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. Banca de Ideias - Snakes Oil Sales Woman

A fortune teller who brings in her cards and visions what is missing, the pinch of salt, the secret ingredient to transform the best art, YOURS, into something unique and sublime. 
His ideas become your ideas at the snap of a finger! All this for free - at least apparently.... Everything has a price!
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creation and interpretation: Marta Félix
dramaturgy and scenic space support: Guilherme da Luz


2. Exist

"I'm interested in working in the quiet place of memory. 
I exist in the obsession to understand the mystery of the body. 
I've understood the importance of writing in my own language. 
Although I sometimes feel lost in a desert in Siberia, this is what allows me to understand the body. 
As if through this collection of essays I'm getting closer to its true identity, I want to show what nobody wants to say. 
I want to find that secret place of the body, and through the video device, expose it intimately. 
I want to create in others the friction that exists in me."
Diana Niepce
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conception and artistic direction: Diana Niepce
performers: Diana Niepce, Bruno Freitas
director and video editor: João Meirinhos
curator: Justyna Wielgus
assistance: Silvana Ivaldi
acknowledgments: André Tavares Marçal, Joaquim Gouveia, Jonny Kadaver, Tânia Guerreiro
Production Project "Exit": Marceli Sulecki,Fundacja Teatr 21


3. PISCES

PISCES is an intimate short film that takes the viewer on a journey to another world. This surreal other world is not fictitious, but a portrait of a real encounter between two human beings in/with depth, in a place where rarefied words cannot reach.
The images presented were not produced or planned/choreographed in advance. The work is a quasi-documentary that seeks to portray the inner experience of the bodies-beings involved in this textless narrative.
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direction/editing: Francisco Borges
camera: Francisco Borges; Geraldin Acevedo; Stephan Ngan
dance: Geraldin Acevedo; Francisco Borges; Cardume de Peixes Anónimos
music: Keke Sol & Francisco Borges
photo: Stephan Ngan


4. A touch of life

A touch of life.
A seed, a sprout, a human life growing.
Here and there for a while, with arms reaching for the skies until it's complete cycle finds the way back into the emptiness. Enriching the soil for something new to emerge. I become we, we become them, the trees, the skies, the millions of beings that breathe life, like the trace of a thought that appears and disappears. If these eyes open to see more clearly, will it unfold in front of me like the endless gift of every coming breath?
Is this beauty in itself, or is it just in my eyes?
Like you, like me. I touch them and they touch me with a bitter sweet touch of life.
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film by: Alexa Papa
videographers: Francisco Borges; Movana Chen
video editor: Alexa Papa
sound: Alexa Papa; Francisco Borges


5. Q.B.
Q.B is a performance-cooking installation promoted by artist Helena Elias, which celebrates collective creativity through the sharing of creative acts to make food while sharing and eating in communion.  The proposal aims to offer iterations for the experience of the common, through sharing and collective empathy, summoning multi sensoriality for collective creation. It has been adapted to various domestic and public contexts (FIAR-Palmela Festival, collective lunch at the What Will Be is What We Will Conference, and at home - before and during the pandemic). 
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concept: Helena Elias
support: IHA, ICNOVA, VICARTE_FBAUL