TimeConfluenceExpectationSharing

© João Catarino

There are infinite paths, long straights that translate into long journeys of endless waiting. Waiting is always implicit in the process of beginning and in the duration after the start, and durability is a consequence of our need for time and for the body’s place in that time: How do we occupy it? How do we materialise the need to inhabit a path? In Durarei por Paz e Nunca por Mal [I Shall Last for Peace and Never for Evil], Mélanie Ferreira and Daniel Matos design a device in which the audience is invited to be close and to wait for a contemplative path from above, where solitude and strength are at the centre of a work process that builds possibilities for images or their complete absence, without ever abandoning the body, the space and the future. We suggest a path of individual waiting for something that will always be better shared. — Mélanie Ferreira & Daniel Matos 

The Dependência Aberta project, by Mélanie Ferreira, consists of choosing creators with whom she wants to spend time researching and creating, in a format of greater proximity, while at the same time inverting the format of creators choosing the performers. These invitations for collaboration appear because Mélanie Ferreira believes that the creative act has to be true, intelligent, intense and promising and, not being able to take it on alone, she decides to make her body survive through someone else's head. There is thus an assumption of dependence and a need for coaching so that the existence of this performing body can have even more meaning and reach a purer state; without this requiring the dependency to be closed on the other. It is rather an open dependence, where both bodies neutralize, converge and renew each other. Therefore, being in the process of creating a solo is assuming that “I continue to lose myself in my body, so that reconfiguring is necessary and precise, so that the return is the novelty and the constant present.”