Finishing the creative process – which went through several residencies, two of which with ZDB – came the long-awaited time for the premiere of THRESHOLD – the group piece in which Mariana Tengner Barros returns to dance – at the mysterious Sociedade Ordem e Progresso.
3 dance the enigma of the Cromeleque of Almendres. They dance the creatures that they are, in the fluidity of the matter of their bodies. Instant legend of 3 cosmic fires. The dance draws the unspeakable, that which can only be experienced, and only survives in the memory of those who witness it. Matter is something to be experienced, and 3 bodies flow through the timeless, invoke the absolute in the universal mother tongue: dance. Mariana Tengner Barros invites to the threshold, between the visible and the invisible. A choreography of constantly changing emotions, where the bodies of the performers reveal mysteries long dormant.
…’THRESHOLD celebrates completely hybrid and androgynous bodies, operating at different times, mixing rhythms and emotions, various entities and beings, various peculiarities of the body in motion. This piece explores the ideas of information processing and sharing around the Almendres Cromlech, one of the oldest known cromelechs in the world, older than the famous StoneHenge in the UK, equally mysterious as it is not really known what it was used for or what it was built for. It is therefore a place of threshold, where one feels the presence of another world, and where one can only imagine what it was made for and by whom. The team set out to discover what this place has to say, to the vehicles-dancers, musicians, perfomers: those who move the invisible. They went to Almendres to feel the information contained in the ancestral pen drives: the stones. They challenged themselves to decode its secrets, through the awakening of cosmic memory.’…