JOĆO FIADEIRO
Class description
Frauke Requardt invites Joao Fiadeiro to lead dancers on Real Time Composition.
I met Joao Fiadeiro in Madrid last year where I had the great pleasure to take his workshop on real time composition, an improvisation and composition technique for communal creating that favours 'intuition' over 'impulse' as the contemporary dance world might know it from improvisational training.
The method promotes the value of being able to read what is there and discovering the richness of it. In this workshop we find out about his way of creating performance work based on an ever increasing understanding of 'what-is-already-there'; what is inherent in each choice we make. As a dancer and creator I often find myself trying to make things up so in that sense this method offers a great relief to me: the thing of interest is already there with every choice if we are able to delve into the choice made. www.joaofiadeiro.blogspot.com
Biography
JOĆO FIADEIRO belongs to the generation of choreographers that emerged towards the end of the 1980s and who, in the sequence of the American post-modern movement as well as the movements of the French and Belgian Nouvelle Danse, gave rise to the Nova Danēa 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.
His works are regularly presented across Europe, the USA, Canada and South America. From 1999 onwards, RE.AL has shifted the gravity centre of its activity towards a territory of crossroads between theory and practice and between the arts and sciences, where research and experimentation have become the structural axis. It is in this context that Joćo Fiadeiro started the systematization of the method of Real Time Composition which supports and determines all his activity as an artist, pedagogue or researcher, and which has led him to direct workshops and give lectures in several national and international universities and schools.