Atsumori — Catarina Miranda
face-armour — phantasmagoria — technological topography — iridescent futures — spectrum in repetition
Atsumori is dance piece for a quintet and a luminous stage.
It is intimately inspired by the homonymous Japanese Noh theatre piece written in the XV century, where a ghost of a child-warrior, who had been killed in combat, wonders the battle field hoping for revenge, ultimately finding reconciliation with his new reality: that of being a spectrum.
Credits
Artistic Direction and Choreography: Catarina Miranda
Choreographic Co-creation and performance: Cacá Otto Reuss, Joãozinho Costa, Lewis Seivright, Maria Antunes, Melanie Ferreira Light Design: Letícia Skrycky
Light Assistance: Joana Mário
Sound composition: to be defined
Costumes design: Simão Bolívar
Dramaturgic Research and Support: Ece Canli e Fernando Oliveira
Production and Scenery Conception: João Brojo
Production: Materiais Diversos & Diagonal Animal
Co-Production: Centre Pompidou (Paris/ França), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/Portugal), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/ Portugal) e One Dance Week Festival (Plovdiv/ Bulgária)
Residency Support: AGORA (Montpellier/ França), Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo/ Portugal), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/Portugal), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/ Portugal), Teatro Viriato (Viseu) e CCNC – Centro Coreográfico Nacional de Caen (França)
Support: Instituto Camões de Paris
About Catarina Miranda
Artist working with languages that intercept image, movement, voice, scenography and light, approaching the body as a vessel for the transformation and mediation of hypnagogic states, as well as for the gestures and procedures of the visceral conscience of the present.
In terms of education she has finished the Master EXERCE at ICI-CCN Montpellier/FR and the BA in Visual Arts at the Porto’s Fine Arts University/ Pt. She has studied Noh Theatre at Kyoto Art Center/ Jp.
From her path she highlights the dance pieces Cabraqimera, Dream is the Dreamer, Mazezam, Boca Muralha and Reiposto Reimorto presented at Centre Pompidou (Paris/ FR), Palais de Tokyo (Paris/ FR), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon/PT), Serralves Museum (Porto/PT), National Theatre (Porto, Pt), Festival Materiais Diversos (Pt), Festival DDD (Pt), Festival Pays de Danses (Liège, Be), Festival Mindelact (Cape Verde), Festival Short Theatre (Rome/IT).
In 2016, Portuguese TV released the Documentary “PORTUGAL WHICH DANCES“, one of whose episodes is dedicated to the dance piece Boca Muralha. Furthermore, Miranda has presented the visual installations POROMECHANICS at Centre Pompidou (Paris/ FR), Municipal Theatre Porto/ Maus Hábitos (Porto/PT), Festival Walk&Talk (Azores/Pt), São Luiz Theatre Lisbon, Pt; as well as the exhibition DIAGONAL ANIMAL at Fabrik Festival (Fall River/ USA) and MOUNTAIN MOUTH at Dance Box and Maizuru RB (Kobe/ Maizuru, Japan).
