This piece was created with Marta Soares while Mareu studied in São Paulo. It reflects her personal and profoundly universal desire to understand the human condition. The piece likens the journey of cattle through the ‘Brete’, a corridor en route to the slaughter, to the passage of humans through life. Following the frenetic energy of our environment, rarely questioning our habits and rituals, we become blind to our fate. Mareu takes inspiration from Butoh, to embody animalistic forms in her movement, approaching the devir of a cow, exploring ideas of resisting death despite its inevitability. The intensity of the primitive, precarious movement set against the unconventional space depicted in the video projection creates an uneasy environment, recognisable yet alien; somehow ancient and radically futuristic at once. All elements of the piece are vital to the whole, but each stands alone as a narrative of sacrifice. A warning, perhaps of journeying through life blindfold. (full length choreography: 20' / full length videos: 50')
Credits
Concept / Concepção: Mareu Machado and Marta Soares
Direction / Direção geral: Marta Soares
Interpretation / Interpretação: Mareu Machado
Interpretation / Interpretação: Mareu Machado
Music (point of departure) / Musica (ponto de partida): Lucia Barbosa
Video edition and sound design / Edição de video e design sonoro: Gisela Motta
Cenary / Cenario: Ines Machado
Iluminação: Beto de Faria
Camera: Waldecir Ortega
Camera: Waldecir Ortega
Costume / Figurino: Dani Maluf and Mareu Machado
Photo / Foto: Soreh Meyer
TUCA, Sao Paulo (2005)
Curral/Corral, was created from "Curral de Apartacao" while I was studing at Laban Centre in London (2005/2006). It was danced by seven great dancers; Alice Weissbarth, Christine, Elena Rolla, Laura Della Longa, Sarah Gladwin, Takeshi Matsumoto and Verena Kutschera.
Unfortunately, all the register material is in Brazil and at the moment I am living in France, so it will take a while to post it but fortunately for all the choreographic works made at that period at Laban, a prize was given, the "Simone Michelle" for outstanding choreography.