MARIA RAMOS

What do we think of, when we think of body? And space? How do we expect the body to manifest itself? And space? How do we conceive the relationship between them? Is it only possible to choreograph ‘ the body’ ? And might space be made tangible? “Árida” extends the collaboration between Maria Ramos and the lighting designer Vinny Jones after “Something Still Uncaptured”. If the ideas discussed in the latter were moderation and the thickening of space, what they called ‘ landscape-in-action’ , in this work they develop this notion but explore the ideas of the aridness, vastness and expansion of the stage set.

Maria Ramos (Oeiras/Barlavento Algarvio). From 1996 to 2009, she lived in the Netherlands where she studied and developed her professional career as a dancer. She worked with various choreographers in the Netherlands,Germany, UK and US, amongst which Angus Balbernie. She has a degree in dance and master’ s in choreography from ArtEZ – Instituto das Artes in Arnhem, the Netherlands. In Lisbon, she took a course on research and
creation at Fórum Dança, in the context of which she created the first work in the trilogy “Um Certo Grau de Imobilidade”(A Certain Degree of Immobility), a series of works composed of the pieces “7pm/Rumour”, “Nerves Like Nylon”and“Something Still Uncaptured”, performed in the Netherlands, Portugal and Argentina.