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Oficina Movimento
PT
Interventions in the city and its architecture
 
Various sites in the city, Évora
July 6th, 7PM

Convento dos Remédios, Évora
July 7th, 11.30PM

Duration - 20min.
Conception - Márcio Pereira
Performance - Ana Isa, Cláudia Miriam, Cristina Rodrigues, Inês Mouquinho, Joana Gomes, Joana Velez, João Alves, Márcio Pereira, Paulo Pimenta, Sofia Pereira, Sofia Ramos, Telmo Branco e Vanda Rodrigues.

To our audience we can only say: [... this] is another moment in which our bodies dialogue with our surroundings.
Márcio Pereira

Inspired by the work of the North-American choreographer Trisha Brown, Floor of the Forest (1971), in which the creator attempts to dissociate movement from form transforming body into research material and constant analysis, as well as by the creations by Cie. Willi Dorner, in which bodies are inscribed in metropolitan architectures, Oficina Movimento (Movement Workshop) intervenes in the urban landscape of Évora.

Departing from documentation material available to all in the extremely wide horizon of YouTube that Márcio Pereira - creator and director of Oficina Movimento - challenges young participants to embody these works by great references from contemporary dance and, with those re:create the architecture of the city of Évora.

Márcio Pereira got his BA Theater at the University of Évora and he is now attending a MA Actor's Trainning in the same institution. He took part in a variety of workshops coordinated by Amélia Bentes, António Tavares, Clara Andermatt, Margarida Bettencourt, Margarida Mestre, Nélia Pinheiro, Peter Michael Dietz, Sofia Neuparth, in dance; and with Andreas Poppe, Cristina Carvalhal, Jean Paul Bucchieri, Miguel Seabra, and Nuno Pinto Custódio, na in theater. He worked with Guilhermo Gómez Peña (La Pocha Nostra), Ana Borralho and João Galante. He also creates and performs his own work; his most recent creations are: Projecto Mãe (2008), Happy-Family (2009), Absolutamente Falso (2009/2010).