ÍLA

Stereotypes generated by obsolete ignorance are perpetuated and reproduced. But is there a common denominator? What is the self beneath all these constructions? Is there something beneath all these social colonizations? Or is the individual condemned to exist as an amalgam of pre-constructions? How many structures inhabit the body that I take to be mine?

Existing becomes something active and exhausting. Being (existir), being (ser) and being (estar) are confused, as it happens in English, and become a constant performing, seeking and appearing. A tokenized existence that becomes fallible. Stereotypes generated by obsolete ignorance are perpetuated and reproduced. But is there a common denominator? What is the self beneath all these constructions? Is there something beneath all these social colonizations? Or is the individual condemned to exist as an amalgam of pre-constructions? How many structures inhabit the body that I take as my own?

And from here I set out to discover what it is, what exists, how and when it does so and what defines this intermittence; discovering myself in the process, as a creator, as an interpreter and as a person.

Íla is a movement of simultaneous acceptance and contestation of a limited existence; I recognize it as my own and I make it the starting point for personal and, if possible, collective growth.

Creation and interpretation: Natacha Campos
Sonoplasty e interpretation: Diogo Melo
Dramaturgical support: Rui Catalão
Light design: João Chicó

Costumes: Alex Simões
Creative outlookers: Cláudia Galhós, Piny, Sofia Kafol
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes; Self-Mistake (Câmara Municipal de Lisboa – Cultura); OPART, E.P.E/Estúdios Victor Córdon;
Management: ORG.I.A
Co-production: YEP – Young Emerging Performers, uma parceria entre Rua das Gaivotas 6/ Teatro Praga e O Espaço do Tempo.

Acknowledgments: Ana Vaz, Miguel Afonso, Tânia Guerreiro, Michelle Moura