Jonas&Lander
Bate Fado
The most recent creation of the Jonas&Lander duo, Bate Fado is a hybrid performance, between dance and fado concert, designed for four dancers, a fado singer and four musicians. Like most urban music styles, such as samba or flamenco, fado was accompanied from a dance of its own. to Lisbon, the most practiced form was fado batido, a lively and virtuosic type of dance similar to tap. In Bate Fado, Jonas&Lander reinterpret and recover the act of tapping typical of fado, in which the dance becomes an instrument to percussion that dialogues with voice and guitars.
artistic direction and choreography Jonas&Lander
research Jonas, Lander Patrick
with Catarina Campos, Jonas, Lander Patrick, Lewis Seivwright, Melissa Sousa
bass Yami Aloelela
guitar Tiago Valentim
Portuguese guitar Acácio Barbosa, Hélder Machado
voice Jonas
musical composition Jonas&Lander
lights Rui Daniel
technical coordination and lighting management Jean-Pierre Legout
sound management Filipe Peres
scenes Rita Torrão
costumes Fábio Rocha de Carvalho, Jonas
footwear Gradaschi
assistant stage and costume designer Fábio Rocha de Carvalho
production director (2020-2022) Patrícia Soares
production house Associação Cultural Sinistra
production and booking manager Inês Le Gué
administration and management Gabriel Lapas
co-production Centro Cultural de Belém, Cine-Teatro Avenida, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Theater Freiburg
co-production residence O Espaço do Tempo
creation support Centro Cultural Olga Cadaval, Estúdios Victor Córdon / OPART, Mala Voadora, Pro.dança
research support Casa-Museu Leal from Câmara , LIPA - Laboratório de Investigação de Práticas Artísticas of the Universidade de Coimbra, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro
Valentim de Carvalho discography
project supported by the Portuguese Republic, Culture I DGARTES, Direção-Geral das Artes
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"Lento e Largo, Cascas d'OvO and Bate Fado are the three choreographies, three national premieres, through which this edition of Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto celebrates the first ten years of the artistic trajectory designed by the choreographic duo Jonas&Lander, artists-in-residence at this year's Festival. In the space of a short time and since their first meeting - which took place in 2010 at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon, where they both trained - Jonas Lopes and Lander Patrick have brought to life to a lively performative creativity that never ceases to surprise and enchant audiences."
Text by Gaia Clotilde Chernetich
Jonas Lopes was born to Lisbon in 1986, while Lander Patrick was born to Rio de Janeiro in 1989. In 2010 they met at the Escola Superior de Dança in Lisbon during their academic training, beginning their first collaborations in dance. The work of creators Jonas & Lander is recognizable in the Portuguese dance scene as a 'opera with a strong signature of authorship, with unique contours that explores the fusion of different performing arts, with particular attention to music. This characteristic is investigated in Cascas d'OvO (2013), their first creation, where the rhythmic sense is strongly used as a common thread throughout the entire piece. from then Jonas & Lander have established themselves with critically acclaimed pieces and supported from Portuguese and European realities to support of art and creativity. In their career, they already have to their credit a wide range of works such as Matilda Carlota (2014), Arrastão (2015), Adorabilis (2017), Lento e Largo (2019), Coin Operated (2019) and Bate Fado (2021) and projects with local realities such as the piece Playback for the Materiais Diversos Festival (2013) or Caruma (2014) for Estufa Plataforma Cultural. Two of their works are nominated from Aerowaves Priority Company, win second prize at the No Ballet International Choreography Competition (AL); Lento e Largo is cited by Público and Expresso newspapers as one of the ten best shows of 2019, also getting nominated for Best Choreography by Sociedade Portuguesa Autores; Bate Fado stands out for a long tour in Portugal and other countries in 2021 and 2022, as well as being voted Best Show of 2021 by Expresso newspaper. They participate in RTP2's documentary series Portugal que Dança (2017), with an episode to dedicated to them, and are in the cinema with the film Body Buildings (2020).
As soloists, Lander saw his first solo, Noodles never break when boiled get the first prize at the Koreografskih Minijatura Festival (SRV) in 2011, signed the duet OHM (2016) for the company Staatstheater Mainz (AL) and collaborated with other creators such as Tomaz Simatovic, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Luis Guerra, among others.
Jonas began his artistic training in 2002 in the Chapitô art school. from then worked with several directors and choreographers such as Tiago Guedes, Clara Andermatt, Jérôme Bel, Vera Mantero, Maria João and Mário Laginha, Filipe La Féria, António Pires, Adriano Luz, Madalena Victorino, among others. In 2006 he began his career as a fado singer to London and in 2011 he edited his first album Fado Mutante awarded with the Carlos Paredes prize in 2012. In 2021 he released his first album as a songwriter, São Jorge, edited from Valentim de Carvalho and produced from Jorge Fernando.
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