VICTOR HUGO PONTES

The choreographic composition presented here can represent a ritual, an operative concept in this piece: in (human and animal) societies, fundamental, symbolic or functional movements are ritualised, defined based on a norm or deviation from a norm, standard and innovation, trend and counter-culture. The question is: to what extent is a ritual representative? Are five dancers on the stage interpreting ritualised movements in unison a single body? Is individuality obliterated? Does the spectator’s perception result from the harmony of the whole, from the specificity of each body in action, or from both? “Uníssono – composição para cinco bailarinos” tests three main ideas, from the different meanings of declension: the idea of recreation of senses based on a matrix; the idea that life is a journey towards death, or the decline of the person; and, finally, the idea that it is impossible to decline human representation in art, without rejecting art itself. – Victor Hugo Pontes 

Victor Hugo Pontes was born in Guimarães, in 1978. He has a degree in Art – Painting, from the Faculty of Fine Arts of University of Porto. In 2001, he attended Norwich School of Art & Design, England. He completed the Balleteatro Escola Profissional and Teatro Universitário do Porto vocational courses, as well as the course on Research and Choreographic Creation at Forum Dança. As a creator, his career began to develop in 2003 with the work Puzzle. Since then, he has consolidated his choreographic brand, having presented his work throughout the country, as well as in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Austria, Brazil, and other countries. He has been Artistic Director of Nome Próprio – Associação Cultural, based in Porto, since 2009.