OUT OF FRAME
Marcela Levi & Lucía Russo - Improvável Produções
Out of Frame is a multimedia performance that cultivates conversations between dances with difference and without separability, intertwining near and distant worlds. Breaking with linear time, it plunges into the vertigo of diversity, polyrhythm and queer temporalities.
The wall of the First Battalion of the Army Police, a symbol of the Military Dictatorship in Rio de Janeiro, is transformed into Runways that make way for the technologies of Ballroom/Voguing, Waacking, Locking, Hip
Hop, Jazz, and Tap dance. The Battalion becomes Battle. Between citations and recitations, the piece exhales and carries dance histories, keeping alive the archives that have embraced diverse bodies — and that, in turn, have been embraced by them.
The performance unfolds among the audience and across three screens, arranged in a surround configuration on stage, projecting; fractured and silent; the film Short, Short, Long and Sometimes
Short, Long, Short, created by the choreographers in 2021. The film takes on the challenge of dialoguing with the wall of the First Battalion of the Army Police, a symbol of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship and of so many other exclusions.
How to cross a wall with such weight? How can dance and poetry dismantle the walls of separation?
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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