Nov 19. Disorientating and Queering Le Bal Moderne – Edition 1: Dinis Machado
Weld invites everyone to dance, because we all can! No matter our age experience or physical ability. In this series of social dances contemporary choreographers are being commissioned to make universally accessible dances, that will share the depth and profundity of their work in inclusive and enjoyable formats for all to participate in. Le Bal Moderne has been a hugely successful format instigated in 1993 by Michel Reilhac.
This special series of Le Bal Moderne, dances for all, is centred around celebrating Sweden’s pluralistic cosmopolitan society within a frame of disorientating, queering and decolonising. A space open to all, of all backgrounds and all orientations. In this special edition each evening features a different commissioned choreographer who will be sharing some nuances and details of their artistic practice, giving all a chance to experience the choreography from the inside in a social, friendly and welcoming context. It provides a much needed opportunity for people to mingle and move together without being judged or feeling self-conscious.
Choreographer Dinis Machado kicks off this special series of events. For this first iteration Dinis Machado will share with the participants a social dance incorporating practices from their work through an open score resolved with the people in the room. Machado’s work unfolds from the materialisation of bodies we desire, fantasise and imagine and the playful experimenting of the dances they dance.
Often it is those who imagined themselves to have two left feet that are the most surprised by their own talent.
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The Bal Moderne dismantles barriers by stripping contemporary dance of its elitism and bringing it to a human level.
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This series of Le Bal Moderne initiated by Robin Dingemans & Andra Fåglar, with support of the Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad and Weld.
Dinis Machado (SE/PT)
(They, Ela, Hen)
Born in Porto in 1987. Based in Stockholm since 2012. Machado creates work as a choreographer since 2007.
Holds the MA Choreography DOCH (Stockholm) dir. by Jefta Van Dinther / Frederic Gies; Finished the Independent Studies Program at Maumaus – Visual Arts (Lisbon) led by Jürgen Boch; Holds the BA in Theatre by ESTC (Lisbon);
Studied Ballet and Contemporary dance at Balleteatro (Porto) from 1994 to 2002.
In 2020 Machado was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Stipendium by the Swedish Art Grants Committee / Konstnärsnämnden. Their works Site Specific For Nowhere and Cyborg Sunday were part of Moderna Museet’s quadriennial Modernautställningen 2018. In 2013 they received the life Long Burning co-production by Cullberg Ballet for their project Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen. The work was performed within the [8:tension] series at ImPulsTanz 2014.
In 2016, the company Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte in Portugal, commissioned Machado the work In a Manner of Speaking and appointed them as an invited curator for the year of 2017. Through this partnership they developed a program with a series of three works by the Swedish choreographers Rebecka Stillman, Litó Walkey and Anna Pehrsson.
In collaboration with the Swedish visual Artist Conny Karlsson Lundgren developed the videos (Dissident) Dance Actions (2017) exhibited at Moderna Museet Malmö, and Gesture / Labor / Leisure (2018) exhibited at Haninge Kulturhus. In 2017 in collaboration with the dance artist Anna Koch created a performance presented at the opening of the first exhibition of the curatorial program of Corina Oprea for Konsthall C. In 2018 developed the video collaboration Scener härifrån with the visual Artist Sebastian Dalqvist shown at Art Lab Gnesta.
Weld is supported by Stockholms stad, the Swedish Arts Council and Region Stockholm