#10 Fado Dança: que portuguesidade? (Povo que Lavas no Rio)

Excerto de #10 Fado Dança: que portuguesidade? com "Povo que Lavas no Rio"

2 de Novembro, 2010, 14.30h, Faculdade de Letras da ULisboa

Uma performance/dança mutante em que vários personas habitam física e virtualmente vozes do Fado em corporealidades inclusivas que revelam e desconstroem as camaleónicas influências musicais, culturais, e principalmente corporais, que o contêm. As interacções directas e mediadas entre os vários elementos, incluindo os membros da audiência, articulam comentários incontornáveis em torno de uma portuguesidade nómada e híbrida que remete à herança colonial e emigrante, à recente moldura económico-político-cultural europeia e ao fenómeno da globalização (póscolonização) reflectidos no Fado.

English
A sharp satire to the "false" friction between traditional and contemporary urban culture, Fado Dança uncovers Fado's Western hybridization from appropriated and assimilated African, Middle-Eastern, Asian and American cultures. Fado is approached as an inclusive embodied performance form including dancing, talking, singing, playing music, and wiimote gesture-video interaction.
Fado developed in different modes attributed to different places and people within Portugal and abroad. Fado music and singing is sometimes accompanied with or stimulates different embodied engagements, states of "dance" interaction between the guitar player and performer singing experiences of this music. More recently, it is becoming a complex terrain not only for the fado music tradition, but also including different dance forms, like in the movie "Fados" by Carlos Saura.
In Fado Dança dance forms as different as tai chi, folk, flamenco, tango, grotesque, and new dance, offer an alternative approach to the music and performance tradition. Different from the usual neoclassic and tango interpretations, Fado Dança questions this tradition, comparing it to our ancestors' colonizing attitude in regard to other cultures.

Coreografia e Performance Isabel Valverde
Música/Vídeo Kareoke de Fado
Interacção Wiimote António Caramelo
Sonoplastia ru*mor*
Secretariado Vania Vicente
Espaço e Orçamentos Daniela Gadelha
Tesouraria Rita Soares
Logística e Marketing Carlos Gordilho
Agradecimentos Alcinda P. de Sousa, Teresa Malafaia, António Caramelo, ru*mor*, Rajele Jain, António e Ju Valverde

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• dance
• fado
• flamenco
• fandango
• wiimote
• new
• culture
• studies
• contemporary