Portraits
Ten young people share the stage with each other and reveal each other's perceptions in front of the audience. Until then, they are two completely different worlds. The five young men have been in touch with justice and have recently regained their freedom. The five young women are busy twenty-four hours a day with their bodies, with dance. The boys' thoughts, questions, impulses, doubts and desires are at the heart of this special project, in which dance finds a new language to accommodate each other: soft, open and with trust. This creates a clear and transparent merging of bodies, of spheres; of reality and imagination.
Portraits is a layered and stylish socio-artistic intervention that questions entrenched patterns and structures. It is also a coaching process in which young people struggling for a valued place in their environment can work on developing and strengthening their talents, together with peers from completely different backgrounds. Portraits is not only about an artistic result that can be shared with an audience, but also about the social process in which all kinds of skills are needed to achieve that result. It is the first project in a series by choreographer Guilherme Miotto and social worker Amine Mbarki under the aegis of their new foundation Corpo Máquina. They collaborated with five ex-prisoners and five almost-graduated dancers from Fontys Dance Academy.