What stains

Beatriz Sano e Eduardo Fukushima

São Paulo/SP, 2021 | 35 min | Parental Rating Free

ORIGINAL TITLE
O que mancha

6/3, Wednesday, 7.30pm

7/3, Thursday, 7pm

CCSP | Sala Adoniran Barbosa

R. Vergueiro, 1000, Liberdade

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SYNOPSIS

In this first show directed and danced by Beatriz Sano and Eduardo Fukushima, both blur the boundaries on and off stage. Flowing across the roles of choreographers, directors and dancers, the duo builds the work from the intertwined vibration between voice and movement. The act of simultaneously producing sound and gesture makes the notions of duality, such as human and animal, woman and man, and living and dead matter, to be disrupted. Blend in each other, the two stain the body edges and travel through sounds captured and reworked live on an editing board. In this flow, they examine other possible forms of communication and give space for two existences to expand the imaginaries of their relationships.

HISTORY

For ten years, dance artists Beatriz Sano and Eduardo Fukushima have collaborated on each other’s artistic works. Together, they taught and directed group choreography through artistic residencies in dance in São Paulo, Chile and Paraty. They also co-directed, together with Isabel R. Monteiro and Júlia Rocha, the play Imagine, granted by the 23rd Cultura Inglesa Festival, and developed the project Duas Peças para Ouvir [Two Pieces to Listen], granted by ProAC Expresso LAB Aldir Blanc. The play What stains started in 2018 along with the Le Flaneur project and was supported by the Rolex Arts Institute. Before its on-site premiere, the show was broadcast live by Bienal Sesc de Dança (2021). In 2023, the duo premiered the play Horizonte [Horizon], at the Tomie Ohtake Institute, in São Paulo. In the same year, Fukushima choreographed the São Paulo Companhia de Dança and both will choreograph the Balé da Cidade de São Paulo in the work Horizonte+.

CRITIC

The movement is low, almost never bipedal, almost never lying down, always in the space between, always in transition, coloured by vocal sounds that give rhythm to the composition and feed the mystery. Another world Wind, birds, forest beings, repetitions, oscillations. And both always close, always of the same species.

Jane Oliveira, Post de Dança

In What stains nothing seems unreasonable. Sano and Fukushima, alongside great artistic partnerships, elaborate, from the micro universe to the broadest, possibilities of contacts and contagions that are magnified, disseminated and not silenced. This is a work of flow. Here, something continues, persists, insists, doesn’t unravel, doesn’t vanish – fills, occupies, stains, doesn’t fade.

Henrique Rochelle, Outra Dança