EMANUEL DE SOUSA ⁄ PONTO TEATRO

The verbal and non-verbal languages are, at the same time, what keeps the being away from its own essence. They are, however, also the key to bringing them together, the instrument that can be used for touching the untouchable, for learning the secret of how to unearth the best and the worst of our human condition, which is now no more than human. Research into the (im)materiality of the body, our notions of identity and gender violence and the point of intersection of the imaginaries of Clarice Lispector, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Giorgio Agamben, Judith Butler and Paul B. Preciado, amongst others, allows one to give form, in the last resort, to Bernard Berenson’s premise: “a full life may be that in which one achieves such complete identification with the non-I that there is no longer an I to die”. 

PONTO TEATRO, Cultural Association, was founded in Porto, in 2011, by its artistic director Emanuel de Sousa. The association works to disseminate and produce contemporary performative art, focussing predominantly on creative theatre and on Portuguese and European drama. PONTO TEATRO's programme, which is structured around contemporary themes, encourages local and foreign artists, thinkers and creators toresearch, experiment and create transversely, particularly as regards the methodology employed in creating dramatic and post-dramatic theatre, amongst other complementary fields of action in the performance arts.