Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Israel Galván
RI TE
decemberdec 1
© Laurent Philippe ©
© Laurent Philippe ©
© Laurent Philippe ©
Monday december 1
00h
Conception and performance Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Israel Galván. Visual design Yannick Fouassier. Technical direction and sound Pedro León.
Production P.O.R.K; IGalván Company
Co-production Théâtre de la Ville-Paris; Festival d’Automne à Paris
P.OR.K Associação Cultural is funded by the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture – Directorate-General for the Arts
IGalván Company is supported by INAEM – Instituto Nacional de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música
With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – French Delegation
With the support of
The meeting between Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Israel Galván feels inevitable, albeit belated. An invisible thread seems to connect the Cape Verdean choreographer and the Sevillian bailaor, bringing them together for a unique project. Face to face, they develop a new and immediate form of communication: a moment of pure joy and humour, an animated conversation based solely on the language of the body.
Their entry onto the contemporary dance scene represents, to all intents and purposes, a bomb going off in artistic circles. In relation to Israel Galvan, his flamenco novo has prompted a profound shift within the framework of representation. From La Metamorphosis to Arena or Lo Real, he has endeavoured to deconstruct the different genres – of flamenco and, going beyond that, of movement itself. That the path of this individual, penned by Georges Didi-Huberman as “a dancer of solitudes”, should cross that of Marlene Monteiro Freitas was something of a foregone conclusion. This choreographer and director, a proponent of metamorphoses, excels in her use of the register of the unknown. For her, Galvan is “a bird, a crow, I think. When he dances, he makes me dance”. Musicality is also a prominent feature in the work of both of these artists. RI TE Paris Intermission will be treating us to a succession of comings and goings, frictions, and seductions. Their common language will be that of the body. This RI TE promises to be both ritual and consecration, a dance which says it all.
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