“Mari Paula, with her dance that feeds on dance, has not only stepped out of her own body, but has also made us step out of ours.” — SUSYQ
Mari Paula nominated for Best Performer at the Max Awards for Fronterizas
Synopsis
“I decided to make the piece of my life because I don’t know how to lose.” With humour, irony and disarming honesty, Mari Paula turns her own biography into stage material to explore migration, desire, failure and survival.
Through family memories and dances that travel between Brazil and Spain, Fronterizas builds an autofiction where the personal becomes political and the body becomes a territory from which to imagine new ways of existing.
The work combines contemporary dance, live music and analogue visual arts. Its non-linear dramaturgy gathers memories, family dances and fragments of lived experience to imagine a future that emerges from the remains of the past.
The third work in Mari Paula’s anthropophagic research, Fronterizas continues to explore the body as a space of transformation, migration and resistance. A trans-worldly body that questions the idea of the body as something meant to produce, perform and constantly adapt.
The piece celebrates fragility, resistance and the possibility of continuing to dance when everything seems to have come to an end.
The body as territory
Fronterizas is the third work born of Mari Paula’s anthropophagic research, which began with Retrópica, winner of the Funarte Klauss Vianna National Dance Prize. The piece explores the body as a space of transformation, migration and resistance and starts from personal experience to address struggle, exhaustion, failure and its acceptance.
Through a non-linear dramaturgy, the work gathers memories, family dances and fragments of lived experience to imagine a future that emerges from the remains of the past. A trans-worldly body that challenges the idea of the body as something made to produce, perform and constantly adapt.
Fronterizas began during a residency at Centro NAVE, Chile, with the support of institutions from Chile, Brazil and Spain, and continued in residencies at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria, Graner, Teatro Pradillo, Sala Carme Teatre, Teatro Leal and La Caverna, among others. Its Spanish premiere took place at Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria.
Artistic team
Idea, direction and choreography: Mari Paula
Sound project and performance: Jaime Peña (JPEGr)
Lighting design and performance: Carlos Molina (LumiereScene)
Dramaturgical collaboration: Luz Arcas and Gustavo Bitencourt
Outside eye: Lívia Delgado
Alter ego: Pablo Venero
Stage space: Luis Crespo
Video: Ricardo Kenji
Visual identity: Evandro Prado
Photography: Áureo Gómez
Photography and video: Anjana Guerras and Jabata Films
Press: Marta Romero
Community manager: Talita Zuppo
Production: Mari Paula – Dance & Performance · LAS VIVAS – Ibero-American Dance Platform
Tour production: Mari Paula and Adrián Torices
Distribution: Sit and See (Iñaki Díez and Raquel Jiménez) and Micaela Trigo
Origin: Residency promoted by Centro NAVE (Chile), Ibero-American Dance Platform, Ministry of Culture of Chile and FUNARTE (Brazil)
Research support: Culture Department of the Government of Cantabria · Casa Hoffmann · Fundação Cultural de Curitiba
Creation residencies: Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria · Danza en Breve – Teatro Leal · Teatro Pradillo · Sala Carme Teatre · La Caverna · Graner
Spanish premiere: Palacio de Festivales de Cantabria
