Beatitude
Samba by Guto Macedo dedicated to the EmComTato Festival.
RECORDING DATA SHEET
Music Production: Rodrigo Sebastian
Voice and guitar: Guto Macedo
Cavaquinho, Acoustic Bass, Tamborim, Pandeiro and Surdo: Rodrigo Sebastian
Recorded at Studio Gravina Cometa on October 14th and 15th, 2013 in Rio de Janeiro/BR
Welcome to
6th EmComTato Festival
ART
MOVEMENT
IT'S LIFE
schedule
PALM TREES
20 to 24 of June
Our ancestral rhythm: etznab-cauac-ahau-imish-ik (mirror-storm-sun-dragon-wind). The moon will be full-waning between aquarium and fish.
The Festival within the Party. These are the June festivities in the city.
A very special moment will be participating and following the Eh Guilé procession! on the night of São João, through the houses of Palmeiras, ending with an improvised square dance.
Exclusive to the resident group will be the schedule of classes and contact laboratories improvisation, authentic movement, performance, voice-drawing.
As open to the public activities of the city and visitors will be interventions perfromance and jam in a public space.
We will greet the winter solstice in a late afternoon at the top of Morro Pai Inácio.
schedule
back from the sierra nau
25 to 28 of June
Our ancestral rhythm: akbal-kan-chicchan-cimi (night-seed-serpent-death). The moon will be waning between aries and bull.
It will essentially be a time of retreat between the team and the group of residents registered for the Festival, in the waters and rocks within the limits of the Chapada Diamantina National Park.
We will investigate DANCE STATES particularly from the perspective of ENTREMUNDO, research with audiovisual, dance and altered states of perception.
There will be a lot of work in the Nau garden to support the necessary structure for our dwelling in these days there and there will also be plenty of time and space for contemplation.
And there will be time to check out our travel maps under a Mayan reality and dream game.
And contemplate sky.
schedule
bush town
29 and 30 of June
Our ancestral rhythm: manik-lamat (star hand). Last days of the waning moon (balsamic moon), between bull and twins.
This is a time to meet the rural community of Matão. They offer us endless hospitality and friendliness, we learn about their family farming and hear stories of the beauty and harshness of rural life.
We co-created a Festa de São João with the community, recreating games from June festivities, such as the tree-em-pé and the pau-de-fita.
The clown Carmela (Iris Fiorelli) will have the party with the children, there will be a Cineclube in the countryside!
And a beautiful walk to Pedra do Cruzeiro.
Forms of Participation
1) Supporter
2) Artist-Researcher in Residence
3) Artistic-educational actions open to the public
supporter
You can be an EmComTato Festival SUPPORTER with CASH DONATION or MATERIAL DONATION.
The EmComTato Festival is an event that dares to move across poetic and social borders. We found in Palmeiras and its countryside an intense and challenging stimulus for this. While we are also afraid of confronting the wealth of these people and places, we are faced with material want - or an idea of socially learned "poverty" - in addition to the very common socio-political neglect (often perversity) aimed at the backlands, suburbs and minorities in Brazil. There is also the difficulty in touching the artist community and the public interested in art festivals, for this type of socio-aesthetic proposal, a proposal that seeks to avoid the many structural forms of consumerism that guide our lives. For these reasons, your financial or material support is immensely relevant to this Festival!
cash donation
You can choose between:
The) Scholarship for artist-researcher in residence.
Donated amounts will be allocated to a balance for distribution as a participation grant. In this case, criteria will be established by the Festival, considering the demand.
b) Solidarity Christmas.
Donated amounts will be destined to an event produced annually by rural community leaders in Palmeiras to hold a Christmas party with order fulfillment (letters) and distribution of gifts to children in the region.
c) Nau's infrastructure.
Amounts donated will be destined to the continuous construction and maintenance of the infrastructure of Nau, our garden of utopias in Volta da Serra, which anchors the immersive period of the team and resident artists at the EmComTato Festival.
material donation
You can choose between:
a) June festival in the village of Matão.
Material for decoration and characteristic costumes (cheetah fabric) and for June toys (ribbon stick, standing tree, square dance...)
b) Gifts for solidarity Christmas.
Mainly toys, but also school supplies and children's clothing. Letters with requests from the children are collected and you can then meet specific requests from these children and help make your Christmas dream come true.
c) Poor infrastructure of the Festival.
canvas to provide Floor or ceiling dancing anywhere are always welcome. Tatami mats too. We also need a good and light sound equipment for the actions in the villages. Certainly a lot of other things you imagine, to arrive with art in the countryside.
Fill out the form here and make your donation!
You choose whether your donation will appear tagged or anonymous in our online supporters report.
Artist-Researcher in Residence
In 2019 there are only 11 PLACES, with REGISTRATION VALUE of R$ 1,100.00 including accommodation and food - equivalent there is only R$ 100.00 per day! - plus A complete SCHOLARSHIP, defined in the selection process.
The residency will go through the 3 stages of the Festival (Palmeiras, Volta da Serra-Nau and Povoado do Matão) with EXCLUSIVE ACTIVITIES to/with this group conducted by the group of artists-educators-directors of the EmComTato Festival.
FILL THE REGISTRATION FORM RIGHT NOW AND MAKE PAYMENT VIA PAY PAL OR BANK DEPOSIT.
- Limited vacancies : we cannot exceed this number of 12 participants, due to the structural limits of Nau, at this time, as well as due to the careful attention to the social impact and the delicacy of the encounter that we seek with the local community.
- Deadline for registration: May 31, 2019.
- Accommodation during the Festival will be shared, during the period of activities in Palmeiras. To the Volta da Serra and Povoado do Matão, tents will be needed (although in Matão, the community ends, right there, making a point of welcoming us into their homes).
- Applicants are already welcome in Palmeiras from June 1st for socializing, preparations and even to offer their artistic and educational talents to the community. We guarantee accommodation and invite you to collaborate with the expenses of accommodation and meals.
SCHOLARSHIP SELECTION PROCESS (01 SCHOLARSHIP IN 2019)
- O The registration and selection period for a full scholarship at the Residence will be from 15/03 to 30/03, with the result announced on 31/03.
- The candidate must submit a brief biography and a brief letter of intent in a specific form.
- To choose the successful candidate, the following will be considered: the candidate's artistic path; socio-economic profile and poetic-social engagement related to the purposes and history of EmComTato; perspectives of unfoldings.
- The winner must commit to commit himself directly to the dissemination of the EmComTato Festival and to be present in Palmeiras-Volta da Serra since June 1 to support preparations and pre-production. There will be accommodation and it will be necessary to contribute to food expenses.
Note: The number of scholarships offered each year is linked to donations to a balance for scholarships made in the previous year. So, a good way to increase your chances of being awarded a scholarship at EmComTato is to join our campaign for SUPPORTERS .
Artistic-educational actions open to the public
All RESIDENTS of Palm Trees and VISITORS are welcome to follow and take part FREE of charge. of the schedule of performances, interventions, visits, practices and interaction that will take place between the 20th and 24th of June, at the city's headquarters, in the midst of June activities celebrated by the city itself.
To visitors, we recommend Hostel Caminhos da Chapada as an excellent and affordable lodging option.
Why Palmeiras?
that the images of the III EmComTato Festival - the first held in Palmeiras, in 2013 - can explain to us! See on the side at 7 chapters, the documentary we made in that year. And on our youtube channel so many extras and poetic records specially chosen to be an irresistible invitation. Visit also ours Instagram right here on the site !
Each edition of the EmComTato Festival - the first two held in Salvador and from third edition in Palmeiras - brought the maturation of a concept to the event that bets on "meeting with others" beyond skin contact and weight interaction that Contact Improvisation provides. We also touch the social skin that so much for us identifies how much reveals otherness. We share weights to cross these borders with a simultaneously sensitive and reflective eye.
The EmComTato team of directors
Hugo Leonardo
Dancer and Corporator of poetic projects. Builder, dreamer and gardener of NAU Nascente Arte e Utopia , piece of land and hinterland dedicated to the cultivation of knowledge and networks for utopian and poetic realities. Simultaneously at home and lost in the community of practice of Contact Improvisation and its events since 2001. Artistic Director of InComTato Festival It's from Aquatic Monkeys , annual events, motivated by Contact Improvisation, held in Bahia. Master in Dance and Doctor in Performing Arts from UFBA, he is the author of the books “Poética da Oportunidade: Choreographic Structures Open to Improvisation” (2009) and “Shared Disabituation: contact improvisation, dance game and vertigo” (2014).
Larissa Leão
Body and audiovisual artist, develops his artistic creations from the dialogue between the body, territory and audiovisual. She is a producer and artistic director of the Mulheres do Paraguaçu Project , a collaborator at NAU Nascente e Arte e Utopia and an artist-educator on the permanent team of the EmComTato Festival of Art, Movement and Life. Graduated in Cinema and Audiovisual at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), from where she became involved in practice and theory with aesthetic relationships with the body and audiovisual, film club and art direction
Falbo Conrad
Interdisciplinary artist who works with movement, sound and drawing from the perspective of improvisation as an integrative and curative approach to the processes of creation, interaction with the audience, body preparation and teaching/research. Since 2007 he investigates the possibilities of voice in performance beyond speech and singing. Master's and Doctorate in Theory of Literature at UFPE, where he was also a substitute professor in the Theater and Dance courses. Since 2011, alongside Coletivo Lugar Comum, it has been experimenting with collaborative creation and performance in public spaces. Over the last 6-7 years, he has been dedicating himself to the discipline of Authentic Movement (under the guidance of Soraya Jorge, who introduced the practice in Brazil), and to Contacto Improvisation, having produced several events in Brazil and studied with teachers of different nationalities .
Liana gesteira
He is a member of Coletivo Lugar Comum. His creative research is focused on movement improvisation, being crossed by Contacto Improvisation, by real-time composition processes and by performance. He has experience in teaching Contemporary Dance and Contact Improvisation. is master in Dance at the Federal University of Bahia, researching collective creation processes in dance dramaturgy. She is a specialist in Dance from Faculdade Angel Vianna (RJ/PE). IT'S researcher at the RecorDança Collection (Recife /PE) and acts as artistic coordinator of Contacto Coletivo – Encounter Contact Improvisation of PE.
Partner artist-educators in this 6th edition
Ana Alonso (SC)
Dancer, producer, dance researcher focused on Contact Improvisation and studies of improvisation systems such as Tuning Score (Lisa Nelson), DanceAbility (Alito ALessi), Contemplative Dance (Bárbara Dilley) among others. Master in Education at UFSC (2012), with a dissertation on the collective construction of knowledge in dance today. Doctoral student in Theater at UDESC with a thesis that discusses politics and dance. Intense engagement with Contact improvisation in Florianópolis since 2004, promoting jams, coordinating projects, participating in collectives and, with emphasis, co-organizing Transformando pela Pratica - International Biennial Festival of CI in Nature . Likewise, she participates as a performer and guest professor at festivals and CI meetings in different cities in Brazil and Latin America. Professor in the area of Dance of the Art Degree course at the Art Department at UNICENTRO (2012 - 2015). Coordinates the Permeável Corpo Artístico project awarded with the 2017 Elisabete Anderle Award.
Iris Fiorelli (SP)
Dance Artist, Clown Artist, Performer and Educating Art. Graduated in Hatha Yoga and Inclusive Dance for children. He teaches Contact Improvisation for adults and children in intensives and festivals in Brazil, Argentina and Chile and since 2008 has co-organized the Festival Transformando pela Pratica (SC) . "I believe in playing and humor as useful tools for body lessons and in developing a comic look as a possibility to facilitate interpersonal and intrapersonal relationships in everyday life." Since 2011 he circulates with his solo shows in Festivals, Cultural Circuits, SESCs and other events throughout Brazil. The solos Magavilha and Retalhos Populares , especially, unite dance and clowning, bringing joy and delicacy on wheels in a scenario/car/house: the Kombi “A Bonitinha”. He lived and worked with his arts in cities as diverse as Barcelona and Aracaju and, currently, his main base of action is the cities of Florianópolis, Ilhabela and São Paulo.
I saw Laraia (PE)
Artist, interpreter-creator, researcher, producer and manager at Coletivo Lugar Comum (PE). In her artistic development and performance, she has invested in body and dance approaches/techniques such as contact-improvisation, authentic movement, urban interventions, contemporary dance, performance, video dance, real-time creation and improvisation.
She brings in her research and performance the interface with psychology (a field of knowledge in which she graduated), focusing on the transversality of the subjective processes of the body with/in dance and cultural expressions.
She is also dedicated to the study of somatic practices and aquatic body approaches with training in AGUAHARA - aquatic-therapeutic body approach and participation in events and investigative/creative processes of dance in water.
Eva Maria Maria (GO)
Graduated in Visual Arts at UNB, she is a dancer, interpreter-creator and art-educator. Immersed in body awareness practices in various dance and movement techniques, especially Contact Improvisation, Butoh Dance and Somatic Arts. Creator and artistic coordinator of the project RESSONÂNCIAS DA DANÇA. It invests in professional and affective collaborative networks in artistic creation in relation to gender issues and the environment, by creating and participating in laboratories, meetings and artistic residencies as methodological proposals for teaching, learning and creation. His work transits through ecoperformance through compositions between the body and the environment, using dance improvisation, video, photography, site specific, installation and land art. Research art in unconventional spaces such as public spaces and natural landscapes.
Testimony: Liana Gesteira (PE)
My first encounter with EmComTato was in the second edition, in 2012, held in Salvador. There I began my trajectory of immersion in the practice of Contact Improvisation, and that is why this festival has become something special in my experience, as it brought contours and understandings of this way of moving in the world that I still cultivate in my dance today.
In 2013 I participated in the III EmComTato, which was held in the city of Palmeiras. There I found a unique way of conducting a festival, which was concerned with expanding the practice of Contact Improvisation to the city's inhabitants, with immersion movements in classes and also in terms of relationship with the community that hosted the event. I danced with children, with rivers, with the Sunday market, with the sound of birds, with the full moon. A pulsating and regenerating experience of ways to inhabit a space. Building a plurality of possibilities for improvised paths in the body and in the world.
In 2017 I participate in the IV EmComTato as a practitioner and as a member of the team. And this whole understanding of dancing with the city, with space and with otherness expands. It was a more intense meeting with the community and its residents. We move together with children at school, with people attending CAPES, with the Matão community, with dogs, streets, gardens, stones, stars. Seeking ways to be with me, developing my personal practices in classes and experiences, but also creating spaces for relationship and exchange of knowledge with Palmeiras and their daily lives.
We experimented with setting up a schedule that is delineated in time, together with the group of participants and attentive to what was also coming to us from the inhabitants of Palmeiras. This way of working sometimes brings discomfort, due to the constant presence of the unpredictable, not knowing exactly what activity will happen every two days, but it also exercises us in the place of presence and listening, in an understanding to build together with the participants and with the city. And this way enables other ways to organize knowledge, because it is not known a priori, but knowledge is sought through the encounter.
This is the tone that EmComTato seems to pursue, a festival that brings provocations to move in the present and with what is not known. Even more, to do it every day, looking into the eyes of those who live in the city of Palmeiras.
For me, EmComTato is a festival created in community, which takes place at the Encontro com Comunidade de Palmeiras. For this it is necessary to understand that the delivery is made in time, a time that is not the place I live, but the place I visit. This way of working raises insecurity, vulnerabilities, because it constantly puts us in the face of not knowing. But it is precisely an investigation of practicing with not knowing can be transformed into joint knowledge. After all, the insecurity of what I don't know is the power to learn from the other. The following question of this experience remained in me: What is knowing or not knowing in a dance? Is what moves me what I know or what I don't know?
And it is this body open to the encounter, to the unknown, that seems to be interesting to investigate in EmComTato, bringing together practitioners interested in co-creation, in also being involved in the realization of this event, in jointly creating personal and common experience. A moment to experience shared walks of knowledge, without needing to know beforehand where we are going to arrive, but with the restlessness of moving paths to come.
Disclaimer and Conditions of Participation
When I signed up for the EmComTato Festival Arte Movimento e Vida I declare that I am fully aware of and fully agree with the terms of this responsibility and commitment document described below:
The guiding purpose for the Festival is to promote a sensitive, poetic, respectful and mutual learning encounter between our Activated Improvisation community of practice and the local community of inhabitants of the city and rural area of Palmeiras. Thus, by taking part in this Festival, I ethically commit to observing local customs and paying careful attention to the sociocultural impacts of our coexistence and performance in the municipality.
I am aware of the physical risks common to the practice of sports and dance to which the Contact Improvisation practitioner is exposed and I assume the responsibility of looking after my own safety and physical well-being and that of colleagues in the activities proposed by the Festival.
All programming offered by EmComTato Festival is optional participation and I will exercise the responsibility and the right to seek with the organizing team the information I deem necessary and, at any time, individually decide not to participate in the proposals without, however, compromising and seek to influence the integration of other Festival participants in the proposed activities.
On the other hand, I am aware that the event's organizing team reserves the right to restrict inappropriate presence and behavior in activities, that is, that offer risk or discomfort to the individual or the group, whether physical or emotional and thus hurting any of the principles set out in this letter.
No participant is authorized to speak and contract services or products of any kind on behalf of EmComTato Festival, except people clearly identified and certified on the event website as members of the event's organizing team.
May we have a beautiful one, inspiring, thought-provoking and harmonic InComTato Festival!
PALM TREES
Diamond Plate
How to get
BUS (from Salvador)
Cia Real Expresso / Federal Express
Schedules 07:00 am, 1:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 11:00 pm
Approximately 6-7 hours of travel.
Ticket Price: BRL 85.23
(Buy in advance through the website , you may not find a ticket available at the time, especially on the night bus)
CAR
Palmeiras is located 439Km from Salvador, between the cities of Lençóis and Seabra, and its access occurs by BR-242, which heads west from BR-116 about 70km south of Feira de Santana.
PLANE
Horácio de Matos Airport (Lençõis) is located about 50Km, in Tanquinho, a district of neighboring Lençois. Flights are not very frequent, but it is possible to find some good deals from São Paulo. But the taxi from the airport to Palmeiras can be a little expensive.
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