Branco and Hase Started to work in collaboration on march 2004. Their studio-laboratory consists on the development of motions and sounds that carry within the essence and memories of themselves. Their research continues towards the communication between people of different nationalities. In ways of performance they choose public spaces, forgotten buildings and libraries – locations of common or neglected behavior.

Cristina Hase (Austria -Actress )

Magistra of theatre via Graz University (Austria). Passing two years of study at Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique in London.
Student of Atsushi Takenouchi, Tadashi Endo and Samuel Avital. Cristina left nomadic traces as a street performer in Europe and U.S.A.
She also collaborates with a theatre ensemble in Austria.

Fernanda Branco (Brasil - Actress ) Was actress of T.A. L. Company in Rio de Janeiro for 5 years. Accompanied regular Festas – street dance/performance from North of Brazil. Graduated at Ecole de Mime Corporel Dramatique in London. Directed ‘Unseen Trumpeter’ released at Poetry Place. Fernanda also filmed and acted in various short films in England, Brazil and Norway.

Branco-Hase Collaboration
Fernanda Branco (Brasil - Actress )
Cristina Hase (Austria -Actress )
Open Books – i can only see a library

The performance is about reading in between the lines. The two performers open a book and read it with motion and sound impressions of it. The result is a collage of text and sounds of different languages and a corporal expression.

The two characters transit from being two library ghosts to being the contents of books. The whirligigs of being and an immediate not being gives a unique dynamic to the visual-sonorous images.

.…there is the beat, the pulse, enveloped in flesh, lived by bones made out of stones. a mask behind a mirror. a mirror with thousand inches: movements of life. sharpened cells. the ungraspable caught in a mirror of matter. our mirror: dance, the reflection of beated bones, beating music out of bodies, visible and heard, the grasping of mute pressure and release between doing and not doing is the moved. music is not seen, but heard. the ear is a clever watcher.

V I E W S

“Open Books is (…) a play that mirrors the motives behind the reading process itself – the search for the world that happens within every separate soul. The two of them capture in words and motions, but also through silence and stillness, all the furiously loud mindbabble, the convulsions of consciousness, the inner earthquakes and long-resonating aftershocks, these encounters from the deepest which we emerge (…) that of opening, if only briefly, our souls to one another – as someone else.”

Raj Chakraborti
Professor/Writer
London 2004

“It is a very good work. Emerging from the space between the grotesque and the pure, I saw these two women flying in a long corridor.”

Mario Biagini
Associate Director
Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards
Vienna 2004

“We praised their technical professionalism, the mystical setting and the original script. Both these women put forward two unfashionable witches who, under a multi-lingual stream of words, gracefully attack books and finally blend in perfectly.”

Jury
International Mime Prize
Aarschot 2004

C A L E N D A R I U M

dramatic relief of major and minor components 2004

London / performance
. stroud green library . hornsey central library
. 291 gallery collective work with electronic musician ‘pelado’

Austria / performance collective work with musicians ‘nunhead’
thomas mauerhofer, georg gratzer

. landesbibliothek graz . universitaetsbibliothek graz
. universitaetsbibliothek der darstellenden kuenste wien
. stadtbibliothek rathaus wien

exchange of work with workcenter of jerzy grotowski and thomas richards

Belgium
winner of international mime prize ‘pinokkio’
preview 2005

Moscow - june
international theater exchange of work, hosted by
workcenter of jerzy grotowski and thomas richards

Europe - aug.-nov.
invitation for performance in Spain, France, Czech, Belgium, Germany

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