Capricho #12 – Game of Mirrors

25-28 july 2019
Thursday-Sunday • 21H30

Duration: 60min
Age-range: 14

Booking: 5€

We started by establishing a routine around details that surround improvisational practices in the fields of contemporary dance and music – a rehearsal a month between January and Decembre 2018. The mirror-house, which is the studio, became the motor of a series of improvisations on a whim for discovery. Because of the twelve months, the twelve rehearsals brought the possibility of splitting space-time in twelve parts. This dramaturgical possibility brought a myriad of images that unfold the discussion: twelve tones, twelve scores, twelve compositions, twelve reflexions, twelve mirrors… “Twelve” became a possible translation for plural. A virtual plurality, an image multiplied by mirrors and cameras, a game played through a capricious fold.

We have Vivaldi’s 4 seasons, Paganini’s 24 Caprices, Goya’s 80 Caprices, the twelve months of the year, numerology and countless signs that we’ll not take into account. There is a production of chosen images that try to escape previous narratives, that try to escape suggestive formats, to scape interpretation, to escape the linear logic of symbolic systems. Caprice #12 wants to feed identitary fractals, to project fantasies, expectations, landscapes… Caprice#12 will to narcissism, specularity, mirroring, and reflexion is inspired in the videos:

Third Tape from Peter Campus 1976, Why Do Things Get in a Muddle (Come On Petunia) from Gary Hill 1984. And it is inspired by the texts Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There de Lewis Carroll 1871, “Fable” de Francis Ponge s.d. The result will be what is beyond the whole ensemble of landscapes that inhabit the poetics of Caprice #12.

PROPOSAL BY Sílvia Pinto Coelho
CO-CREATION AND PERFORMANCE Sílvia Pinto Coelho, Bruno Caracol, Ricardo A. Freitas (música)
SCENOGRAPHY AND LIGHT DESIGN Bruno Caracol
VIDEO Nuno Cera
SUPPORT Linha de Fuga, Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista
SUPPORT TO CREATION AND ARTISTIC RESIDENCY Companhia Olga Roriz no âmbito do projeto Interferências
PHOTOGRAPHY Susana Chicó

Bruno Caracol (1980) studied Design and Visual Arts at the FBAUL in Lisbon, where he lives. In 2018 he participated in Floating University in Berlin and the A_Salto festival in Elvas. In 2017 he completed a master’s degree in Communication Sciences – Contemporary Culture at FCSH-NOVA, around the modern construction of the idea of “wild nature”; participated in the Festival DNA, in Pamplona, and in the Biennial of Arts of Cerveira with the video “The Enemy (Fojo of Germil)”. In previous years he participated in events such as the Trafaria Platform, a collaboration between Hallo in Hamburg and the association EDA in Almada and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. Between 2009 and 2011 he collaborated in the production of the artistic residence of Capacete, in Rio de Janeiro. During this period, she participated in the event V: E: R, in Terra Una, in Minas Gerais, in the CCSP exhibition program in São Paulo, and with Maria Moreira and Marcelo Wasem, organized a cycle of events about / with groups of artists in Rio de Janeiro, “Listening Games”.

Bassist and composer with collaborations in projects of jazz, improvised music, theater, dance and video. He collaborates with original music for theater and dance projects. He contributed to the performances of António Pedro (Companhia Caótica), Marina Nabais, Miguel Antunes and Maila Dimas, Maria Radich, Francisco Campos (Projecto Ruínas), Teresa Sobral (QatreL), Rui Guilherme Lopes, Filipa Francisco, Pedro Carraca theater?). He composed for his projects Interlúnio (“L’Ennui Riot”, JACC Records, 2011), and GRIP 5. He participated in Wishful Thinking (“Wishful Thinking”, Clean Feed, 2007), 3-Bass-Hit and Pablibut Sone, selected for the Biennial of Young Creators of Europe and the Mediterranean (Turin, 1997). As a member of Granular participated in the event “Granular meets P.A.R.T.S.” (Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, 2007). He participates in Fungaguinhos, voice quartet, bass violin and percussion, where he made new arrangements for the music of José Barata Moura for his childhood.

Sílvia Pinto Coelho (1975) choreographer, dancer, post-doc researcher at ICNOVA. Holds a PhD in Communication Sciences and Arts (2016 FCSH). She has been developing her professional activity as a choreographer, dancer, and performer since 1996. She produced, choreographed and participated in several choreographic research processes, live performances, and films with artists from different fields. She presented her own choreographic work in Portugal, Germany, and Spain. Sílvia has been teaching dance classes since 1996. Since 2015 she teaches a Dance in Context seminar at the Performing Arts MA in FCSH-U. Nova Lisboa.