MÁRCIO
KERBER
CANABARRO
was born in Brazil in 1985.
He is a dancer with a Social Communication BA, a Performing Major from SEAD and is a certified Embody Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner.
Márcio is interested in how our ability to care can form and inform the systems we create to live in, and how this ability takes physical shape to design our interfaces through the ways we understand connection.
Having a degenerative diseases
called Retinitis Pigmentosa which causes progressive loss of peripheral vision and consequently blindness, Márcio often stumble into zones where the capacities to move, to understand, to sense, to feel are drastically put in question by a demand on trust in a sense of connection, specially while dancing, or walking in deamed light.
Together with DEEPER F. Collective (HU) and A Bela Associação (PT), launched the digital publication CARE WHERE? Zine and CARE - Activism, Art and Electronic Music gatherings,
focus on how we build and transform our large community through the chain of our immediate affections.
Márcio also works as a freelance dancer for Hodworks (HU), CRANKY BODIES/a company (DE) and Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods (BE/DE). In the past he had also collaborated with Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Thompkins and Keith Henessy.
RESEARCH
Inventiveness at the limits of sight
OUTDOORS
The more I am outdoors, the more exposed I am to the nature of my eyesight. Bits of it are confronting, because I become aware of my own timing and the increasing loss of resolution in the world I am able to see. While dancing, on an improvisation with other artists, I have noticed that it is becoming more challenging to connect with what happens on space and therefore to offer contributions to the event. Mostly because I have been loosing visual references and cues much faster than before, making me feel lost, as if my perception of movement would get slower, and probably it is, since my periphery vision gets lower and movement perception has a lot to do with rod cells... Lately only physical touch, having the ground as a major reference that implies gravity and sky, seems to be giving me the necessary coordinates so to understand direction, or action. Maybe being outdoors is a way of keep touching the world as an attempt of perpetuating its recognition to my senses, so I would never loose it, and never get lost for too long.
FICTION
Fiction can take some time to land and feel real. There is always a momentary awkwardness to all beginnings, a sense of mistrust towards action that eventually become part of a particular version of reality. Are these brief and delicate doubts an invented state of realism that connects us to our available sensitivities? As if fiction requires us to navigate the tender terrain of falsehood, to question everything we take for truth.
WORK
Creative decisions are always taken collaboratively, they are dependent on contexts, opportunities and environments.
Recently I am focusing in distinguishing eyesight from vision, giving attention to eye-care and shared moments of perception. Due to an eye condition I am interested in how to approach loss of sight through the skills of adaptation that it requires, treating it not as a process of social isolation but as an irrevocable form of connection.
Creative worlds are never built out of things but out of relationships.
Here I list some of my long lasting collaborations. For a complete list of works, check "chronology".
FREELANCE
Meg Stuart / DAMAGED GOODS
2019
2020
2021
2022
2024
2012
2016
2017
2018
CRANKY BODIES a/company
2024
July:
Last Dance | And for the time being/ Ian Kaeler / Uferstudios Berlin (DE) (Artistic Assistance)
(N)ON SITE BODIES Material for Breath / Jan Burkhardt and Nicole Wendel / Gutspark Neukladow Berlin (DE)
June:
Rehearsal 2 / U500 Festival - Artus Studios - Budapest (HU)
April:
Rehearsal 1 / Atelier N.69 - PACT Zollverein (DE)
March:
steal you for a moment / EIRA (PT) + Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE) (Artistic Assistant)
2023
September:
Legal Reparation - rites of recognition / Viktória Kaslik (HU)
The Voice of Power / Hodworks (HU)
August:
Seal Kin / Sindri Runudde (SE)
July:
AURA/ Hollow at Montag Modus (DE)
June:
PACK Studies / residency PACT Zollverein (DE)
May:
Isolation project/footprints ( residency AADK Spain (ES)
March:
Mountaineer: studies for bouldering darkness / research (DE)
2022
December:
Living Project / Márcio K. Canabarro & Viktória Kaslik (HU) (facilitator)
November:
Trajectories for a Landscape - zero point/Meg Stuart, Descha Daemgen & Abraham Hurtado (DE)
October:
TERRESTRIAL TRASIT / CRANKY BODIES a/company (DE)
August:
Huddle/Simone Forti (USA)
BAW Open Studios/Sandra Blatterer (AT/DE)
Sliced Horizon / Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
June:
THRESHOLD / A Bela Associação (PT)
March:
Come and Meet us / Zero Point Berlin (DE) / Josephine Evrad (DE)
SOFT SPOT / Adrienn Hód (HU) / Martina Hajdyla, Soňa Ferienčíková (SK) (Movement and Choreography assistance)
CHRONOLOGY
2021
October:
BODY OF LAW / Nom Kollektiv (FIN)
LEGAL REPARATION / Viktoria Kaslik (HU/NL) (video)
August:
July:
CASCADE / Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
June:
UNFINISHED /Márcio Kerber Canabarro
LIGHT ROOM / DEEPER F. COLLECTIVE (HU) (installation)
March:
Another (online) Dance Show/ Hodworks (HU)
January:
BOUNCE /Costas Kekis (GR/AT) (online video performance)
2020
September:
Signs of Affection / Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
June:
Lobby, Intermission, Overtime, The Clock/ Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE and HKW - Berlin) (video)
CARE WHERE? Zine online Launch.
March:
CARE2/ DEEPER F. Collective (HU)/ A Bela Associaçao (PT) (event)
January:
2019
December:
CARE1/ DEEPER F. Collective (HU)/ A Bela Associaçao (PT) (event)
June:
TANZKONGRESS 2019 - A Long Lasting Affair (DE) (event)
2018
November:
Re-imagining life on Earth: COSMIC DEBRIS / Márcio K. Canabarro and Aleks Borys (PL/BE). (performance/instalation)
September:
Projecting [Space[, Berlin by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Jeroen Peeters & Jozef Wouters (BE/DE).
August:
TRACKING:Visual Cues for hope / Márcio k. Canabarro and Aleks Borys (PL/BE). (photo and intervention series)
A Night in California /Sara Shelton Mann (US)
July:
SOLOS&DUETS/ Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
Serious Fun / Mark Thompkins (US/FR) Meg Stuart (US/DE)
June:
Fluid Grounds / PAr.B.L.eux - Benoît Lachambre (CA)
January:
DEEPER / by Márcio Kerber Canabarro, Csaba Molnár, Tamara Zsófia Vadas and Imre Vass (BR/DE/HU)
2017
November:
Cranky Bodies Dance Reset by Peter Pleyer (DE)
August:
Projecting [Space[, Dinslaken by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods, Jeroen Peeters & Jozef Wouters (BE/DE)
April:
Atelier III by Meg Stuart/ Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
February:
Solos by Hodworks (HU)
2016
November:
Eye Candy by Marcio K. Canabarro (DE) / Csaba Molnár (HU)
Waiting for Schrödinger by Timothy and the Things (HU)
August:
Inflamável by Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods (BE/DE)
The Whale That Went Unnoticed by Márcio K. Canabarro (DE) Ayelet Yekutiel (IR)
May:
Winter Journey by Marcio K. Canabarro (DE) / Csaba Molnár (HU).
January:
Grace by Hodworks (HU).
2013
May:
Dawn by Hodworks (HU)
January:
Augury of Awry Sky by Marcio K. Canabarro (DE) / Michiel Keuper (DE)
PHOTO credits
Meg Stuart/Damaged Goods:Laura Van Severen
HODWORKS: Kristina Bilák
CRANKY BODIES /a company & portrait :Michiel KeuperHand
Page design: Marcio Kerber Canabarro