Portraits (premiere 15 November, 2019 – Theater de Nieuwe Vorst, Tilburg) – archived

You don’t get to choose the place or the circumstances into which you are born. Yet they largely determine what your life might be like. Looking at it this way, we might see each other in a different light. Isn’t is other people’s perception that at least partly shapes who we can be? With this in mind, Corpo Máquina invites you to look at the eight young people performing Portraits. Five female dancers and three guys from the streets. Observed by the audience they explore each other’s worlds. The academically trained or streetwise bodies infallibly inform each other of whatever they might carry with them. Weight and resilience, awkwardness and curiosity, agitation and courage. Their moving histories cumulate into a desire for freedom and comfort. The full-length performance Portraits is a cross-over between various forms of dance and movement. It’s a follow-up to Ball for which choreographer Guilherme Miotto worked with freestyle football player Nasser el Jackson and Even Worse which he made with three b-boys. Portraits is the first time he brings together skilled performers with uninhibited movers.

Choreography Guilherme Miotto / Performance Georgia Begbie, Gaëlle Callewaert, Ismail El Fartazi, Ahmed El Hassani, Said El Yousfi, Julia van Rooijen, Simone O’Tolle & Kelly Vanneste / Music Justin Wiggan / Light and Set Design Erik van de Wijdeven / Dramaturgy Moos van den Broek / Rehearsal Director Evangelos Biskas / Technique Mark Swinkels / Produced by Corpo Máquina, Dans Brabant, Theater de Nieuwe Vorst & Podium Bloos / Supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten, City of Breda, City of Tilburg, Gieskes-Strijbis Fonds & BNG Cultuurfonds.