KIND OF BLUE
This work arises from the translation of principles and ideas from painting, through dance, to photography. Following the language of each discipline. The photographs are part of the record of the dance piece "Kind of Blue" directed by Lua Carreira.
The show takes its initial inspiration from the work "Antropométrie" by Yves Klein, where, along with performative acts, bodies are investigated as living brushes, exploring the forms they can create. From Klein's principles, Carreira takes these ideas to the performative space: where he explores the possibilities that these ideas can conceive in a given time, space and relationship with the audience: through the colour blue he seeks to elaborate several layers of emotional states, to explore the definition of emptiness, and the body in movement as a living brush".
From these principles, the photographic register is elaborated, where the aim is to translate a continuous event in time, in instants. These instants are explored on their own, as well as in relation to other instants and with a continuity. How to show in a single frame the succession of movements, is one of the questions we seek to answer. The photography is presented as a final synthesis between the disciplines: seeking to present pictorial principles as well as those of the dance work.
This record works mainly with the double exposure technique, trying to show the continuity of the dance work through double images.