DESIRE LINES
CCN Montpellier, 05/02/2014, (under the title 8_15_23)
Festival Cumplicidades Lisboa 16,17,18,19 Mars 2015 
(under the title 8_15_23)

Concept, creation and performance: Pedro Prazeres
Voices Montpellier:
_8 Jule Flierl, Surya Weireiter, Aria Boumpaki, Patrick Haradjabu
_15 Laurent Pichaud, Noga Golan, Calixto Neto,
_23 Sorour Darabi ,Noga Golan, Paula Pi, Pauline Brun, Davoud Zare, Edith Weireiter
Photography: Marc Coudrais




... a number to choose ... places to sit and spend a moment... a window to look through ... a poem to various voices, emotional landscapes, a stroll ... groups of people listening... my breath ... his breath ...  in a single room ... the past is today, the future is now ... her breath ... someone passing by outside ... a cigarette is lit up ... this extends its borders ...


A performative installation where the visitor is invited to travel in situ, alone or in a group. During the creative process, I’m dealing with the memory of a place, traces, translation, acquired images, states of presence and sound poetry.

..someone welcomes you to chose a number between 8, 15 and 23, to find your comfort and to focus on your breath while listening to what you will listen. In the room pillows, chairs, faded light lamps, a hanger with different clothes, a bench facing a window, an orange curtain, two stretchers facing the moon, a skeleton, two mattresses, blankets... on the floor - three devices, each connected to five headphones. You're taken to the device of your number, you place the headphones, you listen to a poem. A poem of many voices, of emotional landscapes, of a walk. You can move in the space, lay down, watch the window outside, the moon, watch the room, yourself, the others, but stay always together with the other four of the group. You finish, the one who welcomed you into the room has changed his clothes, appearing someone totally different, keeping the same presence, moving in space... perhaps you noticed... He invites you to leave a drawing or a word before you leave... if you want to leave...






PEDRO PRAZERES


BIO

Pedro’s work binds dance and landscape on a symbiotic relation of crossed knowledge. By turn landscape architect and choreographer, his works belong to the intersection of both creative processes and he weaves his artistic practice in the relationship between the place, the subject, and the ethereal. For him, landscape and dance come in resonance through a sensory, proprioceptive and intuitive approach.

After a degree in Landscape Architecture in Lisbon and Helsinki, dance degree in Dundee and Prague (where he was awarded INOV-Art grant for artistic crossings), we worked as a dancer and landscape architect in Prague and Berlin.  Lately, after having finished the MA program ex.e.r.ce at the National Choreographic Centre of Montpellier deepening his research on Landscape, Dance and other stories, he continues his artistic work towards the notions of in betweenness, non place and free will.  How humans condition the environment how this environment conditions human decisions is a major question on Pedro’s work.

Besides his landscape architecture teaching and consulting work, Pedro creates dance installations and performances he has presented in international festivals, such as DDD festival (Dias da Dança) at Porto, FIDCU at Montevideo, museums, like Serralves Foundation, Prague National Gallery, theatres, non-conventional venues, and urban and rural landscapes. He works and has worked as interpreter and collaborator with Antonjia Livingstone, Martha Moore, Fabrice Ramalingom, Joclécio Azevedo, Carole Steine to name a few. 

​Pedro also is experienced as a teacher and shares his practice through workshops for professional dancers, dance schools, the general public and social, pedagogical and psychological institutions. 




CONTACT

​email: 
sundayspleasures(at)gmail.com 

mobile:
fr - 0033 (0)6 73 30 68 68 
pt - 00351 932 251 175

skype:
prazeres_pedro

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