The Instrument
Fader
An exchange project between The Instrument and Companhia de Investigação Cênica, evolving around Brazilian traditional drumming (Curimbó) in the state of Pará, north of Brazil. Following a rich encounter with two dancers from the company in Berlin, we were invited to create a group piece in Belém - the capital and largest city in the state of Pará. Absorbing life and culture in the gateway to the river Amazon, Fader speaks straight from the hearts and guts of the performers whose love of music and traditional rhythms is striking and powerful in their movement.

This cave
under concrete boiling
beneath all titles
sweet and cruel,

Here we bend rules
here we speak softly
to the sound of a drum

Peeling layers of dust and sweat
naked to the bone
we turn back innocent

and when our mouth is full
with purple milk
night fades out
and day fades in

choreography: Maya M. Carroll
sound installation and music: Roy Carroll
carimbo: Edson Santana
dance: Ícaro Dos Passos, Danilo Bracchi, Marluce Oliveira, Marina Trindade, Michele Campos de Miranda, Andrea Torres-Lopez, Milton Santos de Jesus, Patrick Mendes
costumes: Anibal Pacha
production: Cia. de Investigação Cênica
premiered at: Teatro Waldemar Henrique, Belém, November 23, 2013

photos: Marcelo Rodrigues
work list

Temporal Terrestrial Series
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2024
Personas
Eyes held wild horizons
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2023
What Waves What Lands
Interview with a Body
Illustrations
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2022
Eternal Returns
Landscape Songs
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2021
Spin Tuner
Descending Dreams
of a Transparent Body

INTERBEING
ONETIME
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2020
Phantom My Love
Temporal, Terrestrial 8
Temporal, Terrestrial 7
ALL NATURE
Field Scores
Confinement
Temporal, Terrestrial 6
Encapsulation
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2019
Temporal, Terrestrial 5
Bloodsong
Temporal, Terrestrial 4
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2018
Temporal, Terrestrial 3
Temporal, Terrestrial 2
Temporal, Terrestrial 1
She Stone Sea
The Light Beneath Reaches
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2017
Peer
Ingesture
Amar
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2016
Night Glass Day Mirror
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2015
Eyes on Mars
Score 4
Instrumental Bodies
Unraveled Heroes
Tone Undertow
Tide Visible
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2014
Alkaline Birds
While House
Ten Horizons
Tendership
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2013
Fader
Dreadnought
Snake
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2012
Exercise
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2011
The Needle
Magic Valley
Undergrowth
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2010
Transforma
Hide
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2009
Closed Room
A Living Thing
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2008
Frost
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2007
Mem
Shlomot
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2006
Girl Bites Hand
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Maya M Carroll earlier work
Umpf (2006)
Numas Dream (2006)
Once (2005)
Bruno (2004)