Jorge Jácome & Marco da Silva Ferreira

Meant to be a speculative laboratory, SIRI explores several binomials - material and immaterial, stability and speed, physical and psychological, challenge and fear, human and technological – in a choreographic approach between what is real and what haunts us.
The stage appears as an archaeological field that guards different techniques, usages and ways of expressing the bodies, the objects and the movements produced amongst them. In it, the choreography is presented as an investigation about memory, at the same time archaeological and alive - of the human body and its representations through technology.
SIRI extends the collaboration between the choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira and the film director Jorge Jácome, after working together in the show ÍRIS, expressed as a look on temporality, from the image, visual construction and speech about memory. 


MARCO DA SILVA FERREIRA has an academic degree in physical therapy but has been a dance performer since 2008. He has worked with choreographers like André Mesquita, Hofesh Shechter, Sylvia Rijmer, Tiago Guedes, Victor Hugo Pontes, Paulo Ribeiro, among others. He began in 2012 with Nevoeiro 21 as a choreographer and has, since then, presented several shows and his show Hu(r)mano (2015) received the award Jovem Criador Português 2015. In 2017, he premiered his show Brother within the 85th Anniversary of the Rivoli Municipal Theatre. He was an associated artist of Porto’s Municipal Theatre for the seasons 17/18 and 18/19. In 2019, his show Bisonte was premiered. He’s currently an Associated Artist of the Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen in Normandie.

JORGE JÁCOME is a director, graduated in 2010 by the Lisbon Superior Theatre and Film School, graduated in 2016 by the Le Fresnoy – Studio National des Arts Contemporains in Tourcoing, France. His work investigates the relationships between utopia, melancholy, disappearance and desire. His films were screened in several international festivals (such as Berlinal and TIFF - Toronto) and in exhibiting contexts at Palais de Tokyo, La Maison Européene de la Photographie, MoMa, among others. He won several awards with his short films Past Perfect (2019), Flores (2017) and Fiesta Forever (2016). He frequently collaborates with projects in the context of performative arts.