João dos Santos Martins is looking for dance performers for his new play É Obra to be premiered at the DDD festival in Porto, followed by performances at Culturgest in Lisbon in May 2024. Those interested should be available between February 12 and May 5 and from May 13 to 19, 2024.
João dos Santos Martins is an artist whose work encompasses various forms that permeate dance, exploring formats such as choreography, exhibition and publishing. In his practice, he values collaborative and cooperative ways of doing things, having created pieces such as Projecto Continuado (2015) - SPA Authors Prize - and Companhia (2018), with Ana Rita Teodoro, Clarissa Sacchelli, Daniel Pizamiglio, Filipe Pereira and Sabine Macher, or Onde Está o Casaco? (2018), with Cyriaque Villemaux and Ana Jotta. She has performed works by Eszter Salamon, Xavier le Roy, Moriah Evans, Boris Charmatz and Jérôme Bel, among others. In 2019, she founded the biannual journal Coreia, dedicated to writings by artists.
É Obra focuses on the idea of translating sound into body and landscape and questions the eternal problem of dance's autonomy in the face of its structural dependence on music. It seeks to emerge from a place of experimentation with dance as a creation of the body's expressiveness for its own sake, through an interaction between gesture, sound and sign, expanding the body to its most immanent social condition, on the one hand, and moving towards the flesh, on the other.
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