Descrição
What is dance? Shapes moving on stage. How do you say love? Tree, stone, cloud.
How does joy feel? Seeing clearly, listening with emotion. Just as the water flows and the wind blows.
How to say Portugal? Folk minhoto in hidden dances. How to feel the Portuguese soul? Listen to the guitars and the accordion. Turn around and twist and turn in our dances, in our lives, in our songs, in the men and women of Portugal. Arms and hands raised, in prayer, that come together, separate, pretend to go but stay, seem to stay but go, in a simulated indolence of the senses. In a joy that flutters in metamorphic movements of bodies or waves of silences pretending to be sounds. Yes, sounds, colors and smells of a country where one discovers the great work of life and death, the ancient and modern, tradition and disruption.
Realejo and fandango. Bold bodies, danced challenges. The feet hit the ground like hooves defying fate. A man against women. Men against men in fights of clubs. And then black capes, black and dense as the spirit and the voice of cante Alentejano. Capotes cast as nets, in a desperation of strong gestures of those who say goodbye to life.
Seagulls in black skies. Hugs and kisses, secrets and laughter, glimpses of complicity on the beaches of the stage in an intimacy of colorful skirts, full, round, raised and torn in a striptease of soul, unstoppable and without the north, until the empire falls in a rain of wool.
Artwork
Francisco Rousseau choreographic composition
Rui Reis Lopes choreography
Cristina Maciel, Kimberley Pearl, Maria João Salomão, Paula Rousseau, Brent Williamson, Francisco Rousseau, Marco Marques, Rui Reis Lopes interpreters *
Diogo Chang Faria and Gustavo (guitars), Ana Paula Tavares and Flávio Bolieiro (accordion), José Barros (realejo) musicians *
Hidden Dances recorded music
Paulo Graça lights
Traditional costumes costumes
Paula Rousseau scenario
José António Rousseau text
Teresa Manzoni production
*Subject to change
Acknowledgments Dance Center of Oeiras / Teatro Politeama / Pedro Soares / Luísa Amélia
Promoter
Fundação Centro Cultural Belém