LIQUID DANCE
Country: Portugal
2018
Director: Play Bleu
Choreographer: Maria Ines Villasmil
Performers: Alexandra Fernandes/Gabriela Barros/Carolina Vieira/Leonardo Ramalho/Barbara Oliveira/Catarina Neves/Ines Sousa
Composer: Rui Dias
Music and sound design: Rui Dias
Other principal crerw: Art Director-Cristina Mendanha
Production company: Arte Total
What
does mean for us as movers and dancer practitioners to live in a social
environment that is constantly changing and is becoming less certain?
In other words, what does mean for us as human beings and dance
practitioners to be confronted by living in a “liquid society” a term
created by sociologist Zygmunt Bauman and main stimulus to this
proposal. The concept of “liquid life” developed by Bauman is the
inspiration to develop a proposal that will have as a main interest the
creation of a space in which a collective of dancers will explore some
of the elements implied in the times we are facing and the consequences
of living in a modern society. In this order of ideas, I ask myself how
is this “liquidity” present in our lives and dance practices. How we
manage to constantly shift and reshape our believes and as a consequence
our body practices?
