Romance
Following on the piece BIRDS AND WIND written in 2008: I can stand to sit before you, but I owe that to my skills of abstraction (…) Lígia Soares will experiment with a new solo work another try out for theatrical creation: this time, the speech will not be pre-recorded to support the lack of action, and fiction will no longer be pointed at a woman sitting on a chair wearing a dress, instead it will be projected on a woman dressed as a "chroma key" who, once again, offers up to the public as an intermediary between reality and its "special effects": if it is true that romance was killed by cinema, I won’t sit on a couch, I'd rather get dressed like a prairie so you continue accurately shooting above the skyline.
Lígia is a Portuguese choreographer and playwright working in the field of performative arts. She started her work in this field in 1997 with Companhia de Teatro Sensurround in Lisbon. Since 2001 she created more then 20 pieces a solo or in collaboration. Her work has been developed and presented both nationally and internationally. From 2004 to 2006 she was artista in residency at TanzFabrik in Berlin. She’s toke part in several programs of contemporary dance and artistic residencies in Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Danceweb, PRACTICE (UferStudios), Fabrik Potsdam, Point-Éphémère, Centre National de la Danse, Alkantara, Nomad Lab Dance Academy, Guimarães 2012 among others. She is co-director of “Máquina Agradável” (Lisbon) since 2001 and co-mentor of the program “Demimonde” since 2011.
MÁQUINA AGRADÁVEL is a cultural association (founded in 2002) with artistic direction of Andresa Soares and Lígia Soares that has been developing a regular work in production and presentation of projects in performing and visual arts. With a strong component of research and reflection on their projects Máquina Agradável encourages the diversity of discourse and the creation of new languages combining forms of expression such as theatre, choreography, performative and audio-visual arts. Its activity has evolved within an ongoing discussion on the primary motivations that lead to artistic activity and focus on the impact and effectiveness of this activity in the social and cultural surrounding context and proposes the creation of new contexts for the artistic independent creation.
The association’s work have been presented in several national contexts such as CCB, Teatro Taborda, Galeria ZDB/Negócio, Instituto Franco-Português, Espaço Ginjal, Teatro Viriato, Festival Temps d’Images, Festival Materiais Diversos, Manobras A8, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, among others and internationally in Berlin,Rotterdam, Belgrade,Paris, Madrid, São Paulo.
MÁQUINA AGRADÁVEL is a member of REDE – Association of Contemporary Dance Organizations
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concept, text, performance Lígia Soares . support to dramaturgy Miguel Castro Caldas . music Mariana Ricardo . production Máquina Agradável . support mala voadora