VORTICE DANCE COMPANY | CHROMA
www.vorticedance.com
CHROMA
BE WHO YOU WANT. ANYWHERE. ANYTIME.
A new work by Cláudia Martins & Rafael Carriço
Artistic direction, Choreography, video contents, costumes, set
Cláudia Martins / Rafael Carriço
Sharing stage with us:
Bruno Paredes, Manuela Linhares, Allan Cameron, Ellis Gilbert, Francisco Maduro
Technical direction
Nuno Martins
Special thanks to
Teatro José Lúcio da Silva
Artistic director, José Pires
Technical and production teams
CHROMA
Being Where You Want, Whenever You Desire
If Chroma plays such a significant role in reproducing and manipulating colors, we have arrived at a formula that allows us to materialize thoughts and desires that can no longer remain in the darkness of immateriality.
In CHROMA, the action unfolds using Chroma Key technology. Through this, we reach virtual environments that we experience in real time, on a journey that is never-ending. In Chroma, we move from dream to dream with the swiftness of the verb "to want."
Without a linear narrative, we dare to feel heat out of season, to experience timelessness, to sense the passion of another life, to have flaws that there (wherever that may be) are virtues, to drink Indian tea in an mismatched ritual, always within the logic of "humanly imperfect," so that we awaken without the weight of late hours.
Naked of prejudices, we proceed, adjusting sadness in lost gazes, redefining the color of happiness, emptying blue into crystal cascades, softening the darkness of sleepless nights, and enhancing the red of smiles as they close.
Imagining feeds the veins of thought and saturates the horizon of freedom—the freedom to be where you want, whenever you desire.
In the realm of technology and video editing, "Chroma" refers to the purity or intensity of color within a specific visual context. It denotes the saturation or vibrancy of color in an image and constitutes one of the three main characteristics that define a color, alongside its hue and brightness (lightness or darkness).