Concepts in dialogue and topics in debate
The new season of Teatro Municipal do Porto
June
2022
Tue
28
From the new creations by Marco da Silva Ferreira, António Lago and Né Barros to the national premieres of (LA)HORDE, El Conde de Torrefiel and Philipe Quesne, the 2022/2023 season of Teatro Municipal do Porto will also features works by Cláudia Dias, Dançando com a Diferença (with creations by Tânia Carvalho and François Chaignaud) and the return of the National Ballet Company.
One of the highlights of the season is the opera-performance “Sun & Sea”, by Lithuanians Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2019.
There will also be reasons to celebrate throughout the year: the 91st anniversary of Teatro Rivoli, the 70th anniversary of the Teatro Experimental do Porto (TEP), the 35th anniversary of the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto and the 22nd anniversary of the poetic cycle Quintas de Leitura.
In the 2022/2023 season, Teatro Municipal do Porto presents around 100 performances, more than half of which are world premieres and/or nationally. In a total of around 160 performances, more than 50 of these artists and companies work from the city, and around 20 are international – involving companies from 15 nationalities (South Africa, Senegal, France, South Korea, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Germany, France, Lithuania, Switzerland, Poland, Israel and Portugal). Of the approximately performances shows, 28 are co-productions.
Added to these are the programming of the DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, which takes place from the 18th to the 30th of April, as well as the usual partner festivals.
This season is marked by the return of major productions. On the 16th and 17th of September, the Via Katlehong company presents the program “Via Injabulo” – which means Joy em Zulo – with Marco da Silva Ferreira (who was TMP’s associate artist in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons) to take the “form Informs” stage that relates the sense and meaning that dance has in the social context or in the construction of a collective identity through dance; and Amala Dianor (who performed at DDD – Festival Dias da Dança 2018) the piece “Emaphakathini” that seeks to find what is between traditional and urban dance, using the technical heritage of South African gumboot and pantsula dances.
Also in September, the 23rd and 24th, António Lago premiered “Beetje bij beetje” in Campo Alegre. A piece that intends to return a portrait of our societies and problematize the place of the body in the interactions that weave the web of various relationships: power, instituting forces, the collective, the private, the elaboration of subjectivities.
On October 1st and 2nd, with the mission of promoting social and cultural inclusion through inclusive dance, the project Dançando com a Diferença presents “Blasons”, by François Chaignaud, and “Doesdicon”, by Tânia Carvalho. On the 21st and 22nd, Marco Silva Ferreira premieres “C A R C A Ç A” – a co-presentation with CCB – with a cast of 10 performers who use dance as a tool to research community, construction of collective identity, memory and cultural crystallization
On November 4th and 5th, Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė invites us to “Sun & Sea”, an opera-performance that won over audiences and critics in 2019, at the Lithuanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti. In summer worldliness, this creation – a co-presentation with Alkantara Festival at Culturgest – brings beauty and catastrophe side by side and takes us to dive into the stories of a world on the edge of a precipice.
From the 14th to the 26th, at Teatro Campo Alegre, the cycle “Sete Anos Sete Peças” by Cláudia Dias will review and revisit the creations of the choreographer and performer, a project for each day of the week. It is also intended to affirm that contemporary dance is itself also a place of literary production. The books “Sábado” and “Domingo” will be presented on November 19 at Campo Alegre.
Back at Rivoli, December 2nd and 3rd, (LA)HORDE/Ballet national de Marseille presents “CHILDS CARVALHO LASSEINDRA DOHERTY”, a program that starts with four choreographers from different generations representing different aesthetics and choreography, but that have in common their humanity.
From the 12th to the 14th of January, Rivoli receives “Deste mundo e do outro” by the National Ballet Company, with choreography by Olga Roriz, created as part of the celebrations of the centenary of José Saramago. The 91st anniversary of Rivoli follows, on the 20th and 21st, with “Mystery Sonatas/ for Rosa”, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Amandine Beyer/ Rosas, Gli Incogniti. A performance where music and geometry intertwine through a symbol: the rose. Written around 1676, the Mystery Sonatas are a musical translation of the 15 sacred mysteries of the life of the Virgin Mary. The tenth volume of Cadernos do Rivoli is also released, focusing exclusively on dance and, for the first time, in a bilingual format. This weekend, the 35th anniversary of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto is also celebrated with “Como um carrosel”, which tells the story of a girl who grows up in a kind of journey along which many questions are asked and stimulate its relationship with the world.
On the 11th and 12th of February, Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio premieres in Portugal “Farm Fatale”, on the border between human and puppet, peasant and scarecrow. The audience is led into a world that evokes a farm where a group of scarecrow poets live who manage an independent radio station, sing, play music, invent slogans.
“t u m u l u s” by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdin arrives on stage at Rivoli on March 16th and 17th. The research that guides this project is at the heart of this paradox: a dead person always has life. In this creation, Chaignaud is inspired by a recurring dream: he imagines a community of dancers and singers that transcends the limits of the two disciplines. He is accompanied by Geoffroy Jourdain, director of Les Cris de Paris, with whom he shares a common interest in the sacred polyphonies of the Renaissance – the golden age of counterpoint.
“Una imagen interior” by El Conde de Torrefiel premieres in Portugal on March 31st and April 1st. The concept of reality is in essence problematic as a malleable and constantly moving construction in the human task of emancipating nature. Given the evidence of this scenario of failure, “Una imagen interior” is a poetic exercise that explores the principles of the concept of fiction in permanent struggle with the unquestionable law of gravity to which bodies are subject.
At the end of the season, July 7th and 8th, 2023, a new creation by the Batsheva dance company, by choreographer Ohad Naharin, creator of the Gaga movement language, based on research around the intensification of sensitivity and imagination, of winning awareness of form, to discover new habits of movement and to go beyond known limits.
Also is the 7th edition of the DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, which takes place between the 18th and 30th of April 2023. The opening performance will be “Encantado” by Lia Rodrigues, which marks the return of the Brazilian choreographer to the festival with a new piece, after its passage through the festival in the 2019 edition. In Afro-Brazilian culture, the “enchanted” are animated entities that navigate between sky and earth, dunes and rocks, transforming them into sacred places. These mysterious forces, intimately linked to nature, are the basis of this performance by Lia Rodrigues.
The 2022/2023 season also features the Portraits program that features, in February, “A minha vitória como ginasta de alta competição” by Lígia Soares, and “Já não sou a amar-te menos” by Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo and, in June, “Carta a Matilde” by Cátia Pinheiro/ Estrutura, and “INFO MANÍACO” by André Teodósio & José Vieira Mendes/ Teatro Praga.
There are two editions of Double Trouble, in October 2022 and March 2023; Quintas de Leitura continue assiduously every month, in Campo Alegre, with many well-known names in literature, music, the contemporary circus and theatre; in December there is the Mostra Estufa, programmed by Erva Daninha, dedicated to contemporary circus creators; and the first edition of Projeto Pendular – co-programmed with CCB – which presents, in March, “NEON 80” by Beatriz Dias and “I’m still excited” by Mário Coelho, at Campo Alegre. At the CCB, the projects of the choreographers residing in Porto will be presented: Luísa Saraiva & Senem Gökçe Oğultekin (“Hark!”) and Susana Chiocca (“BITCHO”).
To see and do, with the school or with the family, the proposals of Foco Famílias from December 9 to 11, in Campo Alegre, focus on empathy, inviting the spectator to put himself in the other's place: “Que grande estrondo” by João Fazenda, Bruno Humberto & Philippe Lenzini, “A Menina, O Caçador e o Lobo”, by Vasco Mendonça & Gonçalo M. Tavares, “Pequenos Mundos”, by Joana Providência; and “Baile dos Opostos” by Joclécio Azevedo & Teresa Prima.
Every month, in Campo Alegre, the cycle Palcos Insáveis is maintained, in partnership with Instável — Centro Coreográfico.
In the musical programming of TMP, the highlight is the concert by the young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, accompanied by the il Pomo d’Oro orchestra, which premieres in Portugal on March 25th, at Rivoli. Winner of the Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, in 2016, and of the Marcella Sembrich International Vocal Competition, in 2015. This concert comes as a tribute to Jorge Gil, founder of Em Órbita, a reference in the Portuguese radio scene and in the organization of classical music concerts.
On the 17th of September, Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes deepen the dialogue between piano and electronics in “There’s no Knowing”, a stripped-down musical and scenic object that started with the creation of a soundtrack.
Concerts are also held every month on the Rivoli Substage, as part of the Understage cycle in co-production with Matéria Prima, Lovers & Lollypops and Amplificasom.
The 70th anniversary of TEP – Teatro Experimental do Porto is celebrated with the presentation of “They enter and stay!”, by Tânia Dinis, on the 16th and 17th of June.
Festivals are back and TMP will host, throughout the year, MICAR – Mostra Internacional de Cinema Anti-Racista, FIMP – Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festa do Cinema Francês, Multiplex – Universidade Lusófona do Porto , Queer Porto – Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer, Porta-Jazz Festival, FITEI – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica, and Trengo – Festival de Circo do Porto.
This season, TMP continues the work started in the 2022 edition of DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, ensuring sessions with audio description in various performances on the schedule. In order to strengthen its work in creating specific conditions so that a greater number of people can, in an equitable way, participate and enjoy its programming, TMP will also increase the number of performances and digital content with subtitling and interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language (ILGP). Also seeking to develop a closer and continued work with the artistic teams that it receives for a greater integration of ILGP in the shows.
Tickets for the 2022/2023 season performances will be available from July 1st, both at the Teatro Rivoli and Teatro Campo Alegre box offices, and online at tmp.bol.pt.
One of the highlights of the season is the opera-performance “Sun & Sea”, by Lithuanians Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2019.
There will also be reasons to celebrate throughout the year: the 91st anniversary of Teatro Rivoli, the 70th anniversary of the Teatro Experimental do Porto (TEP), the 35th anniversary of the Teatro de Marionetas do Porto and the 22nd anniversary of the poetic cycle Quintas de Leitura.
In the 2022/2023 season, Teatro Municipal do Porto presents around 100 performances, more than half of which are world premieres and/or nationally. In a total of around 160 performances, more than 50 of these artists and companies work from the city, and around 20 are international – involving companies from 15 nationalities (South Africa, Senegal, France, South Korea, Slovenia, Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Germany, France, Lithuania, Switzerland, Poland, Israel and Portugal). Of the approximately performances shows, 28 are co-productions.
Added to these are the programming of the DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, which takes place from the 18th to the 30th of April, as well as the usual partner festivals.
This season is marked by the return of major productions. On the 16th and 17th of September, the Via Katlehong company presents the program “Via Injabulo” – which means Joy em Zulo – with Marco da Silva Ferreira (who was TMP’s associate artist in the 2017/18 and 2018/19 seasons) to take the “form Informs” stage that relates the sense and meaning that dance has in the social context or in the construction of a collective identity through dance; and Amala Dianor (who performed at DDD – Festival Dias da Dança 2018) the piece “Emaphakathini” that seeks to find what is between traditional and urban dance, using the technical heritage of South African gumboot and pantsula dances.
Also in September, the 23rd and 24th, António Lago premiered “Beetje bij beetje” in Campo Alegre. A piece that intends to return a portrait of our societies and problematize the place of the body in the interactions that weave the web of various relationships: power, instituting forces, the collective, the private, the elaboration of subjectivities.
On October 1st and 2nd, with the mission of promoting social and cultural inclusion through inclusive dance, the project Dançando com a Diferença presents “Blasons”, by François Chaignaud, and “Doesdicon”, by Tânia Carvalho. On the 21st and 22nd, Marco Silva Ferreira premieres “C A R C A Ç A” – a co-presentation with CCB – with a cast of 10 performers who use dance as a tool to research community, construction of collective identity, memory and cultural crystallization
On November 4th and 5th, Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė invites us to “Sun & Sea”, an opera-performance that won over audiences and critics in 2019, at the Lithuanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti. In summer worldliness, this creation – a co-presentation with Alkantara Festival at Culturgest – brings beauty and catastrophe side by side and takes us to dive into the stories of a world on the edge of a precipice.
From the 14th to the 26th, at Teatro Campo Alegre, the cycle “Sete Anos Sete Peças” by Cláudia Dias will review and revisit the creations of the choreographer and performer, a project for each day of the week. It is also intended to affirm that contemporary dance is itself also a place of literary production. The books “Sábado” and “Domingo” will be presented on November 19 at Campo Alegre.
Back at Rivoli, December 2nd and 3rd, (LA)HORDE/Ballet national de Marseille presents “CHILDS CARVALHO LASSEINDRA DOHERTY”, a program that starts with four choreographers from different generations representing different aesthetics and choreography, but that have in common their humanity.
From the 12th to the 14th of January, Rivoli receives “Deste mundo e do outro” by the National Ballet Company, with choreography by Olga Roriz, created as part of the celebrations of the centenary of José Saramago. The 91st anniversary of Rivoli follows, on the 20th and 21st, with “Mystery Sonatas/ for Rosa”, by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker & Amandine Beyer/ Rosas, Gli Incogniti. A performance where music and geometry intertwine through a symbol: the rose. Written around 1676, the Mystery Sonatas are a musical translation of the 15 sacred mysteries of the life of the Virgin Mary. The tenth volume of Cadernos do Rivoli is also released, focusing exclusively on dance and, for the first time, in a bilingual format. This weekend, the 35th anniversary of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto is also celebrated with “Como um carrosel”, which tells the story of a girl who grows up in a kind of journey along which many questions are asked and stimulate its relationship with the world.
On the 11th and 12th of February, Philippe Quesne / Vivarium Studio premieres in Portugal “Farm Fatale”, on the border between human and puppet, peasant and scarecrow. The audience is led into a world that evokes a farm where a group of scarecrow poets live who manage an independent radio station, sing, play music, invent slogans.
“t u m u l u s” by François Chaignaud & Geoffroy Jourdin arrives on stage at Rivoli on March 16th and 17th. The research that guides this project is at the heart of this paradox: a dead person always has life. In this creation, Chaignaud is inspired by a recurring dream: he imagines a community of dancers and singers that transcends the limits of the two disciplines. He is accompanied by Geoffroy Jourdain, director of Les Cris de Paris, with whom he shares a common interest in the sacred polyphonies of the Renaissance – the golden age of counterpoint.
“Una imagen interior” by El Conde de Torrefiel premieres in Portugal on March 31st and April 1st. The concept of reality is in essence problematic as a malleable and constantly moving construction in the human task of emancipating nature. Given the evidence of this scenario of failure, “Una imagen interior” is a poetic exercise that explores the principles of the concept of fiction in permanent struggle with the unquestionable law of gravity to which bodies are subject.
At the end of the season, July 7th and 8th, 2023, a new creation by the Batsheva dance company, by choreographer Ohad Naharin, creator of the Gaga movement language, based on research around the intensification of sensitivity and imagination, of winning awareness of form, to discover new habits of movement and to go beyond known limits.
Also is the 7th edition of the DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, which takes place between the 18th and 30th of April 2023. The opening performance will be “Encantado” by Lia Rodrigues, which marks the return of the Brazilian choreographer to the festival with a new piece, after its passage through the festival in the 2019 edition. In Afro-Brazilian culture, the “enchanted” are animated entities that navigate between sky and earth, dunes and rocks, transforming them into sacred places. These mysterious forces, intimately linked to nature, are the basis of this performance by Lia Rodrigues.
The 2022/2023 season also features the Portraits program that features, in February, “A minha vitória como ginasta de alta competição” by Lígia Soares, and “Já não sou a amar-te menos” by Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo and, in June, “Carta a Matilde” by Cátia Pinheiro/ Estrutura, and “INFO MANÍACO” by André Teodósio & José Vieira Mendes/ Teatro Praga.
There are two editions of Double Trouble, in October 2022 and March 2023; Quintas de Leitura continue assiduously every month, in Campo Alegre, with many well-known names in literature, music, the contemporary circus and theatre; in December there is the Mostra Estufa, programmed by Erva Daninha, dedicated to contemporary circus creators; and the first edition of Projeto Pendular – co-programmed with CCB – which presents, in March, “NEON 80” by Beatriz Dias and “I’m still excited” by Mário Coelho, at Campo Alegre. At the CCB, the projects of the choreographers residing in Porto will be presented: Luísa Saraiva & Senem Gökçe Oğultekin (“Hark!”) and Susana Chiocca (“BITCHO”).
To see and do, with the school or with the family, the proposals of Foco Famílias from December 9 to 11, in Campo Alegre, focus on empathy, inviting the spectator to put himself in the other's place: “Que grande estrondo” by João Fazenda, Bruno Humberto & Philippe Lenzini, “A Menina, O Caçador e o Lobo”, by Vasco Mendonça & Gonçalo M. Tavares, “Pequenos Mundos”, by Joana Providência; and “Baile dos Opostos” by Joclécio Azevedo & Teresa Prima.
Every month, in Campo Alegre, the cycle Palcos Insáveis is maintained, in partnership with Instável — Centro Coreográfico.
In the musical programming of TMP, the highlight is the concert by the young Polish countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński, accompanied by the il Pomo d’Oro orchestra, which premieres in Portugal on March 25th, at Rivoli. Winner of the Grand Finals of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, in 2016, and of the Marcella Sembrich International Vocal Competition, in 2015. This concert comes as a tribute to Jorge Gil, founder of Em Órbita, a reference in the Portuguese radio scene and in the organization of classical music concerts.
On the 17th of September, Joana Gama and Luís Fernandes deepen the dialogue between piano and electronics in “There’s no Knowing”, a stripped-down musical and scenic object that started with the creation of a soundtrack.
Concerts are also held every month on the Rivoli Substage, as part of the Understage cycle in co-production with Matéria Prima, Lovers & Lollypops and Amplificasom.
The 70th anniversary of TEP – Teatro Experimental do Porto is celebrated with the presentation of “They enter and stay!”, by Tânia Dinis, on the 16th and 17th of June.
Festivals are back and TMP will host, throughout the year, MICAR – Mostra Internacional de Cinema Anti-Racista, FIMP – Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, Festa do Cinema Francês, Multiplex – Universidade Lusófona do Porto , Queer Porto – Festival Internacional de Cinema Queer, Porta-Jazz Festival, FITEI – Festival Internacional de Teatro de Expressão Ibérica, and Trengo – Festival de Circo do Porto.
This season, TMP continues the work started in the 2022 edition of DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, ensuring sessions with audio description in various performances on the schedule. In order to strengthen its work in creating specific conditions so that a greater number of people can, in an equitable way, participate and enjoy its programming, TMP will also increase the number of performances and digital content with subtitling and interpretation in Portuguese Sign Language (ILGP). Also seeking to develop a closer and continued work with the artistic teams that it receives for a greater integration of ILGP in the shows.
Tickets for the 2022/2023 season performances will be available from July 1st, both at the Teatro Rivoli and Teatro Campo Alegre box offices, and online at tmp.bol.pt.
