CHOREOGRAPGY:
Marco da Silva Ferreira
ARTISTIC DIRECTION:
Marco da Silva Ferreira
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE:
Catarina Miranda
PERFORMERS:
André Speedy, Fábio Krayze, Leo Ramos, Marc Oliveras Casas, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Maria Antunes, Max Makowski, Mélanie Ferreira, Nelson Teunis, Nala Revlon
LIGHT DESIGN:
Cárin Geada
MUSIC:
João Pais Filipe (perkusista), Luís Pestana (elektronic music)
SOUND TECHNICIAN
João Monteiro
COSTUMES:
Aleksandar Protic
SCENOGRAPHY:
Emanuel Santos
ANTROPOLOGICAL STUDIES:
Teresa Fradique
PORTUGUESE FOLK DANCE:
Joana Lopes
PRODUCTION DIRECTION:
Mafalda Bastos
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION:
Mafalda Bastos, Joana Costa Santos
PRODUCTION STUCTURE:
P.ulso
DIFFUSION:
Art Happens
CO-PRODUCTION:
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Cultural de Belém, Big Pulse Dance Alliance, co-produced by New Baltic Dance (Lithuania), Julidans (The Netherlands), Tanz im August/HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Germany), Dublin Dance Festival (Ireland) and ONE Dance Week (Bulgaria), co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, La briqueterie - CDCN du Val-de-Marne, Maison des arts de Créteil, KLAP- Maison pour la danse, CCN-Ballet National de Marseille, Charleroi danse, centre chorégraphique de Wallonie - Bruxelles, December Dance (Concertgebouw and Cultuurcentrum Brugge), La rose des vents – scène nationale Lille, Métropole – Villeneuve d’Ascq, TANDEM Scène Nationale Arras-Douai
SUPPORT:
República Portuguesa – Cultura, DGARTES – Direção Geral das Artes
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES:
A Oficina (Guimarães), Ballet National de Marseille, Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-novo), Teatro Municipal do Porto
PREMIERE:
21. 10. 2022, Porto
DURATION:
75 min
AGE:
15+
Ten dancers explore and celebrate their common identity through physical and intuitive dance accompanied by live drums and electronic music. Marco de Silva Ferreira's sensual and enchanting choreography is based on well-known dance steps, inspired by club parties and balls
What role does individuality play in the community building process? What is the identity driver? What bodies pass through our world? World-renowned choreographer Marco de Silva Ferreira poses these profound questions about our world and cultural belonging through spontaneous, intuitive and sensual dance in the production of CARCASS.
Ten dancers, each distinct in nationality, culture, and identity, grace the stage with not only virtuosic dance prowess but also with a wild, uninhibited and vibrant energy. The stomping of sneakers on the floor, accompanied by drums and electronic music, creates a devilish rhythm, whose pace resembles both techno parties and folk dances. Audiences can anticipate contemporary dance that ignites the senses, captivating with its beauty and visceral physicality that leaves hearts racing.
The performance uses spoken word in English (with Czech subtitles), nakedness, loud music and intense light.
As a choreographer, Marco de Silva Ferreira began his artistic career with the staging of Hu(r)mano in 2013. BROTHER (2016) consolidated an authorial discourse and both pieces integrated Aerowaves Priority Companies. Subsequent significant projects followed: Bisonte in 2019, Corpos de Baile in 2020 for the Portuguese National Ballet Company, and SIRI in 2021, which Marco created in collaboration with Jorge Jácome. In 2022, three more works were introduced: førma Inførma in collaboration with Via Katlehong, Fantasie Minor with CCN de Caen in Normandy, and CARCASS, which was coproduced by Big Pulse Dance Alliance. This year, Marco is preparing the production a folia for Ballet de Lorraine. Marco has been a resident artist at the Teatro Municipal do Porto (2018-2019), at CCN Caen in Normandy (2019-2021), and is currently engaged at Maison de la Danse in Lyon (2023-25).
