“Box 2.0” is an holographic installation created by choreographers António M Cabrita and São Castro, presented in 2018. It is the follow-up of a project they both created in 2013, and that was later amplified by the participation of other invited Portuguese choreographers. The project has been conceived as a short journey through the history of Dance.
Within each box, the holographic image of each of the invited choreographers - Clara Andermatt, Olga Roriz, Paulo Ribeiro and Rui Horta – can be seen, exposing the distinct traces of their physical and artistic identities, in their choreographic language, and in the accumulated knowledge of the choreographic research that is inscribed in the movements of their bodies, together with their different orders of signification. The four artists were invited to create short solos that are perpetuated in time by way of the hologram’s seamless loops.
One of the artistic premises of this project consists in questioning the fleeting characteristics of Dance, exploring issues such as the way in which an artistic object may become something tangible, overcoming its original physical-ethereal condition; or on how to dislocate dance from that transient condition, by redimensioning and reformulating the formula of artistic performance.
This work was first presented at Teatro Municipal de Viana do Castelo, followed by presentations at the Great Hall of Viseu’s Town Hall, and at Municipal Forum Romeu Correia, in Almada.
BOX 2.0 - Holographic Installation
by São Castro and António M Cabrita
concept: António M Cabrita | project directors: São Castro e António M Cabrita | set elements: Fernando Ribeiro | choreographies and performances by: Clara Andermatt, Olga Roriz, Paulo Ribeiro, Rui Horta | production: Companhia Paulo Ribeiro | co-production: Teatro Municipal Sá de Miranda | photos by: António M Cabrita