RAQUEL ANDRÉ (FIMP 2016)

We collect what slips through our fingers. What memory does an object hold? Raquel André collects the collectors themselves. She asks them to tell her a secret, to tell her what it means to be a collector. She asks them to stop collecting. In the show “The Secret of Simonides” one collects the other and keeps what can’t be kept.

Raquel André was born in Caneças, in 1986. She studied Theatre at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema (2006-09). From an amateur theatre group in Odivelas - Malaposta, to Portuguese TV, to film, to training in Theatre and Dance, to work with Portuguese directors and artists, to her work with Tiago Cadete (NO Digital, Last and Turbolento – visiting Portugal, Brazil, Cuba and Argentina), to the last generation Inov-Art-2011, during which she went to Rio de Janeiro for the Cia dos Atores. Five months became almost five years working with a Rio accent with Bel Garcia in Conselho de Classe, Beije Minha Lápide, Matamoros, Inglaterra and Oréstia and as curatorshipassistant for Cesar Augusto at Galpão Gamboa. She is currently presenting her latest work “Colecção de Amantes”, co-produced by Teatro Nacional Dona Maria II and TEMPO Festival das Arts do Rio de Janeiro.