Paradigm

Folklore is the body of tales, music, dance, and so forth, common to a particular population. [New World Encyclopedia]

In Paradigm, I create a DIY folklore for bodies with blurry identities, inventing alternative fictional artefacts, narratives, dances, rituals and music.

A Body, as a mechanical piece of a bigger organic body - the stage itself. It moves as if operating something with consequences that are never direct or evident. We can recognise the criteria of an operation but not its consequences, redirecting our attention from the thing produced, to the body itself, the quality of it's movement and the politics it evokes. A worker, an artisan, a figure of labor that comes from a time before the division between the architect and the brick-layer. The construction of playful realities, with concrete materials and complex home-made engineering.

A body that through this practice enters a process of abstraction, trying to escape it's own anthropomorphism.
To be human, as to be the theatrical building, disengaged of the pursuit of an essence.

A performance by

Dinis Machado (SE/PT)

Music and sound by

Hanna Kangassalo (SE/FI),

Robert Tenevall (SE)

and Erik Sjölin (SE)

Outside eyes:

Pedro Machado (BR/UK)

Gonçalo Ferreira (PT)

Jorge Gonçalves (DE/PT)

Produced by

Corp. (PT)

with the associate Producer

Clair Hicks (UK)
and

administration by

Interim Kultur (SE)

With the co-production of
Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte (PT),

WELD (Stockholm/SE),

Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/PT),

WELD (Stockholm/SE),

Dance4 (Nottingham / UK)

Created In residency at

WELD (Stockholm/SE),

MARC (Kivik/SE),

Campo Alegre Teatro Municipal (Porto/PT),

Alkantara (Lisboa/PT),

Gothenburg Dans & Teater Festival + Vitlycke

Centre for Performing Art (Gothenburg/SE),

Devir/Capa (Faro/PT),

Dance4 + Lace Market Gallery (Nottingham/UK)

With the support of

Konstnärsnämnden (SE),

Kulturrådet (SE)

Arts Council England (UK) and

DGArtes/Secretaria de Estado da Cultura (PT)

Dinis Machado is an associated artist of

Weld (SE)

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Margareta Sörenson in Expressen about PARADIGM

http://bloggar.expressen.se/scenbloggen/2016/01/dinis-machado-paradigm/

"Space, light, materials and objects - modernism, clean or "post" or even post-post, sets the style. Dinis Machado is in fact dancing, moving in and around a construction of super-thin plastic in a hanging frame, decorated with lights, so that both the audience and the performer are enclosed in one room. Initially, the entire frame is hanging in red and clear ropes from the ceiling, tied to the dancer's leg. When he moves, the thin plastic walls around us go up or down, eventually completely laying on the floor where the plastic slowly fills with air. But then, Dinis Machado already engaged in another and rhythmic dance of clear Asian influences.

Machado is Portuguese, and has done his Choreography Masters at the Swedish University of Dance and Circus. A team, Hanna Kangassalo, Robert Tenevall and Erik Sjölin, has composed the music for Paradigm. The Music, like the movement, moves from one thing to another, with voices and texts that grows into a musical and rhythmical interweaving. By now Dinis Machado has moved on to a homemade temple dance and the intention of creating a made up or privately constructed folklore becomes clear.

Here, Dinis Machado dances and embodies an hour long statement, about everyone's part in it all, about that a rite can be invented as well as transmitted, and about that a dancer/choreographer alone can do everything as in a time "before the split between the architect and the bricklayer". Also coming from modernism: the interest in folklore and "original sources" and the will to reshape them for their own use. It can be done again and again, and this time one curiously follows a persistently dancing body in a place of shimmering thin plastic."

BARCO

Paradigm

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