LandScaping 0.3/ Knoten

Choreographische Installation & Performance

Premiere: 24th of September 2021, in St. Gertrud: Kirche and Kultur, Cologne.

Other performances: 25th and 26th of September 2021

nstallation, choreography and performance directed by: Bianca Mendonça;

Performance and co-choreography: Marília Silva, Maria Carolina Vieira, Sara Escribano Maenza.

Music composition: Bruna Cabral; Sound direction: Vasko Damjanov

Lighting design and technical direction: Roman Sroka

Photography and documentation: Alessandro De Matteis

Dramaturgical collaboration: Constanze Schellow and Valerie Wehrens

Choreographic assistance: Renato Sbardelotto; Management, P&O: Winfried Hoffmann

In "LandScaping 0.3/Knoten" two places, materials, realities intertwine with each other, which at first sight stand in the relation of a politically charged tension: the landscape and shamanistically informed cult and craft practices of various communities in the Amazon region and a central European sacred building made of concrete.

Together with three dancers, who each in their own way connect memories and experiences with the vegetation and culture of the Brazilian region, choreographer Bianca Mendonça performatively explores traditional practices of processing the leaves and fibres of the tucumã palm in the production of cultic, handicraft and utilitarian objects.

The motif of 'interweaving' runs through the entire performance installation: visitors are invited to find their own paths through an exhibition landscape of texts, drawings and videos, while at the same time being part of a live performance. In the process, they encounter human and non-human bodies, remembered and imagined movements, voices and gestures from conversations in the artisan community Coroca, and sound worlds that emerge from the dancers' encounters with traditional instruments.

LandScaping 0.3 / Knots is the third part of Bianca Mendonça's exploration of her impressions, experiences and memories during an artist residency in the Amazon last winter. The starting point of LandScaping was a curiosity for cartography and mapping and their possibilities to influence, shape and change movements.

Project supported by the Fonds Darstellende Künste from funds provided by the Federal Government's Culture and Media and the Kunststiftung NRW, Sankt Gertrud: kirche + kultur and Tanzfaktur Köln.

More information: http://www.biancamendonca.com/landscaping-03-knoten

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/668939166