergency Sight

Before feeling bad, as if saying alright, we can see courage is needed and we are under emergency, we say goodbye to the strong candidates of bodies to be opened. The dancers disappear into hanging cocoons - genial image. In search of the instructions or the obedience they demand, the candidates to the body opening form - are authorized to? - their cocoons - its desperating the possibility that there, into these genial cocoons, is the end of the spectacle.

Bars

(However) the closing is happy, loose, riotous, of satin and bright, there are stones rolling and dust coming from behind a carpet in the air - the girder that opens, in a piece by André Venzon, fill us with hope and grace. The body appear it is taken seriously that the journey demands courage, and how. All the sweat, the concentration, the rigor of the quest, end up by giving us clarity and confidence. Maybe its this stupid confidence into what one feels [] whats necessary to open the body in this darkness.

If there is any meaning, and of course there is, it is not without the body. Neither without the blood, without the Other and more so without the courage.