A new edition of Corpo+Cidade kicks off on Friday at 18:00, on Avenida dos Aliados, in Porto, with “B Girls”, by Max Oliveira, heading to Matosinhos on Saturday, with “Ritual da Vida”, by Bouziane Bouteldja , and on Sunday at the São Bento metro station, for the presentation of “escrita / da tarde pluriprisma”, by Flávio Rodrigues.
The following weekend, it is Alameda das Fontainhas that hosts a meeting between the festival and students from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, on Friday, heading to Varais da Afurada, in Vila Nova de Gaia, with ” Putting prayers on my lips”, by Isabel Barros and Carlos Guedes.
On Sunday, April 30th, at 4 pm, Maurícia Neves presents “What took you so long?”, at Parque da Cidade do Porto, closing a cycle of six performances, all of which are free.
Integrated in the DDD program since 2016, Corpo + Cidade “works, above all, with the issue of public space and the performance and dance aspect”, explains Isabel Barros, choreographer and person in charge of the event, to Lusa.
The idea of the coordinators, Barros and Flávio Rodrigues, is to find artists focused on exploring this “more unprotected and risky space”, who “are interested in places”, in a connection between programming and joint creation.
“The public space, in fact, is a more democratic space, let’s say, because it is a space that is accessible to anyone. (…) We try to make it happen in really public spaces, in passing, so that it is not just present the festival public, or more specialized and attentive, but anyone. (…) This, for us, is also an extremely important function”, he adds.
These presentations sometimes take the public by surprise, a connection to the spontaneous public that interests the programmers, in a heightened attention when Balleteatro was installed on Avenida dos Aliados, in 2014, in the “heart of the city”, a place that presents “a kind of of scenography”.
Max Oliveira brings the universe of ‘breaking’, an artistic and cultural expression with urban roots that will be an Olympic modality in Paris2024, usual in the program and this time “only with dancers”, in a “universe more of men”.
Bouteldja presents, at Casa da Arquitetura, a “very curious piece”, which has been circulating in France, with a new emphasis on urban dance, here “at the crossroads with contemporary dance”.
Flávio Rodrigues directs a “more performative” moment at the São Bento station, based on “writing work based on the materials”, and the following weekend he returns to collaboration with Fine Arts students.
On World Dance Day, April 29, Isabel Barros herself joins the music of Carlos Guedes to return to work as a performer several years later, in a space “that still survives” where people hang out clothes, next to Afurada of the Douro River.
“It has a very special voice by actress Luísa Reis, from Cape Verde, and it is a work about the relationship with the sea”, he explains.
The cycle ends in Parque da Cidade with a solo by Maurícia Neves, who starts from outside that green space and then enters it, in an “unusual performance” that consolidates “a very diversified program”.
The DDD — Dias da Dança presents, until April 30, on 14 stages, between Porto, Vila Nova de Gaia and Matosinhos, a total of 28 shows, many of them in national premiere.
DDD brings together more than six dozen artists or companies from nine different countries, with names like Faye Driscoll, Emmanuel Eggermont, Tânia Carvalho, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz and Gaya de Medeiros on the program.
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