Real Time Composition

a lecture-demonstration by João Fiadeiro

11 Jan 2010
11 Jan 2010

The "I would prefer not to…" from Bartleby keeps, according to Giorgio Agamben," possibility suspended between occurrence and non-occurrence, between the capacity to be and the capacity not to be." This in-betweenness is the "play-ground" of the Real Time Composition method.

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Only from "here" I can recognize and "capture" that little fragment of reality which will unfold, simultaneously, into the future and into the past. This fragment it's only found in the "remains" of something that it was left behind, that which was forgotten (for there is no perfect crime). This "fragment" is the proof of the absence of a presence. Or, more precisely, it's the "presence" of an absence. And this fragment is also what lies between the body and "the presence of the other in the body", a permanent escape towards things that are not yet, towards things that might be(come).

João Fiadeiro (1965) belongs to the generation of choreographers that emerged towards the end of the 1980s and who gave rise, in the sequence of the American post-modern movement as well as the movements of the French and Belgian Nouvelle Danse, to the Nova Dança Portuguesa [New Portuguese Dance]. A large part of his formation was carried out between Lisbon, New York and Berlin, after which he joined the Dance Company of Lisbon (86-88) and the Gulbenkian Ballet (89-90). In 1990 he founded the RE.AL Company, which not only constitutes the basis for the creation and diffusion of his shows but also hosts and represents transdisciplinary artists, supporting emergent artists by organizing artistic laboratories as well. He regularly teaches and present is works across Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia and South America.