national premiere
Fri
2
Sat
3
Sinopse
An archive is not quite so barren. We wake up at dawn to set ourselves in motion, drawing on the memory of the very first cell. We discover that what has vanished from the old body still echoes in the new one. Ruin is a trail. In an archive of gestures, only movement can speak both for what has been lost and for what has been preserved as a fossil. We embodied this archive but were taken aback by its forms. We tried to repeat its movements, but in attempting to translate these fossilised gestures, we created something new by accident. The objects taught us how to create sculptures, to freeze movement. We destroyed them. — Sancha Meca Castro
Following the performances of The ruin is a tall and TAMBOR on Friday, 2 October, there will be a talk with the artistic teams.
archive
movement
gesture
© DR
Info sobre horário e bilhetes
Fri
2.10
21:00
Sat
3.10
19:30
Campo AlegreCafé-Teatro
Aditional info
- Price
7€
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Duration
40min
- Age rating
To be classified
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
Author's bio text
Sancha is a choreographer, performer, and transdisciplinary artist. She works with scores for improvisation, through speculative practices exploring the nature of objects, archives, and gestures. Her movement practice explores tangible matters and invisible materialities, such as fiction, the creation of value, ruins, collapse and other memories. She uses the body as a starting point to develop performances in different spatial contexts and negotiates a shared performativity with the objects she activates on stage. She studied sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto, dance at the Berlin Dance Institute in Berlin, and choreography at SNDO in the Netherlands. She has presented her work in Portugal, the Netherlands, England, Croatia, Bulgaria, Chile, Argentina and Uruguay.
Ficha Técnica
- Concept, choreography and set design
Sancha Meca Castro
Movement research and interpretation
Dora Brkarić, Hannah Badura, Nara Gonçalves, Thalia Livingstone, Sancha Meca Castro
Sound design
Inês Malheiro
Light design
Gabriela Clavería
Artistic guidance
Carly Rose Bedford, Marta Lopes Santos
Production direction
Marta Lopes Santos
Co-produced by
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Instável – Centro Coreográfico
