ORBITAL GESTURE • Raul Maia
ORBITAL GESTURE
Raúl Maia (PT)
10 September
10:30 pm
50 minutes
[Performance]
Nave , CRL – Central Elétrica
Orbital Gesture proposes the “migration” of skateboarding from the street to the stage. We begin with the performative appropriation of skateboarding as a tool for dialogue with others, which places us at the center of an abstract and subjective experience fueled by the engine of repetition. Through skateboarding, we not only redefine our mode of locomotion, but also our anatomical condition, our gestures, our gaze, and our relationship with others. Skateboarding becomes the mediating element with everything around us. The trajectories traced between the two bodies weave an experiential kaleidoscope in which the gesture that propels them into space is the very same one that enables dialogue between them. The objective constraints of skateboarding are themselves the raw material for the subjectivity of the gestures.
The version presented here is an adaptation of the original stage production, reformulated for this particular space.
Artistic Info
Artistic direction: Raúl Maia
Creation and performance: João Vladimiro and Raúl Maia
Lighting design: Cárin Geada
Sound: Raúl Maia
Sound design: José Arantes
Support: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Festival Circular, CRL – Central Eléctrica, Companhia Instável, Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva
Bio
Raúl Maia is originally from Porto.He is a choreographer, performer, educator, sound creator, surfer, and father of three.
His work is rooted in the research, creation, and practice of “alternative” forms of physical communication between performers, and in their subsequent contextualisation within an artistic framework. His works have been presented at various theatres and festivals, including D.D.D. Dias da Dança (PT), Circular (PT), ImpulsTanz (AT), Xplore Dance Festival (RO), Potsdam Tanzfabrik (DE), iDANS Istanbul (TR), Tanzquartier (AT), WUK (AT), and brut (AT), among others.
As a performer, he has collaborated with Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus, Tino Sehgal, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Fanni Futterknecht, Alexander Gottfarb, Paul Wenninger, Michikazu Matsune, and Catarina Miranda.
