Interactive Performance

Dance / Visual Arts / New Media

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by Unloop Collective

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Co-creation and execution:​

Sara Montalvão, David Negrão

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Performer:

Sara Montalvão

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How does memory translate into the body? This is the question that guides the Unloop collective, which proposes installations and games on stage combining the visual and movement arts. Memory is both personal and collective, traversing and registering impressions in the body that are expressed in different textures. Memory is also an associative and synesthetic process that creates identity(ies). Here, the audience plays visually with the performer, affecting her as they navigate through her biography - a parallel to how memory is made up of meanings that are mixed and reinterpreted, giving rise to a constant internal mutation - the self connects with the whole, discovering and diluting itself in the dreamlike succession of reality.  

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Hosted by:

Artemis Gallery, Lisbon 

(September 2024)

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Dance / Music

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Concept and Direction by Sara Montalvão

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Collective Creation by

Aman Ehsan, Ustad Fazel Sapand - music ;

Magnum Soares, Sara Montalvão - choreography and performance ;

Sérgio Walgood - sound design

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Semente Simurgh is an incubator for a project that crosses live music with contemporary dance in unconventional and intimate spaces. A work in progress that sustains itself on the cultural exchange of its team and in the collective composition between sound design, originally persian and indic music with bodies that establish a dialogue with its own backgrounds.​

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Performed at:

Quinta Alegre,

Pólo Cultural Gaivotas,

Lisboa, Jun.2023

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Support and Partnerships:

Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Pólo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista /

Quinta Alegre / Largo Residências / Apuro Associação

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Illustration by Jeeva Samanera

Contemporary Dance /

Physical Theatre

 

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Directed by Ana Mula

Performed by:

Clara Alvim, Darya Efrat, Sara Montalvão

Premiered at May 2021 at Festival Kaleidoscopio, Teatro Circo de Murcia (ES)

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June 2021, Palcos Instáveis, Teatro Municipal do Porto - Campo Alegre (PT)

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Cross-disciplinary Show

Physical theatre, Dance, Aerial Acrobacy, VJing

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Company Teatro do Mar

Concept and Artistic Direction:

Julieta Aurora Santos

 

Cast Tour 2019:

Carlos Campos, Luís João Mosteias, Sara Montalvão, Sérgio Vieira
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National and International Tour:

from April to October 2019

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https://teatrodomar.com/web/en/mies_portfolio/insomnio/

Contemporary Dance

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Solo performance created by:

Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Rivoli TMP, Porto

Final presentation of Pós-Graduação em Dança Contemporânea  (June 2018)

Performance

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Created and performed by:

Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Maus Hábitos - Groove Ball (December 2017)

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teaser:

https://vimeo.com/253780150

Contemporary Dance

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Solo performance created by:

Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Espaço Compasso, Porto (August 2016);

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Crew Hassan, Lisbon (August 2016);

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Cultivamos Cultura, São Luís, Festival Montras '16 (August 2016);

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street performances - Salamanca and Cáceres , Spain (August 2016);

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Pyramide - Castandet , France (April 2016)

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5NYc-XFQHA&list=PL1YRT4TRhgomb7fey96JT0iZVWwwwBfpe&index=1

Short Film

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Cinema

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Directed by: Jotta Dúbio

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Cast:

João Gadelha, Cláudia Pinto, Mafalda Banquart, Mafalda Canhola, Jaime Soares, Sara Montalvão

Contemporary Dance

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Choreographed and performed by:

Mafalda Deville

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Solo performance by Mafalda Deville with the collaboration of the young Luísa Campos and 15 women (Ana Carina Almeida, Ana Dias, Ana Dora Borges, Andrea Mesquita, Catarina Feijão, Daniela Cruz, Eva Azevedo, Evelina Lino, Iliana Oliveira, Monika Pundyk, Raquel Araújo, Rita Paupério, Sara Montalvão, Susana Manso, Susana Oliveira and Xana Novais)

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Performances:

Quintas de Leitura, festa 12 anos,

Teatro do Campo Alegre TMP , Porto (May 2013)

Theatre

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Company Teatro Universitário do Porto

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Staged by: Rosa Quiroga

 

Performed by:

Amana Duarte, Bárbara Sá, Bruno Dias, Carla Capela, Daniel Viana, Emanuel Santos, Joana Martinho, Nuno Campos, Marco Barbosa, Sara Montalvão, Tiago Vouga

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Performances:

TUP , Porto (April 2008);

Festival FATAL, Lisbon (May 2008)

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International Training Project /

Visual, Soundscape and Documental Exhibition

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by Sara Montalvão

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Creation, Project Execution and Management:

Sara Montalvão

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Immersion into Gaga Technique is an exhibition that shares, through visual, sound and written records, the experience of the artist Sara Montalvão in Israel and Palestine from August 2 to October 9, 2023. It presents the connection between concepts from the Gaga movement language (developed by Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin) and the territorial context in which it arose, through landscapes and people. These are records of a formative experience that goes beyond the dance studio. Throughout her journey, Sara interviewed and photographed 13 people, bridging the concepts of Gaga with life. To these interviews she adds photographic and audiovisual records of different places and everyday situations, and her own written records of the Gaga concepts developed, as well as reflections on them. She documents, in a raw and simple way, bringing an anthropological aspect to the vision that her personal senses were able to experience. It is a personal sharing of a journey and an exploration in a singular context where beauty and tension meet on a fragile threshold.

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Hosted by:

MIRA Artes Performativas, Porto

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Support: DG Artes, Fundação GDA

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Exhibition on view from January 4th to 6th, 2024

New Media / Bio - Art / Research

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by Unloop Collective

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Research project by

David Negrão and Sara Montalvão

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BIO LOOP is a research project that aims to combine the contemporary dance language with visual digital art, using personal memories as the means to affect and influence the development of a live performance that is a game played by the spectator.  We researched different types of sensors in order to make them able to capture data that can be measurable through stimulating individual memory. Through an intimate conversation, we make use of both symbolic and scientific language in order to create a selection mode that will lead the spectator to travel through different visual sets. In this game between memory and performative fantasy, to each visual atmosphere there is a particular choreographic set that is matched. BIO LOOP is the development of resources to be used in the UNLOOP world.

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Institutional support - DG Artes

Artistic Residencies Support - Cultivamos Cultura

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Interactive Video - Art/Dance Film

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by Unloop Collective

 

Co-created by

Sara Montalvão and David Negrão

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Performed by Sara Montalvão

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MICRO DOC of the creative process:

https://vimeo.com/459855431 

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PUBLIC ONLINE VIEWING - EKO VIDEO :

https://video.eko.com/v/Vo1jZx?autoplay=true  

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Permanent Online Festival 2021 - FACTT 20/21 IMPROBABLE TIMES - by ARTE INSTITUTE:

http://factt.arteinstitute.org/portfolio-item/sara-montalvao-david-negrao-loop-mental/ 

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Music Videoclip

"Memory Stone" for Debunker

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Dance - performed by:

Sara Montalvão

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video:

https://www.facebook.com/debunker.pt/videos/2499520946796154/

Inclusive Dance

 

Espaço T - production

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Artistic Direction and choreographed by:

Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Palcos para a Inclusão /

Corpo-Evento, Rivoli TMP, Porto (June 2018)

Music videoclip "Leve como uma pena"

for Ana Bacalhau

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Directed by:

André Tentúgal

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Dancers:

Albertina Costa, Andreia Beleza, Carolina Sousa, Catarina Marques, Sara Montalvão, Clara de Campos Alvim, Elisa Zuppini, Ludovica Daddi, Susana Figueiredo

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video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhI9uPDrX1E

Theatre/Animated Objects 

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Created by:

Sara Montalvão, Teresa Alpendurada

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Directed by: Teresa Alpendurada

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Performed by: Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Several public schools in Porto (December 2015)

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZes9EERQ0k

Short Film

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Cinema

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Directed by: Edgar Pêra

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Cast:

Adelaide Teixeira, Carla Gouveia, Diana Sá, Gisela Matos, Jorge Prendas, Miguel Borges, Rebeca da Cunha, Sara Montalvão, Soraia Sousa, Valdemar Santos

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UzH1cI3LRbY

Contemporary Dance

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Created and Performed by:

José Artur Campos, Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

Teatro do Campo Alegre TMP, Mostra de Jovens Criadores (Cia. Instável), Porto (June 2013);

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Mosteiro São Bento da Vitória TNSJ, Festival MAP/P , Porto (July 2013)

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN4R_fNZaLo&t=2s

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Theatre

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Company Teatro Universitário do Porto

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Staged by: Jacinto Durães

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Performed by:

final performance by the students of the drama performance course by TUP (2006)

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Performances:

Teatro do Campo Alegre TMP, Porto

(June 2006)

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Contemporary Theatre / Dance / AI /

Hybrid Scene

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by Agrupación Señor Serrano (BCN, ES)

 

Artistic Direction:

Pau Palacios, Alex Serrano

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Performers:

Carlota Grau, Lia Volgemuth, Bartosz Baxi Ostrowski, Sara Montalvão

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Choreography: Nuria Gui

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Pre-premiers:​

Teatro Municipal Luísa Todi, Setúbal

Festival FITEI, Porto

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Premiere:

Festival Grec, Barcelona, July 2023

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Currently touring internationally

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Dance / Visual Arts / New Media /

Game Design

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by Unloop Collective

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Artistic Direction by

Sara Montalvão, David Negrão

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Visuals - David Negrão

Choreography - Sara Montalvão

Sound Design - Sérgio Walgood

Communication & Management Assistance - Rita Piteira 

Design - Thiago Liberdade

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UNLOOP is an interdisciplinary and collaborative project created in the context of an artistic residency, taking place in different territories and bringing together diverse performers. Interactivity is taken as the starting point for a creative ensemble and for a performative experience that takes place on site, presenting itself as a game between spectators and performers. The choices made by the audience will shape what is performed and seen. This is an ongoing project, delving into the labyrinth of personal and collective memories.

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Performers UNLOOP__#1

 Ana Toro, Giselle Jardim, Jose Ignacio Avila, Marta Azul, Méguy Araújo, Mileida Costa, Sara Mercier

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Performers UNLOOP__#2

Adriana Pereira, Martina Mugheddu, Pablo Martinez Melo, Riccardo Galluccio, William Phoenix Primett, Wong Nok Wallace, Zarina Rondón

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Contemporary Dance

 

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Co-created and Performed by:

Diletta Bindi e Sara Montalvão

 

As opposed to light, the shadow represents everything that is unreal, elusive and subject to change. If, on the one hand, the shadow is the absence of light, on the other, we can consider it as a point of balance - the nature of the shadow requires both light and darkness and only emerges once a body or element is in the light.
Perceiving one's own shadow, observing it, feeling it, playing with it and challenging it are the premises for a choreographic score that aims to play with the viewer's perspective.

Premiered at festival InShadow - Lisbon ScreenDance Festival 2019, Lisbon at:

Museu da Marioneta (school sessions)

Auditório de Marvila (general audience)

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Tour 2020:

Armazém 22 (Vila Nova de Gaia)

Cine-Teatro Louletano (Loulé)

Centro Cultural Malaposta (Odivelas)

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www.facebook.com/sombrasperformance/ 

Dance-Theatre, Bilingual Inclusive 

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Company VoArte, CiM – Companhia de Dança

Artistic Direction :

Ana Rita Barata, Pedro Senna Nunes

Staged and choreographed by :

Ana Rita Barata, Bruno Rodrigues

Cast :

Armando Luís, Lucília Raimundo, Marta Sales, Pedro Ribeiro, Sara Montalvão, Tony Weaver

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Performances:

Teatro do Bairro, Lisboa (October 2018);

Festival INART - Teatro Municipal São Luiz, Lisboa (February 2019);

No Limits Festival , Athens, Greece (May 2019);

tour 2020 - agenda to be defined

Contemporary Dance/Animated Object

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Solo Performance created by:

Sara Montalvão

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Performances:

FIMP'17 (Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto), Porto - shown as WIP - work in progress -

residency program Teatro de Ferro, Porto (October 2017)

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KI_AIFpNwNE&index=12&list=PL1YRT4TRhgomb7fey96JT0iZVWwwwBfpe

Artistic Residency

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Erasmus+ project

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"Cultural Education Through Dance-Theatre"

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organised by

ECHODRAMA Cultural Group (Greece) & TFF TheaterFilmFest (Germany),

 

Skiathos, Greece, 2017.

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video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk2gldLQkUQ&index=14&list=PL1YRT4TRhgomb7fey96JT0iZVWwwwBfpe&t=4s

Street Performance​

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Dance / Body Puppet

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Created and performed by:

Sara Montalvão

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for Lëzimbar Troupe (FR)

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Performances:​

touring with Lëzimbar Troupe (France), Tournée Générale  (August 2015);

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Festival Noc Noc Guimarães (September 2015)

Contemporary Dance

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Choreographed by:

Mafalda Deville

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Performances:

Teatro do Campo Alegre TMP, Porto (June 2014)

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teaser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BhTw-2tzrI

Creation and construction of Animated Objects

 

Handmade work by : Sara Montalvão

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Handmade creative work of objects that can be animated and manipulated, each character has an articulated skeleton. The work relies on principles of sustainability, recycling materials and handcrafts's skills. 

 

These characters exist as guardians of a human being or are there to serve oniric-artistic purposes.

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some portfolio:

visit www.facebook.com/bunequiz    

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a video: 

Special appearance at the videoclip "I wanna get high" by Paul & Manuel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qtjTQJYVgU