EDGE

Moment or space that corresponds to the end or the beginning of something. Or the nearly. Or the memory of a path. That has no end. It is from an unknown device that we start an abstract trail, that takes us to the most concrete of life – the beginning of everything.

The beginning of each course – four – in a memory of some what’s threshold. A light, a hole, a process, a life and death – the beginning of everything.

Each course depends on one another, they are pairs but different among themselves. They come together within movement, create a limit and after they split space. Change material, recombine, reduce and separate. They give way to a story that starts and finishes right there – an imaginary line remains. Who sees it, wanted to look.

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EDGE resulted from the project co-financed by the European Union FRAGILE - Inclusion of visually impaired people in the performing arts, a partnership between three choreographers from Estonia, Norway and Portugal through Bærum Kulturhus (NO), Vo'Arte (PT), University of Tallinn (EE) and Salamanda Tandem (UK).

The main focus of this project was on building a new language of movement by sharing experiences between blind people and professional dancers, affirming the possibility of professionalising visually impaired people in the performing arts and researching inclusive proposals for presenting dance to a plural audience.

Not being able to see or having reduced vision means that a blind person has a different starting point. Changing this starting point allows for the creation of a different “movement pattern”. The choreographer should focus on this paradigm shift and provide the opportunity to explore new possibilities of expression.

FRAGILE crosses the boundaries of art, including various artistic disciplines in dialogue and questioning the limits of their areas of intervention, in a true commitment to transdisciplinarity