15 February
Materiais Diversos
February 15th | Portugal
Various Materials | Um Solo
Venue – Ranga Shankara | Time – 7:30 p.m | Duration: 52mins 30mins (there will be an interval in between)
Samir Akika
February 15th | Germany
ETE – Extended Teenage Era
Venue – Chowdiah Memorial Hall | Time – 6:30 pm | Duration: 110 mins
UM SOLO (2002)
Um Solo functions like an echo chamber: it is where Tiago Guedes awaits and welcomes the spectator. It is in this shared space that his gestures detached from the rest, seem to express an inner voice deflected by any object he handles. The objects are silent and mysterious precisely because they are mute. To misuse them is to derange their functionality opening the possibility of creating new meanings.
VARIOUS MATERIALS (2003)
Tiago Guedes exhibits an absolutely exact presence, total but detached, in the middle of a small world made of different materials - newspapers, trash bags, scotch tape and others. He lines up metaphors and as if a child becoming an adult artist, he recomposes the parable.
E.T.E. – Extended Teenage Era: This dance theatre piece is a study of the present generation of young artists that learn well but without steady jobs. Because they have no chance to find their place in the adult world, they live within the limitations presented by parents and fill their world with the power of the imagination and memories out of the teenager time. Change is the magic word. The piece is characterised by a playful lightness and subversive jokes as well as with absolute dance and body control.