5 June, 18:00
Boris Hristov House of Culture, 15 Gladston St, Plovdiv

BISONTE
MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA (FOCUS PORTUGAL)
*Eastern Europe premiere

Tickets: https://epaygo.bg/3714482704

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From the apparent calmness comes a revolution, from the beast comes a caress. These figures are rugged emotional cyborgs, incapable of simply existing. Their touch is sensitive, their sense of smell is clear, their sight is eagle-eyed. We all cry and fear, we all desire and love and try to fit in, shielded by isolating armours, but we end up trapped in a box that defines us.

Bisonte is a ring of hysteria and melancholy where life is a waltz and dance is there for the taking — and it takes everyone to tango. A persistent pulse sets the pace beneath the echoes of melodies from what is hidden within us. Gender is faded, making room for a gritty, vulnerable and beautiful existence.

“Bisonte is an authorial work where I take a position that is much more based on biographical and self- referential references than scientific or consensual ones. I intend to saturate and expose the urban context of dance where there is a certain hyper- masculinisation, almost simultaneously with a feminist universe, queer, that is almost identity of this time and generation. What masculinities are still built today? Which feminine is this that to assert itself is masculinized? What humans are these that still measure themselves by the great, strong and fast? By the physical, the power and the sex? In raising gender notions, I know that I will fall into stereotyped ideas of masculine and feminine, about identity, and about anthropological concepts that may be a little swampy and with which I have no interest in making any kind of manifesto. In a more ideological “core”, Bisonte intends to bring to scene mail dense, virtuous and dominant dances to talk about intimacy and honesty in a human being. Approach a beautiful simplicity and, at the same time, use and enhance ugly artefacts.” – Marco da Silva Ferreira

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The performance is accessible for people with reduced mobility.

Photography during the performance is prohibited.

ONE DANCE WEEK 2022 is part of the Legacy 2 programme of Plovdiv 2019.

http://www.onedanceweek.com

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