Matamatá and Life is not useful (or it what it is) form a diptych.
This diptych is the production of two choreographic works that complement and complexify each other, like two photographic images placed side by side. Diptych is a project at the crossroads of theatre, dance, literature and visual arts, consisting of a piece for three performers (“Matamatá”) and a solo conference ("Life is not useful or It is what it is). It is the deployment of my infinite search towards and around the marvellous.
Faced with the zeitgeist of our time, the climate catastrophe, the imminent death of the largest tropical forest on the planet and other challenges, as a choreographic artist I ask myself: Will we be able to reforest/replant, to become a forest with our bodies and our cities, how are we going to find joy and pleasure and not fall into melancholic and eco-climatic anguish? How can we make a dance to delay the end of a world?
We start from bodily fabulations to perhaps make the audience’s thoughts dance.
- Trio: Matamatá (Création - Octobre 2023)
What if Descartes or Spinoza had visited the Brazilian rainforest? Brazilian poet Paulo Leminski’s Catatau poem or romance-idea is based on this dream of a philosopher confronted with another environment that bankrupts his thoughts. Arriving at the Atlantic mata where everything is astonishing, where there is an abundant profusion of life, where the heat and thoughts of the beasts transform what constitutes their bodies; three dancers whisper, sing and eat . A blend of voices, gestures and bodies sharing a stage that becomes the forest of our unconscious.
concept & choreography Bruno Freire (BE/BR)
performers Robson Ledesma (BE/BR), Magdelaine Hodebourg (BE/FR) Annabel Reid (BE)
Kempo training Thiago Antunes (BE/BR)
sound design Ricardo Vincenzo (BR)
light design Felipe Boquimpani (BR)
Costumes+Makeup Stef Assandri (UY/BE)
dramaturgy Rodrigo Batista (BR)
provocations Ana Teixeira (BR)
Production Stephanie Bouteille, Pierre-Laurent Boudet, Thomas Frabolot pour Entropie Production
Executive Production La Balsamine
Coproduction La Balsamine, Charleroi Danse - centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, La Cigalière, La Coop asbl, Shelter Prod,
With the support of Service de la Danse de la Fédération Wallonie - Bruxelles, Wallonie-Bruxelles International, European Union - Culture Moves Europe, Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre-Danse, taxshelter.be, ING, Tax Shelter du Gouvernement fédéral belge
Residencies Festival International BAM (Siby/Bamako - Mali), WorkspaceBrussels, KRAAK Santarcangelo International Festival (It), La Cigalière (Sérignan - Fr), BUDA Kunstencentrum (Courtrai - Be)
, Théâtre VARIA (Be)
Acknowledgements Tarina Quelho, Thiago Alixandre, Calixto Neto, Breno Caetano, Zé Fernando, Louise Cardon & Cao Guimarães
