HYDRA
((work-in-progress))
HYDRA is a choreographic de-installation that explores an intimate encounter with materials in a state of transformation. The space unfolds from an initial sculpture in its inevitable collapse. Through bodies, sounds, and materials that pour into one another, the entanglement of desires and their oscillations are revealed. Entities and creatures emerge and (con)fuse in a liquid, vibrant, and ever changing landscape.
Direction: Lucas Damiani
Artistic accompaniment & collaboration: Mariana Catalina Iris
Co-creation e performance: Andrei Bessa, Nicole Gomes,
Lucas Damiani e Mariana Catalina Iris.
Dramaturgical assistance: Bibi Dória
Costume designer: Natalia Castañola
Technical and light design support: Leticia Skrycky
External eye: João Fiadeiro, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz
Photos: Alípio Padilha, Helena Sá
Video: Aline Belfort
Residencies: Fórum Dança (Lisboa), CRL - Central Elétrica (Porto)
within Porto Design Biennale 2023 “Being Water” - “Satelite Activites” program,
RESIDENCIAS PARAÍSO (Galicia), SEKOIA - Artes Performativas (Oporto), Piscina (Lisboa).
Acknowledgements: Carolina Canteli, Noumissa Sidibé, Nazario Díaz, Bruno Brandolino,
Marcelo Evelin, Katarina Lanier, Simone Aughterlony, María Ibarretxe, Roberto Dagô,
Tamara Catharino, Carolina Mendonça, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Giovanna Monteiro,
Bárbara Cordeiro, Márcia Lança, Era Jajá Rolim, José Cirilo Neto, Daniel Pizamiglio,
Santiago Rodríguez Tricot, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, the team of Forum Dança:
Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins, Eduardo Quinhones Hall and Mafalda Sustelo,
and everyone who is part of PACAP5 & 6.
This project’s methodological approach benefits from
another research project on interdisciplinary methodologies and
cross-pollinations between visual arts & photography and performing arts which
was funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR, aid programm DIS-TANZEN
by the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.
2023-ongoing