Weaving Chaos

How the promise of Ithaca and Ulysses’ perpetual stubbornness, can tell us something about the search for movement.

Choreography : Tânia Carvalho

Creation 2014

Weaving chaos or how the promise of Ithaca and Ulysses’ ever-renewed obstinacy can tell us something about the search for movement and the dancer’s quest. Providing it is made into a language of its own.

Interview with Tânia Carvalho

What was the starting point of your new creation?Reading Odissey from Homero!The recoil of Words one of your latests work investigates mime and expressionism cinema. What field have you now explored for this new work?For Weaving chaos I used classical dancers as inspiration (concerning movement) for as Ulisses is trying to reach his home and gets more and more tired as we read the book and at the same time the desire of arriving gets stronger I compare it with a dancer that repeats movements several times to get perfection, the dancer gets old and tired and keeps trying. The movements get technically weak, but, in my point of view, the expression of the movement gets more intense. Of course this is not the only inspiration, I also got inspiration a lot on the sea movements, the tempests, the characters and situations from the book.Do you agree with qualifying your work as an expressionism writing?I do. I rather do my work as a distortion on reality, provoking with it emotional experiences and moods, instead of giving a clear and defined idea of it. But I would not close my work into that only.What is the rank of the music in your plays?I usually have composers to do the music for my piece, so, I would say contemporary music mainly electronic. But, it depends a lot on the work. I already used classical piano music, and for example to Recoil of Words the music was contemporary music for bagpipe and audio playback.In 1997, you joined the Bomba Suicida collective. What did it want to defend at that time?I’m the only one that stayed since the beginning till now, but the name was given by Filipe Viegas, and he used it to say that artists from Bomba should be terrorists and invade places with art, but, if it would explode it would explode with candies! Bomba Suicida appeared because we needed support for the works we wanted to do, mainly in production matters, so we got together to help each other on that. We were working in Bomba mainly for free, for instance if one of us was doing a piece, other could be interpreter and other would be the producer, and them we would change « jobs » depending on what was needed. Few years after we rented a space and we asked for structure support. When Bomba became as it is now ( with me, Luis Guerra and Marlene Monteiro Freitas) we decided to leave the space and decided to be a production house for the three of us.Source : La Biennale de Lyon

Credits

Chorégraphe : Tânia CarvalhoDanseurs : Anton Skrzypiciel, Allan Falieri, André Santos, Bruno Senune, Catarina Felix, Cláudio Vieira, Gonçalo Ferreira de Almeida, Leonor Hipólito, Luiz Antunes, Luís Guerra, Maria João Rodrigues et Petra Van Gompel — Assistant mise en scène : Pietro Romani — Texte : Bruno Duarte — Musique : Ulrich Estreich — Scénographie : Jorge Santos — Costumes : Alexander Protic — Lumières : Zeca Iglésias — Image promotionnelle : Jorge Santos — Production, diffusion : Sofia MatosRéalisation video : Fabien Plasson – Septembre 2014 – Biennale de la danse