Victor Hugo Pontes

Victor Hugo Pontes brings to the stage three dancers imagined by writer Gonçalo M. Tavares for this new creation. Abelard, Adler and Hadrian are Os Três Irmãos [The Three Brothers]: when they meet in that non-place, they look for their parents’ trail, use chalk to mark their absence, wash themselves, eat together at the table, carry each other’s bodies in ritual sacrifice, shoulder each other, live on the run, and play the dangerous game of meeting the past. Abelard, Adler and Hadrian try to establish a connection with the land and survive the existence of each other even if it has been drilled, tangled in a bundle of clothes and carried in a wheelbarrow. 


VICTOR HUGO PONTES was born in Guimarães, in 1978. He has a degree in visual arts (painting) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In 2001, he attended the Norwich School of Art and Design, in England. He completed the professional theatre courses at Balleteatro Professional School and Porto University Theatre, as well as the research and choreographic creation course at Forum Dança. He started to emerge as a creator as of 2003 with “Puzzle”. He has been consolidating his choreographic imprint since then, having presented his work all over the country, as well as in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Austria and Brazil, among others.