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Bananada : OPERANTÍPODA (part I)

Marcelo Evelin / Demolition Incorporada

Marcelo Evelin born in Piauí (Brazil), is choreographer, researcher and performer.
He lives and works between Amsterdam and Teresina. Based in Europe since 1986, working with dance and collaborated in projects with artists from various languages also on physical theater, music, video, installation and occupation of specific spaces. He is independent creator with his company Demolition Incorporada, established in 1995, and teaches at the Mime School of Amsterdam, Holland, where he also guides students in creative processes. He directs workshops and collaborative projects in several countries in Europe, USA, Africa, Japan, South America and Brazil, where he returned in 2006 and since then he has also been acting as manager and curator, having deployed in Teresina, Núcleo do Dirceu (2006-2013), an independent artist collective and research and development platform for Contemporary Performing Arts. In March 2016 he opened in Teresina, along with the cultural manager Regina Veloso, CAMPO, a new space to think, practice and disseminate art and related disciplines, and as part of the studio Demolition Incorporada. His performances Matadouro (2010) and Suddenly everything is black with people (2012) were presented in more than 18 countries and are still on tour. With the participation of more than 300 performers of different nationalities, Batucada (2014), a “performative event”, continues in diffusion. Dança Doente/Sick Dance, his latest creation, is inspired by the universe of Tatsumi Hijikata / JP. It premiered in May 2017 at the Kunsten Festival des Arts / Belgium and toured in Europe, Brazil and Japan.
The Invention of Evilness, last piece, premiered in April 2019 at CAMPO, Teresina (Br), followed by performances at Live Arts Festival, Bologna (It), Festival Dias da Dança, Porto (Pt), Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels (Br), HAU, Berlin (De), Festival de Campinas (Br); Festival d’Automne à Paris (Fr), Mousonturm/Frankfurt and in 2020 at the Gropius-Bau Museum, Berlin (De).

Projectos

UIRAPURU

Bananada: OPERANTÍPODA (DDD, Porto) ©Margarida Barbedo

Bananada: OPERANTÍPODA (DDD, Porto) ©João Octávio Peixoto

Bananada is a physical and sonic choreographic object created for and with 24 body artists. It lies between installation and performance, continuing research by the Demolition Incorporada platform into new stage devices and other conditions of performativity. The work invites the audience into a participatory and subjective horizontal situation. It unfolds as a collective ritual and shared experience, with the body acting as an intervener and devourer, a source of actions that give meaning to a state of potentiality and a space for discarding them. The project will be developed in cumulative stages, with research phases and public presentations, until it reaches its final structure.

OPERANTÍPODA is the first moment of Bananada, which consists of a creation for 24 performers, including artists and non-artists from the local community of the city where it is presented. Bananada has as its main axis the “excavation” of a series of practices used in previous creations, starting from simple and direct exercises focused on how to be together. — Marcelo Evelin / Demolition Incorporada

Ficha artística

Concept and choreography Marcelo Evelin Creation and interpretation Andrez Ghizze, Bruno Moreno, Chico Leibholz, Gui de Areia, Hitomi Nagasu, Márcio Nonato, Rosângela Sulidade and Vanessa Nunes Creation assistance Bruno Moreno Sound and technical direction Chico Leibholz Light Márcio Nonato Costums Gui de Areia | Ateliê Atelier, Serrate Maria | Trançados da Ilha and Aureo Tupinambá Jr with Comunidade Várzea Queimada Vocal training Iryna Kyshliaruk Production direction Materiais Diversos/PT and Regina Veloso | Revoada-Campo/BR Collaboration in production Gabi Gonçalves | Corpo Rastreado/BR Executive production Andrez Ghizze Distribution Sofia Matos | Materiais Diversos/PT Administrative management Milde Alves-Campo/BR Coproduction DDD – Festival Dias da Dança-Porto/PT, Charleroi Danse - Centre Chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles/BE, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio/Ministère de la Culture/FR, Spring Dance Festival-Utrecht/NL Artistic residencies Festival de Dança Itacaré-Bahia/BR, Estúdio Demolition Incorporada-Teresina/BR, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio | Ministère de la Culture/FR, DeVIR | CAPa - Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve, Faro/PT and Festival Montpellier Danse/FR. Thanks to João Marcos, Mauricio Pokémon, Jeiel Barros, Bibi Dória, Sho Takiguchi.

Performances

9 to 21 september 2024, Artistic Residency, Montpellier Danse

1 to 18 April 2025, Artistic Residency, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen Comment en Normandie (open rehearsal on 17 April, 7pm) (Caen, FR)

18 to 27 April 2025, Artistic Residency, Devir/Capa, Faro (PT)

2 and 3 May 2025, Premiere, Dias da Dança Festival, Porto (PT)