For each edition of the ITINERARIES program, EVC invited a photographer to take portraits of Mozambican dance artists in residence in Portugal. Thus, in 2021, Tamara Seilman's gaze met the eyes of Oswaldo Passirivo, Mai-Júli Machado and Yuck Miranda, and in 2022 photographer Ágata Xavier captured the creative environment of Francisca Mirine, Leia Mabasso and Vasco Sitoe. Finally, this year it was Marta Pinto Machado's turn to delve into the universes of Amélia Socovinho, Carolina Manuel and Diogo Igor Amaral.
The result of these encounters between photographers from different backgrounds, with their individual practices, and these nine artists allows us to remember their time in the studios where they worked and to inscribe them in the present of contemporary dance in Portugal, through new photographic works. In the space between the instantaneous and the scripted images, various gestures and expressions have accumulated - some behind and others in front of the cameras of Seilman, Xavier and Pinto Machado.
The audio device Danças Imaginadas ["imagined dances"] presents us with dance scores created in the heads of certain of the nine artists - some rescued from the memory of the work processes while accompanying the ITINERARIES program, and others that were never physically concretized - and which are transmitted here through their own voices.
You can listen to Danças Imaginadas HERE.
Ágata Xavier
Lisbon, 1982. She studied Media/ Communication Studies and History of Art. She has worked for various newspapers and magazines, such as Jornal i, Time Out Lisboa and Sábado (GPS). She occasionally works as a freelancer, in text and photography, for Público, Observador Lifestyle, Monocle, Der Spiegel, Open Society Foundations, SoloTrvlr, FEIRA FEITA, Dom Quixote, among others. She was part of the founding team of A Pequena Galeria, a space for exhibiting and promoting photography in Lisbon. In 2014, she was one of the winners of Estação Imagem Mora Prize, taking 2nd place in the "Environment" category for her series INVENTÁRIO.
Marta Pinto Machado
Guimarães, 1988. She is a PhD student in History at NOVA-FCSH. Her photographic work analyzes the ambiguities of history and its relationship with the so-called official narratives of the Western world, focusing on the themes of colonialism, identity and territory. Her work has been referenced in several important publications by authors such as Filipa Lowndes Vicente and Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
Tamara Seilman
Nantes, 1990. French-Srilankan photographer and video artist. She always uses analog photography in her work. Whether it's a dancer's body or the folds of a garment, her images are always inspired by the desire to tell a story. In dance, she has collaborated with choreographers such as Madeleine Fournier, Nathan Arnaud and Tidiani N'Diaye. In Lisbon, she has developed work in association with the Aga Khan Foundation.
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