Roda-viva (a menina e o círculo) , the new work by Cláudia Nóvoa, combines circus, dance, drawing, and music.
The relationship of dance and circus with geometry is strong and intrinsic. Body and space are always intimately connected, in an imaginary drawing of lines that hover in space, released by the body as it moves. How can geometry be apprehended from the body, thinking and imagining stories that connect with sensation?
Thus, the idea arose to create a show that would give birth to a book, which would tell the story of a girl and a circle.
Each turn, a blank page, a new beginning, the freshness of novelty, the first time.
Carolina likes to go in circles. As she walks, she thinks. She thinks better if she walks, even better if she twirls. And she dreams, dreams of circling the world in somersaults, dreams of birds flying in circles and volcanoes racing her heart, of blood rushing through her body and water flowing in whirlpools. She thinks, dreams, and spins.
The circle is a perfect shape, and the girl is part of that circle - she steps into it, melts into it.
Endless stories, new beginnings. Ideas generating more ideas, thought as a continuous line that is constantly mutating. How many thoughts can a single turn generate? Thought and imagination, the infinite possibilities that thinking gives us.
A girl of the world, each turn to a new place, new encounters, different friends, new feelings.
Show and book will be created simultaneously, resulting from a common practical experimentation.
