1. Enchendo o saco
synopsis:
The repetitiveness, the banality of the gesture and the automatism of the "Enchendo o Saco" action create an atmosphere of boredom. The operation carried out is a materialization of idleness (gesture of smoking a cigarette), through bagged smoke. By offering a container to what is left of the action of smoking (smoke), the production of an installation (agglomeration of bags) begins, a visible and quantifiable result of this banal gesture, pure delight, unproductivity and the improper use of time. There is, in this action, therefore, a resignification of the unproductive to the productive. Enchendo o Saco dialogues with Andy Warhol's performance "Eating a Humburguer" and with the text "Notes on the Gesto" by Giorgio Agamben. How can this invitation to idleness, to waste time and to inhabit a boring atmosphere, affect the passing public?
concept and interpretation: Ique Larica Gazzola
2. Too weird to live, too rare to die
synopsis:
What happens when an abnormal soul meets a clumsy body? It yanks the body through time and space like a doll, not caring weather it causes pain or weather it twists it like someone twists a wet towel. As this body was so independent before, it doesn’t know any kind of control, nor did it have thoughts on its own, therefore it does and thinks anything the soul commands- even if it’s weird, even if it doesn’t make any kind of sense. The tables, the chair, the blazer and the shoes- this ‘room’ around this human creates the scene of craziness, where nothing’s really what it seems to be.
creation and interpretation: Panna Pozsony
music: J.S. Bach, Jefferson Airplane, Livery Stable Blues
3. O quê?
synopsis:
An actress, a dancer and a ballerina will meet on stage. "What?" arises from the desire to bring these three performers together in a performance space where the basic language comes from Samuel Beckett's play "Not I". In "What?" there will be three of them telling the story of this mouth, three frantic bodies vomiting up the past and the present. In this piece we'll be able to see the incommunicability between the beings that occupy the performative space - beings that emit, but don't really have a receiver.
creation: Mariana Silva
performance: Mariana Tiago, Pedro de Aires and Inês Fonseca
music: Mats Gustafsson and Graig Taborn
4. O CÂNCER
sinopse:
It's a reflective monologue that addresses issues such as racism, prejudice, colonialism and their consequences. It also highlights ancestry, habits and customs, making it clear that humanity is essentially a community and that a disturbance of collective peace and violent aggression against an elder perpetuates suffering. khristall Afrika uses ancestral codes, confirming that the human solution lies essentially in the use of the UBUNTU philosophy, because I only exist because you exist.
text and interpretation: khristall Áfrika
staging: khristall Áfrika
artistic direction: Guigo Ribeiro
sound: Leandro Quintas
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