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THE GREEN MAN

concept, choreography and dramaturgy : Pedro Prazeres
dance and text: Pedro Prazeres.
thanks to: Pierre Halter, Hervé Le Jacq, Audrey Bartis, Christine Quoiraud, Álvaro Campo, Chateaux d'Assas, CCNMontpellier, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto.
approximate duration: 25 to 30 min


What if what we think changes the quality of what surrounds us? What if I cry and the river water overflow? So believes a Colombian tribe, who considers the earth as an immense woven matter of thoughts on which the Sun rests its life force. On the other hand, in the face of quantum physics, two particles that once contact each other thus continue whatever distance separates them in time and space.

The GreenMan dance conference talks about the sensible relationship between body and landscape, between man and his territory. In its genesis, the research was based on the encounter with a specific landscape - of the Cévennes, South of France - and with some inhabitants of that same territory, who use their bodies as a tool to perceive landscape in their profession: a geobiologist, a transhumance shepherd, a dowser, a storyteller, among others.
Based on the intersection of creative processes of two apparently distinct worlds: landscape architecture and contemporary dance, the techniques developed by these same people are put in relation with somatic practices used by different contemporary choreographers and somatic practitioners: Susan Klein, Deborah Hay, Benoît Lachambre, Fabrice Ramalingom, Hupert Godart, among others.
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The result is a dance conference, which creates an intimacy with the audience and a specific relationship with space. Each conference is redesigned in loco. At the moment of presentation, the interpreter welcomes somatic techniques in real time while exposing and developing the theme, from the perspective of a landscape architect, choreographer and a dancer.
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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:
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