AMENTA (video piece)
AMENTA from catarina miranda on Vimeo.
Video Piece originated from the performance AMENTA
Sinopse: “Repetition and recollection are the same movement, except in opposite directions, for what is recollected has been, is repeated backward, whereas genuine repetition is recollected forward.” _ Repetition, Soren Kierkegaard
The portuguese term “Amenta” means to pay tribute to the dead, to remember.
A suspended atrium crossed by bodies travelling in concentric pathways on simple geometric structures that intersect, overlap, duplicate and converge. This continuous stream is composed by a succession of canonical pathways, folds that are repeated by the cyclical movement, distinct in each recovery, the body acts while regulatory element of time. Hands hold the preponderance and they introduce the motion traced by the body, where the gesture approach vegetative and zoomorphic forms.
The sound composition is inspired by the music of Fanfare and Procession (common in Portugal) as well as cyclic constructions found in music of static nature.
ARTISTIC TEAM
Concept/ Artistic Direction _ Catarina Miranda
Co-criation/ Dramaturgy _ Alfredo Martins, André Soares, Catarina Miranda, Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
Performance _ Alfredo Martins, André Soares, Catarina Miranda
Sound Composition _ Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
Trumpet _ Álvaro Almeida
Camara/ Edition _ Catarina Miranda
Presentations _ Dança em Foco 2013 – Festival Internacional de Vídeo & Dança/ Rio de Janeiro/Br ; Festival Magnética 2013 – Buenos Aires ; Fiver —Festival Internacional de Videodanza Experimental de La Rioja 2013 ; Desnorte 2013/ Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória/ Porto Portugal
Support _ Flocks&Shoals Collective (De), Soopa Collective (Pt), Piso Collective (Pt), Dock11 (De), Negócio/Zé dos Bois (Pt), Festival Andaime/ Manobras (Pt), Círculo Católico dos Operários do Porto (Pt), Gestão dos Direitos dos Artistas (Pt), Tatwerk (De), AltesFinanzamt (De), Núcleo de Experimentação Coreográfica do Porto (Pt), Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (Pt); Thanks to Carlos Correia.
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