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around the hole everything is edge
(Performance :: duo)

2009

- There’s not a film without a story. Have you already tried to build a house without walls? It’s the same. You can’t build a house without walls. A film must have walls, Friedrich. It must have walls, do you see?
- Why walls? The space between the characters can support the weight.
We are talking about… the space between people.
(Wim Wenders)

If there is strangeness in both bodies on scene that seem never to talk to each other directly, this is due to the fact that Levi abandons the idea of dialogue as an encounter, exchange, or convergence, and so proposes another experience, inspired by the thought of Maurice Blanchot (The Infinite Conversation) for whom the conversation takes actually place as discontinuity, in the empty space that erupts between a speech and another. Around the hole everything is edge is offered as a fable that allows itself to be interrupted, that arises from the articulation of "short manifestations” (autonomous and powerful short fragments) that repel and attract each other so as to always maintain the sense under tension.

(Laura Erber)

Technical file

Artistic direction: Marcela Levi
Creation and performance: Flavia Meireles and Marcela Levi
Dramaturgic collaboration: Laura Erber
Assistance: Denise Stutz
Lighting design: Fábio Retti
Music: Marcela Levi and Bruno Rezende
Objects and costumes design: Marcela Levi
Light technician: Chapinha
Production: Marcela Levi

Co-production: Bienal Internacional de Dança do Ceará 2009
Support: Espaço SESC / Rio de Janeiro

Artistic residencies:
La Laboral-Ciudad de la Cultura, Gijón/Spain
Residency Program – La Casa Encendida and Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, – Madrid
Espaço SESC / Rio de Janeiro

Diffusion: Carla Mullulo and João Braune – Fomenta Produções

Thanks to: Sérgio Rezende, Ginetta Mortera, Claudia Garcia, Nicolas Boudier, Wolmir Cordeiro, Maria Alice Rabelo, Karl Erik Schollhammer, Benedito and Iracema Meireles, Daniel Pizamiglio, Micheline Torres, Ana Cristina, Néia, Felipe Ribeiro, Bia Radunsky and all the staff of Espaço Sesc.

This project was awarded by the National Arts Foundation (Funarte) at the Program Bolsa de Estímulo à Criação Artística.

Around the hole everything is edge was cited as one of the 2009 dance highlights by the dance reviewer of the national Brazilian newspaper O Globo (12/31/2009).