FROM ME I CAN’T ESCAPE, HAVE PATIENCE!
Each performer follows an individual score, but all of them seem subject to forces that outmatch their will and ability to resist. Like water turned swirling and choppy by a puff of wind, they react to the variations of the music performed live at the piano by choreographer Tânia Carvalho.
Their bodies become notes, fingerboards, plucked strings, sighs. A leg traces a melodic line in the space. Feet run along an imaginary keyboard. Hands clap angrily. Contemporary, baroque or romantic, the music both manhandles and caresses the four dancers. Yet the dancers are as much masters as puppets. From me I can’t escape, have patience! is a brilliant study on the interdependence of dance and music. The universe depicted is imbued with strange, compelling atmospheres that echo psyches plagued by various torments and obsessions. With its expressionist inspiration, this remarkable piece reveals the singularity and talent of Tânia Carvalho, a Portuguese choreographer who co-founded the Bomba Suicida collective, which has more than twenty works to its credit.
PRODUCED BY BOMBA SUICIDA
CHOREOGRAPHY AND MUSIC: TÂNIA CARVALHO + TANIA OAK TREE
PERFORMERS: TÂNIA CARVALHO + MARLENE FREITAS + LUÍS GUERRA + MARIA JOÃO RODRIGUES + RICARDO VIDAL
POEM: PATRÍCIA CALDEIRA
LIGHTING DESIGN: ANATOL WASCHKE
COSTUME DESIGN: ALEKSANDAR PROTIC
COPRODUCTION O ESPAÇO DO TEMPO (MONTEMOR-O-NOVO)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF FUNDAÇÃO CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN (LISBONNE) + TANZWERKSTATT (BERLIN)
REDACTION: FABIENNE CABADO
TRADUCTION: NEIL KROETSCH
TÂNIA CARVALHO (LISBON)
BOMBA SUICIDA
While Tãnia Carvalho has often explored combinations of dance and the plastic arts, the relationship between music and movement has been a constant in her work since the start of her career.
