08 to 12 nov 2023 — Monchique
Wave Dance +55
Rafael Alvarez | Bodybuilders · Portugal
Dance · Laboratory — M/55+
"WAVE DANCE +55" (laboratory + show) challenges a group of participants over the age of 55 and seniors to create and present a dance show directed by choreographer Rafael Alvarez, whose creative process is developed through an intensive choreographic laboratory exploring different languages, tools and methods of composition in contemporary dance.
An image motivates and inspires the creation of this show, remaining invisible but present throughout the creative process - "The Great Wave of Kanawaga", an iconic work by the Japanese painter Hokusai, created in 1830 and reproduced from the mid-1870s through a series of lithographs using the traditional Japanese printing technique known as ukiyo (literally, "floating world").
This project, created and presented since 2019, involves different groups of participants from the communities where it has been shown (Lisboa, Palmela, Porto, Ponte de Lima, Famalicão, Ponta Delgada, Paris, Tokyo, Bangkok, Malaysia). It proposes to create accessible choreographic structures and scores based on a common vocabulary, focusing on form and movement, emotions and senses, readings and metaphors drawn from the body, stimulating creativity through the joy of dancing in a creative ageing project.
/ artistic and technical credits
/Artistic Direction and Choreography Rafael Alvarez /Co-creation and Interpretation Academia Sénior and other people from Monchique /Technical Direction and Light Design Nuno Patinho /Production and Administration BODYBUILDERS | Rafael Alvarez
WAVE was created in 2019 with the support of DGARTES.
The "WAVE DANCE +55" presentations scheduled throughout 2023 take place as part of the TSUGI+ Project promoted by BODYBUILDERS with the support of DGARTES' Art and Active Ageing Programme.
12 nov 2023 (sun) – 04:00 pm
Presentation of “Wave Dance +55” and “Na Onda da Distância”
1 h 40 aprox. with 10 min break
M/6+
Free Entrance
Parallel presentation programme · 12 nov 2023 · Bombeiros Voluntários de Monchique · 04:00 pm
Wave Dance +55
“Wave Dance +55” culminates in the presentation of the show of the same name, the result of an intensive choreographic laboratory led by the choreographer Rafael Alvarez, through which a group of participants over the age of 55 and seniors will explore different languages, tools and methodologies of composition in contemporary dance.
The show invites all the participants and the audience to embark on a journey to Japan to discover, through a silent dialogue, the simplicity and power of the primary materials present throughout the creation - light and shadow, body and paper. This double invitation to travel and silence, guided by Hokusai's wave, floats between East and West in a coexistence of readings and images where less is more.
/artistic and technical credits
/Artistic Direction and Choreography Rafael Alvarez /Co-creation and Interpretation Interpreters Academia Sénior and other people from Monchique /Technical Direction and Light Design Nuno Patinho /Production and Administration BODYBUILDERS | Rafael Alvarez
WAVE was created in 2019 with the support of DGARTES.
The "WAVE +55" presentations scheduled throughout 2023 take place as part of the TSUGI+ Project promoted by BODYBUILDERS with the support of DGARTES' Art and Active Ageing Programme.
/Age Rating
M/6+
Na onda da distância
On one side and the other, two bodies sail in silence for a fragile dance that is a wave and tide of encounters and disagreements. Near and far, the two divers discover each other in an invisible dialogue of memories and stories that don't belong to us but invade our imaginations. A paper choreography drawn from an open dance of senses and dives in other readings - far and near, closer than far, east and west, on either side of the ocean, they bring a sea of illusions to the surface. In the wave of distance and the distance of an approaching wave, they discover and reveal shadows and ghosts. In their floating bodies and worlds, desires for invisible memories are shipwrecked, written and breathed in the silence of the empty space of the paper stage that hides and reveals the movement that embraces them. And in the interval of a wave, they give way to the encounter (of another wave).
An initial image motivates the creation of this project, remaining invisible but present - "The Great Wave of Kanawaga", an iconic work of the Japanese painter Hokusai, created in 1830 and reproduced from the mid-1870s through a series of lithographs using the traditional Japanese print technique known as ukiyo (literally, "floating world").
/artistic and technical credits
/Artistic Direction and Choreography Rafael Alvarez /Performed by Rafael Alvarez and Noeli Kikuchi performed initially by Yuta Ishikawa /Technical Direction and Light Design Nuno Patinho /Set and Costumes Rafael Alvarez /Production and Administration BODYBUILDERS | Rafael Alvarez /Co-production 23 Milhas – Ílhavo and BODYBUILDERS | Rafael Alvarez
/Residency Support Le Carreau du Temple Paris, Ryogoku Bear Tóquio, Rimbun Dahan Malásia, Estúdios Vitor Córdon / CNB Lisbon, O Espaço do Tempo Montemor-o-Novo
/Presentation Support Carpintarias de São Lázaro Lisbon, Citemor Festival Coimbra, Armazém 22 / Kale Vila Nova de Gaia, Auditório Municipal Augusto Cabrita Barreiro, 23 Milhas / Teatro Vista Alegre/Câmara Municipal de Ílhavo Ílhavo, Ryogoku Bear Tokyo, TPAM Performing Arts Meeting Yokohama, Wakabacho Wharf Yokohama
/Partnerships Escola Superior de Dança/IPL Lisbon, Escola de Artes/Universidade de Évora Évora, Escola Superior de Arte e Design – Caldas da Rainha/IPL Caldas da Rainha, CHAIA – Centro de História de Arte e Investigação Artística, Fundação LIGA, FIAR – Palmela, EIF (E) – Escola Informal de Fotografia Show
/Support in Japan Camões – Portuguese Cultural Center in Tokyo / Embassy of Portugal in Tokyo and Camões - Portuguese Cultural Center in Banguecoque
Project co-financed by Portuguese Republic - Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts
/Age Rating
M/6+
