Bethlen Theatre
Escapism as alternative resistance; escape not to surrender, but escape as rejection of the dominant normative order and as a way to survive it. The piece is a study of filthy dreams, connecting exoticism and the labour involved in pleasure and fantasy with personal and historical references. Tropical Escape is the first collaborative project between Csaba Molnár and Márcio Kerber Canabarro.
CREDITS
dance & concept: Csaba MOLNÁR & Márcio Kerber CANABARRO
TOURS & FESTIVALS ABROAD
Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen (DE)
DOCK 11, Berlin (DE)
IPAF - Warehouse9, Copenhagen (DK)
Csaba MOLNÁR&Márcio Kerber CANABARRO
"We are Csaba MOLNÁR and Márcio Kerber CANABARRO, and in the middle of February 2015 we decided to create, and work, together. Combining our interests in performance art and visual culture, we designed, sewed, crafted, researched, wrote, choreographed, performed and financed 'Tropical Escape': A self-organized-creative-burst-challenge; a study of filthy dreams, connecting exoticism and the labour involved in pleasure and fantasy with personal and historical references.
The initial stimulus for the project was the simple desire to explore materials together. We didn't bother ourselves with funding applications - as the aim was just to spend time together (we still discuss this issue, and sometimes it feels like a bold and rebellious decision, an attempt at resistance: to free ourselves from a pre-established contract of ideas to see what would come from nothing; sometimes it sounds like suicide), and then we spent whatever spare time we had in the studio together.
As a result of this time and with the help of enthusiastic friends we created a 60-minute piece and generated a diverse and dizzying array of avenues and ideas to explore and research."
SUPPORTERS
Artus Studio, SÍN Arts Culture Centre, New Performing Arts Foundation