The second solo of the Choreoversations trilogy is a hypnotic tuner of the spectator\u2019s sensory membranes, which are not conditioned by optics. Since its premi\u00e8re in 2016, it has travelled around the world and has been presented by the world\u2019s most prestigious art venues. One of the iconic solos of the past decade.
\nSolo Tran\u00e7a by dancer, choreographer and pedagogue Thiago Granato is a distinctive achievement of the twenty-first century, using material, bodily elements in a way that would have been impossible to imagine on stage in the previous century. Despite the fact that the bodily practices from which it emerged began to be established in the 1960s, their possible choreographic rhetorics are a very recent product. They are related to the changes in contemporary dance knowledges belonging to dance practices and their publics. Communication channels, which require a certain public \u201cliteracy\u201d of the audience, the ability to perceive, are a specific temporal cultural, historical category, which the author of the solo names with the common title of his trilogy: Choreoversations. Physical and kinetic conversations between dance and its public. Tran\u00e7a \u201cis an invitation to a tactile excursion where sound and movement intertwine on vertiginous surfaces and temporalities. Through a choreography of hands, Thiago Granato accelerates transformation processes where different forces are translated into signs, promoting an investigation on the body\u2019s power to create contexts that shape new ways of life.\u201d The solo by Granato addresses the very conditions of corporeal thinking that are, according to the curators of CoFestival, fundamentally political in the field of contemporary dance: registers of bodily, material sensibility that extend beyond the exclusive functionalism of our corporeal everyday and, by crossing the boundaries of immunisations, produce the possibilities of (deliberate) sensibility that is the foundation of every human Community.<\/p>\n
Concept, direction, choreography and performance: Thiago Granato
\nInvited choreographers (interlocutores): Cristian Duarte e Jo\u00e3o Saldanha
\nDirection assistance and co-creation: Sandro Amaral
\nOriginal track and sound designing: M\u00e1rcio Vermelho
\nCostume adviser: Paula Str\u00f6her<\/p>\n