To See in the Dark

SPECTATORS CLUB

To See in the Dark is a mobile gathering of spectacle lovers, promoting intimate and regular encounters between artists and spectators, but also between spectators and each other, forming an ephemeral community formed by the pleasure of seeing and discussing the world through the magnifying glass that is a stage. Each meeting is enriched by a conversation in which the issues brought up by the works, artists and spectators are discussed.

Since 2017, we have been developing To see in the Dark, a spectators’ club created to consolidate a more participatory and critical audience community. Through monthly meetings, between 2017 and 2019, we brought spectators from Alcanena, Torres Novas and Cartaxo to Lisbon to see and talk about shows. A version of the project was also created for dance students, with each show accompanied by a choreographic laboratory. In 2020, we held an online spectators’ club for a wider audience. In 2021, To See in the Dark took place in Cartaxo, in a school context, where the exploration of artistic objects led to a debate on how art builds imaginaries, memories and stories. In 2022, we returned to the face-to-face auditorium format and refocused the project on the Cineteatro São Pedro in Alcanena. In 2023, To See in the Dark is a program that focuses on building a community of spectators in the region, passing through Alcanena, Lisbon and Ourém. Thus, we begin by attending a show at the Cineteatro São Pedro in Alcanena, but we then take part in the O que (te) diz a dança? cycle in Ourém, and then head to Lisbon to take part in the Teatro xpto program. The cycle ends at a more intensive pace with three shows as part of the program for the Materiais Diversos 2023 Festival.

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PROGRAMME

March 9th | 21h

Culturgest

The Other Side of Dance

Diana Niepce

In The Other Side of Dance, choreographer and performer Diana Niepce brings to the stage the voices of the invisible in dance history: bodies outside the norm. The work is structured around the study and in-depth analysis of the physics and movement of artists outside the norm, appropriating and transforming the language into their own identity. Diana Niepce delves into the dance archive to understand the hierarchy that organizes the body. She approaches the other side of dance.

She looks at history and experimentally understands, in the genre of dance, the chronology of this other side of dance and through it challenges her body – a body that represents itself as matter, and presents a mapping of the representation of the invisible in the history of dance.

April 20th | 216h30

Teatro Luís de Camões – LU.CA, Lisboa

Um Cravo que Toca

Filipe Pereira

Flowers touch us in many ways: in our eyes with their vibrant colors, in our noses with their perfumes, in our hands when we hold them, in our ears when we hear stories about them, and in our hearts when they symbolize something very important to us.

Fifty years ago, a carnation became a symbol of revolution in a country that was just beginning to blossom. Sowing democracy is like sowing a flower, which we have to take care of so that we can then reap the seeds – or Freedom! – so that we can dance like a carnation to the sound of a carnation.

Included in the April Festivities 2024 program.

16th November| 19h30

TBA – Bairro Alto Theatre, Lisbon

NIGAMON/TUNAI

Waira Nina & Émilie Monnet

As part of the Alkantara Festival.

In NIGAMON/TUNAI, Émilie Monnet and Waira Nina experiment with their voices, breath and bodies, interweaving immersive theatre and sound documentary, and invite us to a crossroads of friendship and resistance, for the protection of water and against extractivism in their respective territories. In Canada, mining and oil companies continue to thrive, while in the Amazon, in the territory of the Inga people, entire environments are being destroyed in order to plunder resources – including copper, which is central to the Anishinaabe culture.

Participation free of charge, subject to prior registration.

Applications HERE.