Our project aims to bring young people from different nationalities. Together, they are creating an interactive performance involving dance, music and video. The challenge first consists in a collaboration in each country; then the two groups get together to confront their different cultural and social environments. The young artists are using their living places and cultural habits as a starting point for their creation – one of the dancers lives on the fourth floor of a flat in the town center of Grenoble, while the other one lives on the ground floor with a terrace, near the Tejo river in Lisbon. They are each creating their own choreography with local group – a dancer, a musician and a movie maker– to send a video presentation to the other group, so as to communicate. After this long-distance exchange, they will confront their work and find a common aesthetic based on useful and universal objects: wash line and clothes. They will search how they change their contents according to the space. It is an original and creative dialogue about a culturally diverse Europe and its current questioning of the notion of community.The first part of this process resulted in a video, which is still in a work in progress.
Tancarville
Creation and Interpretation: Magali Benvenuti and Mariana Pimentel
Video: Nuno André Patricio and Lelia Bergougnoux
Music: Pascal Benvenuti and Pedro David
Scenography: Nuno André Patricio
Dramaturgical Support: Rita Mendes
