Jonas&Lander
Lento e Largo
The unpredictable duo Jonas&Lander return to Spoleto to celebrate ten years of their career. With Lento and Largo they create a visual apocalypse by bringing robotic and human performers to the stage in a scenic environment based on and influenced by Hieronymous Bosch'sopera . In an unreal landscape, both entities socialize, dance, kiss, command and obey, as equals. The performance starts from the assumption that each performer is capable of performing actions impossible for other performers, so from explore the boundaries and specificities of each organism. On stage, an absurd universe comes to life in which robots dress and display organic materials such as skins, scales or horns inspired by the taxidermy of artist Enrique Gomez de Molina.
direction and choreography Jonas&Lander
performers Filipe Metelo, Francisca Pinto, Joana Mário, Jonas Lopes, Lander Patrick, Lewis Seivwright, Mathilde Bonicel
scenes and lighting Rui Daniel
technical coordinator and lighting technician Bruno Santos
sound design Lander Patrick
opera sound Patrícia Soares
scenography and props Rita Torrão
costumes Jonas Lopes
makeup Filipa Vieira from Silva
robotics Joana Mário, Filipe Metelo
production manager (2018-2022) 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 residency 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 Carvalhodiscography.
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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