Diego Mac
Director Biography – Diego Mac
My name is Diego Mac. I live in the south of Brazil. I’m a dance director. Choreographer. Dancer. Video artist. 3D artist. Producer and cultural manager. Doctoral Researcher. I have been working for 25 years in the cultural and entertainment area in artistic projects that move between dance, popular culture, images, technology, creativity and management. Director of Macarenando Dance Concept. Artistic Director of Muovere Dance Company. Graduated in Dance. Master and specialist in Visual Poetics. I started my professional career in the 90s, having worked on more than 300 cultural projects. My work is nationally recognized, with more than 20 awards received. Today I am exploring the hybridity between dance and 3D simulations.
Director Statement
I have been working with dance for 25 years, so the poetics, projects, practices, materials, and processes were multiple and diverse: from the relationship between dance and comedy, through the articulation with technology and videodance, to culminate today in the meeting of dance with 3D simulation and animation. One of my biggest goals as a dance artist is to discover creative strategies and formal solutions capable of revealing an expanded and democratic notion of dance, in which it occurs not only in the standard human-body, thin, hard and muscular, but also in other bodies, including non-human ones, establishing other and different perspectives for what dance and bodies that dance can be. In this sense, there were several results: from the video dance Pas de Corn (2006), whose dancers are popcorn, through the webdance O Colecionador de Movimentos, to the recently published work Sylphides 3.0, based on the creation of bodies and movements in simulation 3D.
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