Expanded Contemporary Dance (ECD) students and alumni in the news:
- Pedro Afonso Machado is a solo maker who graduated from ECD in 2024. Pedro Afonso will present ALOPECOID in Plein Theater on 13 February. The work is a combination of his research in movement, theater and text.
- One of the ECD2/3 June Works performances from 2025, namely the choreography Speed Up God Speed Up, created by Marcelo Evelin, will be performed during What if theatre refused to be safe? a collective night of risk, ritual and transformation, curated by Flavia Pinheiro & Simomo Bouj. It can be seen on Friday 30 January at Theatre Frascati.
Pedro Afonso Machado about ALOPECOID
‘It is a very big project that I have self-funded with my savings and hopefully will kickstart my upcoming works as a maker. The work seeks to create a catalogue/library of short-stories and explorations on topics that have urgency for me. In the first volume of this library I explore 8 different topics connecting queer identity, grief, addiction, acceptance and others.
The work divides itself in 3 forms:
- A live dance and theater performance called ALOPECOID: AGILE SEEDING;
- A recorded spoken-word album of the 8 tracks called ALOPECOID: LATENT PREDATOR;
- A written book with various poems, short-stories, narrations and essays regarding each of the 8 topics called ALOPECOID: CUNNING REBELLION.
I will be performing the show, releasing the album and the book all at the same time on February 13th at Plein Theater in Amsterdam at 20:30. The album and book will also be available for online.’
Hope to see you at the performance!
https://www.plein-theater.nl/agenda/20402/alopecoid-live-performance-book-release-qa-premiere
About the choreography Speed Up God Speed Up and about Marcel Evelin
Speed Up God Speed Up is a systemic choreography where autonomy is negotiated and shared within an collective. It is a piece for 12 dancers playing an a team, exposing their singularities to a common condition of performativitiy. A high-speed dance of custom escape routes at an Autorama.
Marcelo Evelin is a dancer, choreographer and researcher. He lives between Teresina (Brazil) and Amsterdam (The Netherlands) and works in Brazil, Japan and in several countries in Europe as an independent artist for his artistical platform Demolition Incorporated, based in CAMPO, a space for Residency and Resistance of Performing Arts in Teresina, Piauí, Brazil.
Make your rervervations!
https://www.frascatitheater.nl/nl/agenda/what-if-theater-refused-to-be-safe-n1g9
Watch the video and photos