Penélope (a study of Love in a landscape of War)

Tiago Vieira

PENÉLOPE is a triptych about the myth of Penélope, the violence of love and desire in the face of the ignorance of dictatorships and all discourses of intolerance. It also intends to establish a relationship with the memory of World War II from a philosophical, artistic, political, social, and human point of view. 

PENÉLOPE is a reflection on intimacy, an apocalyptic awareness of reality, a state of alert, a performative study that values Art as an unforgettable and unique encounter.


LOVE TO THE LAST CONSEQUENCES ALWAYS, SUBMISSION NEVER
By Tiago Vieira

LOVE TO THE LAST CONSEQUENCES ALWAYS, SUBMISSION NEVER is a theatrical performance of choreographic characteristics, a wounded spring. The myth of Penelope appears demultiplied in different bodies that originate a choreography that inhabits war landscapes looking for a body that emerging from the margins desires a Revolution where dancing is a democratic action of the body, a way to fight the lack of desire and stagnation, a movement of resistance before the daily nausea, the boredom of all oppressive places. Nietzsche wrote: A DAY WHEN YOU DON'T DANCE IS A DAY LOST. This performance created exclusively for this Manifesto- Festival- Encounter created by Tânia Guerreiro is a transformation of a solo I did in Brussels in which for 12 hours I danced the Sagração da Primavera for only one spectator or for a very reduced number of spectators. This project was supported by the Self-Mistake Grant.


Staging, text, dramaturgy, costumes, lighting, set design, choreography: Tiago Vieira
Performers: Teresa Machado, Marta Caeiro, Paula Moreira, Maria Lalande, Tiago Vieira
Production: ORG.I.A
Support: Self-Mistake/Produções Independentes, Latoaria, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, MC/DGA (to be confirmed)
[PI] Produções Independentes is a structure supported by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. ORG.I.A is supported by the Lisbon City Hall


Premiere
Lisbon - Latoaria
24 November 2019 at 21h30

WE SHOULD ALWAYS FORGIVE COWARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM
By Tiago Vieira

WE MUST ALWAYS FORGIVE THE COBARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM is a show that is based on the idea of Manifesto, as an expression of identity, a poetic space fed by a desire for freedom. Love as an absolute gesture of revolution in times of war.
WE MUST ALWAYS FORGIVE THE COBARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM is the first part of a triptych about the memories of the Second World War and a reflection about the desire that I violently associate with Love. Love as a real gesture of destruction, the only necessary one, the destruction of all systems of oppression.  WE MUST ALWAYS FORGIVE THE COBARDS, BUT NEVER BE LIKE THEM is a show that is based on the idea of a manifesto. A manifesto is an action, an attitude towards the world, a cut with what bothers us, a possibility of vision, a personal speech that seeks to reach the collective. A manifesto is a movement that seeks a revision of the world order, it is the materialization of a higher desire to establish a meeting. A manifesto goes beyond ideology, it is closer to an existentialist action. In this show, constituted by 7 manifestos and some noise zones, remains, vestiges of other possible manifestos, I search for a scenic landscape of praise to the chaos, to the marginal bodies, a kind of melancholic carnival, without heroes, where the myth of Penelope appears disfigured, close to a state where the exhaustion of the wait originated an apocalyptic version of a danse macabre or a Sagration of Spring to collapse. After an exile between Brussels and Berlin I offer on my arrival flowers of evil, Zaratustras in ecstasy.

Staging, text, choreography, dramaturgy, set design, costumes and interpretation: Tiago Vieira
Interpretation: to be defined
Production: ORG.I.A
Support: Self-Mistake/Produções Independentes, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
[PI] Produções Independentes is a structure supported by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
ORG.I.A is supported by the Lisbon City Hall

Seagulls 6
23, 24 and 25 January 2020 . 3 performances

AMAR ATÉ ÀS ÚLTIMAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS SEMPRE, SUBMISSÃO NUNCA de Tiago Vieira - Parte 2

AMAR ATÉ ÀS ÚLTIMAS CONSEQUÊNCIAS SEMPRE, SUBMISSÃO NUNCA de Tiago Vieira - Parte 1

João Meirinhos