MATA – Corpo de Danca do Amazonas

PERFORMANCE MATA

The struggles that arose around the land a long time ago ceased to be hidden, while national

corporations and politicians profit with the disadvantageous situation of the indigenous . How

does this geopolitical issue may burst in the psyche and in the future of the indigenous tribes?

This entanglement is expressed in the MATA performance making use of contemporary dance as

the artistic fabric. A poetic, reflexive and timeless perception of the exclusion phenomenon of a

specific ethnicity.

In MATA, the choreographer and the dancers imply conflict and strain areas, investigating how a

culture is disbanded by a completely different one throughout the years. How a population is

reduced from dominant to dominated?

MATA is a performance that also invites us to reflect on our future. How do we change the

boundaries of our thoughts? How do we interrupt the restriction game and the sense of

domination, which has been – and still is – built over the course of our history? How do we resist?

Furthermore, MATA deals with the bodies rubbed off with these factors that, in most cases, can

only react to poverty, deprivation, irreversible psychological issues which carry deep

transformations. At last, from the scenic perspective, the choreographer proposes a spectacle

that communicates with a futuristic environment and a propensity for cinematography, taking us

to an unrecognizable space-time.

 

Individuals shift between

Endurance, strength, vulnerability and liturgy.

Separately, they move across the space and

gradually form a crowd.

With this outlook in constant change,

they become a collective body, a sensory body, a territorial body, an indigenous body,

creating streams of images that echo through space.

Clébio Oliveira

CONCEPTION, COREOGRAPHY, DIRECTION

Clébio Oliveira

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Getúlio Lima

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Branco Souza

COREOGRAPHY ASSISTANTS

André Duarte, Adriana Goes e Liene Neves

PRODUCTION

João Fernandes, Branco Souza, Wallace Heldon, Getúlio Lima

MUSIC

Matresanch

LIGHTING

Dyego M

COSTUMES

Clébio Oliveira e Nonato Melo

PHOTOGRAPHY

Michael Dantas

PROPS

Baianinha

CAST

Adailton Santos, Adriana Goes, Ângela Duarte, Cléia Santos, Dionis Marques, Felipe

Cassiano, Gabriela Lima, Helen Rojas, Ian Queiroz, Júlio Galúcio, Larissa Cavalcante,

Liene Neves, Luan Cristian, Nonato Melo, Pammela Fernandes, Rodrigo Vieira, Rosi

Rosa, Sumaia Farias, Talita Torres, Thaís Camilo, Valdo Malaq, Victor Venâncio,

Wellington Alves.

 

Premier 21.11.2018 in Manaus Teatro Amazonas