Concept and Direction: Rita Vilhena
Financial Support: República Portuguesa Cultura, Direção Geral das Artes
Support: Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Produções Independentes (PI), Encontros do Umbigo
PROGRAM:
1. E DEPOIS ERAM DOIS (Adapted Version)
The story of two 1's that become a 2.
An I and a YOU that become WE.
E DEPOIS ERAM DOIS, is a creative project directed by Mariana Gomes Dias and Francisco Freire, which results in a contemporary dance piece that explores Intimacy, and reflects on issues associated with it, such as EU-BODY-MIND, EU-OTHER, WE relationships, and the influence that the “outside” has on these relationships. The project also has a workshop for the general community.
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creation and interpretation: Mariana Gomes Dias e Francisco Freire
sound design: Francisco Freire
supported by: Companhia de Dança de Almada; Partícula Extravagante; Associação Cultural Movimento Presente
2. Danzafono
Inspired by the concept of John Cage's "4 minutes and 33 seconds", performed by the dancer Salud López in possible collaboration with other local dancers. The work is developed in three actions, where the performer is immersed in the space proposed by the action of the performance, experiencing different ways of interpreting silence. The work can be performed as solo, duo, trio or with an unlimited number of dancers who can be local. First action: Spectators watch choreography based on a series of words/concepts written down in a notebook years before: Slip, 10, words, time, darkness, darkness, emptiness, reality, loneliness, voice, float, death, life, renunciation, regret, fear. Second action: The spectators close their eyes, although it is not forbidden to open them, and listen to the dance. They can also put on a blindfold if they wish. The dancers interpret different representations about silence, its absence, its presence, its impossibility: slow movement, continuous movement of all parts of the body, start again, hit, backwards, on the horizontal floor, cross out, erase, body sounds, focus, breathe, absence of body parts, reflection, shadow, no voice, no movement. Third action: Spectators can choose one of the words from the first action and pronounce it out loud for the dancer to dance to; they can say it in any tempo they like and they can also echo other words said by others, creating a sound and choreographic score.
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idea, choreography, direction and interpretation: Salud López
conceptual, visual and sound space: John Cage
with the collaboration of the audience.
photography, video: José Antonio Bono
acknowledgements: Monica Coquoz
in collaboration with Factoría Cultural, LaboratorioSLD
organised by: en lugar de creación
3. ReNascer / CoMover
What can CoMmove us to ReBirth?
Inspired by the first phase of life, Cristina Benedita, Maria Bartilotti Matos, Genoveva Faísca and Silvestre Faísca search for the genesis of movement as a whole. What surrounds the body before birth, vibrating, pulsating or resonating?
Starting from poetics in the body to create movements, sounds, vocalizations and ambiences. An exercise in positioning ourselves in the world, placing ourselves at the same level as the beginning, the whole, the Earth, the air, the water, the plants and the animals. Let's give it a try.
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author: Cristina Benedita
interpretation and co-creation: Cristina Benedita (Dance and Voice) and Maria Bartilotti Matos (Dance)
sound design and drawings: Genoveva Faísca
videos and photographs: Silvestre Faísca
4. the horMoans
Two inhabitants of a distant land meet in a Turkish bath. In this place of pleasure and healing, where the senses are stimulated but decorum is the rule, a succession of unexpected events awakens responses in their bodies that are unknown to them. In an attempt to curb the indomitable beast contained in their casual attire, they find themselves exposed to the particularities of emotion and desire. Bodies run, fall, scream, sing, whistle, sweat, stay. In this grotesque derailment of the senses that stuns anyone, they question their beginnings, their impulses, their places. Will they recognize where they live?
In a cold expression of human loneliness, occupying the tangent between the comic and the tragic, the ice is broken and the bath becomes an arena. Who's watching?
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choreography and interpretation: Beatriz Mira & Tiago Barreiros
artistic assistance: Chantal Kohlmeyer
musical composition: João Caldas
woodwork: Pedro Mira
co-production: Studio Pro Arte / Frei Art Festival; 10 Sentidos Festival; Dance Festival Malta
funding & support: CAB - Centro Coreográfico de Lisboa; European Festivals Fund for Emerging Artists - EFFEA, an initiative of the European Festivals Association (EFA) co-founded by the European Union