The research Movement ⎯ Sound Dramaturgy is a two-week collaboration between Catol Teixeira and Sandar Tun Tun. This investigation comes from a group piece by Catol Teixeira: Arrebentação ⎯ Zona de Derrama, Last Chapter (2024).
Movement ⎯ Sound Dramaturgy draws on artistic materials such as movement, poetics, and the imaginary ⎯ that have remained “in secret” from previous works. It is the continuation of a perceptive experimental journey, curious to approach contemporary dance forms in relation to circus aerial language, sonic dimensions, and performative gestures.
The movement and sound material are crafted from a cosmology of words and images, including terms like teasing, announcements, contradiction, synchronicity, fall, and suspension. Movement ⎯ Sound Dramaturgy deals with moments before a change, a fall, or a touch. It's a research dedicated to these moments of "falling into a change". The work seeks to dive into a diverse emotional landscape connected to those moments, when we sense that something is about to happen, or even has already passed. Dealing with a perception of time that is in a constant curve, in a constant fall, never captured. As when something has already occurred, and a reminiscence lands in the body. These raw moments leave an embodied sensation, akin to a dream, a remembrance.
Catol and Sandar want to build conversations that are guided by personal experiences that awaken emotional states guiding the creative process. Where sound and movement meet, their collaboration seeks to uncover reminiscences of personal experience that can resonate with other bodies, invoking poetic imagery and inviting to perceive the physical space as a site of sensible projections. They both use their artistic media as a conduit to navigate physical embodiment, translating it to form but also channeling doubts and unresolved questions. Processed through movement research and sound experimentations, the creative process becomes a space for dialogue between critical approaches and conceptual concerns that traverses the two artists' practices.