Coffee is often associated with a break and the aromatic effect of its use on stage generates an atmosphere that invites this feeling. Adding music and narrative deepens this feeling, and so the duet ends when the feeling dominates and the emptiness becomes a place of excitement.
Further developing their choreographic language together, this duet is currently being revisited and will have its premiere at the Blois Dance Festival in July 2023.
Beatriz Mira and Tiago Barreiros began their choreographic collaboration with a duet entitled Corrente, which emerged from their artist residencies at Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo and Estúdios Victor Córdon. The first presentation of the work took place in Viseu, at Festival Lugar Futuro (2021), and was then incorporated into the CPBC repertoire, in the context of which it premiered in February 2022. The piece was also presented in Seteais, at Quinzena de Dança de Almada, at the RIDCC (Amsterdam), and received the "Partner Award" from the Dutch National Ballet - which gave them the opportunity to create for the junior company of the same institution, in August 2023.
Synopsis
coffee is a place.
a dark place, a warm place.
a place of return.
it neither begins nor ends, it exists through repetition, in repetition it generates a sensation.
it lives only as a sensation.
coffee is a duet of looking for something new.
and finds something new in what one already knows.
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