Jaguar

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

ARSENIC

dance | 1h
Tarif unique: Fr. 13.- *
(* Fr. 8.- abonné-e-s Grand 8 et CityClub Pully)

Saturday, 19.03, 9:00 pm

Sunday, 20.03, 7:00 pm

A fan of deformations and hybrid creatures, Marlene Monteiro Freitas focuses on questions of oddity and animality. Jaguar is both a dance piece and a theatre of manipulations in which the performers are puppets that put themselves in the others’ hands.

“Jaguar is the name given to some horses, a dance piece and a marionette show. In Jaguar we are puppets and in this manipulated theatre, we entrust ourselves to others and to their hands: Mandinga d’ Soncent, Wolfli, Blaue Reiter, Prince, Hoffman, among others. While they are radically different, they also are our own extension. Jaguar is an excerpt, a hunting scene, or indeed a haunted-hunting scene.” – Marlene Monteiro Freitas

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Chorégraphie et performance:
Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Andreas Merk
Lumière et espace:
Yannick Fouassier
Son:
Tiago Cerqueira
Cheval (prop):
João Francisco Figueira
Recherches:
João Francisco Figueira
Marlene Monteiro Freitas

Production:
P.OR.K (Lisbon, PT)

Distribution:
Key Performance (Stockholm, SE)

Coproduction:
Zodiak Center for New Dance (Helsinki, FI), CDC Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées (Toulouse, FR), Alkantara (Lisbon, PT), HAU– Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, DE), MDT (Stockholm, SE) in the frame of [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union; Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli (Porto, PT); Arsenic (Lausanne, CH); Maria Matos Teatro Municipal (Lisbon, PT); O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-novo, PT); Les Spectacles Vivants Centre Pompidou (Paris, FR) Festival Paris quartier d´été (Paris, FR) Espaces Pluriels (PAU, FR) A-CDC (Art Danse – CDC Dijon Bourgogne (FR), La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne (FR), Le Cuvier CDC d’Aquitaine (FR), L’échangeur CDC Picardie (FR), Le Gymnase CDC Roubaix Nord Pas de Calais (FR), Le Pacifique CDC Grenoble (FR), CDC Paris Réseau Danse (FR), Pôle Sud CDC Strasbourg en prefiguration (FR), CDC Toulouse/Midi-Pyrénées (FR), CDC Uzès danse (FR)) Residency support | STUK (Leuven, BE), Tanzhaus Zurich (Zurich, CH)

Support:
Trafó (Budapest, HU), ACCCA Companhia Clara Andermatt (Lisbon, PT)

Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Marlene Monteiro Freitas was born in Cabo Verde where she was co-founder and member of the dance group Compass, and collaborated with the musician Vasco Martins. After her dance studies at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), at E.S.D. and at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (Lisbon), she developed a dance project with the community of Cova da Moura (Lisbon), entitled “we will not have dance classes, we will rehearse”.
Her creations include Of ivory and flesh – statues also suffer (2014); Paradise – private collection (2012-13); (M)imosa (2011), a project developed with Trajal Harrell, François Chaignaud and Cecilia Bengolea; Guintche (2010); A Seriedade do Animal (2009-10); Uns e Outros (2008); A Improbabilidade da Certeza (2006); Larvar (2006); Primeira Impressão (2005). The common denominator of these works is openness, impurity and intensity. She worked with Emmanuelle Huynn, Loic Touzé, Tânia Carvalho, Boris Charmatz, among others. She is the co-founder of P.OR.K.

Andreas Merk
Andreas Merk was born in Germany, studied dance and theatre in Frankfurt (Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst) Brussels (P.A.R.T.S.) and Switzerland (Scuola Teatro Dimitri). He appeared in productions by various directors and choreographers on stage and screen; Tomer Heymann, Idit Herman, Nicolas Steman, Falk Richter, Tania Carvalho, Inbal Pinto&Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, MataNicola, Noa Shadur, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Richard Siegel amongst others.

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