In RESTRAINT the dancer Julek Kreutzer sticks to a specific movement quality, an unceasing effort bounded by a narrow space. Spurred on by Michelangelo Contini’s drums, the movement works on maintaining a condition that indiscernibly transforms the body. Restraint is a continuous outburst of energy, where music and dance persist on supporting each other, crafting an inter- and codependent vibrant space.

The focus of my work lies on the body and on its capacity to transform and adapt itself. I am interested in exploring diverse physicalities that a human body can achieve and experience under the influence of any kind of limitations (physical, emotional or cultural). In my previous works Träumerei des Verschwindens, STAUB [Poeira Surda] and A Research for Chão Vazado, I’ve been exploring how a group of human bodies, a community, that experiences the same physical limitation manages to find solutions under a common agreement to eventually overcome their conditions. In Restraint my initial intention was to explore the same main goal further, provoking a condition by movement restrictions, but just with a single performer and a single musician. I was curious to see how these bodies, without the support of the group but carrying their memory, would manage to transgress on their own.

Persistence and seeking continuity move and inspire Restraint and the last works. How to continuously overcome and give a new signification to corporeal, social, political restraints? How to continue reinventing ourselves and encouraging the potential of the body, the transformation?

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