A round shadow with three points
Verbal acts of description praise shadows close to us, visible as they are (and were) in the moment and in movement. A migratory process of viewing, naming, showing, in partnership with others, extracts gestures that reroute and recenter our natural trajectories of attention.
This work is an experiment in applying associative liberties of accumulation, juxtaposition and the organizing possibilities of metaphor. Clusters of narrative nerves appear and disappear as the material of memory traces. Alternating between touching sideways, showing somewhere, and pointing to more than the end of itself. What's close at hand can once again be strange, multiple and unfamiliar, worthy of examination and ultimately, kindness.
Litó Walkey’s A round shadow with three points develops analytically as choreography almost without dance. A study and organization of a meta movement: the movement here, in an expanded understanding of what dance can be, is the dialogue, the relation and the construction of this group. It is an imaginarium whose negotiation becomes the patrimony of its polyphonic cohesion. The dance, when it appears here, is itself almost theatrical, as a quote. The structural movement of this piece is not so much in the small dances that are mentioned during it, but in the braiding of the progressive relation between the performers and their interdependence in the support of a collective imaginarium and its administration, writing and tracing. - Dinis Machado, Performer, Choreographer, Curator, Stockholm
Curated by Dinis Machado, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte commissioned Litó Walkey to create this choreography with Jorge Gonçalves, Dinis Machado and Susana Otero. The creation took place at Imaginarius Centro de Criação with a performance at Cineteatro Antonio Lamoso, Santa Maria da Feira
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About
Litó
Walkey is a Berlin based artist whose work
operates through performance, writing and choreography
exploring non-hegemonic
strategies for being connected,
resourceful, and response-able.
In
her work,
attentiveness
procedures emphasize
lateral and divergent thinking to
consider the radical potential of marginal, accidental, and less
visible phenomena. Collaborating through circuits of transversal interdisciplinary processes, Litó aims to create public
spaces for critical thinking and experimentation unbound by single
authorship, discipline or terminus.
Litó’s work has been supported through artistic commissions
from international choreographic performance festivals
and organizations.
The work is complimented
by ongoing
discourse and
practice-based exchange with colleagues and
students inside and outside academic environments.
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For questions, thoughts, or possible collaborations please contact via lito@klingt.org
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