I decided in this work I wanted to use a lot of formations that we could see in folklore dances, but in a way that was almost trying to understand these dances or question them – to think about them as spaces of organisation of a group but also of the deviation of a group. It's more like, how do we occupy this space and how do we make this space part of ourselves? Footwork is the basis of this piece. On the one hand I felt the drive of the jump – quite alive, quite bright – and it attracted me. And on the other hand, a lot of street and club dances are also vertical because you do it in a group, in the club, in a setting where you don't have a lot of space – so it's very vertical, it’s a lot of hopping. I want to try to understand what's the difference between this past body that is jumping with tradition, with symbols, with codes, with knowledge, and these contemporary bodies that are jumping, that are using similar footwork, similar rhythm, similar steps. Extract from a video interview with Marco da Silva Ferreira for The Rose International Dance Prize 2025, with thanks to Sadler's Wells Digital Stage.
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