WHAT IF 

                                                                                                CONVEX

                                                                                                TIME

                                                                                                ENTANGLE THE TEXTURE

                                                                                                UNDO

                                                                                                INDEED 

                                                                                                WHAT IF 

                                                                                                IMMENSE ROOMS

                                                                                                EMPTY

                                                                                                LOADED











Featuring ₣lávio Rodrigues



Este projecto teve início em 2012 com o desejo inicial de colaboração, a que decidimos nomear de “featuring”, a partir do qual uma ideia de microgrupo emerge, como representação também de um colectivo. A paisagem é aqui mapeada a partir das poéticas associadas tanto aos índios como micro sociedades delineadas, sensíveis e frágeis, bem como aos meninos perdidos do Peter Pan na Terra do Nunca. Associada a esta poética está também o reverso: um mundo globalizado, onde o isolamento, o abandono, e também a sensação de presenciar a fragilidade da existência destas microsociedades, à beira do abismo (lembrando aqui os índios Guarani-Kaiowá do Brasil e a polémica sobre a sua constante perda de território e vidas numa guerra sem fim com os grandes proprietários de terras, ou fazendeiros). Decidimos trabalhar nos espaços intermédios de uma poética e da fragilidade da sua existência, e permitir que o equilíbrio entre eles seja o mote de pesquisa, experimentação e construção de uma partitura coreográfica. Assim, procurámos encontrar momentos de solidão acompanhada, de fragilidade forte, de união, de relação, de permissão de uma quase desistência, ou mesmo à beira de uma não vida. A partir deste momento o projecto passa a chamar-se LONELY. Lonely é assim preenchido por duas figuras que se rodeiam, se patrulham, em torno de possível suporte e queda desastrosa. Abraçam-se sobre o medo do fim. Constroem pequenas danças para um esquecimento do mundo. Inventam rituais que não chegam a invocar, evocar ou celebrar seja o que for. Lutam por desistência e por falência: a falência de um corpo pouco livre, a liberdade de criação. Bruno Senune, Flávio Rodrigues & Telma João Santos 

In 2012 we started our collaborative project named “featuring”. Throughout the development of this project we became aware of birth and rising of a micro group, which can also represent larger groups of people (the masses). The “featuring” project background reveals and resembles both the Indian communities as well as the group of children represented in the J.M. Barrie novel “Peter Pan”. By exploring these two groups we establish their differences and similarities. Related to this there’s the reverse: a globalised world where the isolation, the abandonment and also the feel of witness of the fragility of these micro societies existence on the brink of the abyss (remembering here the Guarani-Kaiowá Indians of Brazil and the controversy about the constantly lost of Land and Human lifes, an endless war with the big owners or farmers. We’ve decided to work in the mediation spaces of a poetics and the fragility of its existence allowing that the balance between them would be the motto of the research, experimentation and the construction of a coreographic score. Like that, we’re looking for loneliness accompanied moments, strong fragility, unity, relationship, permission of an almost waiver or even near of a not living life. From this point the project became to be called LONELY. So Lonely is fulfilled with two figures that surround and patrol each other, around of a possible support and a catastrophic fall. They hug each other over the fear of an ending. They built small dances towards a world oblivion. They devise rituals that they never claim, evoke or celebrate whatever that is. They fight for waiver and for failure: the failure of a barely free body, the liberty of creation. Bruno Senune, Flávio Rodrigues & Telma João Santos 

A project by Bruno Senune and Flávio Rodrigues 
Photography by Tiago Aguiart 
Supported by Biblioteca Almeida Garrett and Balleteatro
Project made in the scope of Sub40 display 
Thanks to Telma João Santos 
Debut at Auditório da Biblioteca Almeida Garrett (Oporto)
Reposition Lake Studios (Berlin), Serralves em Festa '16 (Oporto),
Highs & Lows - 4bid Gallery (Amsterdam), Festival Todos (Lisbon)



© TIAGO AGUIART // BIBLIOTECA ALMEIDA GARRETT

© TIAGO AGUIART // PORTRAIT

© NELSON GARRIDO // SERRALVES EM FESTA 2016





& 
LONELY A MOVIE BY FLÁVIO RODRIGUES WITH BRUNO SENUNE


LONELY 
a movie By Flávio Rodrigues 
with Bruno Senune 
To be alone. To run away. To escape. To get out. 
To be mean: to me and to the others. 
To be mean to what surrounds me. 
To the Universe. 
The perverse world: that steals me, that destroys me.


Lonely Short Film 





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IMPROBABLE DIALOGUE / TEXT

Improbable dialogue during a no Dance, DANCE:
"LONELY" by Bruno Senune & Flávio Rodrigues


White Feather: Hail!
Blue Feather: Hail!

White Feather: How do you come from where you come from, Blue Feather?
Blue Feather: By mental projection, or even better through an energetic connection. I'm there, I'm here and I'm also in other places simultaneously. By the time the spirit evolves in the light, omnipresence is not an impossible fact. Everything is energy: energy can be in several places.

White Feather: Does Time Exist?
Blue Feather: The notion of time does not exist, the distinction between past, present and future is only an illusion, time is a concept invented by Man to explain the history of humanity, for example. The temporal linearity does not exist, past, present and future are only one!

White Feather: And the Space, which is the limit of the Space?
Blue Feather: Space is inseparable from Time and in this sense it is at the same time the place of the Possible, it symbolizes the chaos of origins and the place of achievements, in this case it symbolizes the cosmos, the organized world. In it there exists always boiling dissipative ideas, from which always result’s new unpredictable orders. Space is like an incommensurable extension, whose center is unknown and it expands itself in all possible ways; it symbolizes the infinite where the universe moves, and it is symbolized by the three dimensions and six directions cross, as well as by the sphere, but an expansion limited sphere in movement. It also encompasses the universe as a whole, with its updating and its potential. (in Dictionary of Symbols)

White Feather: And the Law of Attraction?
Blue Feather: All branches of physical science demonstrate the fact that all complete manifestation, of any kind and on any scale, begins with the establishment of a nucleus, infinitely small but with an irresistible attraction energy, causing it to grow in power and definition of purpose, until the growth process is complete and the mature form emerges as an established fact. According with the proponents of this law, thoughts have an energy that attracts similar energies, to control this energy, proponents state that people should practice four things:

1. Know what you want
2. Think about what you want with a lot of conviction
3. Feel and behave as if the object of your desire is on its way
4. Be open to receive it "(in Wikipedia)

by an anonymous, unclassifiable spectator.