New Bodies for Invisible People

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Pedro Rosa (Horta, 1983). Estudou dança na Balleteatro Escola Profissional (2002/05), onde concluiu o curso profissional de dança. Prosseguiu a sua formação na ArtEZ School of Dance (Arnhem – Holanda), onde se licenciou em Dança/Coreografia em 2007.
Criou “Walk”, “88888”, “New Bodies for Invisible People”, “Do outro lado espera a sombra” e “Hyper Nova Utopic Empire” um espectáculo inspirado no universo da ficção científica. Como intérprete destaca o trabalho com Né Barros, Victor Hugo Pontes, David Brandstaeter e Malgven Gerbes, Katharina Horn, Eva Küpfer e Simone Truong. Recebeu o prémio LABJOVEM 2009 na categoria Dança/performance. Em 2012 foi bolseiro da Fundação Gulbenkian no programa DanceWEB Schollarship Programme, em Viena (Áustria).

Actualmente está a trabalhar na criação de “A Construção”, um projecto de dança na comunidade do Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte com reclusas do Estabelecimento Prisional de Santa Cruz do Bispo. Em breve irá também estrear PLAY GAME, um projecto de performance interactiva e escrita não-linear para smartphone, criado em colaboração com o dramaturgo Jorge Palinhos.
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source: pedrorosa

Pedro Rosa (Horta, Portugal, 1983). Studied contemporary dance in Balleteatro Escola Profissional (Porto) and then proceeded with his studies in The Netherlands, at the ArtEZ School of Dance (former EDDC-Arnhem), where he graduated as a Dance Maker.
As a dancer and performer he has worked with Né Barros, Victor Hugo Pontes, David Brandstaetter and Malgven Gerbes, Katharina Horn, Öslem Altin, Eva Maria Küpfer and Simone Truong among others.
Over the last few years created the dance performances “Walk”, “Dissolution of Multiples”, “88888”, “New Bodies for Invisible People” and “Do outro lado espera a sombra”, for which he received the LABJOVEM 2009 prize in the Dance/performance category. In 2011 premiered “Hyper Nova Utopic Empire” a dance performance inspired in the golden era of space exploration and science-fiction genre.In 2012 he took part of the DanceWEB programme, in Vienna.
At the moment he is working on a new piece called “A Construção”, performed by prisioners from the Prision of Santa Cruz do Bispo.
He is also working in PLAY GAME, a collaboration with the playwight Jorge Palinhos, that involves non-linear narratives and that proposes the creation of interactive site-specific performance with the use of smartphones.
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source: pedrorosa

In New Bodies for Invisible People, a group of performers enter an empty space to discover what is already there. Through their passage, they disclose their personal thoughts and motivations, interweaving the private and public spheres in an ever growing process of creation.

This project is a long term process of investigation and production which aims at the creation of different events ranging from installation to site specific performance. I use a set of small coloured cards as a starting point to create group relation in a specific space. Using them as markers, traces and construction/communication units, the performers engage in a complex network of relations, exploring concepts and ideas, such as alienation, property or change, to construct their personal and common space. Starting from this lightweight structure, I work with a group of people for about 5 days to develop the final object, which should always reflect a different approach to the starting materials and challenge its own format of presentation, exploring specific contexts and relations with the audience.

Its latest version was developed during the SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations residency that took place in Porto and performed in the Fragments of Experience showing in Mosteiro de São Bento da Vitória on the 13th of September 2008.