“DOS JOELHOS PARA BAIXO” MÁRCIA LANÇA - Portugal
Creation, Drawing and Performer: Márcia LançaArtistic colaboration: Iuri Albarran and Tiago Hespanha
Schedule: 27th May 2009 at 10pmFor audiences over: 8 years oldTime: 35 minutesLanguage: Without wordsTechnique: Dance and objects
Finalist of the Programme Young Artists Young
A Márcia Lança solo about a paper city …
About “Dos Joelhos para Baixo” or “From the Knees Down”:“Starting from a drawing in the ATL of the school n°6 from the Campo de Ourique neighbourhood, where pencil traces were erased by rubber, I noticed that erasing without leaving traces was impossible. After this episode I spent one year drawing. I chose a moment of the day in a specific place and draw the itinerary that I and other persons had use. So, for us to move across the paper, was necessary to erase and drawn ourselves again in another part of the sheet. I noticed that the distances and movements of the individuals could be redone by the trace that was left while erasing. I put this question on the stage, going from the “sheet” support to the “space” support.I kept the paper sheet and worked in the studio making it interact with me. Of these experiences a series of actions with men and women of paper appeared, that initially could be resumed to the transformation of the paper matter in others. These characters wore exposed to sequences of events that determined their participation in the piece. Slowly, a paper city starts to appear”. – Márcia Lança
Ciclo: FIMFA LX9 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms