It’s possible that the name Marlene Monteiro Freitas doesn’t ring any bells. This striking Cape Verdean dancer is known as the enfant terrible of contemporary choreography. At the moment she’s doing really well with her baroque aesthetic and surreal images. She’s bringing ‘her’ paradise with her to our place.
Freitas attacks the myth of creation and opens the gates to paradise where it is forbidden to forbid. It’s a place where bestiality, horror, carnal energy, carnivalesque tinges and gruesome rituals reign supreme.
Like a flamboyant maestro in a torero costume, Freitas rules with an iron hand over a quartet of crazed male creatures (like a bird-magician with blue hands or a jester with a deformed face). These angels, escaped from hell, are carried away by the sound of reverberating organ music, African rhythms and pop rock melodies. This is going to be a choreographic concert in the garden of our imagination.
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CV, 2012, 60min.
Choreography: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Performance: Yair Barelli, Lorenzo de Angelis, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Lander Patrick, Andreas Merk
Music: Marlene Monteiro Freitas (with the support of de Nosfell and Tiago Cerqueira)
Light and sound: Yannick Fouassier
Research and image: João Francisco Figueira, Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Costumes Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Production: Bomba Suicida (PT)
Coproduction: Le Spectacles Vivants - Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR), L'échangeur - CDC Picardie (FR), Centre Chorégraphie National de Tours, direction Thomas Lebrun (accueil studio, FR), Centre Chorégraphie National Rilieux-La-Pape, direction Yuval Pick (accueil studio, FR), Ballet National de Marseille (FR) - Centre Chorégraphique National, direction Frédéric Flamand (accueil studio, FR), CDC Uzès Danse (FR), Bomba Suicida - Associação de Promoção Cultural (PT), Festival Circular (PT), Maria Matos Teatro Municipal (PT)
With the support of: Départs (avec le soutien du programme Culture de l'Union européenne), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT), ALKANTARA (PT), Atelier Re.al (PT), Centre National Danse Contemporaine Angers, direction Emmanuelle Huynh (FR).
Acknowledgements: Cédric Cherdel (FR), L'A./Rachid Ouramdane (FR), Neusa Freitas (CV), Heloisa Monteiro (PT)
Distribution: Key Performance
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