O que (te) diz a dança?

O que (te) diz a dança? is a cycle that aims to broaden the perception of what dance is and demystify the idea that contemporary dance is not for everyone. Based on a set of three creations, the cycle unfolds in performances, talks and workshops.

Coreografia em Sala de Aula
by João dos Santos Martins with Adriano Vicente

A few centuries ago, someone decided to invent a way of writing dances on paper and then passing them on to other people to learn by heart. The dance became a drawing and a language that could be read and passed on to someone else’s body. From body to paper, from paper to body. It was like “dancing” a language and “speaking” a dance, without really understanding where one begins and the other ends.

Choreography: João dos Santos Martins
Interpretation: Adriano Vicente
Production: Materiais Diversos and Associação Parasita
Materiais Diversos and Associação Parasita are funded by República Portuguesa | Cultura-Direção Geral das Artes

Age classification: M/6
Duration: 30 min (approx.)

a besta, as luas
(inside version)
by Elizabete Francisca

Strongly based on the verse I don’t obey because I’m wet, from the song Banho, performed by Elza Soares, I propose to enunciate, through gestures and sounds, a possible representation of the political geography of a non-submissive body.

At a time when so many bodies and voices can hardly exist, it is urgent to claim a place of resistance, transforming possible weaknesses into arrows and powers. The body as a political weapon, the last stronghold of any experience, a cry. An affirmation of individuality, in reconciliation with its identity and sexuality: from sex to the head, from the head to the cosmos, from the cosmos to the ground. A possible mantra to keep me off balance.

Creation and Performance: Elizabete Francisca
Sound design and live operation: Kino Sousa
Costume design: Carlota Lagido
Light design (interior version): Tiago Gandra
Production: Elizabete Francisca
Support/residence: A Casa do Burrikórnio, Associação Luzlinar/ Projecto Pontes, Damas Bar, Companhia Olga Roriz – Interferências21 Festival, Espaço do Tempo – ETFEST
Acknowledgments: Carlos Manuel Oliveira, Julia Salem and Vânia Doutel Vaz
Project supported by: Garantir Cultura- Fundo de Fomento Cultural and Fundação GDA

*a besta, as luas can be presented in two versions: outside (site-specific) and inside (stage)

Age rating: M/6
Duration: 35 min (approx.)

8€ * discounts apply

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Um gesto que não passa de uma ameaça
by Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz

Just like when we repeat a word until it loses its meaning, in this work we try to situate ourselves in that moment of loss and attribution of meaning, of degeneration and transformation, going against the chaotic way in which our mind perceives and associates events. In this way, we free ourselves from semantic and syntactic determinisms, disguise the apparent hierarchy between word, voice, movement and gesture and aspire to new constellations of meaning that reflect the complexity of human experience that is so naively tried to be contained in systems and models.

Direction, text and performance: Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz
Sound: Sofia Dias
Artistic collaboration: Catarina Dias (on-stage images)
Technical direction and lighting: Nuno Borda de Água
Costumes: Lara Torres
Co-production: Box Nova/Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo), Companhia de Dança Contemporânea de Évora (Évora)
Partners: Alkantara (Lisbon), Associação Cultural Companhia Clara Andermatt (Lisbon), O Rumo do Fumo (Lisbon), O Negócio/ZDB (Lisbon), Bains Connective (Brussels)
Project financed by: Government of Portugal/Secretary of State for Culture – DGArtes
Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz is a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic – Culture I DGARTES – Directorate-General for the Arts.

Age classification: M/6
Duration: 40 min (approx.)

7,5€ * discounts apply

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