“Fleeting riffs on capoeira and ballroom dance keep the duet alert to both the conventions and mysteries of physical attraction. A very satisfying piece”

- NEIL NORMAN / RESOLUTIONS 19

MEET THE TEAM

Collaborators

Fernanda Prata | Choreographic Mentor for (After) PARTY

Fernanda Prata is an interdisciplinary artist working across Theatre and Dance for over 20 years. She has worked in collaboration with many UK and Brazilian companies such as Protein, Jasmin Vardimon, Vincent Dance Theatre, Sarah Crow, Stan Won’t Dance and Quasar. Her main and longest collaboration has been with Punchdrunk, working as Assistant Director and performer for over 14 years involved in the productions Sleep no More, The Drowned Man, Masque of red death and Faust. Currently Fernanda is a Lecturer at NSCD in performance, choreography and contextual studies for their Undergraduate and post-graduate programmes. She is also the MA Course Leader on their Dance and Creative Enterprise course.Selected Choreographic works includes ‘Kroppen Min’ for Stavanger University, ‘Nos’ commissioned by Horniman Museum and Gardens, ‘Midsummers Night Dream’ for Karamel Club Theatre in London, ‘An Open Book’ commissioned by NSCD, ‘I will do all that I can’ commissioned by London Contemporary Dance School, ‘The Drowned Man’ for Punchdrunk Company, ‘‘No Contact’ commissioned by The Place. Fernanda received a PhD scholarship at De Montfort University and currently researching title as The Dancer Training Within an Integrative Approach: A Transpractice Methodology Towards the UK Dance Conservatoire. She is investigating on how to offer a methodology for Contemporary Dancers with an integrative approach and ways that this methodology could offer potential for creating work.

Touring 2022

IRMÃ-sister

IRMÃ-SISTER IS SUPPORTED BY WITHOUT WALLS AND COMMISSIONED BY HAT FAIR AND STOCKTON INTERNATIONAL RIVERSIDE FESTIVAL

Full Video of the show available for request *

What does it take to become close to someone? And, ultimately, what does it mean? Considering these questions and starting from Alice and Sara’s shared experience, the piece delves into the dynamics occurring when we build relationships and how they affect our perception of self and the surrounding environment. Digging into the very core of human interaction, IRMÃ portrays the ever-changing process of protecting the balance between elements of conflict and vulnerability, tenderness and anger, misunderstanding and support. Beyond offering a reflection about the nature of relationships, IRMÃ aims to address the way women's bodies and emotions are displayed on stage. By merging elements from different fields, navigating from capoeira to contact improvisation, we aimed to create an intricate and athletic movement language, which delivers power while also keeping an attentive and sensitive response to each other’s bodies. All the partnering work is informed by the idea that female bodies have weight, can sustain weight, but also display vulnerability. Ultimately, IRMÃ aspires to be a celebration of women’s strength and complexity. 

In the Process …

(After) party

As a company, DAMAE likes to create work that speaks of human dynamics, that is relevant and honest and that can trigger thoughts and reflections. Alice and Sara always start their creative process autobiographically, sharing their personal experiences and using their similarities to build the work.

This production takes place on a spinning set with modular panels, which will represent the rooms of the house but also in metaphorical sense their place to escape from (but can’t). Spinning set and spinning realities/wild worlds/rooms.

Questions

1) what happens when the novelty wears off, when you can’t get distracted anymore?

2) when do you stop looking outside and start looking inside?

3) how far can you go without moving at all?

…. you are left alone with your demons.

EDUCATION OFFER 

-Damaedance/Masterclass

A fast paced, demanding, 2-hours session (duration can be adapted if needed), focussed on accessing one's dynamic range, building stamina and floorwork technique, as well as investigating our relationship to music and rhythm;

IRMÃ WORKSHOP/INTENSIVE- 

This format includes a masterclass, a repertoire- learning session and a creative session (duration can be adapted). The workshop will introduce the physical language and themes explored during the research and creation of our debut work IRMÃ-sister, which focusses around the meaning and nature of relationships (you can find more details about this production in the attached link). During the workshop, participants will be guided through a series of both individual and partner tasks which will eventually culminate in the creation of their own duet

-Partenaring/ Masterclass 

A challenging partnering class, where we investigate different ways of working with a partner, sharing weight, the qualities of touch and lifting.  Suitable for dancers with some previous contact experience. 

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