Outside the Box

As artists we are accepted and given freedom to conceive and perform our poetic "criminalities" – often questioning and subverting the normal – provided it is done at the appropriate time and place. Strangely enough, both acclamation and aversion might be expressed by an audience towards the very same behavior seen on the stage versus in the street. It is a surprising realisation that this apparent inconsistency is framed only by the contexts of time and space, without responding directly to the actual expression itself. Are you content to find your inevitable artistic expression confined in a "boxed" reality, provided and dictated by society?

Outside the Box is grounded on extensive physical and mental explorations – both in and outdoors. We want to raise awareness upon our functioning model by examining conditioned perceptions and encouraging the deconstruction of habitual patterns/responses. Liberating ourselves from obligation to any preexisting rules, we are seemingly left in a void guided by our senses/memory; from where the movements we make may take on new meaning in the context of daily life. This unfamiliar and possibly intimidating landscape can in fact provide an extremely fertile terrain for new discoveries – where the "naked" body itself is trusted in creation. What is left is an unknown artist - without name and accreditations to rely on – trapped, yet free, in the continual "play" of this world.



Bruno Caverna
Born in Rio de Janeiro and based in Europe since 2000, Bruno Caverna has always been fascinated by the fine art of movement. At the age of 10 he began practising Capoeira (a Brazilian martial art), which led him to work at a circus as an acrobat in 1993. The year after Bruno discovered contemporary dance, a significant turning point for realising that dance was the missing link, an opening for a world of endless possibilities. Over the past 18 years, Bruno has been moving through a thread of uncompromised dedication in the art of integrating his visions and expertise from various dance modalities and disciplines into a corporal language of his own. In 2003 the culmination of this integrative process was expressed through the rise of a refined floor technique strongly influenced by animal’s movement and woven with principles of water flow.

Next to that, Caverna has always been ready to reinvigorate the passion of his profession with an inevitable humane impulse to interact with people from all walks of life. This quality has propelled him to engage into eclectic projects of social flavours like: teaching dance at refugee camps, jails, psychiatric clinics, communities with disadvantages in the Amazon region, to mention a few.
Bruno has also taught workshops in collaboration with David Zambrano, Frey Faust, Rasmus Ölme and has choreographed for the "National Ballet of Norway" and "De Stilte" a Dutch Company specialised in performance pieces for children, and is constantly invited to teach his method in the major dance arenas of Europe and overseas.

Marcela Giesche
Marcela Giesche (US/DE) is a freelance artist currently based in Berlin, Germany. She has taught and presented her work in the US, Canada, and across Europe. In the past three years she has been working extensively with Bruno Caverna as a dancer, teacher, and choreographer. She has also been developing her own research in movement improvisation with strong focus on partnering, musicality, and spatial/energetic awareness. Playing in the fertile crossing ground between dance on stage and movement/improvisation in the street continues to inform and inspire her creative work and life. Dance happens when we let our imagination run away with our bodies!