Motivated in her career to work primarily with hardware, Sofia creates tensions between high-tech and low-tech, putting in check what is commonly understood as technological. Through light manipulation, from candles to luminaires that respond to the movement of the performer, technology resurfaces in this solo as the reinvention of the old and the possibility of generating sensations through magic, while the symbolic fields of feminine and pleasure give the tonic of the political-affective discourse addressed by the performance, which goes through seduction, scientific discourse, ritual and self-reflection on the body.
In this solo, eight incandescent lamps and sound effects are controlled by the performer position, using a MS Kinect v2 sensor.
3 catastrophes on pleasure presents four dance/performance solos crossed by technical and technological relations, challenged to approach pleasure in some cut of its scope. Each of the solos, which unify themselves only by the thematic clipping and by the relational discussion on technology and performing arts, highlights the small catastrophes and accidents which sum up through the search for pleasure, as well the permanence in its state – never full – and the fall that proceeds the euphoria. Thus, by putting technology on the scene as a way to exchange affections about pleasure, which always negotiates the body as its structure and construct, the performers question what boosts us through materiality and virtuality.
Cast, Choreography and Direction: Sofia Galvão
Musical Direction: Iuri Brainer.
Original Soundtrack: Iuri Brainer e Samuel Nóbrega.
Scenario: André Moraes.
Technological Conception, Production and Video Edition: Ricardo Scholz.
Photography and Video Capture: Caranguejo Produtora (Duda Carvalho and Humberto Reis).
Solo #1 of spectacle "3 catastrophes on pleasure".
Teatro Hermilo Borba Filho, Recife/PE/Brazil, May 20th and 21st, 2017.
Total Audience: 145 expectators.
Aproximate Duration: 13 minutes.
Software: marine, LightJams, Reaper.