COLOURS International Dance Festival // Marco da Silva Ferreira: CARCAÇA

In the organizer's words:

How does a community develop, how does a collective memory emerge from individual memories? Portuguese dancer Marco da Silva Ferreira explores this in CARCAÇA. In sneakers, the dancers bounce in small, rapid steps like in clubbing or street dance. The traditions inherent in the individual bodies - the proud Portuguese folklore, the earthiness of African dances, the American moonwalk of the 80s - are constantly intermingled with this cool, rapid movement off the floor. What remains of those times, how do solitaires become a synchronized group? CARCAÇA examines whether dance can absorb and integrate the new movements that may have emerged on the street, or whether it has to break with an authoritarian past to do so. Should we preserve our heritage or separate ourselves from it? Does democracy become hollow if an authority determines identity and it does not emerge from the people? The ensemble sings a workers' song at the top of their voices, "Alle Mauern fallen" appears in neon letters on the wall and the shirts mutate into posters, protective shields and open mouths. The people even question the floor they are dancing on. CARCAÇA attempts to connect past and present in dance - the word means "skeleton" or "wreck", but also refers to the rods on which something new can perhaps be hung. Marco da Silva Ferreira was discovered by Hofesh Shechter; he challenges the dancers with his highly intense, movement-rich style and the audience with his socio-critical themes.

Duration: approx. 75 minutes without intermission
Age recommendation: from 12 years

The piece has catapulted Ferreira, who himself comes from street dance, into the international premier league of the contemporary dance scene. Eight virtuoso dancers amalgamate the forces of the past into an unreal future. - Berliner Zeitung

Breathtaking choreography in the truest sense of the word. - Kronen Zeitung

It is in dance, in the orchestration of dynamic bodies of different genders, generations and origins, that Marco da Silva Ferreira is at his strongest. - The Standard

The Portuguese choreographer leaves no doubt that he is not serving up a cheap folklore show here, but knows exactly what he is doing: "The dances in 'Carcaça' reflect the reality of the communities: the people, their wishes, their fears." - The Standard

Price information:

Advance booking: Cat. 1: 39,- / reduced: 30,- / U18: 17,- // Cat. 2: 31,- / reduced: 24,- / U18: 14,- // Cat. 3: 21,- / reduced: 17,- / U18: 9,- €