Dancing is My Revolution #3 (2021)

DANÇAR É A MINHA REVOLUÇÃO

A manifesto of resistance. A praise to artistic experimentation. To freedom.

DANCING IS MY REVOLUTION shows other ways of meeting and relation with the public. With more availability for ritual, presence and sharing of senses and thought.
This is the moment to give way to the poetic gesture, the intimacy, the attention and the political gesture.

This unique place, in which the public participates in the event - without imposing dependence between artists and public - focuses on the search for artistic objects that have the force of a declaration of love, without submissions, only with the intensity and the purest desire for the other.

We intend to expose, to break, to rethink, through a political act of full attention and creation. We intend to rescue in time the relationship and the sharing together. We want a refuge for desire. To get closer.

Date: October 31, 2021 at 7pm
Place: Fábrica do Pão (Casa do Capitão)
Address: Rua do Grilo, 121
Free entry, no booking

Program

Filipe Baptista - ATMA_0.7
Carlota Lagido - MINA - song of myself (solo)
Maria Fonseca - DEN.TRO (excerpt)
Gaya de Medeiros - Dramatic - Studies

Ongoing
Joana Magalhães - HAIKU EXTENDED
Pedro Barreiro - an artist is always working

Organization: Self-Mistake/ORG.I.A
Direction, Production and Curation: Tânia Guerreiro
Executive Production: Marta Moreira
Support to production: Patrícia Nóbrega
Technical Coordination: Carlos Ramos
Technical Support: Pedro Noronha, Joaquim Ponte
Social Networks: FOmE
Supported by: Casa do Capitão, CPBC- Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Teatro Meridional, Teatro Ibérico

Institutional Partner: Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture (Garantir Cultura - Fundo Fomento Cultural)

PROGRAM

Filipe Baptista - ATMA_0.7

How to listen to the movement of the body, the internal organism and the product of physical relations that exist in it?
How to give access to the hidden physical matter and listen to our core?

This performance comes from the collection and analysis of several records accumulated over the last 7 years, which allowed me to better understand the specificities and limitations of my body. From there, I decided to connect it to a machine and listen to it. To listen to its failure and its struggle.
The movement captured here by the spectator focuses on that invisible dance that happens inside our body when we have access to this inner physical body, which has a variable pulsation and voluntariness. With the body connected to a machine, I let the captured electrical stimuli translate this internal movement into a colossus that occupies the entire physical space. A journey from the micro to the macro-scale, which translates into a pulsation, an echo, a roar, and a voice previously impossible to hear.

Concept, performance, live music and sound design: Filipe Baptista
Light design: André de Campos
Support: SillySeason, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Self-Mistake
Acknowledgements: Manuel Abrantes

Carlota Lagido - MINA - song of myself (solo)

MINA - song of myself is a takeover. It is MINA in a solo version where I affirm and perpetuate with my body, the feminist activism, conquered during the process of research and creation of the original piece. As Shahd Wadi says, MINA is no longer just an artistic piece, it is a collective. MINA-song of myself, hangs on the feet of thousands of other women in a millennial collective flow. It is an event celebrating all first names, all surnames, all existences, even those that were not directly part of me.
The premise for the choreographic construction of this solo comes from the recollection and re-signification of some of the material explored in the piece MINA, by myself and the performers and co-creators, Aurora Pinho, Elizabete Francisca, Francisca Manuel, Joana Castro, Joana Levi, Lula Pena, Mafalda Oliveira, Shahd Wadi, Tita Maravilha, Thamiris Carvalho and Xana Novais. In Mina's initial process, they already established phantasmatic interactions with the lives and works of many other women. Now it is from them that I reinvent this other place made of layers and multitudes. Everything happens in my body, resistant and in continuous movement.

Choreographic creation and interpretation: Carlota Lagido
Sound design and original music: Francisco Correia
Light fixture/design: Nuno Patinho
Production: O Lugar do Meio/Carlota Lagido
Management: EIRA
Support: Self-Mistake.

Maria Fonseca - DEN.TRO(excerpt)

DEN.TRO is a journey inside the body temple. The search of the self. Light, shadow, conscious and subconscious. The meeting, the mismatch in space and time of creation. A study of the identity that emerges from the relational ocean of being.
Are we slaves to genetics or free to change?
I invite into the process the thought of two great philosophers, Carl Jung and Alan Watts in the search for one or varied states of presence and perspective. Exploring questions that concern me regarding the future of our planet's body and our home, the body. It is not a solo work about me but about the world and the other, which is me. A work about internal and external pollution.

Creation and Interpretation: Maria Fonseca
Rehearsal Ass.: Sandra Rosado & Ekin Bernay
Original Music: Luis Fernandes
(and lecture edition by Alan Watts)
Costume & props : Maria Fonseca
Lighting: Jorge Rosado
Photography: Helena Gonçalves

Gaya de Medeiros - Dramatic - Studies

Based on creations by authors of modern dance and dance theater, this study is about an anthropophagic corps that phagocytes distant dances. The course was born from my desire as a trans woman to confront the concept of hysteria, usually associated with women, and which originates from the Greek word hystéra, meaning "womb". The performance is a collage of gestures and images that try to translate anguish. Dancing as one who kills and as one who dies, and wondering about the drama in contemporaneity.

Creation and performance: Gaya de Medeiros
Light: André de Campos
Video: André de Campos Ary Zara

Ongoing

Joana Magalhães - HAIKU EXTENDED

HAIKU EXTENDED is a performance of endurance, not against laziness, but for it. As spectators we witness an Olympian trying out in a new discipline and practicing an ancient sport: laziness.

This creation is a praise of laziness (a capital sin) and sloth (an animal), both of which are on the verge of extinction, and puts into perspective the dogmatic concept of work, of animal laborans (Hannah Arendt), as well as the negative connotation of laziness, slowness and sleep. It is based on a research made from manifestos such as The usefulness of the useless, by Nuccio Ordine (2013), and works such as Paul Lafargue's Right to Laziness (1880), Bertrand Russell's Elogio of Idleness (1935), Jonathan Crary's 24/7- Late Capitalism and the end of sleep (2016), and Byung-Chul Han's Tiredness Society (2010).
Creation and conception Joana Magalhães
Plastic execution and visual production support Marisa Escaleira
Voice-Off Rui Mendonça
Sound composition Vasco Ferreira
Light and sound design Vasco Ferreira
Production support Susana Paixão
Executive Production Maria Inês Marques

Pedro Barreiro - an artist is always working

an artist is always working is a performance that began on 11.11.2020 and will continue indefinitely. It is also a conceptual operation that starts from the possibility of continuing to have and to produce ideas and from the understanding of the artist's work as a permanent and continuous activity.

The work can be followed in person and through the site www.alwaysworking.art where the artist's location is indicated in real time - where the performance is happening - and where the ideas that the artist considers relevant enough to signal are signaled.

The differential capital of the artists are their ideas. The operativity of that capital is given by the ability to formalize some of those ideas as an objective result of their activity, in order to participate in the system (or game) of art. In "an artist is always working", the capital, the operation and the result are presented as a same thing.

Concept, Artistic Direction and Performance: Pedro Barreiro
Graphic Design: Silvana Ivaldi
Website: Luís Confraria
Statistics and Data Treatment: Telma João Santos
Theoretical and Critical Accompaniment: Eduarda Neves, João Estevens, Jorge Louraço Figueira, Telma João Santos and Isabel Costa
Communication: Mafalda Miranda Jacinto
Photographic Record: Alípio Padilha
Executive Production: Bruno Esteves

Project financed by the Portuguese Republic - Culture | DGARTES - Direção-Geral das Artes