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This is not the possible festival... it is the necessary festival
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imaginarius
This is not the possible festival... it is the necessary festival
Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, 2013. This is the space and time in which Imaginarius is taking place. It is in this space and time that this text is being written.
praxis, encouraging different approaches to Santa Maria da Feira's public space and privileging proposals that question and integrate the local community. The quantity and quality of the applications we have received prove that there is a strong vitality in creation, mainly home-grown, which is worthy of being safe and persistently supported and stimulated. Consequently, this year the festival will be awarding the three best projects with the possibility of an artistic residency with a view to the festival's 2014 programming.
A festival in this present is built with people. People-citizens who believe in other possible “Imaginaries”. To them I express my gratitude, specially to the ones who are the least visible - yet just as essential - during these construction processes. During the last year, based on 12 years of experience, we sought to redefine strategies and courses of action; proposals were explored, and the festival's philosophy was rethought for the next four years. Our dialogue with the local community, namely the artistic one, was strengthened, fundamental subjects were debated at the Imaginarius Talks, and training and organizational needs were updated and envisioned.
The occupation of the old city Slaughterhouse (“Matadouro”), where young creators develop their activity, shows the festival's continuous connection to the community and it's deep-rooted vocation towards a local artistic creation with strong links to other national and international projects. In this sense, Imaginarius is also investing in training, by organizing an offer of workshops within this year's edition.
This festival's major challenge is to retain and deepen its vocation for public space, while adapting its paradigm to the human scale in its relationship with a city like Santa Maria da Feira, with its particular physical and human geography, which is organically linked to street arts.
In 2013, the festival will contemplate 12 co-productions and programming partnerships which, more than a number, represent the will and fulfilment of synergies that result in genuine networking – local, regional, national and international. Bodies in Urban Spaces, by Cie Willi Dorner, is a good example of a coproduction with the Serralves Foundation – a project whose cast and architectures are shared by the cities of Oporto e Santa Maria da Feira.
This year, our programming mirrors this persistent, contemporary search. Among the 117 entries, involving 402 artists, during three days that will transform the city's public space in its rapport with the public that will inhabit it, we would like to point out the diversity of artistic languages, with the strengthening of the visual arts component through Vilhs' conceptual cork piece executed by workers from that area – Diorama Cork Faktory. One should also stress the diversity of the 16 countries with creations, formats and contents in our programming.
And because this festival is happening in 2013, the world we are inhabiting in the here and now inspires an “Imagined Europe” as the main subject of the International Conference on Arts and Public Space, the world première of Teatro O Bando's Jangada de Pedra, and antagon theater AKTion's inquisitive Ginkgo. And it is precisely because we are living this moment that this festival is necessary. For its will to transform, for the space open to creation, for the occupation of public space, for the full exercise of the right to access cultural fruition, for its educational, community, economical, urban and tourism impact on our territory.
Imaginarius' transformation from mere programmer to creative structure has been consolidated, which is highlighted by the festival's 19 world premières, and its own productions, such as Baile das Bicycletas, the European Project of music and dance Urban Ballets, or Community Theatre Project Travessia. Our will to overcome the idea that cultural activity is restricted to a linear relationship in which the artists transmit their heritage to the audience without contemplating the latter's action as sensitive beings and reality builders justifies our clear and unequivocal investment in original creations as a distinguishing feature of this festival. This logic introduces a perception of the individual as being more than a cultural consumer, taking on the role of an emancipated producer within the process. In addition, local communities are active and critically involved in the creative processes of several of the programme's projects.
What are we still willing to “pay” for just living the possible instead of the necessary? Hugo Cruz artistic festival director
Mais Imaginarius takes on the role as the festival's cutting edge, the space where creators can take chances, privilege experimentation and an informed artistic
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OLD COURT
MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH
GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE REPÚBLICA SQUARE
MUNICIPAL MARKET
OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE
POOLS - PARISH CHURCH
international street theatre festival
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imaginarius
daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints
24 MAY FRI
09.00pm
10.30am
talentitos [germany / france] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] igreja romariz basic school
‘olha o palhaço no meio da rua’ [3 or older] igreja lourosa basic school
boris chimp 504 [portugal]
‘diorama cork faktory’ [3 or older] piece presentation gaspar moreira square
‘jangada de pedra’ [12 or older] rossio
‘mission to kepler’ [3 or older] municipal market - entrance
80’
45’
30’
11.00pm
edith scher e omar gasparini [argentina]
MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
09.30pm
‘aquí sobra uno’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
‘travessia’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
clown laboratori porto [portugal]
tresperté circo [spain] 50’
60’
50’
11.30pm
02.30pm
olha o palhaço no meio da rua [3 or older] igreja lobão basic school 50’
crassh [portugal]
‘blast’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square › court 45’
joão pamplona [portugal / norway]
45’
45’
MUNICIPAL MARKET
diana carneiro e joão dias [portugal]
06.00pm
‘mr. shimokawa’ [12 or older] right library garden
06.00pm
04.00pm
la compagnie en croq [france]
‘the invasion’ [3 or older] dr. elísio de castro street › república square › dr. roberto alves street
‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] república square
35’
colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘`peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] market barbershop
60’
15’
POOLS - PARISH CHURCH 09.30pm
talentitos [germany / france]
09.00pm
09.30pm
grupo XIX de teatro [brazil] ‘hygiene’ [14 or older] misericórdia church › dr. elísio de castro street › república square
the purple ladies collective [united kingdom]
‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] descobrimentos street
‘human possibilities’ [3 or older] rossio
05.00pm
tresperté circo [spain] ‘aquí sobra uno’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square 50’
09.30pm
ballet contemporâneo do norte [portugal]
‘um espaço aberto de desmembramento’ [3 or older] dr. vitorino de sá street
‘a construção’ [6 or older] parish church cloisters
10.15pm
labu plataforma artística [portugal]
a world of bliss [holland]
‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ [3 or older]
‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] parish church stairway
20’
10.45pm
‘residual gurus’ [3 or older] municipal market › gaspar moreira square
LEGEND
imaginarius creation
national premiere
world premiere
15’
OLD COURT
desastronauts [spain] ‘losing grip’ [3 or older] court garden 45’
bismas das acácias [angola] ‘ocisoko’ [3 or older] court garden 45’
11.15pm
mattatoio sospeso [italy] residual gurus [spain]
zone show
‘bump dialogues’ [12 or older] library entrance
municipal market – interior
60’
mais imaginarius
11.00pm
bárbara andrez [portugal]
10.30pm
40’
imaginarius
35’
09.45pm
10.00pm
sérgio e maria [portugal]
GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE
‘hangover’ [12 or older] left library garden
50’
40’
80’
10.15pm
‘crassh_street 2.0’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
REPÚBLICA SQUARE
ljud group [eslovénia]
‘labaret 3 – a morte’ [6 or older] library entrance
00.00am
ireland / south africa]
MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH
09.30pm
45’
urban ballets [portugal / france /
trupe koskowisck [brazil]
11.00pm
teatro o bando [portugal]
50’
trupe koskowisck [brazil]
09.45pm
vhils [portugal]
travelling
‘tu me fais tourner la tête’ [3 or ilder] court garden 45’
45’ international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
imaginarius
daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints
00.15am
09.30pm
09.15pm
10.15pm
antagon theater aktion [germany]
teatro de montemuro [portugal]
the purple ladies collective [united kingdom]
labu plataforma artística [portugal]
‘ginkgo’ [6 or older] court avenue
‘que raio de mundo’ [3 or older] prof. leão square
‘human possibilities’ [3 or older] rossio
‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ [3 or older]
70’
60’
40’
20’
OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE
GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE
10.00pm
09.30pm
ballet contemporâneo do norte [portugal]
05.00pm
mara andrade [portugal]
sérgio e maria [portugal]
‘oxitocina’ [16 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse – left nave
‘um espaço aberto de desmembramento’ [3 or older] dr. vitorino de sá street
‘a contrução’ [6 or older] parish church cloisters
a world of bliss [holland]
10.30pm
colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse - right nave 15’
10.45pm
cychotron [portugal] ‘cychotron’ [16 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse – rehearsal room
‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] parish church stairway
talentitos [germany / france] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
60’
10.00pm
50’
50’
60’
‘estás a olhar para mim?’ [3 or older]
45’
06.30pm
municipal library REPÚBLICA SQUARE
11.00pm
30’
teatro o bando [portugal] ‘jangada de pedra’ [12 or older] rossio 80’
00.30am
09.00pm
ljud group [slovenia] ‘the invasion’ [3 or older] firefighters parking › court 35’
orquestra todos [portugal]
60’
‘concerto’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
‘bodies in urban spaces’ [3 or older]
10.30pm
45’
residual gurus [spain] ‘residual gurus’ [12 or older] república square
90’
MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH
45’
MUNICIPAL MARKET
05.00pm
90’
‘labaret 3 – a morte’ [6 or older] municipal library
poesia no corpo, corpo na poesia [portugal]
06.30pm
‘pétafun tour’ [3 or older] prof. leão square › s. nicolau street › dr. vitorino de sá street › descobrimentos street
05.00pm
clown laboratori porto [portugal]
‘travessia’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] república square
cie du p'tit vélo [france]
MUNICIPAL LIBRARY
‘le voyage de noce’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
les bleus de travail [france]
25 MAY SAT
hospital › municipal swimming pools
45’
edith scher e omar gasparini [argentina]
la compagnie en croq [france]
cie willi dorner [austria]
‘mission to kepler’ [3 or older] municipal market - entrance
11.15pm
05.00pm
40’
10.45pm
boris chimp 504 [portugal]
40’
17’
10.30pm
municipal market - interior
09.30pm
diana carneiro e joão dias [portugal] ‘mr. shimokawa’ [12 or order] belchior cardoso da costa avenue 35’
POOLS - PARISH CHURCH
07.00pm
05.00pm
a world of bliss [holland] ‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] parish church stairway
colectivo ar_search [portugal]
joão pamplona [portugal / norway]
‘peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] market barbershop
‘hangover’ [12 or older] left library garden 45’
15’
10.15pm
60’
05.15pm
10.00pm
grupo XIX de teatro [brazil]
sérgio e maria [portugal]
‘hygiene’ [14 or older] misericórdia church › dr. elísio de castro street › república square
‘um espaço aberto de desmembramento’ [3 or older] dr. vitorino de sá street
t&a [portugal / czech republic] ‘kinowaltz’ [12 or older] library entrance 42’
80’ international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
imaginarius
daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints
11.00pm
OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE
‘bump dialogues’ [12 or older] library entrance
mara andrade [portugal]
a world of bliss [holland]
‘oxitocina’ [16 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse – left nave
‘blissful picnic’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
bárbara andrez [portugal] 15’
OLD COURT
POOLS - PARISH CHURCH
10.00pm
03.00pm
05.45pm
cie du p'tit vélo [france] ‘pétafun tour’ [3 or older] descobrimentos street › dr. vitorino de sá street › s. nicolau street › court 90’
17’
la compagnie en croq [france]
05.00pm
talentitos [germany / france] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] court garden 50’
06.00pm
mattatoio sospeso [italy] ‘tu me fais tourner la tête’ [3 or older] court garden 45’
06.45pm
bismas das acácias [angola] ‘ocisoko’ [3 or older] court garden
10.30pm
colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse – right nave
OLD COURT
‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] rossio
cie.willi dorner [austria]
60’
‘bodies in urban spaces’ [3 or older]
04.00pm
sérgio e maria [portugal]
15’
‘um espaço aberto de desmembramento’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
10.45pm
cychotron [portugal] ‘cychotron’ [16 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse – rehearsal room
26 MAY SUN
90’
09.45pm
‘losing grip’ [3 or older] court garden 45’
10.30pm
antagon theater aktion [germany] ‘ginkgo’ [6 or older] court avenue
ljud group [slovenia] ‘the invasion’ [3 or older] dr. elísio de castro street › república square › dr. roberto alves street
120’
11.45pm
urban ballets [portugal / france/ ireland / south africa]
‘blast’ [3 or older] court › s. nicolau street › vitorino sá street › descobrimentos street › municipal swimming pools surrounding area 45’
04.45pm
INSTALLATIONS
‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] rossio
24 MAY execution from 05.00pm 25 and 26 MAY
50’
gabriel loureiro [portugal] 05.00pm
‘rendilhados urbanos’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools
35’
crassh [portugal]
GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE
‘crassh_street 3.0’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
04.45pm
70’
45’
teatro de montemuro [portugal]
MUNICIPAL MARKET
‘que raio de mundo’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
04.45pm
60’
colectivo ar_search [portugal]
REPÚBLICA SQUARE
‘peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] municipal market
03.00pm
‘live imaginary landscapes’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools
157 [portugal] ‘do número para a revolução’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools
24 and 25 MAY | 05.00pm › 07.00pm | 09.00pm › 11.00pm
‘le voyage de noce’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
filomena almeida [portugal]
15’
LEGEND
mais imaginarius
marta angelozzi [portugal]
les bleus de travail [france] 50’
imaginarius
06.30pm
patrick murys e casa da música [portugal]
45’
talentitos [germany / france]
04.00pm
35’
‘labaret 3 - a morte’ [6 or older] rossio
MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH
desastronauts [spain]
hospital › municipal swimming pools
‘baile das bicycletas’ [6 or older] court › s. nicolau street › vitorino de sá street › descobrimentos street › municipal swimming pools surrounding area
clown laboratori porto [portugal]
40’
03.00pm
zone show
international street theatre festival
imaginarius creation
national premiere
06
world premiere
travelling
‘esculturas de bolso’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square e república square santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
imaginarius
daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints
SUPPORTED
26 MAY | 04.00pm › 06.00pm
22 MAY | 10.00am and 02.30pm
06.00pm
filomena almeida [portugal]
binaural / nodar [portugal] ‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’ old slaughterhouse
‘coro: corpo coletivo e espaço poético’ by cláudia andrade meeting point – market
23 MAY | 05.00pm › 08.00pm 24 MAY | 04.00pm › 07.00pm
music at location pending to be confirmed [portugal]
bismas das acácias [angola]
‘quarteto português de trompas’ [3 or order] dr. roberto alves street
24 and 25 MAY
30’
00.00am
‘esculturas de bolso’ [3 or older] rossio
24 to 26 MAY
vhils [portugal] ‘diorama cork faktory’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square
binaural / nodar [portugal] ‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’ [3 or older] train station › old slaughterhouse › municipal market
patrícia geraldes [portugal] ‘caderno diário’ [3 or older] avenue dr. roberto vaz de oliveira
colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘peça para piano e bicho da madeira’ [3 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse - right nave
crassh [portugal] ‘crassh’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
teorema das linhas [portugal] ‘tece-me’ [3 or older] school delegation
book launch
‘angolan folk dances’ municipal swimming pools surrounding area (next to the fogaceiras scupltures)
mais imaginarius winners announcement meeting point – market
music at location pending to be confirmed [portugal]
‘organic theater in public space’ feira fire department multipurpose room
‘funk you brass band’ [3 or older] under the municipal market roof
OTHER
45’
‘o mercado’ municipal market
meeting point – market
cabine aberta [portugal]
25 MAY 03.00pm
ágil [portugal] ‘imagin'battle’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools 240’
24 MAY
26 MAY
00.45am
from 5.00pm
drawing contest [portugal]
05.00pm
music at location pending to be confirmed [portugal]
music at location pending to be confirmed [portugal]
‘osmavati’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools surrounding area
‘quarteto português de trompas’ [3 or older] dr. roberto alves street
60’
r&r [portugal] 06.00pm
25 MAY
music at location pending to be confirmed [portugal]
03.00pm › 05.00pm
WORKSHOPS
international conference on art and public space
21 › 23 MAY | 05.30pm › 08.30pm
‘imagined europe’ meeting point – market
‘imaginarius na rua’ historical centre 05.45pm opening
exhibit by isabel lhano [portugal]
30’
‘calados contra a corrente’ [3 or older] pools surrounding area › república square
meeting point
‘porta 13’ e ‘transat’ gaspar moreira square
07.15pm
antagon theater aktion [germany]
from 2.00pm
dj pål / secam [holland]
07.00pm
23 and 24 MAY | 05.30pm › 08.30pm
23 to 26 MAY
‘funk you brass band’ [3 or older] under the municipal market roof
‘gente com luz própria’ with a performance by ‘colectivo poético silêncio da gaveta’ municipal library open until 22 june | hours mon to fri 9.30am › 7.00pm | sat 10.30am › 10.00pm | sun 9.00pm › 11.30pm
45’
ljud group [slovenia] ‘build your own interactive character!’ municipal library
LEGEND
imaginarius
international street theatre festival
mais imaginarius
zone show
07
imaginarius creation
national premiere
world premiere
santa maria da feira
travelling
24 › 26
may’13
IMAGINARIUS COMPANIES
patrick murys e casa da música
‘baile das bicycletas’
portugal
imaginarius creation | world premiere
First there was an invitation by the festival to imagine a show with and around bicycles. It is an intermediate transportation means that goes beyond walking and running while remaining linked to human strength. One pedals for pleasure, pedals by conviction, pedals for the glory. It is about gathering cycling enthusiasts, but also curious people, men and women, some able to keep their balance on two wheels, others not really, around this project and invent a peloton. This peloton, like the caravans of perpetually moving nomads, is a big family made up of the residents of Santa Maria da Feira, actors and musicians. There are five teams competing, each looking for victory but all depending on one another. There is a starting line, a race, a finish line, a path crossing the city...
credits direction Patrick Murys musical direction Filipe Lopes and Gustavo Costa set design Maria João Castelo and João Pinto instrument construction Raul Constante Pereira performers Susana Madeira, Inês Lua, Nuno Nogueira, Viriato Morais and Vitor Gomes musicians Jorge Queijo, Maria Mónica, Tiago Ângelo, Paulo Neto, Henrique Fernandes, Artur Carvalho, Angélica Vasquez and Nico Tricot costumes Helena Guerreiro community participation Ana Machado, Ricardo Machado, Helena Santos, José Ferreira, André Ferreira, Maria Silva, Ana Alves, Paulo Sousa, David Silva, Mara Soares, António Monteiro, Manuel Silva, Lurdes Oliveira, Joaquim Alves, Durval Pinheiro, Dário Almeida, Débora Marques, Paula Santos, Joana Moreira, Fernanda Morais, Sara Figueiredo, Paulo Ferreira, Ana Marau, Bruno Soares, Márcia Gomes, Ana Reis, Fernanda Valente, Mónica Teixeira, Natália Silva, Vasco Valente, Movimento e Bem Estar groups elements of the Feira and Milheirós de Poiares parishes and 1st cycle pupils from the basic schools of Póvoa – Paços de Brandão Grouping and Aldeia Sanfins – Dr. Ferreira de Almeida Grouping.
Baile das Bicycletas (”Bicycle Ball”) is a show on a human scale where the grand prize is soup... Real soup or imaginary soup, the race has begun!
coproduction
partnership
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
urban ballets
‘blast’
portugal / france / ireland / south africa
imaginarius creation | world premiere
Blast – An explosion of energy, music, colour and dance is the motto for a parade that will invade the streets of Santa Maria da Feira, on 24 and 25 May. It will be a concentration of movements, images and contemporary urban sounds, with rhythms from Europe and Africa. Audience participation throughout the entire length of the parade will be the fuse that will feed and make the whole show explode.
participating groups International Urban Ballets Project Hamid Ben Mahi, Frédéric Faula - France; Steven Mpiyakhe Faleni, Vusumuzi Wellcome Mdoyi - South Africa; Jo Zanders - Belgium; José Carlos Gomes Ferreira - Brazil Creative Orchestra of Santa Maria da Feira All About Dance Company, Santa Maria da Feira Les Grands Personnes, France Students from the All About Dance Academy, Santa Maria da Feira RITMARE – Colégio Liceal Santa Maria de Lamas; Maestro Professor Pedro Almeida Young Musicians of the Crative Orchestra of Santa Maria da Feira Santiago de Lobão Musical Band – Youth Orchestra section Urban Dances Group – Colégio Liceal Santa Maria de Lamas Sempr´a Bombar - Associação Pelo Prazer de Viver, Saúde, Cultura e Vida Ensemble from the Creative Orchestra's Musical Entertainment Course Dr. Crispim Social Centre, Milheirós de Poiares Fiães Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School Milheiros de Poiares Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School Aldeia Nova, Lourosa Basic 1st Cycle School Famílias + from Ferradal, Fiães Santa Maria da Feira, Senior University, Maestrina Saudade Campos João da Madeira Rotary Senior University Rufus & Circus – Casa dos Choupos, Santa Maria da Feira A TruPe – section of Grupo Canto Nosso, Milheirós de Poiares A Rua´Da – Fórum Ambiente e Cidadania de Mosteirô Musicians from the Louredo Light Orchestra Musicians from the Colégio Liceal de Santa Maria de Lamas Orchestra
Blast – Urban Ballets is an inter-cultural project that combines an international dimension, featuring artists from seven different countries, with an intergenerational dimension, as it relies on the participation of people from all age groups and various social strata. The visual part of the parade will be directed by choreographers from three different countries, bringing together influences from hip-hop, house and various South African urban styles, while its musical direction will include four different nationalities, combining Portuguese traditional percussion instruments and instruments built from recycled materials, with other sounds with a strong component of electric and electronic instruments. Blast is a stage for interdisciplinary experimentation, where cultures meet and celebrate, which results in a fusion show played by communities that do not usually work together. It sets an example in social inclusion work. It is a great party for its audience.
credits musical director Aleksander Karic choreographic direction Vítor Fontes European Project Team - Carnaval de Deux Rives (Bordeaux), Belfast Carnival (Northern Ireland) and National Arts Festival (Grahamstown - South Africa). costumes Cláudia Ribeiro costume assistants Joana Araújo and Ana Berta Cardoso construction and manipulation of puppets Les Grandes Personnes and local groups
With the participation of over 400 persons, the Blast - Urban Ballets project will also feature a strong component of urban plasticity, with people dancing on imaginary instruments. Costumes have been based in harmonic conceptual elements, with references to urban musical tradition and including Portuguese folk elements, with a strong focus on local raw materials, profiting from the synergies of the whole region, which is rich in an innovating and diverse industry. We have, therefore, a group of colourful flying hats that intensify the parade's goal: to consecrate music and movement. This project also features the construction and manipulation of large puppets by French company Les Grandes Personnes and local groups.
international street theatre festival
financing
support
10
santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
cie willi dorner
‘bodies in urban spaces’
austria
imaginarius creation | world premiere
The Cie. Willi Dorner was founded in 1999 by Willi Dorner and is based in Vienna. Originally trained as a dancer at Konservatorium Privatuniversiät Vienna, Willi Dorner works as a choreographer, produces performances and installations, photographs, videos and films. Besides his internationally touring dance performances, Willi Dorner is keen on creating events that give the audience the opportunity for new experiences, insights and a different perception of everyday life.
Reviews For sheer magnetic excitement, the Vienna-based choreographer Willi Dorner set in motion on the streets of Center City one of the most engaging public performances seen in recent years. Jonathan M. Stein, 2009 … the space between a lamppost and a wall will not be the same. Ballet.magazine UK, John Mallinson, October 2009
Bodies in Urban Spaces is a temporary intervention in a diversified urban architectonic environment. The intention of “Bodies in urban spaces” is to point out the urban functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement possibilities and behaviour, as well as rules and limitations. By placing the bodies in selected spots, the interventions provoke a thinking process and produce irritation. Passers-by, residents and audience are motivated and prompted to reflect on their urban surrounding and their own movement behaviour and habits. As a moving trail choreographed for a group of dancers, Bodies in urban spaces leads the audience through selected parts of public and semi-public spaces. It invites the residents to walk their own city, thus establishing a stronger relationship with their neighbourhood, district and town. The interventions are temporary and leave no traces behind, only imprints in the eye-witnesses' memory.
credits concept, choreography Willi Dorner assistants to choreographer Ian Dolan, Nicholas Keegan photos Lisa Rastl support of the cultural office of the City of Vienna coproduction Serralves em Festa and Imaginarius Festival Its performance in Downtown Oporto and at Serralves em Festa! is supported by the Oporto City Council.
coproduction
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
edith scher and omar gasparini
‘travessia’
argentina
imaginarius creation | world premiere
This project's specific goal is to create a show for Imaginarius 13, whose actors are residents/neighbours of Santa Maria da Feira (joining three parishes, Lobão, Louredo and Guisande, which, as part of a national territorial reorganization, are currently in the process of merging into one). The objective in the middle term is that this show will result in consolidating a community theatre group that will grow and develop. The show is centred on the collective memory, a work methodology that has existed in Argentina for almost 30 years, called “From Neighbours to Neighbours” The neighbours were directed by theatre, music and visual arts professionals, in a context which enabled them to develop their creativity within a collective creation based upon memory and identity. Where did we come from? What happened to us? What do our songs tell us about ourselves?
credits performers Lobão, Louredo and Guisande Community Theatre Group concept Collective. director Edith Scher assistant director João Pedro Correia music assistant Maria Vasquez Costumes: Carolina Sousa and Nuno Encarnação sound Rodolfo Sá Pereira light Cláudia Valente research support Cecília Melo and Roberto Carlos Reis group management Ana Guiomar and Liseta da Costa drawing and completion of the mural at the lobão social centre Omar Gasparini with the Lobão, Louredo and Guisande Community Theatre Group thanks Lobão, Guisande and Louredo Parishes and Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School of Corga de Lobão
Travessia (”Crossing”) brings back some of the historical moments of the last few years, narrated from the point of view of Santa Maria da Feira's neighbours. It is a journey that touches identity from the reports, fragments and memories of the neighbours. This collective production constructs a narration that weaves moments that lie dormant in the collective memory, incorporating the local characters and folk legends. The neighbours are both creators and protagonists of their own story in this production that aims to integrate the artistic praxis into the everyday lives of local residents. At the same time, and from the same material, muralist Omar Gasparini will sketch a mural which he will paint with all the neighbours. The mural, to be unveiled at the Festival, is an excellent way of bringing the residents of Santa Maria da Feira together to participate. This way, by making Art/Theatre, one intends to unite different groups, generations, histories and everyday lives, thus boosting social dynamics and promoting personal and collective development.
international street theatre festival
12
santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
vhils
‘diorama cork faktory’
portugal
imaginarius creation | world premiere
Alexandre Farto (1987), a visual artist, has been developing his work in an urban environment, under the name of “Vhils”, since he started doing graffiti, in the early 2000's. Having grown in Seixal, a region with a large industrial tradition, he was strongly influenced by the intense development that transformed Portugal during the 80's/90's. An avid experimentalist, he has developed his aesthetics of vandalism in interventions and in solo and collective exhibits around the world, on a wide array of media – from stencil painting to the mural sculpture technique – which has projected him as one of the most acclaimed names in world urban art panorama. Diorama Cork Faktory is a large format sculpture based on the Diorama series, whose scale fills the space of an old factory with links to the cork industry. Its intricate lines express the close relationship between human beings and their working environment, a complex web of mutual influence which gives shape and substance to their bond. Made of cork, the piece explores the juxtaposition between the individual's social and cultural identity and the industrial environment where he plies his trade, while also reflecting on industry's role in the economy and the lack of investment that has plagued Portugal's secondary sector during the last few decades, as well as on the consequences that this abandonment has had on individuals and populations who depend on it. The piece will be carried in a procession by factory workers and placed on the City Hall's side wall facing Gaspar Moreira Square, where it will be exhibited for a fortnight. This action intends to pay tribute to the workers' toil, while also underlining the importance of technical work in artistic activity. Through the shadow play propitiated by its form, the piece takes on the role of a representative model that allows a new perspective and an extensive panoramic interpretation of the urban industrial contexts we live and work in, and of this process of mutual moulding.
credits piece production Alberto Gomes, Amadeu Tavares, Américo Angélica, Arlindo Relvas, Fernando Fontes, Fernando Pereira, Francisco Rocha, João Oliveira, Jorge Guedes, Manuel Magalhães, Manuel Rocha, Maria Silva, Maria Sousa, Pedro Melo and Rosalina Sousa
sponsorshop
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
teatro o bando
‘a jangada de pedra ’
portugal
world premiere
Rafts all of us leaving not yet knowing where for, setting off from the vices and the old, effete systems. All of us looking at that fragmented rock, that Europe divided into so many centres and as many peripheries. All of us searching for the difference, the identity, the sovereignty and asking the other travellers: WHERE ARE WE GOING? Founded in 1974, one of the oldest cultural cooperatives in the country, Teatro O Bando sees itself as a collective that chooses aesthetic transfiguration as a way of civic and community involvement. O Bando's creations are defined by their visual and scenographic features, particularly marked by their Stage Machines and their dramaturgical work. Mainly by Portuguese authors, the texts they stage are mostly non-dramatic works, to which the theatrical form lends a whole different communicability. Teatro O Bando continues to pursue singularity in their creations through a collectivist methodology that seeks difference, interference, rupture and colliding points of view. Rural or urban, adult or infant, erudite or popular, national or universal, dramatic, narrative or poetic – such are the boundaries that Teatro O Bando got used to trespassing. Throughout their path, the group became involved in multiple national and international projects, and their investment in travelling still takes several shows around the country and across borders. After many addresses, for twelve years now Teatro O Bando has been residing in a farm in Vale dos Barris – Palmela, where a yet unknown number of potential stages made of stars, olive trees and boulders. credits cooperative direction João Brites, Raúl Atalaia andSara de Castro artistic direction João Brites, Rui Francisco, Jorge Salgueiro, Teresa Lima, Clara Bento andMiguel Jesus permanent team João Brites, Raúl Atalaia, Sara de Castro, Fátima Santos, Miguel Jesus, Guilherme Noronha, Paula Gato and Lúcia Rus collaborators Ana do Rosário de Bragança, António Braga, Elsa Ferreira, Lima Ramos, Sérgio Milhano, Isabel Atalaia, Setulgeste and Famcorp cooperants Adelaide João, Ana Brandão, Antónia Terrinha, António Braga, Bibi Gomes, Clara Bento, Fátima Santos, Gonçalo Amorim, Guilherme Noronha, Horácio Manuel, Isabel Atalaia, João Brites, Jorge Salgueiro, Lima Ramos, Miguel Jesus, Miguel Moreira, Nicolas Brites, Paula Só, Pedro Gil, Raúl Atalaia, Rui Francisco, Sara de Castro and Suzana Branco text José Saramago dramaturgy João Brites stage direction and set design João Brites and Rui Francisco actors Anna Kurika, Bruno Bento, Guilherme Noronha, Miguel Branca, Nuno Nunes and Sara de Castro music Jorge Salgueiro spoken word Teresa Lima costume design Clara Bento props Fátima Santos lighting design João Cachulo sound design Sérgio Milhano creation Teatro O Bando coproduction Teatro O Bando, Imaginarius and São Luiz Teatro Municipal
coproduction
teatro o bando support
international street theatre festival
14
santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
antagon theater aktion
‘ginkgo’
germany
national premiere
Vita ”The task of art, culture, education, and the upbringing of the future generations can only be to sensitize humans to comprehend that they can break through the reins of control and once again perceive themselves as part of the Earth.” Josef Mayer antagon theater AKTion, founded by Bernhard Bub in 1990 as the theatre on Wheels, is an independent performance theatre of the modern times, a theatre which nonetheless searches for traces of the forgotten, traditional roots of the theatre. ”Energy is there, where people come together with their strengths and weaknesses. It is a long process that differs greatly from the short-of-breath atmosphere that characterizes our current social situation, which cannot be won with money or deals. In the organic theatre, if it is about an honest and direct relationship to life, the human being is in the middle as the most important aspect.” – Bernhard Bub, Artistic Director, antagon theater AKTion For us, theatre is the process that occurs within a group while collaborating on a project. antagon works with performers from all over the world, activating the audiences' senses with our voices and our bodies, through music, acrobatics and improvisation, by dancing on stilts, with fire, surrounded by sculptural stages built on the spot. “The theatre is not violence, it is erosion. It likes to wear down the moulds of society. In contrast to a hurricane, it is rather like water or the wind, which form the ever changing face of the Earth in nearly imperceptible ways.” Omar Valiño Ginkgo is a racy outdoor performance with pyrotechnic effects, fire, stilt artists, hanging installations as well as self – composed live music – a composition that creates vivid, haunting and, at the same time, poetic moments. The première took place in Bucharest, Romania, in 2008. Ginkgo has a 360° setting, mostly overhead, for a big audience. Play time is approximately 70 minutes. Its content is linked to the nuclear disaster in 1945. It shows how, even in a seemingly inverted world of egoism, exploitation, ecological devastation and wars, nature puts all its force at any time in living. Catastrophes can´t set back the force of nature. After the atomic strike on Hiroshima, the Ginkgo tree was nothing than a charred stump. However, it started out to new live. On a rather futuristic stage setting, a group of human beings struggles for life. Then they find hope and trust in the invincible, positive power of nature, origin for growth and prosperity. Where do humans find this power? How do we generate it? Is it an already existing, every human inherent power, concealed deep down inside of us, like old and forgotten memories? In an atmosphere of constant changes that we might very well perceive as threatening, our theatre dares to look back on the last six decades and, with this in mind, asks what Hiroshima has changed and whether we can live under the burden of the atomic threat. The tragic nuclear accident 2011 in Fukushima had a tremendous impact on the latest revival of Ginkgo. Ginkgo asks whether it is still possible nowadays to believe in a dignified world worth living in and answers the question positively.
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
ballet contemporâneo do norte
‘a construção’
grupo XIX de teatro
world premiere
brazil
‘hygiene’
portugal
Grupo XIX de Teatro has devoted the last 10 years to a continuous work of thematic research devoted to Brazilian history, an aesthetic research involving the exploration of historic buildings as scenic spaces and an investigation on active audience participation. Since 2004, the group conducts an artistic residency at the Maria Zélia Workers Village in Belém (São Paulo), which has been declared a national monument. The group is currently sponsored by PETROBRÁS. Hygiene, the group's second play, is the result of the “A Residência”, one of the 12 projects approved by the City of São Paulo's Theatre Investment Act (January 2004). For this play, the group was nominated for the 2005 Shell Theatre Award and the Bravo! Prime Culture Award as one of the three best shows of the year, and won, for best show of the year, the 2005 Brazil Quality Award – São Paulo. In 2006, the group took part in the Official Selection of Contemporary Theatre of the Curitiba Theatre Festival, in the Londrina International Festival, in the Extrema Festival (Mato Grosso), in the Riocenacontemporânea, Araquara Festival, Proximidades – Theatre Groups Meeting – Fortaleza (Ceará) and in the Paidéia Festival. The play was also awarded with the PETROBRÁS FUNARTE Circulação Nacional Award, which completed a season in the cities of Blumenau (Santa Catarina), Santos (São Paulo), Salvador (Bahía), Ouro Branco and Diamantina (Mina Gerais). In 2010, it was performed in Rio Branco (Acre) and Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and its circulation project was approved by ProAc (São Paulo) leading to performances in Jacareí and Sorocaba. Since its première it has completed several seasons in the city of São Paulo.
Formed in 1995 as an amateur structure, the Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte has developed an extensive activity in the field of Contemporary Dance. The period between 1996 and 1997 witnessed the assertion and development of the existing talent and willingness, which gained the attention from official entities, both local and national. BCN relied from its beginning on financial support from the Estarreja City Council, and in 1997 was granted a one-time subsidy by the Ministry of Culture (IPAE). With a permanent concern for the artistic future of the BCN project, one sought to stimulate from the start the desire and talent for choreographic creation in all members of its structure. To invest in the talent of BCN's young dancers is to invest in the future of Contemporary Dance's artistic creation and, at the same time, to put to practice the idea championed by Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte of decentralizing artistic production: BCN is a place for creation and experimenting, dialogue and discussion, exchanging ideas and knowledge, always with Art in general and Dance in particular as its backdrop. Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte is currently taking up a residency in Santa Maria da Feira, with the support of the local City Council and the Feira Viva municipal company, envisioning a new leap forward in its career and the beginning of a new cycle in its life. A Construção: How many persons does it take to build an idea? To give meaning to the things we build every day? This construction comes from nowhere. It springs from the will to create and give meaning to an idea, the idea of building a space that can shelter all. A centre for concerns and projections of a near future. Built by unusual persons, designed by unusual persons, and perceived by other, equally unusual ones. We have built the idea that it is possible to build and continue, in a perpetual circular movement. From a collaboration with the Prison of Santa Cruz do Bispo, where the performers are temporarily living, this “Construction” was born.
Hygiene reflects on the historical moment when Brazil was being rapidly built, and taking thousands of emigrants everyday. That was the contingent of cultures and ideas that lived together in the large tenements in central Rio de Janeiro. And, from that melting pot, it didn't take long for the seeds of important manifestations of Brazilian identity to arise, alongside the social inequalities that have a profound impact on our present day dilemmas. By telling the story of workers, immigrants, washerwomen, whores, freed slaves, healers and traders in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, when housing became a public issue and society, inspired by European urban models, decided to put to practice the concept of the single-family house, Grupo XIX de Teatro brings to the surface the features that will leave a deep impression on the construction of Brazilian identity. Samba, religious syncretism and workers struggles, among other sociocultural manifestations, were originated in those collective residences. By putting those past lives in contact with today, one is highlighting Brazil's dilemmas and challenges for the future.
credits stage direction and composition Pedro Rosa stage design, construction workshop direction João Pedro Rodrigues choreography, movement workshop direction Flávio Rodrigues direction, picture and editing Nelson Castro and Sofia Afonso lighting design João Teixeira audio post-production and musical composition Carlos Salgueiros general coordination Susana Otero general coordination assistant Luís Carolino executive producer Joana Ferreira
credits research and creation Grupo XIX de Teatro dramaturgy Janaina Leite, Juliana Sanches, Luiz Fernando Marques, Paulo Celestino, Rodolfo Amorim, Ronaldo Serruya and Sara Antunes cast Janaina Leite, Juliana Sanches, Paulo Celestino, Rodolfo Amorim, Ronaldo Serruya and Tatiana Caltabiano direction Luiz Fernando Marques costumes Renato Bolelli stage manager Felipe Cruz
international street theatre festival
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production Grupo XIX de Teatro executive producer Vanessa Candela partnership Imaginarius, O Teatrão, FITEI and Teatro Virgínia under the Mostra de São Palco partnership
santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
teatro do montemuro
‘que raio de mundo’
portugal
world premiere
poesia no corpo, corpo na poesia
‘estás a olhar p'ra mim?’ world premiere
portugal
Promoted by Casa dos Choupos, the Poesia no Corpo, Corpo na Poesia project aims to experience performance in an attempt to transform a space, taking into account collective creation and the performer as a total being. It promotes intergenerational cooperation and collective involvement, as it relies on the participation of 12 individuals with ages ranging from 12 to 76. If, on the one hand, Poetry benefits from being a place open to crossings with other arts, namely Dance, on the other hand, Dance also benefits from being able to experience other universes, such as the Word.
It's been 20 years since the moment when a group of young people took their first steps in theatre. Still today, it is in the village of Campo Benfeito, lost between labyrinthine paths and hills circling Montemuro Mountain, that the team arduously labours at creating innovative projects. Besides these persons, each new project brings to Campo Benfeito new collaborators from all over the country and abroad. Actors, stage designers, playwrights and stage directors travel to the village feeling enthusiastic for creating something different, something singular. Being a company in a rural environment, Teatro do Montemuro is obligated, but also pleased, to be a travelling company, 21st century “harlequins”, that relies heavily on large sets, detailed costumes, masks, props and live music. Throughout these years as a professional theatre company, the group has distinguished itself for the authenticity and originality of its texts, visual, music, and also for the work of its actors, based on truth, emotion, joy and physicality taken to exhaustion.
Estás a olhar p’ra mim? (”Are you looking at me?”) is a piece about dance in people's lives, about giving and sharing. Dancing with your eyes closed. Dancing in a group. Dancing alone. Dancing in the streets. Dancing at home. Dancing with a partner... Twelve persons of different ages demonstrate the pleasure of dancing, in a piece that reflects upon intimacy and desire. By dancing, each performer is rewarded by the sensation of that pleasure, through movements that are present in their lives.
Teatro do Montemuro has now created a new street project. Que Raio de Mundo (“What Kind of a World”) is an entertaining and exiting new story. A show full of surprises and with a strong musical side. As always, a set that is rediscovered at every moment. Somewhere between a music concert, a physical theatre performance and a surreal political rally by a party that doesn't exist yet, a bunch of old-school storytellers seize the moment and the fact that the people has gathered around the old oak to earn some extra change, entertain us and make us think.
credits created by Helena Oliveira, Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro and Mariana Nascimento. costumes Helena Oliveira, Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro and Mariana Nascimento. cast Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro and Mariana Nascimento. music Mum – “Finally We Are No One”; Arvo Pärt – “Passio Tonus Peregrinus”; Tindesticks – “Falling down a Mountain”
credits staging Graeme Pulleyn dramaturgy Eduardo Correia musical direction António Pedro set design Kevin Plumb cast Abel Duarte, Eduardo Correia, Paulo Duarte, Tanya Ruivo + 2 sets built by Cal Carlos assistance to set desing and contruction Maria da Conceição Almeida lighting design Paulo Duarte production and communication Paula Teixeira
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
bismas das acácias
les bleus de travail
‘le voyage de noces’
angola
france
national premiere
Founded on 21 April, 1984, the Bismas das Acácias group was the result of a merger of groups, namely the Acácias, the Pop's and a bunch of boys that break danced. The name of the group was inspired by the abundance of “Marias” in its midst (“Bis” for “repetition” + “Mas” for “Marias” = BISMAS); and because they were from Benguela, known as the City of Acacias. The group is currently owned by Bismas das Acácias - Acção para a Cultura e Desenvolvimento (since November 1998). It sees itself as one of the bulwarks of the roots of Angolan culture, through its rural research of national folklore that is the base for the creation of its choreographies. This will be its third appearance in Portugal - the first was in 1995 and the second at Expo 98. The dances that will be performed (Koti Kolumbula, Ndungo, Ukongo, Firmino, Cidungue, Sindeta...) portray the everyday lives of Angolans in the fields of agriculture, hunting, leisure and cultural institutions like evamba (a school fore male initiation among the ovimbundo people), marriage and masked folklore, and many others. It won the dance category of the first National Culture Festival “FENACULT/89”. In 2007, it received the National Culture Award for dance - the highest state accolade in the field. The battle continues, for, according to its motto, “movement without effort is worthless”. It has toured Egypt (1988 and 2000), Sweden (1998 and 2000), Spain (Expo 2008), Rwanda (2011), South Africa (1999) and Namibia (1997).
In 1998, after passing through the Archaos and Plume circuses, Sylvain Granjon, Alexandre Demay and Danier Péan created the Les Bleus de Travail company. Six shows were performed: “ça s'annonce mal” in 1999, for the theatre “Sous les pavés, les Bleus” in 2002, for the street; Then in a duo with Alexandre Demay and Sylvain Granjon: “Bonjour Bonheur” in 2004, for the theatre, “Le Ring” in 2005, for the street, “Le voyage de noces”, 2009, street; Then solo: “Les histoires de Marcel”, 2008, clown by Alexandre Demay, “Mr Sylvain et son petit chien”, 2008, act with a dog by Sylvain Granjon. More than 800 performances in 12 countries and 5 languages (France, Spain, Italy, Japan, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Quebec, Portugal, England and Austria). An estimated 300 000 spectators have seen at least one show by Les Bleus de Travail!
‘ocisoko’
international street theatre festival
Marcel and Raymonde are about 31, the chrome trimmings of their Fiat 500 have just been polished and Kiki (their stuffed dog) has been brushed and groomed. They are ready to leave for their honeymoon!! But the Fiat 500 breaks down. They are still far from suspecting that this trip will turn into a real initiation journey! For an hour they will face endless ordeals.
18
santa maria da feira
24 › 26
may’13
crassh portugal
trupe koskowisck
‘crassh_street 2.0’ ‘crassh_street 3.0’
‘olha o palhaço no meio da rua’
brazil
Trupe Koskowisck is a group of actors-clowns which develop work and research in Street Theatre, Circus and Circus-Theatre. It was born in 2005, performing improvised scenes on the street. Presently, it aims to perform sketches with differentiated looks and language, while, of course, keeping all its essence. Their repertoire includes about 12 shows. Their history features several important events, such as: II International Female Clowns Festival /07; SESC Street Theatre Exhibition/09; Satyrianas 2009/10/11; Rio das Ostras Nacional Festival RJ/10; Patacomico Festival - El Bolsón - Patagónia 2012/2013.
After several years of work, the Crassh project was born spontaneously, but with determination, in 2007, in the county of Oliveira do Bairro. It resulted from the dedication of Bruno Estima, its mentor and artistic director, together with the work and commitment of 12 percussionists. Besides countless other performances, in 2012 it toured the European Capitals of Youth and Culture. The CRASSH project was awarded with: 1st Place TETRA 07 – d'ORFEU Águeda; 1st Place JOVENS Criadores IPJ 08 (musical field) - National; 1st Place Carlos Marques 08 – EAB; Trophy “Performance on Stage 2009” – Aveiro FM e 1st Place GrandeC 2011 – Ministry of Education. Crassh presents shows that are adaptable to all stages and audiences, with no language barriers and suitable for all ages. The Crassh performances reach their peak during the moments of interaction with the audience, making for total, surprising and captivating shows. Its audience is served by a contagious energy, energetic playing and full-proof humour. Crassh_Street is made with buckets, pipes, helmets, saws... everything becomes a motive and an instrument for creating movement and sound. In Street, voice is a new element where all lyrics are in “Crasshonese”, a universal language.
Olha o palhaço no meio da rua (“Look at the clown in the middle ofthe street”) is a musical concert. The two musician clowns fight for the audience's attention, in a competition that admits all kinds of tricks and traps. Unusual situations ensue. Mice, water and baby powder on the face are just a few of those gimmicks. The show spontaneously divides the audience, seduced by conventional and alternative instruments alike. The various rhythms and each one's favourite style encourage the audience to take part in that dispute. When they realise that there is no harmony when they are apart, they join forces to produce a great and unusual show. Right after the musical, the clowns perform classic circus openings and encores like “Abelha Abelhinha”, “Pilherias”, “Malabares Cómico” and Magia Cómica”. This time, the audience is invited to take an active part in the scenes, thus strengthening the bond between the spectators and the artists. All sketches are circus classics that were passed on orally from one generation to the next.
credits concept and artistic direction Bruno Estima artistic direction assistant Artur Carvalho players / músicians Cristiano Rios, David Valente, Nuno Ferreira, Miguel Estima, Micael Lourenço, Roberto Carvalho, João Bastos, Luís Carcoleiro, Gonçalo Garcia, David Calhau, Artur Carvalho and Bruno Estima human resource management David Calhau sound design Gonçalo Garcia stage manager Rogério Garcia logistics João Bastos costumes Patrícia Costa design e photography Rita Silva executive producer Cândida Silva production WETUMTUM thanks to Bairrada Arts School and Oliveira do Bairro City Council
credits cast Geisa Helena and Alexandre Malhone (Chiquita and Cotonete the Clowns) directed by Hudson Rocha (Kuxixo the Clown) this show was put on with support from ProAC and toured several cities in Brazil and Agentina
supports
international street theatre festival
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santa maria da feira
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may’13
diana carneiro e joão dias
joão pamplona
‘mr. shimokawa’
‘hangover’
portugal / norway
portugal
The three players, Kristian Winther, João Pamplona and Mads Petterson – graduates from the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad (NO) in 2006 – proposed to the Nordland Teater the creation of an original performance that would depart from conventional theatre based on text or written narrative. From the ambition of composing visual, physical theatre, and inspired by “Plank piece” by Charles Ray – an installation featuring himself bending over a wooden plank – “Hangover” was born, premièring in Moirana (NO), at the Nordland Teater, in March 2007. In May of the same year, Hangover was staged at the Stamsund Festivalen in Lofoten (NO). João Pamplona returned to Portugal in 2011, recruited a work team and repremièred Hangover at the Manobras no Porto festival in 2012.
Uggh… Blahhh. Nhec. Burp. Glup. Ppfii… Plof! Flush... Done. Slowly I pull myself together and, shamelessly, rapidly wrap myself in a frantic, slimy whirlpool of immaculate impurity. My muse is my stool. Mr. Shimokawa is a performance that has been developed from a brief presentation by the students of contemporary dance, part of the BOOM show by the All About Dance Academy. The piece's starting point is the hero of the story “Abandon the Old in Tokyo” by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, which focuses the piece's essence on the gut feelings experienced during a casual and unwelcome visit to the most vulgar of community lavatories. Diana Carneiro – Graduated in Dance by the Balleteatro Escola Profissional (2003/2006), with a degree in Entertainment and Cultural Production from the Oporto Higher Artistic School (2006/2009) and a post-graduate in Arts Management by the Catholic University of Oporto. Participated in several workshops and training courses, where she learned different techniques, in London, Brussels, Berlin and Portugal. Presently she is a dancer and choreographer at the LABU Dance Company, and performed “Psicanálise” at the Hard Club in Oporto and Mais Imaginarius 2012; and “Uma Pequena Morte” at Made in Feira 2012. In the same year she led the Choreographic Creation Lab by Companhia Instável, which resulted in the solo “Daddy's Little Girl”. She is a dancer at the All About Dance company.
Hangover “Hangover will never be the same”. Three strangers wake up in a closed space with no comfort and, apparently, no exits either. With no idea where they are or how they got there, they all share a common grievance – a terrible hangover. Will they withstand this situation? Hangover was born by researching the meaning of word in a particular space with specific situations that promote actions of a physical nature. It's an almost dialogue-free performance, with a painful humour subject to multiple interpretations. Hangover, hang-over, over. credits concept and creation Kristian Winther, João Pamplona and Mads Petterson performers João Pamplona, Martinho Silva and Gilberto Oliveira stage design Andreia Leandro light design Øyvind Furuhatt machinery Filipe Silva executive producer Cristiana Gaspar
João Dias – A dancer since 2003, he received dance training in Portugal, London and Brussels. Presently, he is a dancer and choreographer at the LABU Dance Company and the All About Dance Company and a former member of the Kuki Dance Company. As a performer and co creator, he participated in “Asylum” (Imaginarius 2010), “Distortion” (Imaginarius 2011), “Psicanálise” (Mais Imaginarius 2012), “A Ballet Story”, a Nome Próprio/Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 co-production performed in Guimarães, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro (Festival Panorama 2012), “Untitled# .1981” (a duet with Helena Oliveira within the Choreographic Creation Lab – Palcos Instáveis 2012. He is currently taking the Integrated Masters degree in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto. credits art direction Diana Carneiro and João Dias choreography Diana Carneiro and João Dias performers Students from the contemporary project of the All About Dance Academy sound design Marco Ferreira lighting design Diana Carneiro and João Dias costumes / props João Rola supported by LABU_Plataforma Artística, All About Dance and Cogruci
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cie du p'tit vélo
residual gurus
‘pétafun tour’
‘residual gurus’
france
spain
Cie du P'tit Vélo has worked since 2001 around a surrealist, musical, circus-like, poetic incursion, everywhere and for everyone. This human and artistic adventure develops, working collectively, an atypical fanfare. Improvisation, direct contact with the audience and the world of travelling make the singularity of this company.
Residual Gurus was born of the idea of creating a street show that would combine quality music and mime theatre with a component of social criticism, thus raising consciousness regarding the issues of today's world, like interpersonal reclusion, economical inequalities and industrial overproduction, from a humorous and creative point of view, serving all kinds of audiences. Music is this show's central axis, its main inspiration source being Southern India's carnatic percussion and its rhythmic language – the so-called konnakol. The sounds made by materials from the industrial society (bottles, pipes and cans), together with the magic of Bali's gamelan gongs, create a style somewhere between electronic music, new-age and Brazilian beats. The combination of these – apparently so distant – elements is just a sample of the globalized reality we live in; a reality that favours, at the same time, totally original, innovating music. Since its première at the 2009 Tàrrega Theatre Fair, the show has been performed in various festivals around the world, always generating a positive reaction from audiences and promoters alike, making Residual Gurus a constantly evolving show.
Pétafun Tour – A crazy street punk fanfare, both travelling and fixed. Aboard a tiny car towing a mini-caravan, 6 reckless musicians drag their patched universe, their battered metals and their overflowing energy; their accordion player muffled by the loud bass-drums and the backfiring exhaust. They will turn your bodies into an undulating material for an unforgettable, unique and warm moment. For the Imaginarius festival, this wild bunch is inviting an artist from the Au Tour Du Nez company, born in Santa Maria da Feira, for a French-Portuguese creative meeting. The P'tit Vélo company has participated in the international street theatre Aurillac festival (France); Rendez Vous Chez Nous festival in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso); Nuit des Lampions in Wiltz (Luxembourg), Fête de la Brebis in Réquista (France).
international street theatre festival
Five executives, absorbed by their cell phones, turn their lives around as they convert a pile of garbage into a sound laboratory, through games, interaction, listening, group work, experimenting, love…
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ljud group
‘the invasion’
slovenia
national premiere
The Ljud group was established in 2006, aiming to bring high quality contemporary art to a wider audience. It consists of directors, performers and visual artists from across Europe dedicated to exploring the possibilities of artistic expression in public space and new theatrical forms based on interaction rather than presentation. The Invasion project is a mixture of visual spectacle and interaction between audience and actors, based on non-verbal physical theatre and site-specific live compositions. An interplanetary expedition of immigrants from outer space has landed on our planet. Members of the expedition belong to different alien species, but as a reaction to the Earth atmosphere they have all gained a new protective colour, so that humans would not take them too seriously. Every alien character has its own story, its own ways of communicating, and challenges the public in a different way. The aliens have a special sensibility, seeing the world around us as a completely new and exiting place. In search of a new home, they try to integrate into our society. The Invasion examines questions concerning multicultural societies and the conventions of behaviour in public space. The audience is invited to react spontaneously, become part of the story and join the performers as they explore the border between fiction and reality, establishing theatre as a game, a ritual and a social event. Prepare yourself for some truly unexpected “interplanetary” dialogue. But please, don't panic! They come in pink … "Authentic madness." Fiesta cultura magazine "... addictive interactions ..." Delo, Ljubljana "Simple and ingenious." Ve_erka, Brest “Better then “Avatar” in 3D!” Sjaellandske Medier, Vordingborg credits This project was developed as a co-production with La Strada Festival of Graz and supported by IN SITU (European network for artistic creation in public spaces). Since its première in Graz, August 2008, the aliens appeared on more than 60 international festivals in 27 countries. More information available at: www.ljud.si
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orquestra todos
‘concerto’
portugal
Orquestra Todos – A Lisboan Dream I always thought that the reality of a large city is made of complex relationships that are weaved everyday between people and places. Thus, cities often into laboratories for experimenting with everyday life: being, thinking, living. Meeting different cultures is, as I see it, an added value that belongs in every city's history. These meetings transform and remodel relationships between people and the very meeting spaces. As maestro Mario Tronco used to say at the concerts by Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and Orquestra Todos, “Mixing cultures creates beauty. Mixtures and contaminations are one of the basis of contemporary cultures. Naples is unique and fascinating because it's Arab, French, Spanish... Like it's own language, Neapolitan, which contains all those sonorities; even German.” This project for a Lisboan Orchestra, which was born in the midst of TODOS Festival, sprang from several meetings with Italian Maestro Mario Tronco, during the many concerts by the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (OPV) in Lisbon. From those meetings and many exchanges of views concerning the role played by culture in various cities and countries around the world, questions/reflections on art arose: The importance of art and the need for its existence within both individual and social life; The analysis of the strength of artistic projects as an engine for the development of contemporary social life; The redefinition of the role of artistic programming – from its own spaces, its relationship with the public, its links with the territory and the presence of artists and their creations in that territory; The arts configure a living sensitive space in order to invent new meeting arrangements for the various communities that inhabit the city and its territory – a cultural place that provides us with a feeling of common belonging and helps the community to look differently at life; Art as one of life's necessities; art as a world view, art which is missed, art which is mindful of social transformations, a reflex of changes, art as a living space, full of critical questions regarding world order; The role of art in our society – the cultural identity of a city from its relationship with art, the various urban spaces and artistic creation.
Festival Todos is a place for cultural practices around a multicultural geographic territory in the city of Lisbon. It was here that the adventure of Orquestra Todos began, in the same way the history of OPV started in the Esquilino neighbourhood in Rome, 10 years ago - as an answer to artistic and political concerns in search of a praxis; bringing to life a project that had been though by others before, but never consummated. After OPV's concert at the TODOS Festival, Caminhada de Cultural in 2009, at Largo do Intendente, near Martim Moniz, the idea came up to create a new musical project from Lisbon. Mario Tronco and Pino Pecorelli, both from OPV, were ready to start a new experience, where it would be possible to find new sounds, other cultures, new musicians. A new orchestra could be born from the sounds that Portuguese culture welcomes and contains from the richness of the relationships it always nourished with territories both near or on the other side of the world: northern, central and southern Portugal, Cape Verde, India, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola. Project TODOS, Caminhada de Culturas and Academia de Produtores Culturais were, at the same time, the engine and the context for the birth and growth of this orchestra. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Lisbon City Council/GLEM (Gabinete Lisboa Encruzilhada de Mundos) were our leading partners. Creating the group of musicians that would become the orchestra's organic future was a fascinating process. The search for the various possible musical connections, the research of various musicians in all of the city's social contexts, street included, under the watchful guidance of Francesco Valente, an Italian bassist and an adopted Lisboan musician, made it possible for us to have an effective relationship with the multicultural musical world of mixed-blood Lisbon, the hidden musical Lisbon. The first rehearsals took place in the heart of Mouraria, at Sport Club do Intendente. Ours is an experimental work method that is built upon each of the musical and cultural personalities, according to our own concept of collective; continuously adding and subtracting in our search for a common language. Generosity and knowing how to learn and give build, throughout rehearsals, the possible group. All musicians in the orchestra live in Portugal and bring their cultural heritage with them. The fact that they remained in this country enables the first mixture. They no longer belong to their country but they are not Portuguese yet. They are foreigners everywhere and in search of a new culture that mixes them all. Orquestra Todos is the meeting place where a common language is born that belongs only to this group and this collective. This music and this culture speak their own language, which is mixture of them all. Bastard music, with many fathers and many mothers: that is the nature and pride of this orchestra.
Considerations and points of view in search of a cultural praxis.
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MAIS IMAGINARIUS COMPANIES More Imaginarius has established itself, in recent years, as an essential component of the Imaginarius Festival, challenging and opening the public space to daring proposals from young artists offering artistic paths that question the public's perceptions. In 2013, More Imaginarius will privilege projects promoting independent thinking, taking and assuming the risks of experimental creation and creating an informed and sustained artistic praxis, as well as proposals that confront local culture and community with contemporary artistic languages, in an On Trial / On Process (artistic objects that are at an advanced stage of creation, but need a “shock/confrontation” with the public and the presentation space in order to progress and evolve in their process) logic, thus valuing concepts that will have a specific implementation in Santa Maria da Feira's public space. More Imaginarius'13 will contemplate proposals in eleven artistic fields, divided into two great themes: Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Visual Arts: New Media | Digital Art | Installation | Graffiti | Performing Arts: Theatre | Dance | Music | Circus | Performance | Intervention | Multidisciplinary.
the purple ladies
‘human possibilities’
united kingdom
world premiere
labu plataforma artística
‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ world premiere
portugal
Replica of an uncontrolled eruption, an emergency, a sort of apotheosis. Me, here, now, like a balloon about to reach its limit and burst. An ultra-concentrated, abrupt moment of adrenalin release, filling me with potential energy that derealizes and depersonalizes me. Maybe I'll be perplexed, terrorized or deployed… oyed…oyed.
The Purple Ladies is a women-led collective of performers based in south-east London. Their repertoire is eclectic and draws from aerial, dance, mime, physical and visual theatre. Their current formation emerged at the now vanished artist warehouse Area10, where they organised site specific, cutting edge performances and Cabaret nights such as Psychological Art Circus shows, Cabaret HomoLudens and Sawmill Collective Events. Since their birth in 2010 they have performed in various places in Europe such as Wilton's Music Hall, The Pleasance Theatre, Jacksons Lane (Postcards Festival), Stoke Newington International Airport, The Woolwich Grand Theatre (Kings of Comedy) and Cuartel del Conde-Duque (Fringe Madrid).
Marco Ferreira – A dancer since 2004, he has worked with: Companhia de Dança do Norte; Companhia Tok'Art, choreographed by André Mesquita; Companhia Instável with Victor Hugo Pontes and Hofesh Shechter in 2011 and 2012. He was part of the piece by Elisabeth Lambeck, the piece Rendez-Vous, A strage land and Zoo by Victor Hugo Pontes and he performed a solo by Sylvia Rijmer. He debuted as a choreographer in 2008 with Asylum, co-produced by All About Dance and Feira Viva within Imaginarius 2010 and Duas Faces, co-created with Mara Andrade. Nevoeiro 21 premiered in 2012 at Palcos Instáveis and was revived at 'Mais Imaginarius' 2012; he co-created Psicanálise by Plataforma Labu.
Human Possibilities will reveal the extraordinary story of a woman and her washing machine, with poetry, aerial circus, dance and video projections. On a day like any other, a friend/alter-ego appears from inside a washing machine, subsequently unveiling an intimate story of mutual trust, love and laughter, and after years of endless routine, leads to a vision of desire: a spectrum of possibilities infinitely wider that one could imagine...
This piece's starting point was my interest in the impressions left by ash and rocks from the volcanic impression in Pompeii in 79 AD. The bodies caught off-guard in the middle of the emergency were petrified, and those who managed to escape amongst the panic, dread and chock are not there to tell.
The Purple Ladies focus on giving voice and support to women as creators in all disciplines. They strongly believe that art should be accessible to all, and dedicate their activities to make it happen, through performances, live-art action and workshops.
The performance moment that was found is mainly a warped exploration of reality. A replica which, like all replicas, is faulty and different from the original. Nevertheless, this is meant to be, in itself and as a whole, an ultra-concentrated, unpredictable and intense moment, where the notion of emergency has been developed, and connections are to be found with the biology of the “panic situation”, of an “anxiety crisis” and a state of alert and watchfulness.
credits director Lina Jungergard performers Christelle Lafille and Zahara O'Brien projections Prasanth Visweswaran
During the piece's construction, and as material was being collected, it was fundamental not to lose the sensation of unpredictability and the feeling that the piece could go anywhere at any time.These moments of emergency should be perceived as flashes charged with emotions and instincts, during which the components of time and control are almost withdrawn, and violent transformations occur in fractions of a second. credits Direction, performance, costumes, set design and sound design Marco da Silva Ferreira assistant director Mara Andrade production Pensamento Avulso associação supported by Academia All About Dance, Lugar Instável and Quinta do Rio
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bárbara andrez
‘bump dialogues’
desastronauts
‘losing grip’
portugal
world premiere
spain
national premiere
Desastronauts are a UK/Spanish contemporary circus company established in 2009. Its members are Girisho (UK) and Raquel Veganzones (Spain). They are both graduates from the Circus Space in London. Raquel specialized in swinging trapeze and Girisho in static trapeze. They originally began working together in London in 2004 where they formed Circo Expreso, an aerial circus company. Desastronauts was formed in Galicia, Spain, representing a move into unexplored space and towards the many, many disasters ahead. Their first project, Losing Grip, was selected by Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2010. Losing Grip is a highly skilled, physically demanding and beautifully presented contemporary circus show. Using original aerial equipment and specially designed harness clothing, the artists attempt a new approach to their discipline. Danger, trust, balance, agility, strength and endurance become the language of their relationship. Losing Grip is an honest and passionate performance beyond words, beyond sentimentality and beyond limits.
Bárbara Andrez was born in 1983. She is a professional actress and a visual artist. Her work crosses both universes, focusing on performance and voice. Her vision is built on everyday subjects, like feminine issues, and a close connection with film culture. By using words and iconography she seeks a direct communication perception.
A twenty minute work-in-progress of Losing Grip was presented in Helsinki, Malmitalo (August 2010), Strasbourg, Théâtre de Hautepierre (Sept. 2010) and in Paris, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (November 2010). Losing Grip had its world premier at MIMARTE Festival, Braga, Portugal (06 July 2011), in France at the ZOOM Festival, Académie Fratellini, Paris (29-30Sept. 2011) and in Spain at the FIOT Festival, Carballo, Galicia (23 October 2011). Since October 2011 Raquel and Girisho have taken a break from performing Losing Grip to have a baby. The spring of 2013 signifies a return to performing for Desastronauts.
Bump Dialogues is a performance work created for Imaginarius 2013. Its starting point was the 2012 Carros de Choque video installation, where she explored the deconstruction of urban rituals and popular celebrations. It is from this crossing that Bump Dialogues appears: mouths in monologue, mouths that interact and call to one another with festive sounds in the background. As it finds its space in the performance work, the spoken voice both leans on and distances itself from the performer's body. The words, sonorously placed in the body and in space by the voice, reveal images and allow the characterization of experiences, thoughts and distinctly feminine and stereotyped events. The uttered word thus reflects its ultimate importance and it is up to the spectator to choose to follow these dialogues that constantly bump each other. In the enlarged image of a mouth, the venue for discourse is thus established.
credits desastronauts Raquel Veganzones / Girisho concept & direction Desastronauts mise-en-scène Marcos PTT music Maximilian Latva light design Fidel Vazquez Díaz harness design / maker Chloe Black costumes Maria Chenut & Chloe Black aerial equipment Simon Peevers support of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2009-2010, operation funded with the support of the European Commission. residencies CREAC (Marseille – FR), Les Migrateurs (Strasbourg – FR), La Grainerie (Toulouse – FR), Espace Périphérique (Paris-FR) AGADIC Centro Dramático Galego (Santiago de Compostela – ES), Auditorio de Valga (Pontevedra – ES)
credits artistic creation | performance | video | editing and post-production Bárbara Andrez
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talentitos company
tresperté circo - teatro
‘la boîte à musique’
germany / france
‘aquí sobra uno’
spain
Tresperté is a young company from Granada that mainly works in circus theatre, taking circus as a technique and the theatre as a language. Its works feature trio acrobatics and humour, never forgetting to convey a message to the audience and tell a story. Everything from the search for movement to the coherence of a story that can be understood by all audiences. Its career started in Andalusia in 2011, rapidly extending to the Tafalla Va de Calle Festival (2011, 1st place), Certamen de Jòvenes Artistas de Calle de Mollina (2011, 4th place), or their début as a professional company at the Circada de Sevilla Festival in June 2012. They crossed the Mediterranean and toured Italy in 2012 (at such festivals as Lunathica -where, for the first time abroad, they win an award - Sul Filo del Circo, Sarnico Busker Festival, Salento Busker Festival…) and Germany (Circus Mignon - Sylt). They premièred their latest work in February 2013 with the Beca de Artistas en Residencia program of La Nave del Duende (Càceres).
The Talentitos Company, a French-German company, was created in 2007 in Granada (Spain), a city that was the company's source of inspiration and base during its first years. We have worked in cabarets, street performances and theatres, and offer a fusion of circus, dance and humour in an alternative format with a lovely personal touch. The "multi-culti Company" stayed for a while time in Madrid, later ending up in Berlin.
Circus and theatre at the rhythm of a radio tune. Jealousy, passion and love with acrobatics. The story tells us of three artists and their technician who come to perform for us an acrobatics show that they have been rehearsing for a long time. Everything must be perfect. We soon discover that there is something else. The tension underneath the show makes it impossible for the relationship between them not to unveiled. Jealousy, passion, love; feelings that cannot remain hidden, will be unveiled until a conclusion is reached: Aquí sobra uno (”Somebody here is unwanted”).
La Boîte à Musique (“The Music Box”) is a one-woman clown show, directed and performed by Salomé Hadji, which combines theatre, dance and circus. Tired of her boring daily routine, the music-box doll creates an funny escape plan involving audience participation. “It's not theatre, it's not circus, it's not dance... you will just die laughing!” a spectator once said informations www.talentitoscompany.com
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company en croq
a world of bliss
‘funky pudding’
‘bliss superstore’ ‘blissful picnic’
france
holland
The En CroQ Company was founded in 2010 within the AtelierTeatro Fisico (Turin, Italy), thanks to the encounter between Luigi Ciotta and Aurélia Dedieu. The company based its research on the roots of comic and popular theatre, combining it with civic and social engagement.
BLISS Superstore With diligence and passion, our experienced BLISS team will happily advise you on all our BLISSful products that will change your life. A superstore with everything you wish for and even more...
Funky Pudding, their first show, was also played in Italian and, later, in French, Spanish and English. During the last three years, it has toured many international festivals in several European countries, reaching almost 150 performances. While Funky Pudding is a show of buffoonish clowning, it is certainly not your usual clown show. Big Mac and Marilyn are a heavily overweight couple that live “just like everyone else”… except they live in a trash can; yes, the very the same sort of bin that we all know. As they live in and play with the waste around them, our protagonists create a caricature which describes the processes of consumerism and sheds light on its very worst traits. They paint a slightly less than pretty picture of an excessive, selfish and superficial society where all that is short-lived is regarded as indispensable and all that is truly essential as boring. Beware!.. for everything you wast can be used against you!
BLISSful Picnic On Sunday BLISS will have a picnic and you're invited! Come and join a festive moment together in one of our lovely enormous picnic dresses. We are BLISS from a World of BLISS, an artist collective formed by Charlie Zwart, Gwen van Zaane and Lauren M. Dyer. With our soft performance and social sculptures we aim to grab hold of our audience and leave them mesmerised after sharing a moment of happiness, a moment of BLISS. Donning custom-made outfits and set against an idyllic backdrop, we are three ladies who draw you into a world of BLISS: a picture perfect yet often mundane world where the smallest details are carefully orchestrated, clichés meet surprising elements and dreams come true. Every part of our universe, whether it be a multiple, our installation or ourselves, is viewed as an opportunity to create a small sculpture that's essential to our microcosm. With a wink and an endless smile we welcome you into our world. The nice thing about soft performance is the interaction we have with people, and so we hope to bring our art to a wider audience. You don't have to fully understand it to enjoy it, and that is a quality of ours we cherish; to be accessible. Each work should be for people of all walks of life – not just for those who visit galleries or museums. Our international upbringing and rich fantasy is probably what makes our work so appealing and universal. We communicate through a visual language that everybody understands. A work of BLISS can been seen at festivals, exhibitions, openings and in public space. Each work tells the story of a world of BLISS and is specifically designed to the occasion, its location and its audience.
"The Franco-Italian company En Croq tackled a big subject with their cruel, lucid and humorous satire. A joyful show, inventive, enormously buffoonish which doesn't hide its writing quality, accuracy and richness of mise-en-scène." Midi-Libre (France)
information www.aworldofbliss.com
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sérgio e maría portugal
boris chimp 504
‘um espaço aberto de desmembramento’
‘mission to kepler’
portugal
Sérgio Pantana and María Aguayo live in Lisbon but met dancing in Madrid. They connected and danced. In Madrid, together with Iris Muñoz, Diana Bonilla and Camille Hanson. In Lisbon, with Jácome Filipe, Sylvia Rijmer and others. They danced together in projects led by Camille Hanson, Emanuele Sciannamea and Jácome Filipe and, restless, they began to desire and finally generated: A space of dismembering.
Boris Chimp 504 was born in 2010, in Barcelona, after Miguel Neto and Rodrigo Carvalho completed their Master of Digital Arts from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) and, based on audiovisual improvisation, started to recreate the adventures of cosmonaut chimpanzee Boris 504, an urban legend of space engineering, allegedly sent by the Soviets on a mission to the Moon, having reported to Earth for the last time on July the 7th,1969. This is a real time performance that enhances the synthesis between audio and graphic languages , within a futuristic aesthetics, with the intention of creating an immersive and multi sensory experience for the audience.
Um espaço aberto de desmembramento (”An open space of dismembering”) The Impossible is the state of all possibility: An absolute. You and I in absolute simultaneousness. Two solos which call for a Everything for two. Dance is not a means. It is the thing. The need for the maximum: An open space is a Spacial everything. By believing in the non-existence of limits, we allow that very non-existence. We want to contain everything: the space, the materials, and the flesh.
Mission to Kepler During a recent exploration to Kepler22b, an exoplanet in the binary Kepler-16 solar system, Boris Chimp 504 finds some metallic objects on its surface. Although of an unknown origin, one suspects they are pieces of technology from an extraterrestrial civilization, and preliminary tests lead to believe that it is in fact an interface to control the time-space position and orientation of something bigger, perhaps a spacecraft... Miguel Neto (Lisbon, 1979), musical producer and new media artist has a Degree in Psychological Sciences (FPCE – UL) and a Master of Digital (UPF, Barcelona). He is co-founder of the international art and technology Once Upon A Byte collective, focusing on the Synaesthesia phenomenon and multi sensory experiences and on the creation of interactive interfaces that allow to explore new musical languages, through the use of new digital technologies. Rodrigo Carvalho (Porto, 1983) has a Degree in Design from the University of Aveiro (2001 - 2005). In 2008 he completed a Master in Digital Arts (UPF, Barcelona) and in 2010 he joined SPECS (Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems Group), under the Inov – Art program, developing a real time interactive performance project. He is currently a PhD student a student in Digital Media at the University of Oporto, under the UT Austin|Portugal partnership program.
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clown laboratori porto
mara andrade
‘labaret 3 - a morte’
‘oxitocina’
portugal
portugal
O Clown Laboratori is a platform for training, creating and experimenting the art of the clown. This project, launched in January of 2010, currently resides in Fábrica da Rua da Alegria (ESMAE, Oporto). Besides its continuous training, it also develops performances resulting from research. Three productions in a cabaret format have been performed so far, with sketches where comical effect is explored through the clown's simplicity, naivety and generosity.
Monsters that abuse their lordosis. Apathetic. I let this seduction evolve. Unlimited self-seduction. Someone shows up and it's late. A never ending growing line with no return. On all fours, contortion. It's getting on my nerves, it's beyond me. Ashamed, I turn into a monster with lordosis and something oozes. Gloomily, I remember the past, five minutes ago, more or less. Hello. My name is... I don't know, and it doesn't really matter. My back hurts. In Oxitocina (”Oxytocin”), the performer suffers from several daily “little deaths”, mediated by that hormone that nearly causes a transitory and orgasmic cerebral ischemia. Expressions and sensations that we assume to be linked are broken, and something new arises from this metamorphosis. A strange pansexual state.
There's no point in being squeamish about it: Labaret 3 is a cabaret about death. So, can children come too? Yes, there is no realism, only the hilarity that can be found underneath the subject. How does a clown look at death? How far can our imagination and ability to laugh go before the most obscure reality of human existence? After two years of building a solid, rigorous and effective training path in the art of making people laugh, the members of Clown Laboratori Porto have constructed their darkest cabaret, once more under the direction of Pedro Fabião. While the group's focus on a disarming stage energy continues, Labaret 3 has a different breathing when compared to our previous show. We focused on the particulars of the performance's construction, attention to detail and the use of silence.
Mara Andrade, was born in 1987 in Santa Maria da Feira. In 2011 she took a master's degree in medicine, and developed a Therapy Dance project at Magalhães Lemos Psychiatric Hospital. Since 2004, she was trained at several schools in Portugal, London, Brussels, Amsterdam , Berlin and New York in contemporary dance and urban dances. She choreographed pieces which were co-produced by All About Dance, Feira Viva and Companhia Instável - Asylum, Distorction, Duas Faces, Psicanálise, Uma Pequena Morte e Oxytocin. The latter won, in the Dance category, the 2012 Young Creators Contest, organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute and the Portuguese Club of Arts and Ideas. During the same year, she performed solo #8 Mara, choreographed by Tânia Carvalho, within the Movimentos Diferentes project.
credits concept and performance Alexandre Sá, Ana Madureira, António Lago, Cecília Dias, Filipa Portela, Frederico B. Madeira, Guillem Gerónes, Hugo Valter Moutinho, Hugo Vieira, Janela Magalhães, João Sá, José Magalhães, Luís Almeida, Marta Costa and Sara Araújo direction and staging Pedro Fabião set design Guillem Geronès light operation Joana Domingos still Images Vítor Leite support ESMAE, Fábrica da Rua da Alegria, Erva Daninha, Tenda de Saias, Teatro do Frio and Rei Sem Roupa
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credits concept, choreography, dramaturgy, text, set design, costumes and performance Mara Andrade assistant Marco Ferreira photography Marco Ferreira lighting design Marco Ferreira and Mara Andrade original music Deaf Center – “Close Forever Watching” production Pensamento Avulso supported by Companhia Instável, Teatro Campo Alegre and Academia All About Dance
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mattatoio sospeso
cychotron
‘tu me fais tourner la tête’
‘cychotron’
italy
portugal
Mattatoio Sospeso is a flying company founded by Marco Mannucci in 2006. Each of their works results from collaborations with other artists. Climbing, acrobatics, street theatre, theatre, out of the ordinary Poetics and circus are some of its main ingredients. Evoking Chagall's suspended images, Mattatoio becomes airborne, flying on the façades of towers, palaces and castles. Every new performance is dedicated to the architecture that welcomes it, turning it into an alternative theatre. These suspensions happen in a non-place where the law of gravity does not apply, carrying the audience and the architecture, which are the very objects of the performance, into another dimension: a dream-like dimension, where anything can happen. There are no rules: you fly, you daydream.
Cychotron appeared in 2011. It is a group made up of people from different backgrounds, but who all share the idea of creating an alternative, multidisciplinary show that is able to bridge several artistic expressions, like Body Art, Theatre, Performance and Electronic Music. In a laboratory, the last stage of an experiment. A body is brought in and prepared for Mankind's worst fate. Made into a puppet, for him Freedom no longer exists, just his will is left, to be bent to the point of becoming unsustainable, until the inevitable rebellion, the struggle for liberation. He represents Man in his eternal attempt to dominate, to control, to create a new species of subdued beings, regardless of their suffering, and the consequent struggle for liberation. It refers us to the manipulation of consciences and behaviours and the loss of acquired liberties and rights, reflecting the thinking of the ruling elites of so-called developed western societies, and to the growing suffering and social struggle by the oppressed classes and oppressed people in general. A musical and visual show focusing on body suspension.
Tu me fais tourner la tête (“You Make My Head Spin”) A mental space, 2 ropes, 2 figures, a flying rope. After fragmenting Chagall, Barthes and Sartre, what remains, what begins? Inspired the suspended figures in La Promenade, by Chagall, the acrobatic dance is a space in suspension, a dream space, the driving force behind one's relationship with the other.
credits original concept Ricardo Neto stage direction Cychotron performers Daniel Carvalho, Jorge Fontão, Miguel Branco, Ricardo Neto, Rui Gonçalves and Vítor Costa body suspension Jorge Fontão, Rui Gonçalves and Vítor Costa original music Daniel Carvalho sets and props Ricardo Neto costumes Ricardo Neto lighting Filipe Rebelo graphic design Ana Pereira photography André Henriques production Cychotron
Reminiscent of Fragments of love by R. Barthes, especially where he discusses one's hallucination and obsession for the object of desire. A mental space, a desire for something unknown, unreal… suspended “dans la tête”. The book is written in “fragments”, like closing/opening eyes, like in a dream; but also space fragments, each able to create and recreate something new. A man sits, obsessed by a recurring thought (the other figure?...), and the acrobatic dance enables us to follow his train of thought. Something comes from the flying object in The Room by Sartre, but not all fragments must be known. The beginning is a hallucination of the man...or maybe not: the end will be the same, only inverted, i.e. a hallucination of the other “suspended figure” or just the audience daydreaming. The performance employs a circular mechanical rope system, in order to create a “total stage” concept, encompassing ground and air, while evoking a circus arena, with the audience around the stage.
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t&a
‘kinowaltz’
portugal
Kinowaltz is a journey of dance through the world of cinema. Starting from the childhood dream of going inside the silver screen to live the most wonderful adventures, we began researching the relationship between the body's movement and the moving picture, which led us to a deconstruction of iconic images between static and moving screens. Thus exploring a new way of looking at emblematic films and giving the audience a new dimension on those films.
Tereza Havlicková, has studied at London's Laban Centre (BA Dance Theatre) and at Goldsmiths University, (MA Performance Making). She has worked and studied with such artist as Graeme Miller, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Twitchin Mischa and Steve Paxton, and has worked with Gui di Firenza, Ermini Etta, FurseA nna, Fong Joanne, Morissey Charlie and Ajaykumar. André Amálio, has studied at ESTC (BA Acting Training, with a Degree in Stage Direction) and at Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Performance Making). He has taken part in shows involving such directors and choreographers as Ajaykumar, Anna Furse, Antónia Terrinha, António Feio, Francisco Alves, João Brites, Lúcia Sigalho, Luís Castro and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie. He has created shows like Estamos Agora Sós, Construção Revisitada and Amalio VS Amália.
T&A is an artistic duo (born at the Master MA Performance Making of Goldsmiths University, London) from two different countries (Portugal and the Czech Republic). They explore the boundaries between dance, performance and theatre, in a process of collective creation. Their work method involves superimposing autobiographical material, mythologies, family stories or national histories, thus creating a complex web of popular and classical culture references. They create shows that allow the audience to travel between cultures, ages and genres, and to build their own meaning and narrative.
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credits concept André Amálio and Tereza Havlickova performer Tereza Havlickova video editing André Amálio technical operation André Amálio
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INSTALLATIONS
binaural / nodar
‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’
gabriel loureiro
‘rendilhados urbanos’
portugal
world premiere
portugal
world premiere
Binaural / Nodal is a cultural organization devoted to local and international cooperation in the fields of artistic and social research as privileged means of articulation between creation, technology and the surrounding social and geographical context. The most visible feature of its activity is the Nodar Rural Art Lab (county of São Pedro do Sul), a program for the development of international artistic creations in a rural context, with emphasis on sound arts and exploratory media, followed by public performances in the region. Since 2006, the more than 100 Nodar resident artists have established interactions with the region, its geographical and social space and its identity and memory. Alongside, Binaural/Nodar founded, in 2011, together with six other associations, the Tramontana Network of memory archives, which is linked to an articulated work between mountainous areas of Southern European countries, particularly of romance languages, from which one studies, compares and spreads cultural materials and innovating methods for the documentation and audiovisual archive of the aforementioned contents, with the ultimate goal of preserving the memory of the landscape and its communities and using the documented materials as a tool for education, self-esteem and appreciation of these mountainous territories.
Rendilhados Urbanos (”Urban Filigree”) – This project consists in applying stencils (masks/moulds) with a typical Portuguese tile pattern on shabby or abandoned urban spaces. For the Imaginarius Festival, the author proposed painting a “tile” mural on a public wall in the centre of the city of Santa Maria da Feira. Repeated application of this “tile-stencil” generates a pattern, which brings the audience in direct contact with culturally familiar/close graphic elements. With this intervention the author intends to value our cultural heritage and, at the same time, raise the audience's awareness to other forms of urban expression.
It is precisely within this scope that A Vaquinha no Vouguinha, da montanha à planície (”Miss Cow rides the Vouguinha from mountain to plain”) exhibit takes place – a triptych of sound and audiovisual installations, whose narrative, set somewhere between the dreamlike and the documentary, is based on the historical fact that the Arouquesa cattle breed, from the upland regions of Gralheira, Arada and Freita, used to be transported on railway cars from the Vouga Valley to the coastal slaughterhouses, Santa Maria da Feira's among them. The exhibit takes place in three of the city's structures that are associated with the process of transporting, slaughtering and selling cattle (the old slaughterhouse building, the railway station and a meat counter at the municipal market), where the fact that these structures are now abandoned or practically unused lends a delicious irony to the audiovisual return of Arouquês cattle to those places of yore. Hopefully as delicious as the delicacies of Alvarenga Steak or Lafões Veal. credits co production Binaural / Nodar and Imaginarius Festival original idea and concept Luís Costa artistic support Manuela Barile and Rui Costa sound and video records Luís Costa, Manuela Barile, Nely Ferreira, Ricardo Frade, Nuno Sousa, André Moita sound and video editing Manuela Barile collection and organization of printed documentary materials Luís Costa this exhibit is co financed by the European Commission's Culture Program 2007-2013. information www.binauralmedia.org | www.re-tramontana.org
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marta angelozzi
‘live imaginary landscapes’
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‘do número para a revolução’
portugal
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portugal
world premiere
Marta Angelozzi makes site-specific abstract drawings in which lines resemble textures, and patterns twist and stretch into landscapes. It is in the nature of such drawings to adapt, like a second skin, to the place where they are made. Marta enjoys the idea that lines are like thoughts, they can form or deconstruct ideas, and at times hint something important but don't always have to form a conclusion.
Marta Angelozzi combines the use of video with drawing and projection as tools for experimentation and practice, by playfully animating video drawings.
Do número para a revolução (”From number to revolution”) is an intervention stencil painting on three random walls, in the centre of Santa Maria da Feira, one of which to be preferentially performed at night, with the help of a video projector and a ladder, which will allow to paint directly on the wall and the projected drawing.
By creating a drawing before a live audience, Marta intends to celebrate the moment and the place in which a drawing is made. Since life keeps us busy, it is not easy to stop, just be or do something with no other intention than to observe or reflect, which can bring you immense benefits. For Imaginarius, Marta intends to share her method, by making a drawing intervention on the walls of Santa Maria da Feira and projecting it in real time for the audience. Space around us is valuable, and we should take time to understand and appreciate it. Marta Angelozzi lives and works in Lisbon where she is an active member of the Roundabout LX, an experimental artspace in Anjos. informations www.shadecage.com | http://roundaboutlx.wordpress.com/
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filomena almeida
patrícia geraldes
‘caderno diário’
portugal
portugal
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The Esculturas de Bolso (”Pocket Sculputures”) project is part of a wider artistic project in which, starting from nature, and through the sculptor's intervention, objects become something portable and of personal use, thus exploring the interaction between public and sculpture in public space. Its first presentation/ performance happened in 2011, at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, in Latvia, within the museum's annual programme, called Stone Space: Reflection on Space. Since then, presentations took place in 2012 at Studio Banana in Madrid, in Guimarães, at Guimarães Noc Noc 2 and Pecha Kucha Night Guimarães vol #4, both times within the programming of Guimarães European Culture Capital. The performance consists of distributing a pocket sculpture to passers-by at a random public space and the public's action results in the voluntary participation on digital platform http://www.facebook.com/ pocketstones.pocketstones, where the owners of a pocket sculpture can share images, photos, comments and daydreams about how they use their own pocket sculpture. Esculturas de Bolso project intends to perpetuate its presentation/ performance at Imaginarius 2013 in Santa Maria da Feira and strengthen its interactivity with the various audiences, as well as increase the number of participants in its participatory digital platform.
“The sun has set, the journey is long and the train is full. I've never dreamt of people from around here. There are two worlds: mine, with my love, and other people's world... I'm heading for the south. This is one of the sentences from my diary that have been drawn on in some of Santa Maria da Feira's trees, the words written in Braille and engraved in the tree trunks become drawings whose lines and stains have been replaced by dots. They are messages that have been left as in a diary; the meaning of the words gains and loses significance, transforms itself, gets drawn and becomes tactile, opening space for imagination.
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Caderno Diário (”Diary”) is a project conceived by Patrícia Geraldes for Imaginarius. The author starts from the language of drawing to elaborate her entire body of work, and it is by drawing her thoughts that her public art projects come about. Patrícia Geraldes lives and works in Oporto. In 2005 she completed a Degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto and, since then, has exhibited both collectively and individually in Portugal and abroad.
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colectivo ar_search portugal
‘peças para piano e bicho da madeira’
teorema das linhas
‘tece-me’
portugal
world premiere
world premiere
Ar_Search is a collective founded on multidisciplinary partnerships and oriented towards the research of sound and performing resources. Their début project (Voyger#1 - Golden Records Series2011) was the first of a series of performances and experimental sound installations.
Based in Santa Maria da Feira, the Teorema das Linhas project was founded in 2010 by an industrial designer, Cristiana Henriques, and a visual artist, Ana Rita Leite. The project intends to articulate the authors' know-how and tools in order to process them into solutions, based on experience and lots of persistence. Teorema das Linhas, (“Theorem of the Lines”) as a means of choosing certain clues, started from a wide range of possibilities, thus presupposing a combination of both concepts. Theorem, that meant “spectacle” for the Greeks, and Lines, which covers a series of pertinent meanings for the path that the team has been following. The project's main concern is to promote development and the creation of relationships between the space and the people that roam in it, thus articulating critical thinking and potentiating learning through practice.
Peças para Piano e Bicho da Madeira (”Pieces for Piano and Woodworm”) This performance results form the deconstruction process of a woodwormed piano, where its resident insect colony, once amplified, acquires a privileged space within the universe of the instrument's sound resources – a sound sculpture. Once the piano's regular functioning and physical integrity has been compromised, a sound object of an experimental nature is made. From the deconstruction of an instrument another sound object takes its place, another way of listening to the same piano, where the amplified woodworm colony, which undermined the whole instrument by compromising its functioning and physical integrity, as inhabitants of the very mechanism, can participate in the performance.
Tece-me (”Weave me”) is an intervention in a 19th century building, consisting in the presentation of a set of nine looms to the causal public, in an artistic action which aims to (re)discover the significance of the city's elements and give social meaning to the space. This intends to draw the spectator's attention to weaving, an activity with a long, exclusively feminine, tradition in the County. In an unfinished process, the community is stimulated to structure critical and comforting thinking, thus creating the possibility of (re)living the past in a visible present, and allowing this architectural space to gain a new identity.
Developed during the exploration process of hidden sonorities which are revealed through a sound amplification process, the video projection intends to help the spectator to understand the origin of those sonorities, by showing hidden details of the instrument through a visual amplification of the source of the sound. The performances are open to guests that compose for and interact with the sound object and its woodworm colony, structuring short performances of various formats in their own image.
credits concept and construction Cristiana Henriques and Ana Rita Leite
credits concept and design Ana Guedes creation and performance Ar_Search guest Jorge Queijo
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r&r
‘calados contra a corrente’
portugal
world premiere
Rebecca Moradalizadeh and Ruben Pires are two portuguese visual artists that have been sharing work and companionship, which is the reason for this partnership. Calados Contra a Corrente (”Quiet Against the Current”) From the story of “caladinhos” (a famous local sweet) came the idea of creating a travelling sound installation, where an “artificial” intervention – based on recordings of voices of local residents – combines with a natural intervention – the sound of the water current that crosses the park and the city centre, creating a constant murmur, i.e. natural censorship. credits direction and prodution R&R – Rebecca Moradalizadeh and Ruben Pires
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WORKSHOPS
ljud group slovenia
bismas das acácias
‘build your own interactive character!’
‘angolan folk dances’
angola
Trainers The workshop will be led by Jasa Jenull and Vida Cerkvenik Bren the directors of the Ljud group. Ljud is a international group of artists focused on theatrical work with an emphasis on physical-interactive theatre and work in public and environmental spaces.
Trainers Cristóvão Kajibanga, Eliezer João Teca and Deolinda Trindade Number of participants no more than 30 persons
Number of participants between 10 and 40 persons Participants in this workshop will also perform on the show.
The relationship between improvised and fixed theatrical performance has fascinated performers since the dawn of theatre. The workshop is built around the idea that a rich, rounded character based on the characteristics of each individual performer can make a very interesting bridge crossing the gap between momentary inspiration and well planned preparation. Taking the idea of stock characters with clearly defined physical and psychological characteristics (like one can find in Commedia dell arte or Japanese No theatre) and developing it further into highly individualised characters that are capable of reacting to any given situation but are still functioning completely within their fictional frame. The participants of the workshop will familiarise themselves with the basics of the character building method which has evolved from many different techniques and principles (physical and vocal group improvisations, basics of theatrical biomechanics and butoh, specific exercises for understanding rhythm and composition in the context of physical theatre, basics of contact improvisation, etc.) All of the participants will be given the possibility to present their interactive characters in public as part of a performance and several public interventions on the festival.
Founded on 21 April, 1984, the Bismas das Acácias group was the result of a merger of groups, namely the Acácias, the Pop's and a bunch of boys that break danced. The name of the group was inspired by the abundance of “Marias” in its midst (“Bis” for “repetition” + “Mas” for “Marias” = BISMAS); and because they were from Benguela, known as the City of Acacias. The group is currently owned by Bismas das Acácias – Acção para a Cultura e Desenvolvimento (since November 1998). It sees itself as one of the bulwarks of the roots of Angolan culture, through its rural research of national folklore that is the base for the creation of its choreographies. This will be its third appearance in Portugal – the first was in 1995 and the second at Expo 98. The dances that will be performed (Koti Kolumbula, Ndungo, Ukongo, Firmino, Cidungue, Sindeta...) portray the everyday lives of Angolans in the fields of agriculture, hunting, leisure and cultural institutions like evamba (a school fore male initiation among the ovimbundo people), marriage and masked folklore, and many others. It won the dance category of the first National Culture Festival “FENACULT/89”. In 2007, it received the National Culture Award for dance - the highest state accolade in the field. The battle continues, for, according to its motto, “movement without effort is worthless”. It has toured Egypt (1988 and 2000), Sweden (1998 and 2000), Spain (Expo 2008), Rwanda (2011), South Africa (1999) and Namibia (1997).
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More Information Because of the individual nature of the character building method the workshop is appropriate for participants on different levels of skill and performing experience.
‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’
portugal
germany
Trainer Luís Costa
Trainers antagon theaterAKTion
Number of participants 20 persons
Number of participants 20 persons
Duração 45 minutes
‘organic theater in public space’
Physical theatre, focusing on the reproduction of theatre in public spaces. Learning antagon's techniques, based on 23 years of method and working experience.
A Vaquinha no Vouguinha, da montanha à planície (”Miss Cow rides the Vouguinha, from mountain to plain”) is a triptych of sound and audiovisual installations by Binaural / Nodar, whose narrative is based on the historical fact that the Arouquesa cattle breed, from the upland regions of Gralheira, Arada and Freita, used to be transported on railway cars from the Vouga Valley to the coastal slaughterhouses, Santa Maria da Feira's among them. This workshop proposes a research on Santa Maria da Feira's old slaughterhouse among the Feirense community.
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OTHER PROJECTS
book launch by cláudia andrade
‘coro: corpo coletivo e espaço poético’
portugal
interseções entre o teatro grego antigo e o teatro comunitário
By crossing the contemporary dynamics of community theatre with ancient Greek theatre, this work intends to investigate the structure and function of the Greek choir, with a view to developing community artistic processes. As a primordial element which is at the root of theatre's origin, and by articulating ethical, ideological, aesthetic and civic assumptions, the choir could represent a powerful asset for community creation. As a theatrical convention, a character and the fulfilment of a civic, festive theatre like the Greek had, the study of the choir intends to confront concepts and articulate ideas that can lead to its redemption as a base and foundation for the creative process. In order to promote a dynamic dialogue between our ancestral traditions and present time, this research is structured under an interdisciplinary perspective whose goal is to equip the conceptual basis and methodological practices for theatrical work with the community. Série Investigação · Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra Coimbra University Press 2012 biographical note A graduate in Acting/Gestural Theatre by the Estudis de Teatre School (Barcelona), she has a master's degree in Theatre and Community by ESTC (The Lisbon Theatre and Film School). She has worked as an actress since 1993 in various projects with Teatro Meridional, Teatro da Cornucópia, Trigo Limpo teatro ACERT, Quarto Período-o-do-Prazer, Teatro do Morcego, Théâtre de la Mezzanine, Cia Jordi Bertrán, Próxima Estação, among others. She was trained by Marcia Haufrecht, Neville Tranter, Norman Taylor, Alain Gautré,Philippe Gaulier, Christophe Marchand, Claire Heggen e Monika Pagneux in various fields, like movement, clown, buffoon, puppet manipulation, singing and aerial dance. She conceived several projects for the educational services of CCB, Teatro Maria Matos and Culturgest and developed several performances in the area of community theatre, such as Um Elo chamado Jarmelo (with the people of Jarmelo), Cientistas ao Palco (a part of the European Researchers' Night) and Inesquecível Emília (at the Prison of Santa Cruz do Bispo). Recently she has participated in an artistic exchange with community theatre group Pompapeytriasos (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She collaborates with CIAC and is a member of the Community Theatre Researchers Network. book presentation Armando Nascimento Rosa (ESTC) Delfim Ferreira Leão (director of Imprensa – Universidade de Coimbra) Hugo Cruz (artistic director of Imaginarius)
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international conference on arts and public space
‘imagined europe’
portugal / argentina / germany
speakers Edith Scher director of the Matemurga Community Theatre Group, Buenos Aires
At a moment when Europe is living a crisis that has turned into several crisis (economical, social, cultural, moral, environmental...), “trenches” and “wounds” that may compromise our collective future are being opened . This moment in the festival intends to explore the “Imagined Europes”, the other “Possible Europes”, as alternatives to the present one.
João Brites artistic director of Teatro O Bando
The International Conference on Arts and Public Space is a unique moment for reflection by Imaginarius, allowing to cross perceptions, experiences and concepts on its subjects. This year, several of the Festival's protagonists will discuss the subject “Imagined Europe”, based on the creations that mark this edition of Imaginarius.
Bernhard Bub artistic director of Antagon TheaterAKtion Hugo Cruz artistic director of Imaginarius moderator Inês Nadais journalist at Ypsilon – Público
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music at location pending to be confirmed
‘quarteto português de trompas’ ‘funk you brass band’ ‘ósvamati’
portugal
The Quarteto Português de Trompas was founded in 2007. Its repertoire extends from Renaissance music to 21st century music, and has already premièred works dedicated to the group. In 2010, they won 2nd prize at “24º PJM” and at the 10th International Music Competition for “Città di Chieri”, and, in both cases, no 1st Prize was awarded. In the same year, they participated as a guest group in the 1st Trompas Lusas Festival. They performed in concerts in Portugal and Italy, some of which were recorded by Antena 2 and RAI.
Ósmavati present a show where the joy of Jewish music spreads to audiences of all ages . The fusion of klezmer with other musical styles and approaches enriches the proposal of this fun-loving quintet. The group was founded in 2008 from the common desire of a group of friends: to make music and have a good time. Initially made up of four clarinet players, the group later invited two friends from percussion. Today, Ósmavati are formed by Manuel Lemos (clarinet), José Luís Carvalho (violin), Tiago Soares (bass clarinet and alto saxophone), Andrés Perez (guitar and electric bass) and Leandro Teixeira (drums). Although all of the group's members have classical training, their appreciation of other styles, namely klezmer music, lead Ósmavati to look for new sonorities. Klezmer, with its festive character became then the foundation of Ósmavati's language, who also integrate in their music Balkan, Jewish, Argentinian, Irish, Brazilian and American influences. “Portuguese group Ósvamati has discovered how to extract pleasure from this freedom, with their serious, challenging and innovative attitude. And so they set out to discover Jewish musical tradition - that precious century-old heritage, also called “ klezmer music” - in order to recreate the more festive and celebratory side of it, in a new appropriation of high artistic value. This recreation, while respecting the stylistic precepts of Jewish music, sometimes visits other styles and approaches which enrich it with a touch of fusion.” - Jorge Castro Ribeiro, 2011. The guaranteed quality of execution of Ósmavati takes the contagious joy of Jewish with it, and reaches all audiences.
Founded in 2010, the Funk You Brass Band project is made up of musicians from the Aveiro area whose musical training was acquired in the Aveiro, Águeda and Jobra Conservatories and also in Aveiro University, where they met. With a strong component of wind instruments, like saxophones and trumpets, plus two percussionists, the Funk You Brass turns anything from Michael Jackson to Portuguese Philharmonic Hymns into great funky beats, with incursions in Latin, Dixie, Pop-rock and traditional Brass Band music, always with their trademark power, liveliness, relaxation and good-humour. The project is made up of eight musicians (three sax players, two trumpet players and two percussionists).
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Ósmavati have performed all over the country, in World Music festivals, important venues and on radio and television. In 2011, they recorded their first EP, made up of 5 klezmer tracks.
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SUPPORTED PROJECTS
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exhibit by isabel lhano
‘imagin'battle’
portugal
portugal
‘gente com luz própria’ with a performance by “colectivo poético silêncio da gaveta”
Imagin'Battle, an initiative by ÁGIL Lordelo do Ouro Youth Association, is a 2 on 2 Bboying (break dance) competition. The competitors will show their skills and moves before a renowned jury. This event continues the work developed by ÁGIL around urban art, lending greater visibility to this culture.
After all, like Oscar Wilde would have imagined, portraits do grow old. Time gives them other meanings and, as they stand still, their movement is the way we relate to them, the way memory operates on them within the elasticity of what, at each given moment, they mean to us.
Founded in 2008, ÁGIL aims to diversify the cultural experiences of young people and promote non-formal education thorough art, by organizing several activities, such as painting and drawing workshops, exchanges and visits to shows, parties and cultural events. It promotes the stimulation and participation of the young people from the parish of Lordelo do Ouro, Oporto, by getting them involved in the community's cultural, social and sporting life, thus favouring sharing and togetherness among the youth. It intends to develop everyone's sensitivity, by focusing their attention on various forms of artistic and cultural expression, using art as a way of bringing the community together. In 2010 and 2012, they organized PACS - Public Art Community Spaces, an event that intends to diversify the experiences of various audiences that usually stay away from these movements, relying on partners such as the Hard Club, Armazém do Chá, Casa da Música e Serralves (http://publicartcommunityspaces.blogspot.com/). This association relies on occasional support from IPDJ and, since 2011, in a partnership with INDUCAR, has provided young people with the chance to participate in exchanges and international training. Through the Juventude em Acção Program, it has implemented two actions: Iniciativa Juvenil MURO - Mais um Rasgo Original (http://maisumrasgooriginal.tumblr.com), putting creative and artistic processes in favour of the community, which allowed to rehabilitate CIJ, a youth space where various activities are conducted daily for the young people from Lordelo do Ouro; and the Creative Art Learning Exchange, which took place in 2012, in Oporto, with the participation of 30 youngsters between 18 and 30 from Portugal, Greece, Germany, Slovenia and Lithuania. ÁGIL is part of the consortium of the METAS E5G Project, financed by Programa Escolhas and promoted by ADILO, and its work has been acknowledged by the Oporto City Council, which awarded it, in 2012, with the Young Oporto Award.
The almost two hundred portraits created by Isabel Lhano, in more than eight years, sound what we do with ourselves; they sound what we expected and what actually happened or still happens. I am clearly involved in this matter because I was portrayed twice and, while it is true that I have changed since, I see myself ancient in those pictures, as if today, instead, meant what is timely and the possible youth of all things, and the portraits were, by definition, the old and the obsolete. As if it was the painting that was escaping me, and I the sincere version to be considered.
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Once the portrayed have been chosen among those that belong affectionately to her universe, Isabel Lhano not only defends herself against indifference but also takes a stand on behalf of the urgency of the collective. She praises her own and seduces towards an ethics of inclusion and communion, from the full acceptance of the other. In an open oeuvre, subject to both consolidation and illusion, what we see the most is how the painter and those she portrays behave during the judging passage of time. Between approximations and deviations, the collective becomes effective or unravels. The paintings, always honest, appear, through their techniques and compositions, as living animals that won't stop maturing. Valter Hugo Mãe open until 22 June hours mon to fri 09.30am › 07.00pm sat 10.30am › 10.00pm sun 09.00pm › 11.30pm
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This space is inspired by the spirit of popular Portuguese fairs (music, snacks and drinks) and intends to be a meeting point for the 400 hundred artists or so that participate in the festival and their audience, leading them to mingle every night after the day's performances.
Cabine Aberta (“Open Cabin”) is a project where the two proponents leave it to the public (subject to a pre-selection) to chose the music that will be played during the Imaginarius nights. In an event that turns the streets of the historical centre into a cluster of passersby with a predisposition for street art and growing creativity levels, Porta13 and Transat provide a Stage and the tools to transform that creativity into music. This way any visitor can become the evening's DJ for a few minutes, playing some favourite tracks in a display of musical taste. The chosen visitors will also rely on the assistance and a short training session by the resident DJ's.
horário do meeting point 23 MAY 02.00pm › 00.00am | 24 MAY 02.00pm › 02.00am | 25 MAY 02.00pm › 01.30am | 26 MAY 02.00pm › 09.00pm
dj pål / secam
‘porta 13’ ‘transat’
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From ear ticklers to feet shufflers, Pål/Secam's music travels through Electric Soul and Ancient Hip Hop, serving Pan-Amafropean Flavors passing by Rub-A-Dub, Quirky Jazz, Chunky Funk and Limo-Disco. It's the soul... innit!
Aiming to promote and develop artistic activity among young people, Rotary Clube da Feira will organize the “Imaginarius na Rua” drawing contest. Young people will be encouraged to observe and register the city's historical centre as an urban space, with its own heritage and hidden corners, but also the people, the Imaginarus shows and the mood of the moment.
information www.facebook.com/paletsecam entries
[email protected] | regulation available www.facebook.com/rotaryclubedafeira
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contacts
credits
management feira viva – cultura e desporto, e.m. Centro de Negócios do Cavaco Apartado 160 4524 - 909 Santa Maria da Feira Portugal pho +[351] 256 33 09 00 fax +[351] 256 33 09 09 www.feiraviva.com
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management Santa Maria da Feira City Council, Feira Viva, Cultura e Desporto, E.M. and Orquestra e Banda Sinfónica de Jovens de Santa Maria da Feira
santa maria da feira city council praça da república · apartado 135 4524 - 909 Santa Maria da Feira Portugal pho +[351] 256 37 08 00 fax +[351] 256 37 08 85 www.cm-feira.pt
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technical direction Wilma Moutinho
programming Rua dos Descobrimentos Mercado Municipal, loja 5 4520-201 Santa Maria da Feira Portugal cell +[351] 918 171 304 www.imaginarius.pt
[email protected] www.facebook.com/festival.imaginarius
mais imaginarius coordination Márcia Fernandes
artistic direction Hugo Cruz
artistic direction assistance Adelaide Osório mais imaginarius consulting Rodrigo Malvar production Humberto Teixeira, Andrea Valente, Cristina Pedrosa, Adriana Brandão, Pedro Oliveira, Helder Silva and Silvia Pinto
production direction Mónica Pinto
community projects coordination Lisete Costa and Inês Pinho educational projects coordination Ana Carvalhinho and Carla Palhares
volunteering coordination Teresa Ferreira atmosphere creation and welcoming coordination Vânia Costa and Clara Pinto
communication Gilda Sá, Isabel Ferreira, José Vinhas, Marta Bernardes, Pedro Alves, Rui Silva, Sofia Tavares and Suzete Monteiro translations Vítor Magalhães volunteering Carla Palhares and João Silva community projects Ana Guiomar e Daniel Moreira educational projects Claúdia Espassandim, Marco Chaves, Carlos Batista, Margarida Carneiro, Anabela Valente and Sandra Cadete
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