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.