Teresa Silva and Filipe Pereira
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Biographies
Filipe Pereira is a graduate of Escola Superior de Dança of Lisbon. He completed the Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme at Forum Dança, where he trained with Meg Stuart, Francisco Camacho, Loïc Touzé, Jennifer Lacey, Madalena Victorino, Jeremy Nelson, João Fiadeiro, Miguel Pereira, Vera Mantero, K. J. Holmes, Mark Tompkins, Patrícia Portela, among others. In this programme he creates the solo É grande mas fica-te bem and I’m a bush in the middle of the forest, in collaboration with Aleksandra Osowicz.
Performance credits include Da Nova Arte de fazer Ruínas by Liars by Beatriz Cantinho, In a manner of speaking by Dinis Machado, Projecto Continuado (2015) by João dos Santos Martins, O mesmo mas ligeiramente diferente and Fora de qualquer presente by Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Rien n’est établi by Martine Pisani, Liars by Inês Jacques, Planes and Floor of the Forest with the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Ring by Félix Ruckert, Matrioska by Tiago Guedes and Icosahedron by Tânia Carvalho.
In 2012 he creates Hale – study for an artificial organism, in collaboration with Aleksandra Osowicz, Helena Ramírez, Inês Campos and Matthieu Ehrlacher, and in 2013, he creates What remains of what has passed and Letting Nature take over us again, and in 2017, New Creation in collaboration with Teresa Silva.
Teresa Silva studied at the National Conservatory Dance School, the Lisbon Poly-Technical Higher School of Dance and completed PEPCC – Choreographic Creation, Dance Research and Training Programme promoted by Forum Dança. She was awarded the DanceWEB Scholarship in 2011, with the mentoring of Boyzie Cekwana and Isabelle Schad, with a grant from Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.
She has been working as an independent choreographer and performer since 2008.
As a performer, she has worked with Loïc Touzé, David Marques, Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard, Rita Natálio, Tiago Guedes, Luís Guerra, Tânia Carvalho, Ana Borralho & João Galante, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz and Mariana Tengner Barros, among others.
Her creations include Ocooo; A vida enorme/La vie en or co-created with Maria Lemos; Leva a mão que eu levo o braço and Um Espanto não se Espera, both created in collaboration with Elizabete Francisca; Conquest, a solo adaptation of a Deborah Hay choreography, commissioned by Fundação de Serralves; and New Creation, What remains of what has passed and Letting Nature take over us again, co-created with Filipe Pereira.
Between 2011 and 2014 she was an associated artist of Materiais Diversos, under Tiago Guedes’s direction.
More recently, she has been teaching and collaborating with other artists in projects around pedagogical practices in the context of contemporary dance and performing arts.
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Sinopsis
We began this New Creation by forming an archive, believing that, if we captured what we were doing, we would be able to look at what had already happened. In this way, we tried not to lose focus on what we were doing, looking for clues that would inform us about what we could construct going forward. Each time there was a new pair dance, we recorded it and projected the filming from the previous occasion on the screen behind them. From this, we then developed a scenic device that is the materialisation of the movement taking us from now both into the past and into the future. A mise en abyme or a time tunnel, which enables us to see what is repeated and what is different, revealing the path through which this piece was constructed. In our excitement about responding to the process, we tend to exaggerate, and the more we film ourselves, the more we reproduce ourselves and the more we divide ourselves up, running the risk of confusing image with reality. Filming is trying to survive, but it is also showing a death. This gives rise to the need for constant reformulation, because we always need to carry on. Don’t we?
Filipe Pereira and Teresa Silva
