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Edvan Monteiro x Arthur Moreau = Full of Colors
by Arthur Moreau around Red Balloons, by Cia. Etra de Dança Contemporânea
balloons out there.
The bodies let their balloons go as if they were body parts deliberately detached to fly up to the sky.
Transformed they walk.
A change, a birth is announced.
“Red Balloons” was put together after a one-year residence of the group Cia. Etra de Dança Contemporânea at the SESC in Santos.
Artistic occupation: an artist or group of artists occupies and uses a space that is usually a cultural institution and there they have dialogues with the local structure and commit to the research, the construction and development of an artistic work.
Cia. Etra was established by Edvan Monteiro and his wife, Ariadne Filipe.
A demented scream
The pain and the pleasure
The affliction and the satisfaction
Playfulness, lightness, urgency
Gas helium: helium is lighter than air, it differs from hydrogen for not being flammable, but its heightening power is 8% lower.
Six dancers, men and women, adapt to the environment.
Santos + Fortaleza + Biennial + residence … reverberations balloons in the middle 1 Big red drops fall on the skylights at SESC.
Fly away and get lost 3 Scenario: reconfiguration of a huge void limited by two lines of balloons, one on each side.
Some members of the company had no previous experience as a professional dancer, as Mauricio Marin, a Philosophy Professor.
Everybody’s name: Alejandra Hernandez, Ariadne Filipe, Carolina Rainho, Edvan Monteiro, Marcela Loureiro, Maurício Marin.
During the Dance Biennial in 2013, “Red Balloons” was presented as an installation in the hall of SESC Santos, as a show in the same place, and as an intervention on the Mauá Square, downtown Santos.
For those on the hall floor: the thick red lines split them. Their movements seem to suck these half-confusing signs. And let them go.
The screaming visual redness is a part of them.
Reds freed. 10 Scenes are undone.
I fly away and get lost. Balloon stuck on the ground 1 In the beginning of the show, the red balloons filled with helium are tied to ropes of about one meter that are tied to the ground. Little by little the interpreters get tenderly tangled up on the square where the balloons are tied to. One of the dancers has several small balloons in her clothes. In many different ways, the dancers let this scenario that, up till then, was at half height fly away. Flat balloon 1 neutral body?????
the balloons are tied to the ground: a rooted embryo doesn’t float
what kind and what intensity of body training do they need to potentialize their artistic desires?
bodies that still haven’t potentialized their poetic configurations
balloon-bodies planted to the ground: a rooted embryo doesn’t float.
Arthur Moreau is na artist, Bachelor of Communication of Body Arts (PUC-SP) and Philosophy undergraduate (SUP).
Translation Portuguese-English: Chris Ritchie, M.A.