HALE
STUDY FOR AN ARTIFICIAL ORGANISM
is the meeting between five authors, 23Kg of plastic and 1710W of ventilators power. Its body in constant transformation, lives and breathes. It’s a dance where the choreography manifests itself in a plastic architecture. What at first is inanimated matter gains life in a meeting between the naturally artificial and the artificially organic. We call it “study for an artificial organism”.
CREATION Aleksandra Osowicz, Filipe Pereira, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Matthieu Ehrlacher
INTERPRETATION Aleksandra Osowicz, Filipe Pereira, Flora Detraz, Francisca Pinto, Joana Leal, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Matthieu Ehrlacher
LIGHT COUNSELING Carlos Ramos
SOUND João Bento
ARTISTIC COUNSELING Patrícia Portela
RESIDENCES : Espaço Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo, Forum Dança/Edifício
SUPPORT : Départs
DURATION: 35 min
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : Atelier RE.AL, O Rumo do Fumo, Sofia Dias, Teatro Praga, Teresa Silva, Vitor Roriz
This work started in the context of PPEPC - programme of research, choreography and creation, Forum Dança, Lisbon 2011/12
STUDY FOR AN ARTIFICIAL ORGANISM
is the meeting between five authors, 23Kg of plastic and 1710W of ventilators power. Its body in constant transformation, lives and breathes. It’s a dance where the choreography manifests itself in a plastic architecture. What at first is inanimated matter gains life in a meeting between the naturally artificial and the artificially organic. We call it “study for an artificial organism”.
CREATION Aleksandra Osowicz, Filipe Pereira, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Matthieu Ehrlacher
INTERPRETATION Aleksandra Osowicz, Filipe Pereira, Flora Detraz, Francisca Pinto, Joana Leal, Helena Martos, Inês Campos, Matthieu Ehrlacher
LIGHT COUNSELING Carlos Ramos
SOUND João Bento
ARTISTIC COUNSELING Patrícia Portela
RESIDENCES : Espaço Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo, Forum Dança/Edifício
SUPPORT : Départs
DURATION: 35 min
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS : Atelier RE.AL, O Rumo do Fumo, Sofia Dias, Teatro Praga, Teresa Silva, Vitor Roriz
This work started in the context of PPEPC - programme of research, choreography and creation, Forum Dança, Lisbon 2011/12
"Hale is a work of unusual sensitivity, a rigorous sense of time and structure and poetic use of space, an hybrid object that uses materials and bodies as common ground to create living things and moving thoughts."
Patricia Portela Choreographer and writer
The piece took shape from our desire to create a collective object - or a common body - which did not depend on the individuality of each of the five dancers/collaborators but mostly on group cooperation. We intended to build a body devoid of a human figure that depended on our bodies and union to dance.
Hale is "just” that: a performance produced by plastic inflated by ventilators and shaped by the movement of the performers, where choreography becomes plastic architecture and dance emerges from the rhythms of an organism. An organism that breathes and becomes alive, unfolding itself and producing multiple landscapes that allude to living beings, organic material, abstract figures and unknown shapes, in a constant and amazing transformation that dominates and fills the stage space in a monumental form (until 3 meters of high and depth).
Our interest lies in the contradictory idea of an animated inert body and in confronting the boundaries between the artificial and the organic. Observing the characteristics and limitations of movement of an industrially produced material, we try to enhance its organicity and give it life and personality, proposing alternative imagination paths.
Hale lives of hybridity. It is a dance, performance and visual arts piece that can be seen and experienced by people of all ages.
