CREATED AND DANCED BY David Marques
LIVE DJ SET Joe Delon
SPACE Tiago Cadete
VIDEO Diogo Brito
COSTUME Tiago Loureiro
EXTERIOR LOOK Patrícia Milheiro
ARTISTIC RESIDENCIES Estúdios Victor Córdon e EIRA/Teatro da Voz
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION Vítor Alves Brotas – Agência 25
CO-PRODUCTION PARCA, EIRA/Festival Cumplicidades
SUPPORT Curtas de Dança 2019 – Festival DDD Dias de Dança (para o desenvolvimento do vídeo), Self-Mistake – Bolsa de Experimentação
PROMOTIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY Ágata Xavier

‘Unashamed dance’ is a continuous research project developed through artistic residencies, a creation lab, and a choreographic study performed by students from the 1st year of Superior Dance School 2018/2019.

In the last few years, I’ve been searching for ways and reasons for dancing. I found, while dancing at home, studios and discos, a common pleasure that made me carry on. With few or none witnesses, this parallel dance of pleasure seemed to rise between a musical formality and an emotional expression without embarrassments. My “unashamed dance” might exist only in theater and can only be possible by crossing several spaces, times and motivations: the bedroom which I relate to my childhood, the disco that I associate with my teenage years and the studio with my adulthood. To the theater I associate the present time, during a performance, of both spectators and performers.

Danced by me this sensation-dance is immediate and reflected, simple and complex, referencial and naif, abstract and symbolic, serious and funny, intimate and shared, technical and unprepared.’- David Marques

This project is included in Festival CUMPLICIDADES 2020 program.