From her childhood perception of the outside world through a glass door, to the challenges experienced in the public space, sometimes too large and hostile, passing by her experiences of its dissolution and transformation in the body of raves until the sensorial diving into the primordials of breathing and seeing, for the Brazilian choreographer Michelle Moura, landscape has been a gradual experience of conquering space, a space in continuous entropy. With this intricate way of seeing/perceiving landscape in mind, V a s t n e s s plays with the basic structure of diagonals present in staged dance in order to engender an intricate kinetic game, where approximations and distances, additions and subtractions, make meet, plane and experience, control and empathy.
Collection Covered by Sky
V a s t n e s s is part of COVERED BY SKY, a transdisciplinary project centered on the relationship between landscape and art with a view to creating a collection of installations and performances designed by the Brazilian choreographer Gustavo Ciríaco in collaboration with artists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Germany, Portugal and the UK. The project’s challenge is to invent ways of translating and re-installing landscape experiences through installation and performative devices. The challenge, therefore, is the possibility of providing the general public with a privileged view of the fabrication of space by artists from different fields of art, from music to photography, from dance to visual arts.
Designed for indoor (halls, galleries) and outdoor (courtyards, parks or gardens) public spaces, the collection of interactive installations and performances invite the visitor to poetically re-enact milestones landscapes lived by artists.
Guest Artist
Michelle Moura (Curitiba, BR) is a choreographer and dancer. She has lived in Berlin since 2017 and continues to develop collaborations in Brazil. In minimal and detailed pieces she creates physical restrictions to explore psychological and physical changes. Her creations have been presented in international dance and performing arts festivals including Impulstanz (AU), Festival Panorama (BR), La Biennale di Venezia (IT). Overtongue (2020), BLINK mini unison intense lament (2015) and FOLE (2013) are her main pieces where the physical, affective and neurological capacities of the body are key points in her work. Mainly an author in her own right, Michelle also performs for other artists. As a dancer, she currently works with Lea Moro (CH), and has worked with Wilhelm Groener (DE), Vincent Dupont (FR), among others. Between 2010 and 2008, she studied at the Center National de la Danse Contemporaine d’Angers (FR) under the direction of Emmanuelle Huyhn and studied for a Masters at Das Choreography (2015-2013) in Amsterdam.