Bodily Games: Sound and Physicality
Henrique Furtado and Aloun Marchal, both creators and performers, use games to create and transform their work into one that explores the relationship between sound, movement and meaning. Sounds made by the performers become the principal axis of the performance, evoking associations in the audience through a series of sounds – ranging from soothing lullabies to thundering howls – synchronized with physical movements. The sounds gradually transmute through constant repetitions, replacing static interpretations with mobile meaning. The audience is led to open their senses and use sound as a tool to connect altogether the two bodies, the dance vocabulary and the imagery of the work.
Show Synopsis
Bibi Ha Bibi
Bibi Ha Bibi is a male duet in the tradition of western popular theater. It is grotesque and funny at the same time, as it is backed by a very precise vocal and movement score. Two men divert the codes of male face-to-face confrontation into sound and movement poetry.
Bibi Ha Bibi explores a wide range of sounds and movements with clashing styles, from sports fighting to teasing childish games, from rumbling noises to lullabies, from straightforward breathing to bestial yelling. Based on listening, mimicry and exchange of movements, the “pas de deux” of Bibi Ha Bibi glides from controlled violence to sensuality.
Creative Team
Conception and interpretation: Aloun Marchal and Henrique Furtado
Costumes: Camille Rosa in collaboration with Rozenn Lamand
Dramaturgy: Céline Cartillier
Musical collaboration: Jerzy Bielski
Light design: Eduardo Abdala (sometimes replaced by Manuel Abrantes)
Transmission of inuit songs: Marie-Pascale Dubé
Transmission of belly dance: Estela Ferreira
Transmission of wrestling: Bruno ‘Bammer’ Brito
Production: Possibilitas (SE), Siège (FR)
Coproductions : La Place de la Danse CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie (Toulouse/FR) within “[dna] departures and arrivals”, co-financed by europe creative program of the european union, Göteborgs dans & teater Festival (Göteborg/SE), Atalante (SE)
Ticketing
Online Screening [ended]
Screening Date：23 September (Thurs) – 6 October (Wed)
Enrollment: Online enrollment is needed.
Fee: Free of charge, donations are welcome for supporting Unlock Dancing Plaza
Acknowledgement
Residencies Alkantara (PT), EKA Palace (PT), TPE de Bezons (FR), Théâtre Louis Aragon (FR), Ménagerie de Verre (FR), Vitlycke – centre of Performing arts (SE), La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne (FR)
Supports Västra Götalandsregionen (SE), Göteborgs stad Kultur (SE), Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian (PT), Fundação GDA (PT), Spedidam (FR), Writing support with Sacd Beaumarchais (FR), Production support with Sacd (FR), Drac ile-de-France (FR)
#DANCELESS complex – Bodily Games
Bibi Ha Bibi Studio Screening [ended]
An exclusive studio screening will be held in the studio of Unlock Dancing Plaza for audiences who would like to watch the recording of Bibi Ha bibi, hoping to share the work to the public in a more discursive context.
Date：10 Sep (Fri)
Time: 8pm
Venue: Unlock Dancing Plaza
Fee: Free of charge, donations are welcome for supporting Unlock Dancing Plaza
Chan Wai Lok x Li Ka Man x Henrique Furtado x Aloun Marchal
Residency: Work-in-Progress Presentation [ended]
The residency invites local choreographers Chan Wai Lok and Li Ka Man and overseas choreographers Henrique Furtado and Aloun Marchal to work together in two weeks, and have a presentation at the end of the residency. The project started last year from Zoom meetings to exchange ideas , hoping to find out the commonality from different cultural contexts and their concerns. Multimedia artist Lawrence, who is one of the creators of LIVE, will also come into the process to provide advice on sound and use of multimedia, trying to open up more perspectives towards the subjects they are interested in.
Date：30 Sep (Thur)
Time: 8pm
Venue: Unlock Dancing Plaza
Fee: $50
Biography
Henrique Furtado
Dancer, performer and choreographer, Henrique lives and works in Portugal. An engineer in Energy and Environment, he completed his artistic training in several European institutions (INSA Lyon, CDC Toulouse, Royaumont abbey…).
He collaborates as a performer with different artists such as Bleuène Madelaine, Eric Languet, Aurélien Richard, Céline Cartillier, Tino Sehgal, Salomé Lamas, Ana Renata Polónia, André Uerba, Sofias Dias & Vítor Roriz and Vera Mantero.
He is involved in the creation of performances where styles and genres overlap, and where vocal presence and imagination have a prominent place. His projects are an excuse to spend time with other people and this is precisely one of the main points of his work – what is the meaning (political, spiritual, and ethic-aesthetical meaning) of spending time together?
He has collaborated and presented his work at Aerowaves, CDC Toulouse, Gothenburg Dance and Theatre Festival, Festival Roma Europa, DNA European Network, Rivoli – Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival Temps d’Image, Espaço do Tempo, among others.
Artist website: https://henriquefurtado.cargo.site/
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Biography
Aloun Marchal
Aloun Marchal is an improviser, dancer and choreographer. French artist living in Gothenburg, Sweden.
He receives the Danceweb grant in 2008 and 2012. In 2010, he is awarded the second prize of the Dance competition, Danse Elargie that took place in théatre de la ville, for the creation of Gerro, Minos and Him in collaboration with Roger Sala Reyner and Simon Tanguy. In 2013, Gerro, Minos and Him is awarded the best dance piece award at the Stuttgarter Tanz-und Teaterpreis festival. In 2017, he receives the innovative choreographic grant from SACD for the creation of Bibi Ha Bibi together with Henrique Furtado. In 2018, he co choreographed L’Age d’Or with Eric Minh Cuong Castaing.
He is currently touring his two last creations : Bibi Ha Bibi and l’Age d’Or. He has just worked as a performer for Tove Sahlin in her new creation Narheten, premiered in March 2020.
Aloun decided to start dancing professionally when he understood that thinking wasn’t enough. At this moment, he felt he wasn’t able to experience anything without naming it. Something like a wanderer unable to take his eyes away from the map. Since then he is fascinated by the process of making sense.
Artist website: https://www.alounmarchal.com/
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Biography
Chan Wai Lok
Chan is a choreographer and performer based in Hong Kong and Brussels. He completed his studies in P.A.R.T.S. (Belgium) in 2019 upon receiving scholarships from the [DNA] network supported by Creative Europe under the European Commission (2016-2018) and the Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund (2018-2019). He previously studied in SEAD (Austria) after graduating from the Architecture Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
His latest solo Click in 2021 unfolds perspectives in performativity and choreography. Democratic interpretation and emancipation in audience is also one of the major genres he has been exploring in his solo Everyone knows what it means to think (2019) and his collaboration with Mariana Miranda, /bI’twi:n/ (2019).
In 2020, he, together with his fellows, established an independent art space, ngau4 gat1 dei6, which is an art project exploring how to operate and sustain such art space in local art scene, and sharing spatial resources with fellow artists.
Artist website: https://wailokchan.com/
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Biography
Li Ka Man
A freelance professional dancer, Li graduated from The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts with a bachelor degree of Fine Arts (Honors), majoring in Contemporary Dance in 2014. Her recent participations include Tai Kwun Contemporary Zoo by Eisa Jocson; Hong Kong Arts Festival@Tai Kwun Our Atlas by Chloe Wong; Hong Kong Dance Exchange 2020 Action by KT Yau; LCSD Yin Yu Chun Fai programme A Body Research by Dick Wong; New Force in Motion series Infiltrated by Tsang Wing Fai; Departure X Wei Dance Company The Key by Rex Cheng.
Li has also participated in cultural exchange programmes, including Unmixed by KT Yau toured in 2nd DANCESTAGES Shanghai Dance Festival in 2018 after the premiere and re-stage in Hong Kong, and Simon Says, facilitated by West Kowloon Cultural District, co-produced by Unlock Dancing Plaza and Le Phare, National Choreographic Center of Le Havre Normandy (France), which premiered in France in January and toured in Hong Kong in June and Guangzhou in November in 2017.
Her choreographies include 2nd Stage 〡夂〨〤 presented by CCDC Dance Centre, and In The Air Between Our Particles co-created with Emily Ng.
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