O SONHO DO GUERREIRO

CREDITS

Directed by:
Rui Simões

Performance and choreography:
Mário Calixto


Cinematography:
J.C. Pinto

Camera Assistant:
Hugo Flórido

Music:
Zernesto

Editing:
Edgar Feldman

Post-Production:
Estúdio Valentim de Carvalho

Acknowledgments:
Ana Moraes, Yara

Producers:
Mário Calitxo, Rui Simões

Production:
Real Ficção

SYNOPSIS

Mário Calixto, a Black dancer, studied dance at the University of Bahia before moving to Rio de Janeiro in 1984. There, he not only worked as a dancer and teacher but also developed his own Afro-contemporary dance language. Through it, he worked with intuition and the refinement of everyday gestures combined with assimilated academic techniques, resulting not in a return to African roots, but in the possibility—without moving away from them—of creating images of other dances, lives, and worlds. In 1987, he moved to Europe, eventually settling in Porto where, in 1991, he collaborated with director and artist Rui Simões (who was then beginning to work with the New Portuguese Dance generation) on one of the first video-dance projects made in Portugal.
O Sonho do Guerreiro (The Warrior's Dream) is a work that alludes to a man's struggle to survive in an austere environment, contrasting the aridity of the landscape of Ferrel beach, in the Peniche area, with the slowness of Calixto, which allows an ancestral body, inseparable from the territory, to emerge.

FESTIVALS

• Films for Art 1993 – Frankfurt
• Danças na Cidade 1995
• Mostra de Documentário Português no Pavilhão de Portugal na Exposição Mundial de Hannover 2000
• 1º Frame – International Video-Dance Festival – Porto 2002