PEDRO PRAZERES


TALKING LÁZARO
05 May 11h - 13h, 16h - 18h
06 May  16h - 18h
Jardim de S.Lázaro, Porto, Portugal

Conception: Pedro Prazeres
Sound: Jorge Queijo
Costumes: Estelita Mendonça
Dancers: Ana Fernandes, Ana Barros, Ana Ribeiro, Ana Oliveira, Ana Pinto, António Sousa, Daniela Miranda, Diana Carvalho, Helder Mendonça, Hugo Coelho, Joana Gonçalves, Maria Rego, Marta Silva, Nina Barbosa, Rafael Pinto, Sigrid Vieira, Tomás Queirós, Vicente Branco, students of the 2nd year of BalleTeatro Escola Profissional, Oporto.
Duration: aprox. 2 hours

This presentation is the sum of a two and a half week long work with the resident students of Balle Teatro Escola Profissional, and presented in the Dias da Dança, Body and City festival over the 5th and the 6th of May at Oporto.


A guided tour over sounds that will be the soundtrack of a self-choreography danced at São Lázaro Garden.

Magnolias – Dances – Lime Trees – Passers-by - Cedar Trees – Birds – Camellias - Gardeners

The invisible visible, the unheard heard, the imperceptible perceptible.

A Dance installation suggesting a watchful and revealing look about São Lazaro’s Garden and its dynamics, a contrast with its daily appearance. Moments of observation, laughter, hearing and contact with the garden’s elements.

​Talking Lazaro proposes three paths that share the same space and have an approximate length of fifteen minutes each. The audience will choose the order in which it will perceive these paths. It will be able to repeat each path during the two hours of the presentation. Each path can be experienced up to five people at a time.





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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