Equanimity - Unalterable Mood merges various presentation codes: dance, installation, visual arts, light and sound landscapes. In the sound creation, musician Jochen Arbeit used speeches and reflections of various artists: John Cage, Marina Abramovic, Lydia Lunch, Timothy Leary, Miles Davis, Tilda Swinson, Lee Scratch Perry and Laurie Anderson. This invocation of materials, which interconnect with each other before the spectator, is installed on the stage to be sculpture, cinema, music, movement, divagation and reflection that appeals to the sensitivity of each spectator. The various states and histories they produce summon needs and reflections common to all - they are sharing.

From the bodies of the dancers are built structures that exist to lift or pierce systems of functioning and collaboration, manifesting the complexities as simplicities that surround us. They are structures made by bodies embedded in bodies, carrying bodies, being support for other bodies and that together create a surrounding space, the environment, the scenery, eventually the abstraction. From the bodies of the dancers come out images that cover the collective, starting unconditionally from the individual to later return to the intervention of the group and in group.

Let the ears, the eyes and the sensations come to us so that, in conversation, each one can give his presence. And this, yes, is always valid, as the other is valid. It also happens on stage between dancers and performers, choreographer and musician, video, light and space. Like materials and mediums, it appeals to the co-habitation of textures, thoughts, non-linear narratives, but understood by itself.

More than attributing linear meaning to events on stage, the work of the choreographer Vânia Rovisco appeals incessantly for the work to be experienced and not resolved!


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Art Residency Program - Performing Arts
2017

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Project commissioned by Walk&Talk in co-production with Teatro Micaelense and Arquipélago - Contemporary Arts Center