SYNOPSIS
The dance creation, Sweats of Honey and Death Shall Have no Dominion, takes place fifty years after the revolutionary moment of 25 April and treats dance as insubmission and the Dionysian revolution of Heterodoxy. In conjunction with Eduardo Lourenço's Heterodoxies, Pessoa's Heteronymy, Eudoro de Souza's Mythologies, the sensual poetry of Natália Correia, Luiza Neto Jorge, the new Dionysianism of A. O. Spare, the research of K. Kerenyi, Plato's Symposium, A. Silva's recovery of Diotima, Nonus' Dionysiac epic, censored in the constructed and recognised canons of the epic, and Nietzsche's Philosophy/Dance, which remains from the previous creation. Initially, the Dionysian intoxication of insubmission was honey, from caves where bees were said to sweat honey. Like humans when the heat turns their skin red and the "mania" sweeps them away from the collective drive to conform, manifesting itself as a dance of urgency in the amplexus, an urgent dance of a sexualised and multiform Dionysian entity, constantly mutating in its entrails, the revolt of the trees and the forest in silence, the transgression of convinced identities, the transgression of excluded third parties. A dance of irresolvable dialectics, a saturnalia in a resolution that is always yet to be, an uninterrupted dance of madmen, a dance of inversion of a socialisation restricted by codes and roles, orders and progressions. A dance of impulses that erupt in the movement of insubmission and spur creation towards a path of heteronomy, in the dance of madness.
CrEDITS
Direction, Choreography, Dramaturgy and Training Hugo Calhim Cristóvão & Joana von Mayer Trindade Dancers Sara Miguelote, Michele Simi, Beatriz Coelho, Lucia Marrodan Music and Sound Design João Oliveira & NuIsIs ZoBoP Light Design Luís Silva Costumes UN T Set design Jérémy Pajeanc & NuIsIs ZoBoP Theory and Philosophy Hugo Calhim Cristóvão, Joana von Mayer Trindade, Celeste Natário, Carlos Pimenta, Cláudia Marisa, Cristina Aguiar, Ezequiel Santos, Hugo Monteiro, Rui Lopo, Mário Correia, Manuela Hargreaves, Nuno Matos Duarte, Chris Page, Afonso Becerra, Armando Nascimento Rosa, Luís Ramos, Pedro Fiúza, Sofia Vilar Soares | Documentation, Interviews: Cristina Aguiar, Cláudia Galhós Video Os Fredericos Photography Alípio Padilha, João Peixoto Executive Production Joana Domingues and NuIsIs ZoBoP Co-production Theatro Circo de Braga, Teatro Municipal de Bragança - Algures a Nordeste Contemporary dance festival, Casa Varela - Centro de Experimentação Artística, Cine Teatro-Louletano Artistic Residencies Casa Varela-Centro de Experimentação Artística, Circolando, Ágora-Cultura e Desporto, Centro de Criação do Candoso-Fábrica Asa, Ginasiano e Kale/Armazém 22, Centro de Criação e Investigação Nuisis Zobop Partnerships Instituto de Filosofia da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto - FLUP, Escola do Superior de Educação do Porto, Escola Superior de Arte Dramática da Galiza, ESMAE-Escola Superior Música e Artes do Espetáculo do Porto, Universidade de Porto. Support Ágora – Cultura e Desporto e Festival Abril Dança Coimbra / Teatrão International Support - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
© Hugo Calhim Cristóvão
Alípio Padilha
Alípio Padilha
Alípio Padilha
Nuisis Zobop Centre for Creation and Research | Espaço Agra
Cycle of Debates Art, Heterodoxy, Transformation
DANCE AS A REBELLION OF THE OTHER IN US
1/4 Urban Art(s)
NuIsIs ZoBoP is starting a cycle of four debates on 20 March at Espaço Agra in Porto, together with the Institute of Philosophy and Cristina Aguiar, centred on "Art/Heterodoxy/Transformation" under the stimulus of "dance as rebellion of the other in us". The aim is to fracture processes of conformity and expand the boundaries of the normalisation of the concept and practiceof art, stripped of merely discursive influences that constrain it towards orthodoxy and predictability and/or towards collaborationism in act with what oppresses us. Artistic phenomenon(s) are not encouraged as mere entertainment and luxury, dispensable or replaceable, but as an ethical force of vitality and lucid non-conformity that is critically necessary in a) the consistent agency that favours political transformation, b) the situated and local questioning of power and domination structures, c) the day-to-day undoing of easy normativities that perpetuate and replicate sameness and superficiality. We see this lucid and informed vitality as fundamental and basic to human growth, just as food, shelter and education are: essential practices for achieving autonomy and the courage to act with humanity. With this in mind, in the first debate we discussed three creative expressions that encourage an impulse towards Heterodoxy: the real and (im)possible architecture, theatre or so-called documentary theatricality problematising the fiction/non-fiction distinction, dance as a document and non-discursive memory of actions of revolt and humanisation.
Nuisis Zobop Centre for Creation and Research | Espaço Agra
Cycle of Debates Art, Heterodoxy, Transformation
DANCE AS A REBELLION OF THE OTHER IN US
2/4 Urban Art(s)
On 18 June, NuIsIs ZoBoP and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto will resume the cycle of thematic debates Art and Heterodoxy at Espaço Agra, now focusing on visual languages in art and the communicational power that emerges from them. With this in mind, in the second debate we will discuss four creative expressions that encourage Heterodoxy: cinema/documentary in the rewriting of socio-cultural narratives and reflections, documentary photography as a way of revealing neglected or hidden realities, stage photography as a tool for evoking emotional responses and aesthetic recording, and Butoh's ability to challenge aesthetic conventions of beauty.
DANCE AS A REBELLION OF THE OTHER IN US
3/4 Arte(s) Urbana(s)NuIsIs ZoBoP and the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto will resume the cycle of thematic debates Art and Heterodoxy on 7 September at Espaço Agra. We invite the audience to immerse themselves in a philosophical reflection on Art with Eroticism, challenging conventions and exploring the frontiers of artistic expression. In this heterodox dialogue, a rich and multifaceted narrative will be woven, where different artistic forms can subtly incorporate erotic elements, revealing the intricate relationship between desire, sensuality and marginality. The proposal articulates a subversive fusion between punk-rock-jazz and sexuality, while flamenco, with its deep emotional charge and marginal cultural origins, evokes a unique celebration of passion, desire, love and suffering, in tune with NuIsIs ZoBoP's dance choreographies.
Nuisis ZoBop, in collaboration with the Institute of Philosophy, is bringing the cycle of debates ‘Art/Heterodoxy/Transformation’ to a close on 2 November at 5pm at Espaço Agra in Porto. This fourth and final meeting will be driven by reflection on ‘dance as rebellion of the other in us’. We intend to emphasise art as a plural territory of legitimate representation for all, with special attention to trans and non-binary people. To enrich this dialogue, we will bring drag art into the discussion, whose bodies and performances explore gender issues in a profound and subversive way, allowing identities and experiences to manifest themselves in an authentic way. The debate aims to provide an environment of sharing and enlightenment, fuelling discourses that promote social deconstruction and reflection on the barriers that are still present. We will discuss the current challenges, the persistent obstacles and the actions needed for artistic expressions to continue to assert themselves as reflections of a truly inclusive society, free of social and cultural barriers.
This talk is part of the cycle of debates ‘Art, Heterodoxy, Transformation’, which will feature guests Hugo Calhim Cristóvão, Vinicius Reis, Cat Martins and Joana von Mayer Trindade. Moderated by Cristina Aguiar
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