Saltitar, by Connor Scott
Francis Alÿs Ricochets
Saltitar is the name of the project from Connor Scott (UK) that proposes ‘skipping’ as a collective action and coming together through the already choreographed and rhythmic body.
The project relies on the simplicity of the step (skipping) and that of the participants (skippers) rhythmically tuning to each other as they transport the body, sound and dance across and through space. The work centers the choreographic as a mode to think collectively and embody small transgressive acts of queering space and inviting togetherness.
The exhibition Ricochetes by Francis Alÿs at Serralves, is the inspiration for the presentation of the performance Saltitar, by the choreographer Connor Scott , proposed by the artist, Ana Bigotte Vieira, curator of the project BRINCAR*, and the Live Arts and Education departments at Museu de Serralves.
* BRINCAR is an historical and artistic research project that aims working about and from artistic and societal experiences that occurred with and for children in the years surrounding the REVOLUTION of April 1974 and end of 20th century.
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Connor Scott is a British dancer and choreographer, based in Lisbon, Portugal. They have collaborated with artists such as Theo Clinkard (UK), Michael Keegan Dolan (IRE), Bullyache (UK), João Dos Santos Martins (PT), Marcelo Evelin (BRZL) and Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz (PT). Connor’s choreographic practice is rooted in the excavation of dances with attention to their rhythm and the presence they invoke. Drawing on the deviant quality that dance and the body naturally possess, Connor follows these deviations leading them to performative states that embody ideas of appearing and disappearing. Having danced ballroom and latin dances in their youth, they recall techniques and rhythms from embodied knowledge and pair this with archival practices to invoke past, present and future bodies transforming and deviating from normative figures, gestures and behaviors to establish alternative ones through dance.
