FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2023 AT 7:30 PM
C A R C A Ç A - MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA
Boris Hristov House of Culture

A cannonade of footsteps ignites the fuse, the fire crawling over the bodies on stage, but the explosion will echo in another dimension. Ten performers, including choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira, take the audience on a journey to develop a collective identity, a cultural belonging, a shared memory. Intense and intricate foot movements and leaps preface Ferreira’s dance vocabulary, which speaks of resistance and rebellion, unification and inclusion, self-determination and diversity.
The white carpet, live electronic music and drums, and the spectacular lighting amplify the feeling of a club dance floor or carnival – where everyone is different and alone in their revelry and pain, but also part of the whole. What is the role of individual personalities in building a community? What is the driving force of an identity? How do we decide what to remember and what to forget as we grow through our personal world and that of others?
To provide answers, Ferreira unpacks the legacy of European traditional dances to bring to light their basic movements and staging. Their “codes,” however, are antiquated, even oppressive. They do not apply in today’s colourful urban and social context. They exclude identities, groups and relations other than the dominant ones. And could it be the other way around? This is why the Portuguese artist mixes marches and fanfare with club music, such as techno, trance, and dubstep.
C A R C A Ç A is a choreographic encounter between unifying folklore and liberating self-expression. Between the rules and the deviations from the rules in dance attributed to minority and marginal communities. This encounter is about understanding how memory works and how belonging is constructed.

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