ⓒ Luana Santos
Creation by Hugo Marmelada
June 21, 2024, at the Auditório Fernando Lopes-Graça, Almada (premiere)
ages 6 and over | 18'
The rules imposed by society, by which we interact with each other, domesticate us. They create trends and habits, that we often lose the ability to question. They become a given. They become so intrinsic to our way of thinking and being, that it blinds us and limits our exploration and connection with our nature. From what we feel, from our instincts that are also linked to our ancestors, our animal and wilder side emerges. Inspired by the book “The Call Of The Wild” by Jack London, this piece’s source of development is the format that the organization of society ends up having on the individual, and the exploration of what is left out, all the sensations and actions considered outside the norm. Hugo Marmelada
Creation: Hugo Marmelada
Musical Composition: Marco Santos
Performance: Inês Barros and Lúcia Salgueiro
Selection of Costumes: Hugo Marmelada
Light Design: Paulo Santos - Stageplot
Rehearsal Direction: Maria João Lopes
Hugo Marmelada was born in Lisbon, in 1987. He graduated from the Academia de Dança Contemporânea de Setúbal. He worked as a freelancer with several choreographers such as Guilherme Botelho, Ohad Naharin, Itamar Serussi, Jo Stromgren, Amanda Miller, among others. He joined dance companies such as It Dansa, where he completed his postgraduate studies, Norwegian National Contemporary Dance Company, known as Carte Blanche, and Batsheva Dance Company. He has provided dance training at various institutions, such as the Carte Blanche company, Academy of Dance of Jerusalem, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Proda-Professional Dance Training and It Dansa. At the same time, since 2010, he has been choreographing for the “Kamuyot Creates” project the duet “I I”, presented at the Riksteatern in Stockholm, Sweden; “Stepping over stones” solo presented at the 16th International Solo-Dance-Theatre Festival Stuttgart, Germany, which received the awards for 2nd Best Performance and Audience Award, having been invited to tour Germany and Brazil; “Connect” and “Still, you can’t smile with me” presented at the Batsheva Dancers Create event. He choreographed with Jens Trinidad, “Flux”, performed at Dansens Hus in Oslo and “As it is / As it turns out”, performed at Baerum Kulturhus, Norway.
Tour
Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Almada - Portugal, September 20, 2024
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