BIOGRAPHY
OVERVIEW
Márcio K. Canabarro was born in 1985 in Brazil. He is a dancer and choreographer with a BA in Social Communication, a Performing Major from SEAD, and a certified Embodied Myoreflex Therapy Practitioner. Márcio is interested in exploring the intersections of narratology, performance and mindfulness practices. His work focuses on the socio-emotional implications of accessibility, specifically how cultural biases around vision shape the intimacy, self-esteem, and social roles of the blind and visually impaired community. He has a degenerative disease called retinitis pigmentosa, which causes progressive loss of peripheral vision and eventually blindness. Rather than treating it as an obstacle, he views it as a creative collaborator that requires adaptability, inventiveness, and connection. Reframing the experience of visual impairment not as an isolating one, but as an opportunity to mediate an alternative point of awareness, together with DEEPER F. Collective (HU) and A Bela Associação (PT), he launched the digital publication CARE WHERE? Zine and CARE - Activism, Art and Electronic Music gatherings, focusing on how we build and transform our larger 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 has collaborated with Benoit Lachambre, Sara Shelton Mann, Mark Thompkins, Keith Henessy and others.
WORK
Creative decisions are always taken collaboratively, they are dependent on contexts, opportunities and environments.
Recently im focusing in distinguishing eyesight from vision, giving attention to eye-care and shared moments of perception. Due to a degenerative eye condition Im interested in how to approach lost of sight through the skills of adaptation that it requires, treating it not as a process of social isolation but an irrevocable form of connection.
Creative worlds are never build out of things but out of relationships.
RESEARCH
The more Im 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 notice that it is becoming more challenging to connect with what happens on space and therefor 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, seen 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.
Rehearsal Series / 2024
Transforming visual and somatic "knowing" and experiences into theatrical experiments.
Rehearsal Series are performative explorations, about 30 minutes long, open to an audience. They reflect planned but never before try out performance structures.
photo @ Dirk Rose
A performative exploration tool.
rehearsal series is a performative research tool inspired by an ongoing interest in alternative experiences of vision and somatic narrative. Each experiment keeps the same audience format, but explores seeing in a slightly different performative approach.
Rehearsal 1 happened in April 2024 in PACT Zollverein, Rehearsal 2 in June 2024 in U500 Festival.
PACT Zollverein.
U500 Festival.
PACK STUDIES /2023
Márcio, Matty and Sindri explore the adaptive quality of somatic compensation patterns, that enables a state of creative reinvention.
PACK STUDIES is a search for actual forms of cognitive resource that are able to sense from the field of experience different version of its reality. Their residency in PACT is their first meeting
Inventiveness beyond eyesight
Researching together with Sindri Runnude and Matty Zighem, how quality if awareness and kinship can redefine what vision means, allowing a grown physical agency to give space to the bodies felt sense and knowledge.
A research mixing range of visual perception, Skate board, Punk and somatic practices.
PACT Zollverein.
photo @ Dirk Rose
Isolation and darkness connects us with the unknown that births simultaneously fears and hopes.
This residency is part of a quest to disassociate visual impairment with disability, and connect to a mode of sensing the world, that can bring expertise and isights to the social body.
It's hard to become a good climber on your own. For instance, someone has to spot and belay you, community helps the technical improvement, but also ensures a playful learning path to surpass difficulties. Facts also important when adjusting to decreasing eyesight.
photo @ Camila Heim
MOUNTAINEER: STUDIES FOR BOULDERING DARKNESS/2023
The unknown as a geographic location.
Orientation is a founder principle of meaning making and homeostasis. Due to increasing low eyesight , I relate the unknown of darkness to a landscape which invites the growth of skills and vocabularies of cooperation.
The research explore blindness as a boulder, aiming to surface the dexterity of the visual impaired in journeying their senses in a world dominantly visual.
#TakeHeart
#TakeHeartNeustart
The Hungarian expression Farkasvakság means Wolf Blindness. It is used for people that cannot see in the “wolf hours”, from dusk to dawn, and the twilight zone. This is the light spectrum where I loose eyesight.
The wolves, daily journeying through the dome of darkness, represent intuition, the unknown, fears, physical power, resilience, liability and more.
They are part of the symbolic cycles of death and rebirth. Wanderers between worlds of light and shadow.
ON THE SCENT OF WOLVES/2022
How our biographies take physical shape to talk about connection?
Dealing with Retinitis Pigmentosa a degenerative disease that can cause blindness, Márcio tracks the unfolding of relational interfaces that see beyond the unknown within the darkness.
The research looks for actions that form and fade the human awareness of connection by exploring alternative stories of visual experience.
#TakeHeart
#TakeHeartNeustart
DANCE PERFORMANCES
INSTALATION PERFORMANCES
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COME AND MEET US
2022
And if the landscapes you carry with you would grow out of your pockets to spread on space and touch the ceiling? And if you would access the memory of cut branches, by helping them remember how was to be hanging high? And if you could fold all the dreams of a room to have them dissolving into conversations? And if you could lay down to listen the soft pressure of little things that usually you find on the ground? When was the last time you could not just see but also touch or reorganise a pray? And if you had a expanded time to be with a friend while listening the movement of landscapes?
“COME AND MEET US” was an invitation from
Zero Point Berlin for a creative durational encounter between Josephine Evrad and Márcio K. Canabarro
CALM LANDS
2022
was a space where to integrate a sensual intelligence. Giving to poetry an entry back to earth. Back to a body technology that does not disassociate from its surroundings, that does not dissolves flesh on ideas, but instead ground the viceral materiality of things in what constitute action, in attention oriented towards our undeniable living experiences. Creativity feed from such spaces of listening, where encounters can engender other voices, other possibilities, other understandings of diversity. Alternative forms of reality that welcome distinct propositions. A place to establish coexistence, multidisciplinary cooperation, expansion of language, potency, reach, exchange and touch. @sandra_blatterer
LIGHT ROOM
2021
Amidst a busy event on an industrial site DEEPER builds a flower field cocoon, a quiet destination to hide, rest and listen the wind.
UNDER 500 FESZTIVÁL Budapest HU
COSMIC DEBRIS
2018
A durational choreographic installation created by Aleks Borys and Márcio K. Canabarro with things found on the streets, in trashcans, in space. This gentle act addresses questions of care, slowness and value.
Lumen Gallery London UK
WINTER JOURNEY
2016
Csaba said: “Heyyyyy! I heard about an exhibition, wanna come with me?”
“well, we can check, but usually visual arts confuse me…” I answer.
Csaba interrupts saying: “Does happen to me sometimes, because is like seeing different choreographies all at the same time, you know all the different pieces…”
Csaba asks: “what would you do if you could be on a gallery by yourself?”
Márcio:“Could I do anything?”
Csaba:“yes, is a hypothesis… you can do anything”
Márcio:“I don’t know, depend what would I found there…”
“Winter Journey’, the second creation from Csaba Molnar and Marcio Canabarro, is a performance that looks for ways of intensifying the sensorial experience of the viewer by reaching beyond the field of dance. This time their inspiration came from the wish to create a piece for a gallery space, giving them the chance to immerse the audience in a universe that is being created, with audience members surrounded by the action.
Tranzit Galeria Budapest HU
COSTUMES
PODIVLJALO
2019
Feral, or the opera of touching, is a speculative format – a sanctuary for the superheroines of touch and their sensory-sensual sci-fi powers.
It is partly a landscape in which light, space, sound, text, bodies and objects make up different tissues of one body of sensation, and partly a reaction to how the world in 2019 touches our (dancing) bodies.
Idea and choreography: Ana Kreitmeyer i Sonja Pregrad
Performance: Ana Kreitmeyer, Ana Mrak, Sonja Pregrad
Costumes: Márcio Kerber Canabarro
NIBIRU
2019
Nibiru is creative process created by Zsófia Tamara Vadas dancemaker, Ábris Gryllus media artist and Márton Emil Tóth fine artist. The performance is presented by children, who were deeply involved into the creative process. The legends says that Nibiru is the tenth planet of the solar system, which when crashing into Earth will end the forms of life as we know them now. Real and fictitious worries about the planet, uncertainties of childhood and rituals of becoming adults are put in a playful, fantastic frame. Instead of being fearful this time the end of the world is a territory of dreams and utopia.
Creators: Vadas Zsófia Tamara, Tóth Márton Emil, Gryllus Ábris
Creators, performers: Bellai Zelma, Czakó Anita, Detrekői Míra, Gálhidy Gizella, Havas Éva, Hegedűs Borbála, Helyei Rozi, Kozma Veronika, Lengyel Julcsi, Molnár Léna, Orbán Hanna, Őri Juli, Pongrácz Villő, Szabó Maja, Varga-Blaskó Léna, Varga Léda
Costumes: Márcio Kerber Canabarro
ECLIPSE
2015
A show evoking the improvised masses of the party culture. Through the reinterpretation of the stereotypical situations created by the dancing crowd a new, fictitious, comic-like world is born. Beyond the dramas of the night life human games are resolved and a new trans-like state is achieved, in which the ego and the instincts are shadowed.
Director, Choreographer: Csaba MOLNÁR
Performed by: DÁNYI Viktória, VADAS Zsófia Tamara, RAUBINEK Lili, VAVRA Júlia, JUHÁSZ Adél, LÉVAI Viola, CUHORKA Emese and dancers from the Budapest Kortárstánc Főiskola: Aisté ADOMAITYTÉ, Shiraz AMAR, BOKOR Felícia, Marina DONATONE, NOVÁK Evelin, OBERFRANK Réka, Petra PECEK, Julija PECNIKAR, POLGÁR Judit, TAKÁCS Ramóna, Ana TOT
Costumes: Márcio Kerber Canabarro
PUBLICATIONS/
GRAPHIC DESIGN &
GATHERINGS
CARE WHERE? Zine came as a ripple of the pandemic and lock down. Before the fanzine, we were working on a non-profit project called CARE Activism, Art and Electronic Music, a series of, one week gatherings focus on local ecologies and community empowerment. We believe that our immediate affections and our ability to care can transform, build and influence our large social community and its relationships with its environment.
This project has grown entirely due to the genuine interest of many people, participants open their homes, atelier, rehearsal spaces, offer their skills, sensitivity, creativity and time, and expanded for beyond the zine to aiding also other texts and projects to find its graphic form to be shared.
CARE WHERE? has become by the acts of generosity of everyone involved.
LIVING PROJECT - FOOD FOR THOUGHT
The awareness of human scale through the exchange of skills.
Finding alternative models of abstraction by opening up a two months living space in Budapest (HU).
With people teaching people we build more room for play, more tools of interaction and more space for understanding. Relationships are transformed by what and how we learn and teach: who knows how to climb, has a different relationship with height, wind and rock.
More than sharing practices, we invest on living. Life by itself is the only project that lasts beyond our human scale of time, we carry it as a continuation of our species perspective of this world, and we can contribute with what stays beyond us, by sharing what we know and being curious towards what we don’t.
