Autointitulado was made in order to forget a number of improvisations we danced in a studio designed for this purpose. These recorded dances, deleted since then, carried residues that we identified as influences, as many striking images. Each known or anonymous model, whose weight stiffens our limbs, has inspired the composition of dances according to our memory. The time gaps between the models we reproduced suppose a kind of narration. We did not exaggerate its effects. It is not about another staged dance history but a studio practice brought out of the aquarium to be asphyxiated once for all. If only.
A project by and with: Cyriaque Villemaux and João dos Santos Martins
Adaptation and operation: Pedro Correia
Light: Rui Monteiro
Coproduction: Circular Performing Arts Festival and Alkantara Festival
Executive production and diffusion: Circular Cultural Association
Residencies: Alkantara, O Espaço do Tempo, danceWeb in the frame of Life Long Burning
Funded by: European Union Culture Program, A22, Graner, Circular Performing Arts Festival
Support: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Teatro Sá da Bandeira - Santarém
Acknowledgements: Fórum Dança, O Rumo do Fumo, Nome Próprio, O Espaço do Tempo, Aristide Bianchi, André e. Teodósio, Diana dos Santos Martins, Manuel João Martins, Polina Akhmetzyanova
2017
02.12
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Comédias do Minho / Paredes de Coura, Portugal
27—29.07
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
impulstanz/8tension / Viena, Austria
06.05
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Serralves, Porto, Portugal
31.03
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Maputo, Mozambique
03.02
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
CCVF / Guimarães, Portugal
27—28.01
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Sala Hiroshima, Barcelona, Spain
2016
27—28.05
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Alkantara Festival / CCB, Lisbon, Portugal
18—20.05
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
RCI/CND, Paris, France
2015
12.10
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Beursschouwburg, Bruxelas, Belgium
10.10
autointitulado
João dos Santos Martins
Teatro Municipal Sá da Bandeira, Santarém, Portugal