[2009]

• At the invitation of the São Paulo Cultural Center to participate in the last edition of the female/male platform, I began revisiting my first work as a choreographer, the solo Pressa (1998).
  I invited the young dancer Leandro Berton for a “remake”. I accepted the invitation knowing that I could not access the  11 years old piece as it was. For some reasons: because it’s about Leandro on stage; because in that context I was occupied with other issues, with other aesthetics; because the way I’ve been working lately mobilizes me to rethink, reformulate and risk ideas.

Then, we decided to prioritise and value our inaugural meeting, facing this opportunity as a tool to generate something new setting the “original” as a starting point and parameter.

We did not name our process a remake, we named it revising of ideas.
And, that’s where the title of the new solo comes from.

• From 28/5 to 7/6
  Thursday to Saturday at 9PM, Sunday at 8PM
  free entrance
  Room Paulo Emilio Salles Gomes
• About the original solo Pressa:
  Developed with the support of a research research grant awarded by REDE Stagium in 1997, Cristian Duarte’s Pressa soil received prizes from the Paulista Association of Art Critics – APCA (1998) and Funarte (Mambembe 1998). The remake of this solo in 2009 counts with the collaboration and performance of the young dance maker Leandro Berton.
• Revising and Direction: Cristian Duarte
• Revising and Performance: Leandro Berton
• Lighting: Cristian Duarte
• Costume Design: Cristian Duarte and Leandro Berton
• Pressa was originally created with the support of: REDE Stagium, Studio and Company Nova Dança
• Partnerships for the revising in 2009: Choreographic Center of Rio de Janeiro and CoLaboratório of Panorama Festival
• Production: Cristian Duarte
• Acknowledgments: Leo Nabuco and Renato Paschoaleto
• Starting Point
• Photos by Inês Correa Video