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(This is not a love story. This is A &B + CRYING CYCLE III)
In2024, Daniel Matos & João Catarino began the collection The Crying Cycles, a trilogy reflecting on the present moment and the need for detachment and letting go in order to make a complete new beginning possible.
In this third part, they bring to a close the three-year journey alongside performer Joana Simões, surrendering everything they have gathered to the abyss. A floating dream shows us how deeply we lose ourselves and fail to see ourselves, how gentle it can be to disappear into something that swallows us, even if it remains invisible.
In the dancevideo Crying Cycle 3, we contemplate the end of this trilogy with thecertainty that sadness is a weapon for the future.
“... because, after all, wenever wanted anything.”
Daniel Matos (Lagos, 1996) is a choreographer, performer and visual artist. He has developed his work as a creator, artistic collaborator and performer both nationally and internationally. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with Ana Borralho & João Galante, Angélica Liddell, Davis Freeman and Romeo Castellucci, among others. Since 2016, his practice has focused on the body as a field of biographical, physical and emotional research, questioning and redrawing the idea of limits.
João Catarino (Faro, 1991) studied Photography and Post-production at Atelier de Imagem and Oil Painting at Nextart, Lisbon (2011). His work has been exhibited at Lx Factory, MOB and Fabrica Features, and published in PANTA magazine, Ever Magazine and Vice, with We Are Mitra. Since 2015, he has worked as a photographer and videographer, creating music videos, promotional videos, documentary projects and video mapping, as well as filming and editing documentation of dance, performance, theatre and music works.
Artistic direction, concept and editing
Daniel Matos & João Catarino
Performance and co-creation
Joana Simões
Camera operation and editing
João Catarino
Soundtrack
Daniel Matos
Production management
Joana Flor Duarte
Nautical support
Joana Silva
Production
CAMA a.c.
Funding
CDCR Algarve
Acknowledgements
To all those who still cry today.
Duration: 15 min.
Age rating: To be classified by the CCE.
