Marco da Silva Ferreira / Fantasie minor

Missions

“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

COLLECTION TOUT-TERRAIN DE OASES

OASES commissions and produces dance pieces that can be performed anywhere, reaching out to residents in a wide variety of areas. These pieces reflect our desire to bring dance to spaces and areas that are not usually associated with choreography. With an extraordinary variety of expressions, they are all-terrain and designed to take over village halls and squares as well as historic monuments, parks, and tourist sites. With the powerful idea that by leaving its reserved spaces, contemporary dance will reach out to the population.

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

Stage manager Nicolas Bordes
Stage manager on tour (alternating) Florent Beauruelle or Nicolas Bordes or Jérôme Houles or Valentin Pasquet
Director of production Mathieu Hilléreau – Les Indépendances

Executive production: OASES

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 « dispositif Résidence d’Artiste associé » program of the DRAC Normandie – 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.

OASES is subsidised by the French Ministry for Culture – Direction générale de la création artistique.