Trace

TRACE explores the relationship of the body with the territory and the ecosystem and has developed different artistic objects. The ethos of the project is the creation of different performances mediated by walking as an experimental practice. It works the path of the human being in a symbiotic relationship with its environment, through 3 actions: breathing, walking and being still. These actions are developed as choreopolitical agents, agents that operate through movement towards an awareness of the body and the territory.

The 3 actions that are the basis of this project are also 3 primordial gestures of humanity. This triad belongs to the matrix movements of the human being, breathing the gesture that gives life and in its absence takes it away. Walking is the gesture that makes us move forward and seek. Stop, the fundamental gesture that intersperses each and every movement. They are also gestures that, when explored beyond their function of involuntary mechanisms, create a space for deep reflection and awareness of the body, ourselves and the world. These gestures are still essential to all beings that live, whether in movement or in stillness, and they take place in a continuous and symbiotic relationship with the surrounding environment. We know that regardless of our idiosyncrasies, we belong to each other and live off each other. Life operates by relationship and affection, by contagion and infection and not just by reproduction.

DIRECTION Sara Anjo
ARTISTIC COLLABORATION Flora Détraz, Mickaella Dantas & Nádia Yracema
VIDEO & DESIGN Joana Linda
SOUND DESIGN Artur Pispalhas e Duarte Ferreira (Hidden Track)
PROOFREADING Ana Luísa Valdeira
TRANSLATION Miguel Cardoso

EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Cláudia Teixeira

COMMUNICATION Inês Lampreia

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION Vítor Alves Brotas

PRODUCTION Agência 25

SUPPORT Dançando com a Diferença; Fundação Salinas do Samouco & Instituto das Florestas e Conservação da Natureza (Madeira Island)
RESIDENCY Alkantara; Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva; O Espaço do Tempo; Estúdios Víctor Córdon;

Neighbourhood Dance Works

CO-PRODUCTION Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias

PROJECT SUPPORTED BY República Portuguesa - Cultura | DGARTES – Direcção Geral das Artes

PROJECT CO-FUNDED by COMPETE 2020, Portugal 2020 and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund