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BLINK
mini unison intense wail


Eyes wide open. Eyes shut. Eyes rolled back. The stare turned inwards. In BLINK mini unison intense wail, Michelle Moura has taken up a formidable challenge: to write a choreographic score for the essentially involuntary movements of eyelids. By paying attention to something as tiny, fleeting and spontaneous as a blink. By building up in a magisterial way, a study of its hold on faces and bodies. The choreographer is thus standing up for an exploratory, generative approach: creating practices that induce transformations in physical and psychic states. Expressive sensations, postures and movements construct emotional experiences. The challenge is to remain as close as possible to the body, that factory of emotions. Introduce disturbance into a stare and cultivating phenomena of resonance. The multiple figures embodied by Michelle Moura and Clara Saito swerve between the ecstatic and grotesque,  eluding us and drawing us into their powerful presence.


CREDITS

Creation 
Michelle Moura


Performers 
Clara Saito
Michelle Moura


Collaboration
Clara Saito
Lisa Vereertbrugghen


Dramaturgy
Alex Casal 


Sound creation 
Rodrigo Lemos

Sound  (public entrance)
Steve Martin Snider

Sound performance
Kaj Duncan David

Light
Lucas Amado


Costumes
Lisa Vereertbrugghen 


Advisors
Elisabete Finger
Jeroen Fabius
Katerina Bakatsaki


Production
Cândida Monte
Wellington Guitti 


Co-Production
Bienal SESC São Paulo
DasArts 


Distribution 
Something Great

Support
La Bamba (Candida Monte and Wellington Guiti)


Photographs: Blink - mini unison intense wail ©Thomas Lenden.