Dinis Machado The rite of spring. Tender memories of Queer Affection 27-29 October 2022

Programme

With a nod to Nijinsky's modernist dance drama 'The Rite of Spring', five queer dancers move through each other's bodies. We as spectators become more and more aware of the bodies' relationship to each other. How they change. How they transform from flesh and blood to movement and weight. They play, pretend, play with each other. All within a framework of rules - as enigmatic as they are precise.

Dinis Machado

They/them

Trained in dance and visual arts, choreographer Dinis Machado creates at the intersection of these two art forms.

Born in Porto in 1987 and living in Stockholm since 2012. 

Holds MA choreography DOCH (Stockholm) dir. by Jefta Van Dinther / Frederic Gies;

Completed the programme of independent studies at Maumaus - Visual Arts (Lisbon) under the direction of Jürgen Boch; has a BA in Theatre by ESTC (Lisbon);

Studied ballet and modern dance at the Balleteatro (Porto) from 1994 to 2002.

In 2020, Machado was awarded the Birgit Cullberg Scholarship by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

Machado's works Site Specific For Nowhere and Cyborg Sunday were included in Moderna Museet's quadrennial Moderna exhibition in 2018. In 2013, Machado received the co-production "Life Long Burning" from Cullberg for his project Black Cats Can See In The Dark But Are Not Seen. The work was performed within the [8:tension] series at ImPulsTanz in 2014.

Machado has been working as a choreographer since 2007 and has performed works at WELD, Moderna Museet, MDT, Konsthall C in Stockholm, Röda Sten Konsthall and Skogen in Gothenburg, MARC in Kivik, Wånas Konst in Simrishamn, Väven in Umeå, Vitlycke Performing Arts Centrum, Inter Arts Center and Skånes Konstförening in Malmö, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Skissernas Museum and Stenkrossen in Lund.

Internationally, Machado's works have been performed in Austria, Croatia, Uruguay, France, Sweden, Germany, England, Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Portugal in contexts such as ImpulsTanz, Weld, Dance 4, Chelsea Theatre, FIDCU, NAVE, Festival Arqueologias Del Futuro, ZDB /Negócio, METAL, Chisenhale, Colchester Arts Centre, Rivoli, CCB, Festival DDD, Citemor, AGORA, Reflektor M, among many others.