A suspended gesture

This project that have been developed in the frame of the Amsterdam Master of Choreography. The project stages Ajax’s story of Sophocles through the operations of translation and reduction through a deictic apparatus. This narrative is a clear choice in relation to the proposed disposif as it is constructed in how Ajax’s suicide is a project of alienation of himself from the world. Every step Ajax takes to his final destiny, demands an actualization of the projection of the future of his absence. How does he loose his relations to his people and the world? how does he loose his language and his gestures? The dramaturgy is focused in Ajax’s most relevant four monologues from Sophocles’s text and with a rewriting of the narrative that precedes with a contextualization of each monologue in order to give a context for the deictic dispotif.

Concept and Performance Jorge Gonçalves

Artistic collaboration Peter Stamer

Production MEZZANINE

Support de Theaterschool (Amsterdam), Botschaft von Portugal, Instituto Camões Portugal, Teatro Nacional São João and Teatro Municipal do Porto

Thanks Andrea Božić, Daniel Kok, Goro Tronsmo, Keith Lim, Keren Levi, Hanna Hegenscheidt, Jeroen Fabius, Julien Bruneau, Myriam Van Imschoot, Philipp Gehmacher, Sabina Holzer, Sher Doruff, Sybille Müller, Velvet Lee and my AMCh’s colleagues.

TOUR DATES

20 October 2017

Ateneu Comercial do Porto, Porto (PT)

04 June 2017
Fundação de Serralves, Porto (PT)

20 May 2017
Centro Negra, AADK Espanha, Blanca (ES)

22 April 2017
Espaço MIRA, Porto (PT)

8 & 9 December 2015
Tanzfabrik Berlin | Uferstudios, Berlin, Berlin (DE)

13 & 14 June 2015
FITEI | Mala Voadora, Porto (PT)

28 & 30 May 2014, Premiere
Veem House for Performance, Amsterdam (NL)