part of The Plot begins
Cycle of hybrid performances proposed by Sónia Baptista, in which the link between body and word and manifestations of nature are related to the lunar cycles, and they are presented to the public on nights with a full moon.
Considering the moon as an influential element of liquid matter present on earth, it is intended to address the themes of fluidity between thought, word and body, between idea and action or inaction, between the tangible and intangible world.
Artists, creatives, authors and performers are invited to reflect on the moon, the moon in popular, artistic and academic imagination, the metaphors and correlations associated with it and the possibilities of relating to their artistic work and creating a small performative moment that reveals the result of that research.
Crossing the disciplines of dance, theater, music, spoken word, each moment will have an associated artist who will sometimes also trigger a short creative writing workshop, designed and taught together with Sónia Baptista, associated with the performance presented and rooted in peculiarity of space, in a link between telluric and lunar forces.
SÓNIA BAPTISTA graduated in Contemporary Dance at Fórum Dança.
She holds a Masters in Choreography and Performance from the University of Roehampton in London, UK.
In 2001, she was awarded the Ribeiro da Fonte Revelation Prize in the field of Dance by the then Ministry of Culture for Haikus (her first work). Since then, her work has been explored and experimented with the languages of Dance, Performance, Music, Literature, Theater and Video, presenting plays in various Festivals and Theaters in Portugal and abroad. Choreographer, writer and dramaturge she has published seven books.
She has collaborated with the Superior School of Theater and Cinema, the Superior School of Dance, Forum Dança and other educational institutions, as well as with CNB in various educational and artistic projects.
August 22nd - THE PLOT BEGINS!
|we were moving so fast|
at least for now.
Conception and performance by ANA LIBÓRIO and ANDRÉ LOUBET
what if the first time I met you I forgot to swallow on time?
what if I misunderstood the question?
what if after all this it didn’t stay?
what then… so what…
ANA LIBÓRIO is a performer and creator trained at the Superior School of Theater and Cinema (2015-17), in the advanced program in choreography – Danceworks Berlin (Berlin, 2020-23) and has a Master in Aesthetic Philosophy from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (2019-20).
She collaborates with Cão Solteiro, Sónia Baptista, Plataforma 285 and visual artist Bruno José Silva. In addition to these collaborations, she also worked with Francisco Camacho, Teatro Praga, Gary Hill, Christopher Brath Balley, Tiago Vieira, Ricardo Neves-Neves, Tiago Vieira, Isadora Alves Nunes, Margarida Correia amongst others.
Ana presented her first creation “exposing it after it has already been revealed” at Rua das Gaivotas 6 (2019) with the curatorship of Teatro Praga and the company Silly Season, the second creation at the Maps festival “Map|ping Resistance” in collaboration with artist Bruno José Silva (2019) and “Tragic – it´s so tragic” at TanzRaum in Berlin (2021) crossing her artistic activity between Lisbon and Berlin.
She was awarded a DGArtes grant to study dance (DanceWorks) in Berlin and was awarded the title of Artista do Bairro 2020 by Cão Solteiro and Rua das Gaivotas6. She is involved in activist projects, namely active collaboration with the Refugee organization in Basel, Switzerland, and the collective s (not) quare in Berlin.
September 21st - THE PLOT THICKENS
A YEAR TO FORGET
Meditative writing by GISELA CASIMIRO
“a year to forget / my friend was god”, from the work of the master Matsuo Bashô and Leonard Cohen’s Book of Longing. Using the surroundings natural space the workshop’s proposal is to create time for alignment, an intimate reflection on what the last two years have been.
Using not a rigid form but only the words that serve the moment we go from reading to writing and end up reading again, the reading of the self. What moves us, moves and demotes us?
Participation is limited to 15 registrations.
Gisela Casimiro (Bissau, 1984) is a Portuguese writer, artist and activist.
She published “Erosion” and was part of several anthologies. In recent years she has written regular chronicles in Hoje Macau, Buala, Contemporânea and Setenta e Quatro.
She also wrote for PROPS, Flanzine, Pessoa Magazine, MIL Magazine, among others. She was an invited author to festivals in Turkey, Macau, Mozambique, Portugal and Germany. She was part of shows at CCB, Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas, TBA and Teatro São Luiz. She has held solo and group exhibitions at Mercado de Culturas, Armário, ZDB, Balcony, Casa do Capitão, Museu Nacional de Etnologia and Quetzal Art Center. She collaborates with several theaters, museums, associations and festivals.
She is the creator and moderator of the cycle of conversations “Temos de falar”. She is also a member of INMUNE and UNA – União Negra das Artes.
She hates biographies.
UIVO-REFLEXO
Conception and performance by JOANA LEVI
A heat, a living water of semicircular cartilages, natural satellite of every body, of ephemeral luminosity, something inaccessible depending on the position it is in.
Joana Levi (Rio de Janeiro, 1975) is a performer, director and dramaturgist living in Lisbon since 2017. She holds a BA in Philosophy/USP and a MA in Philosophy-Aesthetics/FCSH-UNL.
Her most recent creation, “Rasante”, premiered at Alkantara 20′ Festival, as part of the cycle “Terra Batida”.
In the last 10 years she has been dedicated to experimental and collaborative projects that forge a scene crossed by different performative languages (from performance to theater, from dance to philosophical thought) and that evoke tense relations expressed in urban, (post) colonial and gender contexts and conflicts.
Recently, she has collaborated with Carlota Lagido, Sónia Baptista, Rita Natálio, Gustavo Ciríaco, Julia Salem, among others.
Previously, in Brazil, her creations include: “Museu Encantador” (MAM-RJ) in collaboration with Rita Natálio; “Rózà” (Casa do Povo-SP), with Martha Kiss Perrone; and “In_Trânsito”, (Award Montagem Cênica-RJ), with Isabel Penoni/Cia Marginal.
She is a contributor at Penha Sco_arte cooperative (Lisbon), where she works as project manager and performing arts programmer.
November 20th - THE PLOT RETURNS
TO RECEIVE WINTER
Performance by TITA MARAVILHA
Intuition. The future is eternal movement and I start to feel the cold. Even beautiful coats don’t hide what’s inside. Inside me, a thousand worlds ready to generate heat. Survive hypothermia by blowing your hands and earn a place in the sun. Subjective sharing or also known as performance to alleviate homesickness.
TITA MARAVILHA is a hybrid artivist and inventor of universes.
Through the idea of a political body brings to the artistic processes the pains and delights of being a dissident body.
She is an actress, singer, performer and clown. Graduated from Universidade de Brasília in 2018, where she’s part of the research group LPTV (Laboratory of Performance and Theater of the Void), managed by Simone Reis. Member of the Brazilian bands “Cantigas Boleráveis” and “Rainhas do Babado”. In Portugal, together with the artist CIGARRA, develops the electronic music and performance project “TRYPAS-CORAÇÃO”.
In 2020, based on a proposal by the Silly Season group, she developed the show EXERCÍCIO PARA PERFORMERS MEDIOCRES, which premiered in November 2021 at Rua das Gaivotas 6. Also in 2021, she premiered the third experiment in Lisbon entitled TITA NO PAÍS DAS MARAVILHAS, at the EUFÉMIAS festival.
She is an urgent artist for the contemporary art scene in Lisbon.
December 19th - THE PLOT EXPANDS
IT'S JUST A PHASE
Writing workshop with SÓNIA BAPTISTA
M
Performance by DANIEL PIAZMIGLIO
M is a color. M is a huge heart in the middle of space. M is a list of words beginning with M.M is to mourn in the text, in the body and with you. M is a legacy. The legacy of M.
Daniel Pizamiglio is a Brazilian performer and creator.
From 2008 to 2010, he took the Technical Course in Dance in Fortaleza. During this period he met the choreographer João Fiadeiro and after this meeting he moved to Lisbon in 2012, where he currently lives and works.
Since then he studies and practices Real Time Composition; he participated in the Study, Research and Choreographic Creation Program of Forum Dança (2015-16); he has collaborated as a performer, co-creator and assistant director with different artists.
In his work he seeks a meeting between poetry and the body (“Dança Concreta”) and how to activate the corporeality of affections and relationships (“Preste Atenção Em Tudo A Partir de Agora”).
ODE
Concert by PATRÍCIA ANDRADE and DIOGO MELO
A journey to vocal demultiplication/sound effects through improvisation.
Patrícia Andrade, born on January 17, 1976, in Lisbon.
She attended the Superior School of Theater and Cinema.
Member of Teatro do Eléctrico, she participates in “Manual” as an actress and co-author with Ricardo Neves-Neves. She also takes part in the following productions by Teatro do Eléctrico: “O Solene Resgate” by Ricardo Neves-Neves, “Mary Poppins, a Mulher que Salvou o Mundo” by Ricardo Neves-Neves, “A Morte de Dona Luciana” by Copi, staging by Ricardo Neves-Neves. “Alice no País das Maravilhas”, staged by Maria João Luís and Ricardo Neves Neves, co-production Teatro do Eléctrico/Teatro da Terra/Teatro Nacional D. Maria II. With Teatro do Mar, she collaborates in the productions of: “Daimonion”, “Nusquam” and “Solum”. At Karnart, she participates as a performer in: “Visões de Cemitério de Pianos”, based on the work of José Luís Peixoto, staged by Luís Castro and “Torre de La Défense”, by Copi, staged by Luís Castro.
As lead singer of Sinistro, she toured Europe, having participated in several festivals: Roadburn (Netherlands), Graspop (Belgium), Damnation (England) , Eistnaflug (Iceland), Amplifest (Portugal), Inferno (Norway), Inferno Fest (Chile), among others.
Currently, she performs “A Voz Humana” that also directed with David Pereira Bastos, production: Teatro do Eléctrico.
Diogo Melo (1984, Lisbon) attended a Masters in Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering at ISEL and a Post-Graduate in Sound Art at FBAUL, also studying classical piano. He develops his work using sound through different lenses, from music, installation, field recordings and development of musical instruments.
He collaborated with artists such as Sónia Baptista, Miguel Bonneville, André de Campos, Ana Guedes, Rita Vilhena, Yael Karavan, Violeta Luz and Ana Libório.
In July 2020, he presented his creation “Reading at First Sight” as a creator and performer at Galeria Zaratan. In September 2021 he presented the performance “Here Is The Place” at Rua das Gaivotas 6.
Created and manages the residency program for music and sound art Electronic Warfare, aimed at visual artists, performers and musicians.
As a musician, he composed and mixed the soundtrack of the short films: “SAL”, by André Santos and Mariana Machado, presented at the MAR Out festival in 2020; “Very Very Funny”, by André Santos and Mariana Machado, presented at the Imaginarius festival in Santa Maria da Feira in 2021; “Our Skin”, by Rita Vilhena and Yael Karavan, directed by Francisca Manuel in 2021.