Marco da Silva Ferreira / Fantasie minor

“Here are two dancers who take over the stage as if conquering a vacant space. In all their heaviness, they embrace the contradiction posed by the music’s twirling notes: bad-boy attitudes, hunched backs, spread thighs… Their bodies refuse to be swayed. Nevertheless, it doesn’t take much for the lightness of Schubert’s Fantasy in F minor to become a playground for these two performers, who are well versed in urban dance. Catching the pulse in jerks of the shoulders or legs, but also launching into a pas de deux that is as fraternal as it is competitive, with lifts, glides, piqués, and diverted points… With choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira, the weight of the bodies, the weight of the music, and the weight of classical or hip-hop codes fly away to offer unprecedented variations and invent a new space for sharing open to sensibilities. From fragile attempts to virtuoso absurdities, another vision of grace.”

Nathalie Yokel, December 2021

In January 2023, Les Indépendances will begin a collaboration with the National Choreographic Center of Caen in Normandy for the development and dissemination of their creations, notably the projects of choreographer-director Alban Richard and the “Collection Tout Terrain.”

Choreography Marco Da Silva Ferreira
Sound design Rui Lima, Sérgio Martins,
based on Franz Schubert’s Fantasie in F minor
Piano Lígia Madeira, Luís Duarte
Recording & mixing Suse Ribeiro
Lighting Marco da Silva Ferreira in collaboration with Florent Beauruelle and Valentin Pasquet
Costumes Aleksandar Protic
Choreographic assistant Elsa Dumontel

With Anka Postic, Chloé Robidoux

COLLECTION TOUT-TERRAIN DU CCN DE CAEN EN NORMANDIE

Executive production: National Choreographic Center of Caen in Normandy.

Co-production: Le Trident, national theater of Cherbourg-en-Cotentin – TANDEM, national theater of Arras-Douai – Culture Commune, national theater of the Pas-de-Calais mining basin – Espace 1789, nationally recognized theater for dance in Saint-Ouen – Atelier de Paris / CDCN.

With the support of the Ministry of Culture’s “Associate Artist Residency” program of the DRAC Normandy – Calvados department as part of a decentralized residency within the Terre d’Auge Community of Communes and the Caisse des Dépôts.

With the support of the Ministry of Culture’s “Associate Artist Residency” program ” – DRAC Normandy, Calvados department as part of a decentralized residency within the Terre d’Auge Community of Communes – Caisse des Dépôts – Institut français as part of the France-Portugal Season 2022.

Studio loan from La Bibi, Caen. Event organized as part of the France-Portugal Season 2022. The Centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie is subsidized by the Ministry of Culture – DRAC Normandy, the Normandy region, the City of Caen, the Calvados department, the Manche department, and the Orne department. It receives support from the Institut français for some of its tours abroad.