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En Danseuse - Miguel Pereira
En danseuse is a piece of work choreographed, based on a creative process that focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series of collaborations of Alain Michard with several choreographers from different generations, and varied backgrounds led to the birth of this piece, a ‘collection of dances’ with scenography using sound and video.
En danseuse is made of a scenographic installation which combines images of dance and sounds. Is it thought of as a confrontation between two choreographical forms, but also between two memories. It offers to audiences several ways of looking at the work, and appeals to their own memories of dance.
En danseuse is based on the idea that the body of the choreographer is the very source of their work, and carries within himself/herself a true History of dance. Vast and unique, this dance History is made of dances which have been lived, but also dances that have been seen or dreamt, and of everything that has fit in with ‘choreographic material’. En danseuse questions the role of images, and how they are active both in memory and in the choreographic gesture.
Miguel Pereira, Portuguese choreographer, was trained at the National Conservatory of Dance and the Higher School of Dance of Lisbon. He has collaborated with Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho and Vera Mantero. He received the Revelation Prize José Ribeiro da Fonte/Ministry of Culture for Antonio Miguel (2000), and the Prize of Acarte/Madalena de Azeredo Perdigão. His latest two pieces are Piece for business and Happy piece. He is regularly invited to present his work, and teach in Portugal and abroad. Since 2000, he has been an associate artist with the company O Rumo do Fumo.
