O Estadão de São Paulo - Caderno 2 21 de JULY de 1997
O Estad?o de S?o Paulo - Caderno 2
S?o Paulo, Brazil
21/JULY/1997
By Helena Katz - Especially for o Estado
‘ROTA’ EXPLORES THE RELATION ART-SCIENCE
After the mountain climbing wall, Deborah Colker puts on the stage a Ferris wheel.
Rio - The names of her two shows - Volcano and Velox - serve to define her. The swift Deborah Colker is really a volcano. Suffice to say she is in her third stage production with Rota, which opened Saturday in Curitiba at the Gua?ra Theatre.
After the mountain climbing wall shown in Velox, she now puts a Ferris wheel on the stage. After speed, she has made the physics of movement her subject. ‘The work has two parts: in the first, the choreographer, the occupation of space; and , in the second, I explore the levels’ says the outstanding phenomenon in the history of communication through dance, on the Brazilian stage. Velox, for example, was seen by more than 100 thousand people.
But the most impressive news brought by Rota, and which will be a surprise for those who saw the two previous shows, is quite another. Deborah Colker has discovered in ballet the technique to work the bodies of her dancers and the aesthetics of her choreography. And more: she is using classical music. Whoever had the opportunity of seeing her dancers at work know that they work hard. With different shapes, they succeed in showing that they are involved in a process of attaining a common language, a precious thing indeed, for they are a young enterprise.
The Deborah Colker Dance Company is sponsored by Petrobr?s Distribuidora. ‘Thanks to Petrobr?s, we can guarantee labour rights to all our dancers, such as a health plan, and box office participation’, informs the company’s producer, Jo?o Elias.
The highest merit in this was that the Ferris wheel was not just a visual effect. It is there as an exploratory instrument and it is wonderful what happens in it. The final scene, with the encrusted bodies resembling barnacles is simply genial. It is poetic.(H.K.) "
