When you create a show is inspired by the music, or the image?
CA: Music is very important to me, like the word, like the image.
It was essential in the show, "dance ballerina dance"?
CA: That was a very specific proposal, made by the director of the company, who proposed me to create a musical of the 40s and 50s. In this project was involved a musician I work with for many years and we are major accomplices, both from an affective point of view of friendship and professionally. Music is an integral part even when it does not exist. But not only depend on the sound, I can start there, it all depends. I like working with original music, I studied composition and I am sensitive to music. It helps me to clear the way for coregraphic aspects and have many collaborators and musician friends. I'm always learning and there is a link, an interaction that prevents me to put something in the foreground over the other, sometimes, yes you can start with music. I did some work with Victor Rua where we really started to improvise the two musically, he gave me a number of challenges for me to create music and all these parameters that were emerging musically were then worked in the studio and I changed the term play for the term dance and move your body. Music for me is essential, not only the sound, but in terms of construction, as one can have the same vocabulary and the same imagination, whether in dance, or just on the go.
You focused a very personal vision of dance and everything that surrounds it, the fact that your mother was a dancer influenced you in some way?
CA: Of course, it influenced, I was born and with three years of age went to the dance studio without knowing how or why. It was there, I was happy and it started dancing with her until I was 17. I never questioned me because danced for me was something natural and very pleasurable and that gives me a great happiness. This all comes from it and my family background.
Ever wanted not to be a dancer?
CA: No, maybe wanted to be other things, but ballerina or at least have this contact with my body it is a very essential thing. It is part and even I feel weakened when my body is not connected with me, the age, responsibilities lead me increasingly to be less dancer and more choreographer and teacher, but I have to keep that contact with my body, because it brings me back to my own identity and what I am. It is a relationship that everyone should have, this contact with their body, which is very healthy and that connects us with ourselves, is part of it.
This partnership with the group "dancing with a difference" is not new, because your connection dates back to 2001. These second meeting of the "normal difference in" what add in terms of discussion of the different bodies?
CA: Adds our options and why we do it, where does it come from and how is started. There was, however, a number of issues still remained outstanding, two hours are not enough to explore these manifestations of why. This my relationship with the group has open me to other relationships with other differences to communicate, to decode some languages, have other senses and levels. It is very interesting when I'm verbalizing what I want dancers to do, or to look into and my vocabulary is understood otherwise. So, I try to reach these people, or let freedom for what is understood, or the way it is perceived, to change their brains for what Aldous Huxley called the antipodes of the mind, that is, a change of 360 degrees. I also very think is very interesting, which Flavia Cintra said, if "Maybe what's good for you, not for me and maybe what you see is not what I see," these issues are at the same time have a relationship with the world and with others, which is able to create and make art with another matter, another perception, or sensitivity. Deep down we are all disabled in some way, we all have invisible aspects that are very strong and fragile. At the same time we hide these weaknesses, but there are others that show them and maybe their inner strength is much higher. We live in a world so big and wide and full of differences that I think teaches us how important is to be faced with different situations, with different ways of looking at things, because it set us free.
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