This solo was developed from Luíza’s research on tensions and conflicts between effort-weight and joy-lightness. Using a system of responses to the motion capture device, the performer takes to the stage a watermelon - fruit that composes the paradox between hardness and juiciness, the unpleasant and the palatable - with which she establishes a duo, trying to rediscover it while object, body, form, and food. Through her bodily and technological experiments, Luíza addresses what we carry with us and, because we carry it, molds, experiences, touches and moves us.
In this solo, light and soundtrack are controlled by the performer, 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: Luíza Lira.
Musical Direction and Original Soundtrack: Iuri Brainer.
Technological Conception, Production and Video Edition: Ricardo Scholz.
Light Design: Dara Duarte.
Photography and Video Capture: Caranguejo Produtora (Duda Carvalho and Humberto Reis).
Solo #3 of spectacle "3 catastrophes on pleasure".
Teatro Hermilo Borba Filho, Recife/PE/Brazil, May 20th and 21st, 2017.
Total Audience: 145 expectators.
Aproximate Duraction: 30 minutes.
Software: marine, Reaper.