Friday, 9th September | 20.00
LA PELANDA | SALA 2 | 50′

dance

Marco Da Silva Ferreira

Hu(r)mano

within the frame of IYMA

national premiere

 Age classification: +12 years

BIOGRAPHY

Marco da Silva Ferreira was born  in 1986  in Santa  Maria  da  Feira.  He worked  professionally  since  2008  with choreographers as André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes and others. As  a  choreographer, he premiered his  first  work Nevoeiro  21 in Palcos  Instáveis  at  Campo  Alegre theatre  in  2012.  Asolo  work  that has  also  been  presented  in  the Solos  Festival  (Lisboa,  Évora  and Torres Vedras),  as  well  as  in maisImaginarius 2012. In  May  2013  Marco  premiered  the awarded  piece  of  maisImaginarius 2013 Replic…eplic…eplic,  a site-specific solo dance work. In June,  Marco  created A Ilha with Victor Hugo Pontes, during a dance residency provided  by  37.25-Núcleo  de  artes  performativas  and Walk&talk Azores festival. Through my fault, through   my   fault, through  my  most  grievous  fault, a co-creation  with  Mara  Andrade, in Palcos  Instáveis  in  October  2013 and  in  GUIdance2014. In  2014, Land(e)scape,a  multi-disciplinar collaboration   with   two   other artists  (plastic  art  and  sound instalation)  was  presented  in  Imaginarius  2014  and  he  premiered Hu(r)mano which  is part of Aerowaves Priority Companies 2015 and Portuguese Young  Artists.