NAFTA is Drugo Mores first co-production of a dance piece. In the fall of 2011, Brazilian choreographers Ângelo Madureira and Ana Catarina Vieira worked together with six dancers from Rijeka on the questions
“Is it possible to create the effect of reality where everything that happens is really what it appears to be?
How can you escape from a trap when you’re already in it?
Is it possible to have an outside view, when you are inside?
How can you create a different history from known history?
How can you make visible that which is invisible?”

Since 2000, Ângelo and Ana Catarina have together developed a research project for dance, based on the dialogue between their different artistic educations: one erudite, on the other folk. Ana Catarina has a degree in classical ballet technique, and Ângelo came from a folk dance background in Recife, where he was a soloist and later a choreographer and director. Their research path in modern dance began in 2003. During the last nine years, they have received numerous awards, on several occasions been part of the promotion of dance culture in São Paulo, and, through the national
project Palco Giratório, have travelled to over forty cities in 11 different Brazilian states. They have performed at numerous international festivals, such as:
Festival Move Berlin, Bienal Internacional de Dança de Fortaleza, Panorama Rio Dança, Queer Zagreb, Plataforma Brasil Holanda, De Par em Par, Bienal do SESC de Santos 2011.
In their research and choreographer repertoire are the performances Somtir (2003), Outras Formas (2004), Clandestino (2006), Como? (2005), Delírio
(1999), Brasilibaque (2002), O Nome Científico da Formiga (2007), Agô Dança Contemporânea (2008), O Animal Mais Forte do Mundo (2009), O Animal Mais Forte do Mundo.2 (2009), Somtir.2 (2010) and Baseado em Fatos Reais (2010).
On this journey, Ângelo and Ana Catarina have conquered audiences and critics in different parts of Brazil and the world. All of their works are the result of an extensive research process, in which classical dance, contemporary dance and popular culture are transformed into a single, new expression.

The Performers:
Vladimir Ježić
Tanja Kalčić
Martina Rukavina
Marko Kalc
Nives Soldičić
Jorge Correa Bethencourt

Music: Zoran Medved and Josip Maršić
Costume: Jasna Bajlo

Production: Perforacije, Zagreb and Drugo More, Rijeka
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and the City of Rijeka.

Read the full booklet here:
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