Campo, Força, Chama — Josefa Pereira
Proposed and directed by Josefa Pereira in the company of Cigarra, Natália Mendonça, Nina Botkay, Vânia Doutel Vaz and participation by Meiga. A show supported by CASA Project, an initiative promoted by O Espaço do Tempo, A Oficina, and Cineteatro Louletano.
There is this field of ours, a terrain. A place that contains and also emanates, warms, and calls. Sometimes, it is like a confrontation with a bear. They say that from this, a human-bear hybrid and a bear-human will be born. We are these dances-bites-of-bear. Whoever arrives may also be drawn to it, be bitten, perhaps become a hybrid as well. We move incessantly, and here we are because it must always be simultaneously, something that can only be generated when and if at the same time. As we accompany each other, we pulse. There are times we have already forgotten how, so remembering should be a gesture of invention here.
Credits
Direction and concept: Josefa Pereira
Creation and performance: Josefa Pereira, Meiga, Natália Mendonça, Nina Botkay, Vânia Doutel Vaz
Body preparation practices: Danielli Mendes
Costumes: Nina Botkay
Soundtrack: Cigarra
Lights: Ana Carocinho
Production: Carolina Goulart
Collaboration: Pati Black, Maura Grimaldi
Thanks to: Leticia Skrycky, Vitor George, Luciana Chieregati, Carolina Campos, Julia Feldens e Casa Líquida
Residencies: O Espaço do Tempo (PT), La Caldera (ES), Futurama (PT)
Co-production: O Espaço do Tempo, A Oficina e Cineteatro Louletano, no âmbito do Projecto CASA.
About Josefa Pereira
Josefa Pereira (BR/PT) is choreographer and performer. She resides in Lisbon and lives between collaborations in the local scene and partnerships in São Paulo, the city where she grew up. She completed her Master’s degree in DAS Choreography – AHK (NL) as a scholar of the Gulbenkian Foundation and graduated in dance and performance at Comunição das Artes do Corpo (PUC-SP) as a scholarship recipient of the PROUNI program. She also participated in PACAP I, promoted by Forum Dança (PT).
Her most recent artistic practice is defined by some orbiting interests around monstrosity, fantastic, and fabulation. Among her notable works are Mandíbula and Égua in partnership with artist Patrícia Bergantin, and as a creator in Monstra directed by Elisabete Finger and Manuela Eichner. Recent collaborations include Ruído Rosa by Alina Ruiz Foline; As Canções que Catamos Contra os Muros que Limpamos with Catarina Vieira and Aixa Fagini; Spillovers by Rita Natálio; and dramaturgy for O Elefante no Meio da Sala by Vânia Doutel Vaz. Since 2019, she has been working as a dance teacher at Forum Dança and also conducts workshops and creation laboratories, creating a space for experimentation and exchange for her artistic practice and research with other artists and interested individuals. In addition to collaborations and partnerships, she is dedicated to the creation and circulation of her works Hidebehind (2018), Glimpse (2020), and Calor (2022), which are part of the Bestiário PINK trilogy. Her works has been presented at festivals such as Festival Cumplicidades (PT), Teatro do Bairro Alto (PT), Acker Stadt Palast (DE), Moderna Museet (SE), Bienal SESC de Dança (BR), Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea-FIDCU (UR), Museum of Modern Art – MAM-SP (BR), and Meteor Theater Festival (NO), among others.
