Jonas&Lander
Cascas d'OvO
A show that in 2013 marks the debut of the Jonas&Lander duo's collaboration, Cascas d'OvO explores telepathic, superhuman communication as the ultimate expression of the relational bond of a couple, where the body takes on the quality of a percussive instrument. The performance offers the experience of a new dimension of dialogue, where social relations and their forms of expression are rethought: theater as a microcosm of society that immerses the audience in the silence and music of communicating bodies.
concept and choreography Jonas&Lander
with Jonas Lopes, Lander Patrick
lights Lander Patrick, Rui Daniel
lighting operator Jean-Pierre Legout
production house Associação Cultural Sinistra
production and booking manager Inês Le Gué
administration and management Gabriel Lapas
internationalsupport Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
co-production Festival Materiais Diversos
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WARNING
The show features strobe lights and partial nude scenes.
Performance recommended for those over 16 years of age.
"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.
Jonas&Lander
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