8 Works PACAP #06

As If I Was a Road

Duration 40 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

22 and 23 July | sat 20h00 and sun 19h00

‘as if I was a road’ is a guided tour through familiar landmarks misplaced in time. It asks, how can we move inside of earth that is not fertile? Dust mingles with wet dreams of desert inhabitants. The spatiotemporal distance between dwelling, resting, longing, and overwhelm are polarizing forces of light and darkness. Dreams, or mirages appear, and darkness becomes almost visible.

Choreography and Concept Vanessa Lonau

Interpreters Estrellx Supernova, Sofia Kafol, Rafaela Santos, Camilla Morello, María Ibarretxe and Vanessa Lonau

Music Artur Pispalhas
“Oh, Lovely Appearance of Death” by efdemin

Lighting and scenography Leticia Strycky, Vanessa Lonau

Vanessa Lonau (she/her) is a performing artist from Moldova/ raised in Germany. She works with the entities of gestures and the architectural body in space. She explores different ways of communication and symbols through dream like states which interplay between movement, text, voice, and electronic soundscapes. In her work she’s constantly researching on the relation between body and mind. Her aim is to create a sense of empowerment through the celebration of the body and social practices.

Image Credits © DR

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | PACAP 6 / Forum Dança: 8 Works

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

Coproducers and Support

Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

Support PACAP 6: Casa da Dança – Almada, Fundação GDA, O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Piscina.

B Field

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 6+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 63 seats)

22 and 23 July | sat 21h00 and sun 16h30

If I were a musician, what sort of music would I like to make? With what I have, what sort of music can I make?
B Field brings these questions to an enquiry into solo making, led by desire and inspired by the absurd and insistent masc self-sufficiency of ‘one-man bands’. A live excavation of sounds and beats reveals an attempt to build a song worthy of a night-club dance floor, thus creating my very own ‘one-(wo)man band’.

Lorea Burge

Choreography and Performance Lorea Burge

Sound Design in collaboration with Bobby Brim

Lorea is a dance artist trained at Laban (2011-2014), and is informed by improvised performance, doing as practice, live music and singing, and most recently House. She is one of Unbaptised Infants (est. 2015) with Hannah Parsons (UK) and Josefina Rozenwasser (AR), creating experimental sound-dance shows, and in 2022 were resident artists at MACBA & LCE. As a performer, Lorea has worked with Charles Linehan (UK), Seke Chimutengwende (UK), J N Harrington (UK) and Ehryn Torrell (CA) among others.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you to the sound wizards Bobby and Pedro for the support and lessons on Ableton, to Sofia, Vítor, Alex, Chichi and Santi for the accompaniment, to all of PACAP 6 for the collective thinking and all-round good vibes, and to the team at Forum Danca for the care and all the logistical support.

Image Credits © Lorea Burge (2023)

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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Pthst’ N

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 42 seats)

21 and 22 July | fri 21h00 and sat 16h30

This is a synopsis. This synopsis starts where your eyes decide to land. The land is the unsettled place of nowhere. Nowhere is where anything can be everywhere in any time. Time begins where story ends. Ends are not the opposite of anything. Anything might appear in an un-named land. Land inhabited only by the innocent nobody. Nobody are corpses and fools moved by enigma and expansion. Expansion through otherness. Otherness being just. Just enough separateness to prompt us into longing, just enough longing to remind us we are separate.

Created and performed by Anatoli Collective

External eye Catarina Saraiva

Anatoli is a collective based in Lisbon born from and through multiple biographies. Created in forms of togetherness that centres tenderness, unknown qualities and the reconfiguration of kinship.

Camilla Morello’s artistic research, the result of eclectic interests and training, builds on the interdisciplinarity between theatrical language, dance and performance, having also been related with video, photography and installation. Graduated at the Scuola Nazionale di Cinema in Rome as actress, after a degree in Anthropology (La Sapienza University, Rome) and studies of art, philosophy, and aesthetics (Univesité Paris 8) moves to Lisbon where he specializes in the biennial course of Olga Roriz’s dance- theater and attends workshops with various artists. Worked with Tamara Cubas, Miguel Moreira, Miguel Pereira, Catarina Câmara, Maurícia Neves, Mickaël de Oliveira and Nuno M. Cardoso among others.

Tarlie Lumby is a British dance artist and choreographer currently based in Berlin. With a BA in Art and Visual Culture and many years training and working in dance they have developed a rich interdisciplinary practices focused on contemporary dance and live art. Preoccupied with the exploration of altered states, spirit and mystery; Their choreographic works aim to create immersive sites of encounter where deep states of connection, fantasy and the transpersonal expose the body as an archive of human dreams.

Victor Lattaque Bio
I no longer want to say by courage
I want to present myself to space, to time, to the object, to others through what I am,
I no longer want to walk by will
But to celebrate life out of necessity
I no longer want my good understanding of what I see, what I hear
I want a more unfathomable/penetrating/essential relationship to the living and to all that is attempted
I want to have regards for reality when she is stands beneath my eyes and when I speak about her
I want to hold in esteem the living, the dead and the unborn

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Endless gratitude to all PACAP 6 artist. All choreographers and artist that worked with us during PACAP 6. Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz. Leticia Skrycky and Santi. Forum Dança team – Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins, Mafalda Sustelo & Ezequiel Santos. Elio, Ana Correa, Catarina Saraiva, Holly Stoppit, Restaurante Bolos Caseiros.

Image Credits © Anatoli Collective (2023)

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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Hydra

Duration 50 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 76 seats)

21 and 23 July | fri 19h00 and sun 20h30

HYDRA is a choreographic de-installation that explores an intimate encounter with materials in a state of transformation. The space unfolds from an initial sculpture in its inevitable collapse.
Through bodies, sounds, and materials that pour into one another, the entanglement of desires and their oscillations are revealed. Entities and creatures emerge and (con)fuse in a liquid, vibrant, and ever-changing landscape.

Direction Lucas Damiani

Artistic accompaniment & collaboration Mariana Catalina Iris

Co-creation e performance Andrei Bessa, Nicole Gomes, Lucas Damiani and Mariana Catalina Iris.

Dramaturgical assistance Bibi Dória

Costume designer Natalia Castañola

External eye João Fiadeiro

Lucas Damiani (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1994) is an artist working at the intersections of performing and visual arts, with a background in photography, psychology, contemporary dance, and performance. His work intertwines installations with performance and choreography, exploring strategies of (dis)/ (re)recognition and transformation, encounters, touch, and intimacy.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Noumissa Sidibé, Carolina Canteli, Nazario Díaz, Bruno Brandolino, Marcelo Evelin, Katarina Lanier, Simone Aughterlony, María Ibarretxe, Roberto Dagô, Tamara Catharino, Carolina Mendonça, Vicente Antunes Ramos, Giovanna Monteiro, Bárbara Cordeiro, Márcia Lança, Era Jajá Rolim, José Cirilo Neto, Daniel Pizamiglio, Santiago Rodríguez Tricot, Sofia Dias & Vitor Roriz, the team of Forum Dança: Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins, Eduardo Quinhones Hall and Mafalda Sustelo, and everyone who makes up PACAP6.

Image Credits © R. Biker (2014)

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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The Infrastructures of Cavities

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 60 seats)

15 and 16 July | sat 21h00 and sun 19h00

Cavities are defined as the empty spaces inside solid bodies. Yet they are often filled with organs, fluids, electromagnetic frequencies and other ever-changing, versatile agents.
Infrastructures are sets of interdependent elements that support all or part of a structure or network. The prefix infra means below, lower down, but also evokes the invisible. Invisible of this world* : the concept of the void may here give way to the extreme, turbid materiality that makes up hollows and underground passages. This moving matter organizes itself to the rhythm of an infrabass that organizes itself to the rhythm of moving matter, the infinite logic of distorted feedback.
The multiple, non-essential body emerging from the darkness becomes images, interactions, forces and bastardized interstices. Matter imagines itself, but never on its own, and, full of desire, spews out its distorted echoes.

* ici-bas in french, would be translated literally by down-here.

Artistic direction, sound creation and live technical set Bobby Brim

Performance Victor Lattaque, Lorea Burge, María Ibarretxe del Val, Lucas Damiani and Bobby Brim

External-eye and dramaturgical accompaniment Mariana Catalina Iris

Co-creation Lorea Burge, Victor Lattaque, María Ibarretxe del Val and Lucas Damiani

Performance support Tarly Lumby, Connor Scott and Silvana Ivaldi

Costume support Silvana Ivaldi

Bobby Brim is a transdisciplinary artist who composts their soul according to the cyborg entities they meet on their way.
Fluid, creator of images, installations, sounds and digital troubles, they are working on producing data-producing monsters and exploring autonomous worlds.
Pixels, decibels, waves, bodies and collectives are the concrete materials that allow them to probe the transgressive spaces in a post-conspiratorial world.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

THANKS

to the precious and generous external eyes of Jaja Rolim and Joao Fiadeiro, as well as those of Bruno Brandelino, Romain Beltrão Teule, Connor Scott, Fillipa Cordeiro, Carol, Frederic and Tamara. Thank you also for the web of friendship that sustains the possibility of creation.

to Sofia Dias and Victor Roriz for their guidance and rich pedagogy, and to Leticia Skrycky and Santi.

to the Forum Dança team and their dedication for enabling these situations to emerge in all their singularity.

to the wonderful artist-participants of PACAP 6 and to the ecology of our relationships.

to the guest choreographers, for the intensity and depth of the sharing of connected research and its multiple futures. I’d especially like to thank Marcelo Evelin for the joyful ethical, situational and relational explosives he sows in his path.

to Luara Raio for the moving solidity, tenderness and deep sharing of what a family of friendship, a network of political bodies and situated creations can be.

Thanks also to Acaua Sheyrera, Daniel Lulhman and Geoffrey Badel for their support in the early stages of this adventure.

to Timothé Pellissier and Mo Lar for the slow, daily design of this profound facial presence, so particular and so meaningful today.

to l’Antre-Peau, especially Isabelle Carlier and David Legrand, for supporting the possibility of a deviant, transdisciplinary and joyfully troubled creative space.

to Anaïs Cabandé, Micha Gorlitz, Chloé Desmoinaux and AV-NET, JoL, OOOOO, the transhackfeminist network, the Porn Process, and many others, thanks to whom narratives are in perpetual mutation, dynamic, collective, possible.

to Nina Botkay, Carol Goulards and Meiga for their real estate and, in a way, moral support. to Maddie Tait-Jamieson for co-creating existence.

Image Credits © Bobby Brim (2023)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | PACAP 6 / Forum Dança: 8 Works

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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Sorry I Missed Some Parts

Duration 25 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

15 and 16 July | sat 20h00 and sun 16h30

DAY
ONE DAY
ONE MORE DAY
NOT ONE MORE DAY
TE
WAS
TE
WASTE
WASTE NOT ANOTHER DAY

Creation and interpretation Rafaela Santos

Support for dramaturgy Alex Cassal

Movement Support Yola Pinto

Special Participation PACAP 6 participants

Rafaela Santos was born in Lisbon, in 1972. She is an Actress, Director and Theater Trainer and thinks she has a certain talent for dance. She co-founded Amarelo Silvestre in Canas de Senhorim where she is co-artistic director, together with Fernando Giestas. She has a son and a daughter. Is happy. Often.
She took a Bi-Stage Degree in Theater and Education_ 2007 and a bachelor’s degree in Actors’ Training _1995, at ESTC in Lisbon, after the Actors’ Training Course, IFICT_ 1991. She debuted professionally in 1994 with Jorge Silva Melo, later working with Rogério de Carvalho, John Mowat, Ana Nave, Sandra Faleiro, Bruno Bravo, Maria Gil, Victor Hugo Pontes, Lígia Soares, among others. Receives the award for Best Actress – Teatro na Década_1996.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Amarelo Silvestre and Fernando Giestas.

Image Credits © Amélia Giestas (2023)

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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Entre uma Brisa e uma Sudestada

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 16+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Stage of the Main Auditorium (reduce seating capacity – 76 seats)

14 and 15 July | fri 21h00 e sat 16h30

A moment that repeats itself over and over again, a reunion with what once was and asks for passage to still be. A subtle and resistant territory that exists in permanent recomposition. A community that remains in the intent and practices enchantment as an act of tenderness, invention and reconnection. What do we do with the remains? Bring wind from the south.

Director Mariana Catalina Iris

Artistic accompaniment and collaboration Lucas Damiani

Creation and performance Carolina Canteli, Tamara Catharino, Lucas Damiani, Bibi Dória, Andrei Bessa and Mariana Catalina Iris

Sound Composition Bobby Brim

Costume Designer Natalia Castañola

Light design Mariana Catalina Iris and Leticia Skrycky

Mariana Catalina Iris (UY, 1991) graduated in Contemporary Dance from the Escuela Nacional de Danza SODRE (UY) and in Plastic and Visual Arts from UdelaR (UY). She is a transdisciplinary researcher and creator of performing arts – installations. Manager and producer at the Center for Contemporary Practices CROMA (Montevideo, UY).

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Alex Cassal, João Fiadeiro, Leticia Sckryky, Bruno Brandolino, Roberto Dagô, Barbara Cordeiro, Renato Rocha, Daniel Pizamiglio, Ramon Lima, Sofía Díaz, Vitor Roriz, and the PACAP 6 group. To the Forum Dança team, Dora Carvalho, Carolina Martins e Mafalda Sustelo. Lucas Damiani, Carol Canteli, Bibi Dória, Tamara Catharino, Bobby Brim, Andrei Bessa y Natalia Castañola thank you for the party.

Image Credits © Lucas Damiani (2023)

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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O Amor da Rua

Duration 60 min (aprox.) | Age rating: 6+ | Single price 2€ (Buy Ticket)

TBA – Teatro do Bairro Alto | Main Auditorium

14 and 16 July | fri 19h00 and sun 20h30

Amor da Rua is an ode to those who live in the breach, dancing between worlds, breaking the pattern and subverting in the chill of time.
This work proposes to reinvent affections for invisible people by building doors to the openness of the street, that place of astonishment, that place of the unexpected.
It is a movement towards the other. In search of the other as mystery, as desire, the other as hell.

Conception and Direction Marcelo Castro

Creator Interpreters Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti and Marcelo Castro

Special Participation Victória dos Santos

Artistic Collaboration Gaya de Medeiros, Gustavo Ciríaco and João Fiadeiro

Marcelo Castro is a scene artist. He is currently investigating walking as an aesthetic practice. He is interested in the poetics of space, encounter, and chance. In the theater, he developed his work in partnership with several artists and theater companies. He was a founding member of Grupo Espanca! where he remained for 13 years, acting, and directing.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Carolina Fenati, Daniel Ribão, Eduardo Quinhones Hall, Flavia Regaldo, Júlia Hansen and Luísa Rabello.

Image Credits © Flavia Regaldo (2023)

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Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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Coproducers PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto and Culturgest

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