|
Pedro Prazeres’ work binds dance and landscape on a symbiotic relation of crossed knowledge. By turn landscape architect and choreographer, his works belong to the intersection of both creative processes and he weaves his artistic practice in the relationship between the place, the subject, and the ethereal. For him, landscape and dance come in resonance through a sensory, proprioceptive and intuitive approach.
Pedro is now based at the Cévennes and Porto. After a degree in Landscape Architecture in Lisbon and Helsinki, dance degree in Dundee and Prague (where he was awarded INOV-Art grant for artistic crossings), we worked as a dancer and landscape architect in Prague and Berlin. Lately, after having finished the MA program ex.e.r.ce at the National Choreographic Centre of Montpellier deepening his research on Landscape, Dance and other stories, he continues his artistic work towards the notions of in betweenness, non place and free will. How humans condition the environment how this environment conditions human decisions is a major question on Pedro’s work. Besides his landscape architecture teaching and consulting work, Pedro creates dance installations and performances he has presented in international festivals, such as DDD festival (Dias da Dança) at Porto, FIDCU at Montevideo, museums, like Serralves Foundation, Prague National Gallery, theatres, non-conventional venues, and urban and rural landscapes. He works as interpreter and collaborator and has worked with Antonjia Livingstone, Martha Moore, Fabrice Ramalingom, Mette Ingvartsen, Christine Quoiraud, among others. Pedro also works as a dance dramaturge and shares his practice through workshops for professional dancers, dance schools, the general public and social, pedagogical and psychological institutions. Choreographic works:
(ordered by time) 2017 - Talking Lázaro - Choreographic dance installation for a garden collaborating with the students of BalleTeatro school of Porto for DDD festival at Porto, PT 2016 - Green Man - performed conference at Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, PT 2016 - Eu-Globulus – choreographic dance installation commanded by Serralves Foundation for the Parc of Serralves, performed at Serralves em Festa Festival, Porto, PT 2016 - Hopper - Performance - Montpellier, FR (co-work with Gerry O’Brien, Scotland) 2015 – Velvet Carpet - choreography - Montpellier, FR 2015 – Prendre Corps - choreography - Montpellier, FR 2015 – Green ManDay – performed conference - Le Vigan, FR 2014, 2015 – Designed For Touch – Choreography - Riga (LV), Praga, CZ , Saint Hippolyte du Fort (FR), Prague and Lodz (PL) (co-work) 2014 – 8_15_23 - performed installation - Montpellier,FR, 2015 - Lisboa PT 2011 – Kinetic Landscapes, performance - Barcelona, Praga (co-criação) 2011 – Framed Landscapes, video-dance - Liptovsky Mikulas, Slovaquia, 2011 – Man Eating Doll Room, performance - Praga, CZ (co-criação) 2011 – Body Meets Space – site specific performance - Batyam, IL, (co-work) 2011 – De Profundis – site specific performance - Praga CZ 2011- Hotel Room, site specific performance - Praga CZ 2010 – Lemon Tree, Pearl Gate and Border Gate, site specific performance – Barcelona, SP 2010 - Fragile Fragments, choreography - Prague, CZ 2010 - The Man Who Planted Winds, choreography – Prague, CZ 2010 - Fragile Fragments, choreography - Praga, CZ (co-work) 2009, 2010, - Transhumance H+, choreography – Praga CZ, 2012 - Montevideo URG 2009 – MonomMonom, coreografia – Praga, CZ 2008 - Blind Square, performance e fotografia – Lisboa, PT (co-criação) 2008 - Passadeira 150, site specific performance – Lisboa, PT (co-criação) Collaboration and interpretation : (geographic and time order)
2015 - Mette Ingvartsen - 7 pleasures - collaboration (process) 2014 - Fabrice Ramalingom - Postural - dancer 2014 - Antonjia Livingstone - Culture & Administration & Trembling - dancer;
2013 - Peter Plyer - Visible Undercurrent - collaboration (process) 2013 - Asaf Aharonson, Tamar Ginati, Jeremiah Day - collaboration and interpretation 2013 - Ute, Pliestermann, Linda Mantcheva, Fernando Nicolas Pelliccioli, Carlos Osatinsky, Yuko Matsuyama - collaboration and interpretation
2011, 2012, 2013 The Forman Brothers, - Enchantia, children’s opera - collaboration and interpretation 2012 - Barbora Latalova - Carnival of the Animals - children’s performance - collaboration and interpretation 2012 - Berrak Yedek - Ahenk, TaksimTaksim - collaboration and interpretation; 2012 - Ondrej Lipovsky - Tibetean Stories - collaboration and interpretation; 2009, 2010 - Cansu Ergin - Never Ending Story, Kabuk, collaboration and interpretation 2009, 2010 - Jan Komarek - Kafka Short Stories - collaboration and interpretation 2009 - Lenka Bartunkova - Homunculus - collaboration and interpretation Teaching: 2017 - Garden and Greenspace Design mentorship for Scotland's Rural College at Aix en Provence, France 2016 - 2017 - contemporary dance and performance weekly workshops at Jean Monet HighSchool- Montpellier and for professional dance company: Piedansl’o, Sauve, France 2015 - 2017 - teaching architecture and performing arts at Scholae, private college at Saint Hippolyte du Fort, FR; 2014 - 2015 - workshop of artistic performance at St Martin du Vignogoul, Psychotherapy Clinique at Montpellier, France; 2011 - today - Vibrant Matter- artistic performance practice lab working the relation of the self with the space and its elements: Montpellier, Berlin, Barcelona, Montevideo, Prague and Lisbon; 2009-2011 – weekly conferences on landscape evolution and landscape perception transmitted through somatic and dance techniques at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University , Prague Conferences: GreenManDay - danced conference on the parallel between somatic techniques used in dance and landscape perception techniques used in landscape related professions: 04/2015 at Chateau d’Assas, Le Vigan, France, 10/2016 at Reituria Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal Camões Institute in Prague
Awards: 2009 - INOV-Art funding for artistic crossings in performance and Portuguese literature in Czech Republic 2008 - 1st prize for Opava Sport Centre – Landscape Architecture 2006 - Honour Mention at "The Calix, House & Garden"- garden design competition- Perth, Scotland. Articles - "Dance Anywhere", by AlyssaMello, 03/2012 - Magazine d'art "VLNA" Bratislava-Landscape and Dance, 08/2011 - International Federation of Landscape Architects - Art in Landscape 08/2011 - ERA21 04/09, ERA21 sro 2009 - Opava Sports Centre; - C309/03 C3 Publishing Co, Corée 2009www.c3p.kr-Opava Sports Centre www.europaconcorsi.com - Opava Centre des Sports FORMATION Influential workshops and trainnings: Benoît Lachambre, Meg Stuart, Fabrice Ramalingom, Simone Forti, Jullien Hamilton, Lisa Nelson, Maya M. Carrol among others. BodyMindCentering with Mariko Tanabe and Anna Sedlackova; Authentic Mouvement with Peter Plyer; Feldenkreis with Nuno Bizarro e I Fang Lin; Butô with Sumako Koseki; Body Weather with Oguri, Christine Quoiraud and Frank Van der Ven; Klein Technique with Susan Klein, Hanna Hegenscheidt, among others. Institutional: 2013 - 2015 - MA in contemporary dance, choreography and composition at e.x.er.c.e - Centre Corégraphique National de Montpellier (with Deborah Hay, Loïc Touzé, DD Dorvillier, Laurent Pichaud, Mathilde Monnier, Christophe Walvelet, Paula Caspão, Jocelyn Cottencin, Mathieu Bouvier, among others); 2008 - 2011 - guest student at Duncan Centre in Prague; 2007 - 2008 - National Qualification at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance in Dundee; 1999 - 2005 - degree in Landscape Architecture by the Superior Institute of Agronomy at the Lisbon Technical University, Portugal; and Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. |