C A R C A Ç A

In C A R C A Ç A, a diverse cast of ten dancers, including Marco da Silva Ferreira and two musicians, form a non-conformist and joyful corps de ballet. They perform complex footwork that brings together standardized folk dances with contemporary urban dance styles that emerged in cultures that have been considered as minorities. In this choreography, Marco da Silva Ferreira uses dance as a tool to research communities, construction of collective identity, memory, and cultural crystallization. The actors explore this idea in a physical, intuitive, and unpretentious flow of the body, dance, and cultural construction. They start with familiar footwork, borrowed from clubbing, balls, and the studio, and use the physical vocabulary of the contemporary, social, urban context as an identity lexicon (house, kuduro, Top Rock, hardstyle, etc.). Through a slow and structured building process, they connect these styles to the heritage and memory of dances from the past.