January 2023 saw the premiere of the first solo in the Dependência Aberta project. This project is the result of an invitation by Mélanie Ferreira to a creator to stage a solo for her.
The Dependência Aberta project consists of choosing creators with whom Mélanie Ferreira would like to spend time researching and creating, in a format of greater proximity. These invitations to collaborate come about because Mélanie Ferreira believes that the creative act has to be real, intelligent, intense and promising and, not being able to take it on alone, she decides to make her body survive through someone else's head. There is thus the assumption of a dependency and a need for coaching so that the existence of this performative body can have even more meaning and reach a purer state; without the dependency having to be closed off from the other. Rather, it is an open dependence, where both bodies neutralise, converge and renew in the hope of achieving the sublime. The project offers the possibility of creating an intimate working and research environment, something that doesn't usually happen in Mélanie Ferreira's career, as she always works in teams with various performers. It will mean having a primary focus on herself in order to continue renewing herself as an interpreter, performer, creator and researcher of her own body as power.
Being in the process of creating a solo is assuming that “I continue to lose myself in my body, so that the reconfiguration is necessary and precise, so that the return is new and the constant present.”. Following the Dependência Aberta project, Durarei por Paz e Nunca por Mal appears, in a continuity of intimate creation space, this time with a new creator, Daniel Matos, with whom the artist has already collaborated on several pieces and with whom she shares a journey of similar artistic desires.