ARTISTA ASSOCIADO | DINIS MACHADO | PARADIGMA

With original music by

Hanna Kangassalo (SE/FI), Robert Tenevall (SE), Erik Sjölin (SE)

Set, light and costume construction

Dinis Machado (SE/PT)

Outside eyes

Pedro Machado (BR/UK), Gonçalo Ferreira (PT), Jorge Gonçalves (DE/PT)

Estreia

Weld (Stockholm,SE) // 13, 15, 16 Jan 2016

Outras Datas

Tjörnedala Konsthall/ÖSKG (Simrishamn, SE) // 22 Jan 2016

MARC (Kivic,SE) // 23 Jan 2016

Chelsea Theatre (London,UK) // 20 > 21 May 2016

Colchester Arts Centre (Colchester,UK) // 25 May 2016

Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto, PT)

CCB (Lisbon,PT) 

Folklore is the body of tales, music, dance, and so forth, common to a particular population.

[New World Encyclopedia]

A ritual is a sequence of activities involving gestures, words, and objects, performed in a sequestered place, and performed according to set sequence.

[Merriam-Webster Dictionary]

In Paradigm, we work on a DIY folklore for bodies with blurry identities, created through fictional artifacts, narratives, dances, rituals and songs.

Paradigm is a dance of an exoticism from nowhere. A ritual claim for difference and citizenship. A landscape created from a cadavre exquis of paradoxical references coming from the placeswhere we were born, the places where we live, places we have never been, and most of all, from fictional places. All of them glued together with daily practice.

The body, as a mechanical piece of a bigger organic body - the stage itself. This body engages in a ceremony with consequences that are never direct or evident, but it is also a figure of labor coming from a time before the division between the architect and the bricklayer. A working body producing abstract symbols with concrete materials and a complex homemade engineering.

A body that through this practice enters a process of abstraction, attempting to escape its own anthropomorphism.

To be a human, as to be the theatrical building, disengaged of the pursuit of a (cultural) essence.

Produced by Corp. (PT) and Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (PT),

with the associate Producer Clair Hicks (UK)

and administration by Interim Kultur (SE)

With the co-production of 

Weld (Stockholm/SE), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/PT), Dance4 (Nottingham / UK) and Gothenburg Dans & Teater Festival (Gothenburg/SE)

Created In residency at 

Weld (Stockholm/SE), MARC (Kivik/SE), Campo Alegre Teatro Municipal (Porto/PT), Alkantara (Lisboa/PT), ​Gothenburg Dans & Teater Festival + Vitlycke Centre for Performing Art (Gothenburg/SE), Devir/Capa (Faro/PT), Dance4 + Lace Market Gallery (Nottingham/UK)

With the support of 

Konstnärsnämnden (SE), Kulturrådet (SE), Arts Council England (UK) and DGArtes/Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (PT)

Dinis Machado is an associated artist of 

Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (PT) and Weld (SE)