Promoter
Teatro Nacional D. Maria II
Synopsis
In a conference-performance entitled Salário Máximo (maximum salary), presented at the Assembly of the Portuguese Republic, in Lisbon, in 2014, Vera Mantero said that dance seemed to be the least appropriate art to speak of anything. According to the artist, it would be simpler to link a concrete idea in cinema or literature. This statement supports a common idea that dance cannot speak, yet it is a metaphor for thought. The apparent conflict that emerges here points to the relationship between politics and poetics, which could be expressed in the dichotomy between writing text permeable to translation and the composition of gestures, actions and movements. As imagined by Raoul Feuillet, in his 18th century treaty, the dance would first be written on paper, using the notation system created that he created, and only then interpreted and transposed to the body. There was a real separation between an idealization, written as a law, and a danced reality, the result of a practice, on the floor. The transmission process would be like dancing a language and to speak a dance, a process in which text and body interact in a logic of negotiation between expression and communication.
Artistic Team
CHOREOGRAPHY: João dos Santos Martins
DANCE: Adriano Vicente
TEXT: José Maria Vieira Mendes
MUSIC: João Barradas
LIGHT: Filipe Pereira
PRODUCTION: Sofia Matos - Materiais Diversos
EXECUTIVE PRODUCTION: Claraluz Keiser - Associação Parasita
CO-PRODUCTION: Alkantara, Associação Parasita, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Materiais Diversos
RESIDENCIES: Centro Cultural Malaposta, Estúdios Vítor Córdon, 23 Milhas
SPECIAL THANKS: Sandra Gorete Coelho, Sofia Fernandes
