Parallel Memories

In collaboration with renowned Brazilian choreographer Jorge Garcia, Parallel Memories is an exciting and explosive collage of their collective memories and experiences as individuals and artists that unfolds on the stage and invites the audience to witness their captivating duet.

Starting with the monochromatic promise of an empty black box space, a roll of tape and a piece of chalk, Abreu and Garcia trace their heritage and recreate important moments that have marked their lives. Abreu’s movement with tape creates linear patterning and spatial divisions developing into a percussive marking out of time and rhythm. Garcia works with chalk swirling and curving in an ornate contrast to Abreu’s geometry mapping and imprinting their paths as the black box theatre becomes the reflection of their joint timeline.