Visões Úteis
ZHA! LARAY
June
2024
Premiere
Thu
6
Fri
7
Sinopse
A Roma proverb says that “the finest fire starts with small twigs”. From twig to twig, family to family, person to person, one lights up the flame of encounter. Music, dancing and singing—natural ways for Roma communities to celebrate, express themselves and communicate—fill houses, streets and boroughs with artistic performances of great beauty. ZHA! grows at the culmination of a long process of proximity, complicity, listening, creation and overcoming. Roma and non-Roma creators jointly cast a new look at a rich cultural and patrimonial heritage, in order to sound the Roma voice louder and farther, and to echo the right in the reverse and in the seams of both the city and society. May ZHA! be a fire that burns and is seen, from close and from afar, from outside and from within. — ZHA! team
communities
ethnicity
heritage
integration
© João Octávio Peixoto
© João Octávio Peixoto
© João Octávio Peixoto
© João Octávio Peixoto
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Aditional info
- Price
2.50€
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Duration
1h30
- Age rating
6+
- Additional information
Text in Portuguese and Spanish
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Portuguese Sign Language interpretation
Accessible to wheelchair users
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Author's bio text
Visões Úteis (Porto, 1994) is a collaborative, multidisciplinary, authorial project that produces itself among creation, programming, research, training and territory development activities. It has produced over 50 works in Portugal and abroad, including theatre plays, performances in the landscape and community performances, and it has also published books, and created and produced films and sound works. The collective is established in Campanhã, where in the last few years it has been finding aesthetic, political and social purposes for the development of the project. It has been a partner of the Porto City Council’s programme Cultura em Expansão since 2019, taking on the responsibility of programming and mediating the activities in this territory in close collaboration with the community. Visões Úteis has the financial support of the Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts. Its artistic director is Carlos Costa, who shares the projects’ management with Ana Vitorino, Inês de Carvalho, João Martins and Jorge Palinhos. ZHA! is a PARTIS & Art for Change project.
Ficha Técnica
- Artistic direction, set design and costumes
Inês de Carvalho
Social coordination
André Sousa
Musical direction
Fernanda de Córdoba, José “El Pájaro” Ausina
Movement director
Marta Coutinho
Flamenco
Francisca Durão
Video
Vasco Mendes
Lighting design
Cárin Geada
Sound operation
Fábio Ferreira
Performed by
Fernanda de Córdoba, Francisca Durão, José “El Pájaro” Ausina, Marta Coutinho and artists of the Roma communities of Cerco, Contumil and Lagarteiro: Cláudia, Dianinho, Elton, Eltynha, Girisa, Ivana, João, Jorginho, Lara Fernandes, Lara Pinheiro, Letícia, Levi, Lisandra, Raíssa, Ruizinho, Santiago, Mara, Maísa, Micael, Vítor Hugo, Vitor Huguinho, Zé Carlinhos, Zé Carlos
Video participation
António Ribeiro (Beirinho), Fátima Ribeiro, Filomena Francês, José Cabreira (Zé Vilhaça), José Carlos Prudêncio (Zé Carlos), José Maria Fernandes (Zé Maria), Licínia Maia, Lúcia Fernandes, António Maia (Espanhol), Maria Glória Miguel (Suani)
- Mediation and educational and social support
André Sousa, Mafalda Mateus, Patrícia Carvalho e Rosa Vieira
Tehcnical production
Pedro Correia
Executive production
Pedro Monteiro
Design
Sara Allen
Production coordination
Cláudia Alfaiate
Accounting
Helena Madeira
ZHA! is a PARTIS & Art for Change project funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian and "la Caixa" foundations.
Artistic director Inês de Carvalho, social coordinator André Sousa, project managers Alice Prata and Cláudia Alfaiate, production assistant and administrative manager Helena Madeira.
It is promoted by Visões Úteis and has as partners:
ÁGORA, Agrupamentos de Escolas do Cerco do Porto and António Nobre, High Commission for Migration, APPC, ARDA Recorders, Norte Vida's Eastern Street Team, Fios e Desafios, União Romani Portuguesa, Salesianos Foundation, Campanhã Parish Council, REDES CLDS4G and Sinergi@s-E9G/ARRIMO.
Visões Úteis is supported by the Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
