HORACIO MACUACUA Sparkling Imagination

August 24 - 28

 

The inflexibility of the established paralyses the movement, dims the ingenuity, and casts a shadow over surprise. but life force makes us adaptable; it gives us the opportunity to transform space and to translate energy into matter, matter into its own evolution. the outline of the spontaneous is blurred to disappear, the margins of the predictable are softened, and we know the interrogation point that questions the automatic response. the body allows us to transcend. horacio proposes a highly physical work that demands attention, interest, and intensity rather than a certain technique level, challenging the potentiality of each dancer to push the limits of body imagination and expression further to discover new and surprising possibilities. the workshop evolves with what the group offers, as the ability to create and compose physically needs training and attention, as well as technique or style. through the group process, the participants learn from each other through acceptance and transformation, collaboration, and observation of their own dance and of the whole group. let’s dive into the work, get the engines started, and let the imagination flow! let’s dance!

Horacio is a Mozambican dancer and choreographer, and the artistic director of the dance company which bears his name. Having no aesthetic limitations, the company develops projects that are open to the creativity of all the collaborators and always with the intention that everyone has the room to explore their own choreographic universe.

He has carried out the projects COMUM, Orobroy, Stop! (1st Prize and Puma Creative Prize at Danse l’Afrique Danse Festival 2010), Smile If You Can!, Fighting room, Convoy, Trampled Rose and Paradise is not in the sky!

Horacio is a founding member of Culturarte, the first contemporary dance company of Mozambique. He has collaborated as dancer and creator with choreographers Cristina Moura, Thomas Hauert, Pablo Colbert, George Khumalo, and David Zambrano, considering him his maestro and mentor.

€280