Companhia de Dan�a de Almada

Choreography by Bruno Duarte | Direction by Marta Romero
Performance + screendance premiered on December 12th, 2020, on-line at CLASH! International Festival

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Noir | performance

"Noir" is inspired by film noir from the 40s and 50s, and on a conceptual basis related to the traditional game "cluedo", set on a climate of suspense in which falsehood and suspicion are the main impetus for action. The piece was created from a series of premises designed by the different partners of the Clash! project, and inspired by the clashes between the individual and the group which is, in itself, made up of confronting entities.

Choreography: Bruno Duarte
Performance: Beatriz Rousseau, Bruno Duarte, Francisco Ferreira, Joana Puntel, Luís Malaquias, Mariana Romão and Raquel Tavares
Music: Brenda Lee, Bruno Duarte, Davidson Jaconello and Martin Phipps
Costume design: Micaela Sapinho
Lighting: Stageplot
Rehearsal direction: Maria João Lopes
Technical direction: José Pacheco

Noir | screendance

Film noir is a term coined by French critics to describe a type of cinema, mostly black and white, full of shadows and suspense.
Adopting the same aesthetics and ambience, in contrast to an admittedly contemporary soundtrack and movement, "Noir" was created for the Clash! Project from a series of premises designed by the different partners and which inspired a work in which the individual clashes with the group that is itself constituted by confronting entities. In this organized chaos, it is difficult to find who to point the finger at.

Direction: Marta Romero
Choreography: Bruno Duarte
Performance: Beatriz Rousseau, Bruno Duarte, Francisco Ferreira, Joana Puntel, Luís Malaquias, Mariana Romão and Raquel Tavares
Cinematography and grading: Lluís Miras
Direction and photography assistance: Laura Abad
Gaffer: José Pacheco
Costume design: Micaela Sapinho
Makeup and hair: Sara Martins
Edition: Florencia Aliberti
Music: Brenda Lee, Bruno Duarte, Davidson Jaconello and Martin Phipps
Sound design and mixing: Enrique G. Bermejo (Kamikaze Estudi)
Graphic design: Catarina Marques
Executive production: Carlota Machado and Joana Casado
Production: Companhia de Dança de Almada

Acknowledgements: Escola Superior de Dança - Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa

Bruno Duarte has a Master degree in Dance Teaching and a degree in Dance from Escola Superior de Dança (ESD) in Lisbon. In 2011 he was an ERASMUS student at ArtEz-Institute for the Arts in the Netherlands completing the "Minor Dancer" plan. He was a dancer and performer in the Grupo Experimental de Dança and Quórum Ballet companies, (2011/2 and 2013 respectively). He’s been a member of Companhia de Dança de Almada since 2013. He was co-producer and performer in the "P48" videodance (2012), presented at the 20th Quinzena de Dança de Almada, and "5" (2013), presented at the Caldas Late Night (Portugal), L'art difficile de filmer la dans (Belgium) and InShadow (Portugal) festivals, the latter winning the award for best videodance in competition - audience choice. As a creator, he presented "Metamorphosis" (2011/2), for Culturgest in partnership with ESD, "someone else ago" (2013), for Centro Cultural de Belém’s BOXNOVA programme, "L'Veltro" (2016), in co-production with Elson Marlon Ferreira, and for Companhia de Dança de Almada, "Riot" (2014), "Dentro do Abraço" (2016), "Gaveston" (2016), "Fobos" (2017), “A Invenção da Resposta” (2018), in co-creation with Luís Malaquias, “SubRosa” (2018) and Inverno (2019). He’s participated in workshops and seminars by Mikael Fau and Pauline Journé (France), João da Silva (Brazil), Siri Dybwik (Norway), Jack Gallagher (USA) and David Zambrano (Venezuela) amongst others. He’s taught workshops at venues such as the Beijing Dance Theater (China), Giro8 Companhia de Dança (Brazil), FreeDance (Croatia), DNA (Portugal), amongst others. He’s been a guest teacher at Escola Superior de Dança (2016 and 2019), a teacher at Ca.DA Escola, and a guest choreographer in the Projecto Quórum. He was distinguished with the Almada Artes - Jovem Talento award, from Concurso Jovens Talentos 2019, promoted by the Câmara Municipal de Almada.

Marta Romero (Benicarló, 1988) has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. Currently, she combines personal projects such as “FACUNDA”, a documentary short film produced by Allegra Films and with the support of ICEC, recently premiered at IDFA 2020, and “TRINI” - documentary feature film produced by Distinto Films and selected in the Mentoring Projects of l‘Alternativa 2020 and the program “Acció Viver” 2018 by Dones Visuals - with the roles of audiovisual production, camera and edition. In 2010 she began to work as a visual artist in the world of dance with the choreographer Mauro Barahona. Three years later, thanks to a grant from the Baumann Lab Research Center in Terrassa, she developed the documentary project “RetrArts” where she investigated the ways of creating and showing themselves of 5 dancers from different areas, which premiered at the Terrassa Noves Tendències festival (TNT). In 2016 she made, together with Mauro Barahona, the documentary “Gira”, financed by the Chilean National Fund for Cultural Development and the Arts (Fondart). Her interest in moving bodies and flamenco lead her to work hand in hand with directors such as Marco Flores, Juan Carlos Lérida, Olga Pericet, Ana Morales, Karime Amaya or José Maldonado, among others. Since 2015 she has collaborated in the direction of advertising campaigns for entities dedicated to social aspects such as Amics de la Gent Gran, which works to improve the quality of life and accompaniment of the elderly, Rebobinart which fights to free space for creativity by urban artists, or Bracelets Candela, which is working to raise funds for childhood cancer research.

Tour

Teatro Faialense, Horta / Azores - Portugal, October 3, 2021
SoloDuo nrw + friends - On-line, May 23, 2021
Casa da Criatividade, S. João da Madeira - Portugal, April 29, 2021