Performer
Archive of PedroAfoxso’s work as a performer. A collection of dance, spoken-word, drama and more.
DRIFT, DARKNESS OR AM I DREAMING? (2024) - AN KUPER
The performance speculates about a future where artificial intelligence, robots and human(ity) merge and come into conclave. How do new technological developments relate to the human desire to delve into intense emotions and, sometimes even bestial, desires?
“We rest in the idea of being rotten, it is a frutiful place of discomfort”.
The piece was performed on December 6th and 7th 2024 at Nowhere Production House
cREDITS
Concept & choreography: An Kuper
Performers: Pedro Afonso Machado & An Kuper
Sound & Image: Lucian Squid
Photography: Job Hulsebosch
mOVEMENTS OF BACH: DANCE DIALOGUE (2024) - fernando oliveira
Movements of Bach: Dance Dialogue is a lively performance inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1. In this unique interpretation, the six movements of the suite are brought to life by dancers, each embodying a distinct character shaped by the emotional and rhythmic nuances of Bach’s music. The project weaves improvisation, dance and theater into a raw, ever-evolving performance.
The performers explore the interplay between movement and sound, with each rehearsal building on the previous one to form the final piece. Infused with spontaneity and passion, this performance is not meant to be a finished end product, but a work-in-progress that captures the energy and life of creation in real time.
An immersive experience that blurs the boundaries of music and dance.
The piece was performed on November 24th 2024 at the Nassaukern in Amsterdam.
cREDITS
Concept & choreography: Fernando Oliveira
Musician: Giorgos Kotsiolis
Performers: Pedro Afonso Machado & Rebecca Lillich Krüger, Carmela (Lela) Di Constanzo, Sofia Garcia Miramon, Fernando Oliveira
Photography: Michiel Goudswaard
De val van hercules (2023) - jort faber
De val van Hercules is an immersive dance theater experience based on a create your own adventure theme. It is like you are walking through a movie that is happening everywhere around you. The ten performers have their own path and storyline within the over arching narrative of the piece, throughout the entire four story building of the museum.
De val van Hercules dives into the theme of masculinity and masculine energy within everyone. The performance serves as a statement against the representation of toxic masculinity within society as well as researching and offering new ways of reshaping masculinity as a word and concept. Derving from Greek mythology with it’s heroes and gods, and drawing a parallel line between the Dutch 17th century, the production cirtizes the glorification of these characters and aims to shine a new light upon how we see these stories.
The piece was performed 9 times in October and November 2023 at the Westfries Museum in Hoorn.
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cREDITS
Concept & choreography: Jort Faber
Rehearsal Assistant: Carlo Camangi
Performers: Pedro Afonso Machado, Roberta Maimone, Nel, Sloan Caldwell, Rebecca Lillich Krüger, Wojciech Furman, Lenna Schouten, Rachele Chinellato, Ekaterina Andreevna, Sam Corver
Set Design: Rebecca Lillich Krüger
Photography: Coco Junge
EMPATHIC CHAMBER #0 (2023) - YASMINE HUGGONET
From copying to empathy, what are the movements?
Is this what looks like us? The piece plays with the desires for “common”, in the langages, in the space. It wishes to share the inventiveness and beauty of the state we are in, when we are learning, or in an appropriation process. It is for instance a composition of two distinct presences: a person who plunges into the adventure of the gesture to generate the movement, i.e. a “source” person . And another person, an empathic “double” who can move along the entire creative scale that exists between non-participatory observation to the formal and totally faithful imitation of the language of the “source”.
What do I recognize, what do I want to appropriate? It is a question of exploring the stakes of the appropriation of the other’s language by an affective and mimetic empathy. To sense the nascent gesture, to pursue it, to deduce it, to precede it, to induce it…. The performance is based on the tools developed as part of my ongoing research on the concomitance of stillness and movement and voice, on attention and the practice of reciprocity. I will be part of a serie of works that will research upon the Empathy.
The piece was performed on June 2023 at the Amsterdam Academy of Theater and Dance.
cREDITS
Concept & choreography: Yasmine Hugonnet in collaboration with the dancers
Assistant choreographer: Stephanie Bayle
Repetitor: Vivianne Rodrigues de Brito
Dancers: Bryan Nurhakim, Dicko-Andrea Din, Grėtė Vosyliūtė, Jimi Dormans, Pedro Afonso Machado and Peer Jonkers
Photography: Jérôme Pique
AND THEN IT BECOMES THAT (2023) - ISABEL CORDEIRO & ROPES ALIGNED
Sixteen students from Expanded Contemporary Dance at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam defy gravity with vertical dance, together with and building on the research of Ropes Aligned (Suzanne de Bekker and Natasja Bode) and Isabel Cordeiro. Inspired by the first attempts to understand gravity dating back to the Greek philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BC, the universe is conveniently beneath his feet), the students, floating, defying gravity, establish new relationships between their bodies and the elements. Moving away from Aristotle’s geocentric view of the universe, the students venture into an unknown space and rebuild/redefine this space by giving it their own interpretation: “And then it will be.”
The piece was performed on April 25th and 26th 2023 at the NDSM.
cREDITS
Choreography: Isabel Cordeiro, Ropes Aligned | Suzanne de Bekker & Natasja Bode i.c.w. the students
Performers: Dicko-Andrea Din, Jimi Dormans, Marilou Fortune, Nara Goncalves, Maira Darja Horvath, Peer Jonkers, Wiktoria Kolcon, Amisha Kumra, Ugnė Irene Laurinavičiūtė, Ryan Le-Nguyen, Dengling Levine, Pedro Afonso Machado, Bryan Nurhakim, Tara Pula, Rowan van Sen, Gretė Vosyliūtė, Ina Wojdyła
Advisor: Keren Levi
Production: WhyNot and ECD
Rigging: Roan Lo-a Njoe
Special thanks to: Marc Koolen from PickUp Club, NDSM Loods and Roos Oudt
Photography: Munaycha
SOMEWHERE ELSE (2022) - ADAM JöNSSON
Somewhere Else is a performance that took part in the SNDOxECD project in 2022. SNDOxECD is a project where students of two dance departments of the Academy of Theatre and Dance work together. A collaboration between 3rd year choreographers of the SNDO and dancers from 2nd year of the ECD, is an annual tradition and valuable part of the curriculum. The programs are presented in Veem House for Performance.
The project allows a generation of makers and performers to experiment, explore and develop language of collaboration together, creating an environment where creativity of everyone is activated to make a choreographic work. It is learning about leading and following, understood as dynamic and relational process, about collaborating and exploring how idea moves into becoming the material and what is the role or choreographer and what of performer in shaping and crafting that material.
This performance, created by Adam Jönsson dives into the word of daydreaming with a maximalist perspective of “more is more”. The performers research the feeling of what it is to act out the wishes and desires of the mind and the dissociating nature that daydreaming involves.
The performance was presented at the “Veem House for Performance” on April 19th and 20th of 2022.
cREDITS
Adam Jönsson – Maker
Pedro Afonso Machado; Ugnė Laurinavičiūtė, Jacopo Marrese & Layla Miño – Performers
Nellie de Boer – Photography