Feb 12 + 13. Dinis Machado (PT/SE): Cyborg Sunday
Cyborg Sunday, by Dinis Machado, is a surprising revelation in between theater and dance where the idea of community appears as a possibility of reconstruction of the intimate gesture.
With Catherine Long (UK), Vicky Malin (UK), Goncalo Ferreira (PT), Nikolas Kasinos (CY/UK) and Isadora Monteiro (PT), Anna Koch (SE) and with Pedro Machado (BR/UK) as outside eye.
Cyborg Sunday proposes a fictional happening, on a fictional landscape, in an ambiguous future, far from easily recognisable representations and sci-fi spectacular expectations. How to open the possibilities of representation, as a strategy to open the own possibilities of futures. Far from any pretension of totality, a proposal of a landscape where pleasure is re-validated as a political idea and priority.
What can be a future landscape? What can be a happening in this fictional future, knowing that future is always a fiction in the process of becoming reality? And what and how can be a (human) body there? What can be a proposal for a possible life?
A performance is an invitation to a provisory proposal of a specific operativity. The world is not a stage but a stage is a room to try out, to test and to experiment worlds. It happens on a fictional Sunday.
Cyborg Sunday was developed through more than six months with performers from several countries that answered to the proposal of thinking about the emphatic limits of their own bodies.
Developed in residency at ImPulsTanz (Vienna), Dance4 (Nottingham), Weld (Stockholm)
Coproduced by Corp. and Dance4 | With the support of ImPulsTanz in the framework of "Life Long Burning" supported by the Culture 2013-2018 Programme of the European Union | Project developed with the grant for the arts from the Arts Council England | Dinis Machado is an associated artist from ZDB/Negócio | With the support of NEC
DINIS MACHADO
Is Born in Porto and based in Stockholm since 2012. With an education on Dance and Visual Arts, his works develop usually from the crossing point of this two areas: were the concrete gesture of plastic construction is reclaimed and worked as choreographic material. He works as a performer for theatre and dance since 1994 and as choreographer of his own works since 2007.
Dinis Machado finished in May 2014 the MA in Coreography at DOCH (Stockholm) directed by Jefta Van Dinther and Frédéric Gies. Finished the Independent Studies Program in Visual Arts at Maumaus – Visual Arts School (Lisbon) directed by Jurgen Boch. Has a BA in Theatre by the Superior School of Theatre and Cinema (Lisbon). Has the 7t degree in Classical Ballet and Contemporary dance by Balleteatro (Porto), and the performers course of Academia Contemporanea do Espectaculo.
In 2013 Dinis Machado received the life Long Burning (Jardin D'Europe) Swedish co-production by Cullberg Ballet for his project Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen. The work was one of the nominated for the Pris Jardin D'Europe at ImPulsTanz 2014.
From his education he underlines the contact with Olga Mesa, Francisco Camacho, Vera Mantero, Teatro Praga, Jennifer Lacey, Robert Stein, Janez Jansa, Paz Rojo, Litó Walkey, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Sandra Noeh, Jefta Van Dinther, Frédéric Gies, Alice Chauchat, Eric Duyckaerts, Massimo Furlan and Juan Dominguez.
Dinis Machado was part of research residencies like Mugatxoan directed by Blanca Calvo and Ion Monduate, Encontros Rumo mediated by Vera Mantero and Miguel Pereira, and AWaRE at Festival Alkantara 2014 mediated by Sofia Dias and Vitor Roriz.
As performer Machado has collaborated, among others, with Miguel Pereira, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Rogerio Nuno Costa, Miguel Loureiro, Andre e. Teodosio, Catia Leitao, Isabel Barros, at structures like O Rumo do Fumo, Cao Solteiro, Fundacao de Serralves, Teatro Nacional S. Joao, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II and Balleteatro Companhia.
He works as Choreographer since 2006. Since then directed the shows Out in Space – Experiences on Autonomy, Black Cats Can See in The Dark But Are Not Seen, Dinis Machado por Dinis Machado, Dramaturgy, Still Nature, Parole, Parole, Parole and Only You in colaboration and presented in Austria, Croatia, Uruguay, France, Sweden, Germany, England and Portugal in contexts as ImpulsTanz, MDT, Dance 4, Chealsea Theatre, Festival de Danza Contemporanea de Uruguai, Festival Escritas Na Paisagem, Festival Temps D'images, Festival Da Fabrica, Quarta Parede, ZDB/Negocio, NEC, Edificio (O Rumo do Fumo/Forum Danca), Plataforma HR, among others.
Dinis Machado signed the set and light design of all his own performances as of the play Melodrama by Rui Catalao, and of the choreography OP 49 by Miguel Pereira.
He runs frequently workshops around his artistic practice and taught a one year course in performance practices at NEC (Porto). Dinis Machado is an associated artist from ZDB in Lisbon