Castelo d`Água / Water Castle
By Giselda Fernandes
Common objects from daily life, some used, some discarded, day by day everywhere, like water containers, plastic bags or product wrappings are brought from oblivion into a creative partnership with my body. Kindly exploring their affordances, a human body deploys with them a spatial relationship fraught with dramatic substance. In Castelo d’Água, a 500-liter water container is the partner of the piece related to subjective feelings as well as to the objective context of urban water in Rio de Janeiro.
About the Artist
Brazilian dancer-choreographer, dance researcher and teacher, graduated by the Dance College Angel Vianna (2004), with post-grad at Universidade, Rio de Janeiro (2006), where she initiated to develop the theoretical fundamentals for her choreographic work, with the concept of "object partner". With the award winning "Os Dois Companhia de Dança", Giselda creates stage performances and performances for public spaces where bodies and objects relate to indicate environmental and social responsibility themes.