OUT OF FRAME
FORA DE QUADRO ("Out of Frame") proposes a return to co-presence, a step out of the screen, inspired by the event that the film Baños en el mar created in the early days of cinema. The film is projected at the back of the stage, silent and in black and white, while 15 performers and musicians intervene live, doubling and unfolding its actions so that they literally come out of the screen.
In the early days of cinema, in 1895, during the screening of Sea Bathing, spectators leaned back or even stepped aside, thinking the waves would come out of the screen and soak them inside the theater.
In cinema, what’s known as “out of frame” refers to what is not visible in the projected image but can still be perceived and imagined by the viewer.
In 2020, in Rio de Janeiro, dance workers — impacted by the pandemic and its social consequences — were called to enter the screens. In that context, the dance film short, short, long and sometimes short, long, short was born.
Out of Frame, an analog 3D film, throws itself into the effort to exit the screen — the frame — and reveals itself in the collective act of folding and unfolding what is (not) there — in the film.
Bio
With a repertoire that weaves together dances, music, voices, and ways of thinking from different times and places, Improvável affirms contemporary dance as an expanded field of coexistence and critical thought.
Improvável Produções is responsible for the conception, creation, and production of the dance works Monstrous Nature (2011); Mordedores (2015) — included in O Globo’s list of outstanding dance performances of 2015; Iron Mouth (2016) — included in O Globo’s list of outstanding dance performances of 2018 and nominated for the Cesgranrio Dance Prize in the categories “Best Choreography” and “Best Dancer”; Let It Burn (2017) — included in O Globo’s list of outstanding dance performances of 2017; HARM-ONY (2019), co-produced by the Iberescena Fund and NAVE (Santiago, Chile); grrRoUNd (2021), co-produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Julidans, Pact Zollverein, and Something Great; 3 against 2: Psycho Tropics (2023), co-produced by Julidans, Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (within the framework of Accueil-Studio), Sítio Canto da Sabiá, and Something Great; what is the chorus. chorus (2024), a piece commissioned for the 32 dancers of the São Paulo City Ballet; and Out of Frame, nominated for the Rose International Prize at Sadler’s Wells, London (Second Edition, 2027).
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