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The workshop “Essays on reality and fiction” comes as an invitation for those who wish to experience the living arts beyond traditional procedures, and focuses on the friction between what is experienced and what is invented, enhancing autobiography as a material for creation. The activity takes place on February 4th, from 6pm to 9pm, in the dance room at Usina João Donato. To participate, simply register at the link: https://goo.su/eUueXD
With a trajectory that spans dance, theater, cinema and visual arts, Marcia defines the workshop as a space for continuous investigation. “I have been offering this workshop for many years, and many of the procedures I bring to it come from the process of creating the show ‘This Too Shall Pass, Before I Die,’ a show that we will present in the same week as the workshop’”, he explains. According to the artist, the focus is on understanding “how this encounter between reality and fiction occurs, and from there building worlds that have the power of life itself”.
The proposal is not limited to the creation of closed scenes. On the contrary, it seeks to displace certainties. “Much more than creating scenes and choreographies, the workshop tries to blur these boundaries. Life also happens in the scene”, says Marcia. In this process, memory emerges not as a distant memory, but as “material and living document to invent worlds”.
Photo: Humberto Araújo
One of the central axes of the workshop is the so-called dramaturgy of the body, a concept that permeates the artist’s artistic practice. “My work has a lot to do with focusing on the body, with understanding that body in time and space,” he says. From it, gestures, approaches and relationships emerge – between people, objects and landscapes.
During the meetings, participants are invited to improvise, create small scenes, experiment with actions and reflect collectively on the processes. “I propose actions that dialogue with the group, because I feed a lot from what is palpable in the present moment of the encounter between beings. There is always an openness to new things”, highlights the artist.
Photo: Humberto Araújo
Collective creation and sensitive listening
The workshop’s programmatic content includes moments of theoretical introduction, body practices, individual and collective creation exercises, as well as rehearsals with group feedback. The idea is that each participant can experience their own narrative and, at the same time, build something in common.
“Collaboration is a fundamental creative tool”, reinforces Marcia. The journey ends with a reflection on the impact of artistic practice on everyday life and a sharing of the scenes developed, valuing the process in all its stages.
Open to the general public, the workshop presents itself as a space for sensitive experimentation, where art and life contaminate each other. As the artist summarizes, it is about “thinking about ways to be in the world with more presence, creating based on who we are, what we experience and what we can still invent”.
