Mickaella Dantas has created the choreography in four days. "I arrived a while ago to the island, and wanted to do a farewell show that I already presented in Brazil, but from another perspective. I had seen the work of Ana Camacho and decided to invite her to try it. The idea of the character was in my head, so I made as a tribute to Madeira and the same time is kind of critical. It's about nature, people, economic stagnation and how time is reflected in the people, their way of life."
Two bodies glide between interior and exterior walls of a space that is the island metamorphosed. It's mechanist altering the landscape that surrounds it, gradually replacing the small miracles of nature by white elephants that bulldoze everything, and all those who stand in his way ... a being lost in the vortex of the progress that swallows everything, changes everything, lamenting his sad fate. It is a body that contorts of sadness, before a fragment what its life was, that has a quiet existence, seemingly impermeable and that ultimately vanishes in uncertainty. Black clouds enclose the surroundings. Pandora's box was opened. And nothing will ever be the same. The bodies sway, climbing walls with graceful gestures that give rise to the intense blackness, non-hope. Fear.
The mechanist counterattacks, not moved, entices and persecutes those who do not follow this mad rush towards the mirage of a new world. A parallel reality where only those who follow inhabit and are rewarded. Again, the being contemplates the universe and only sees the abyss, in the twilight it sees an alternative and lets itself be embraced by the strings that will permanently end the fear that haunts it. That continues to consume it. The shadow of mechanist destroys the innocence of the unspoiled landscape, flowers, birds and trees turning them into ashes now petrified. However, there is light at the end of this tunnel of time, for that you just have to dream...
