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Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker's "Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers)" at The Joyce Theater

Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker's "Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers)" at The Joyce Theater

Company:

Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker

Location:

The Joyce Theater
175 8th Avenue
New York, NY

Dates:

Tuesday, February 4, 2020 - 7:30pm
Wednesday, February 5, 2020 - 7:30pm
Thursday, February 6, 2020 - 8:00pm daily through February 8, 2020
Sunday, February 9, 2020 - 2:00pm daily through February 8, 2020

Tickets:

http://joyce.org/performances/companhia-de-danca-deborah-colker

Company:
Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker

“A Brazilian revolution” (San Francisco Chronicle), Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker makes a long-awaited return with Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers), an evocative performance inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto’s poem of the same name. Winner of the international Prix Benois de la Danse, the work explores the Capibaribe River region in Northeast Brazil and the dry land and riverbed dwellers that water sustains. In a powerful blend of contemporary dance, poetry and film, Colker meditates on inequity and resilience as she attempts to dissolve the moving body, covered in dust, into liquid.

Inspired by João Cabral de Melo Neto's poem “O Cão Sem Plumas”, a radical look at the social inequality in Recife, Brazil, choreographer Deborah Colker immersed herself in the poet’s imagined landscapes. After spending weeks along the banks of the Capibaribe River in Brazil with her collaborators, capturing film footage of traditional dances and speaking to the locals, Colker created a piece which truthfully speaks to the unimaginable aspects of the human condition. “The show is about inconceivable things…a challenge to human ignorance,” Colker says. “It is my most explicitly Brazilian work. My history is a history of mixtures. Cão Sem Plumas (Dog Without Feathers) includes the elegance of the classical, the mud of the roots, and a contemporary vision.”

Curtain Chat: Wed, Feb 5

Master Class: Fri, Feb 7

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