Inside Out PACAP #06

Animate, Intimate (AI): Cycle 1 – Points of Encounter/Puente de Encuentros
or [[Before Wonderland Fell, We Fell in Touch]]

Duration 7h48 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Culturgest / Garden of the Galveias Palace Library

9 July, from 12h12 to 20h00 (durational performance)

Attention: Capacity limited to 40 people simultaneously.

it is also an inheritance.
the sweetest of desserts.
racism/pleasure.
it hurts.
I. AM. SO. PROUD. OF.
an attempt to open your heart.
all you have to do is remember.
take up all of the space.
i repeat: WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU WAS NOT YOUR FAULT! (x3)
they watch over me too because I am also you. i love you.
reincarnated: at this time, for this time.
a light filled spring with roses sprinkled all around,
held by angels whispering holy water frequencies into your ear.
curved up or curved down?
curved up: it will massage the prostate better that way.
handle w/ aftercare.
before before before.
after after after.
a letter of acknowledgment.
my landma$$.
running into bedazzled Glory Holes.
i consume them all w/ no regrets.
what do you call something that changes you forever?
there/here.
are you from here?
no, i am from over there.
do you cum here often?
no, i mostly enjoy cumming on my own body.
spit or swallow?
it depends.
more time.
more context.
ready.
finally: at the after party of the aftermath.
no come down.

Lead Choreographer/Creative Director Estrellx Supernova

Performance Activators/Cosmic Angels Ana Victoria Andres, Maria Ibarretxe, Mariana Catalina Iris, Silvana Ivaldi, Vanessa Lonau, Connor Scott, Estrellx Supernova, Camilla Morello, Bobby Brim, Tarlie Lumby, Lorea Burge, Marta Ramos, producers – Forum Dança team members and front of house from Culturgest

Sonic designer Lorea Burge

Dramaturgs/Thought Partners Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Santiago Rodriguez Tricot, Sheena McGrandles, Alex Cassal, David Marques and Christine de Smedt

Estrellx (they/them/elle) is a queer, Afro-Central-American-American choreographer, performer, curator, writer and somatic entrepreneurial brujx. Choreographically, Estrellx integrates club spaces as sites of generative dissonance and asks, “Are we celebrating or mourning or both?” They implement Qi Energetic principles, divination, improvisation, and club dancing into their ritualistic performative language and conceive of choreography as an intimate practice of embodied excavation.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would love to say a tremendous thank you to the entire team at Forum Dança and Culturgest for supporting me with bringing this vision to life and to all of the phenomenal guest artists who were curated into PACAP 6. Sofia & Vitor you two are a match made in heaven and so grateful to finally engage with you and your presences. It took a few years, but I finally made it.

I would love to say a second tremendous thank you to all of my collaborators for showing up to co-creating and activating this work and for trusting me.

I would love to say a final tremendous thank you to my energetic-spiritual constellation of care, ancestors, and loved ones supporting me from near and far.

Image Credits © Elyse Mertz (2022). Fall Movement.

Culturgest | Inside Out: Novas Criações PACAP 6

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

Apoios e Parcerias

Coprodução PACAP 6: Teatro do Bairro Alto e Culturgest.

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

POOF

Duration 1h15 min (aprox.)

Culturgest | Culturgest Garage

6 and 8 July, 20h30

Created and Directed by Connor Scott

Creative collaborators and performers Bibi Dória, Inês Pinheiro, Victor Lattaque, Lorea Burge, Emily Da Silva, Estrellx Supernova and Bruno Brandolino

Music Original score with Ana Ferreira & Francisco Silva

Translation Inês Zinho Pinheiro

Costumes Ana Silva

Connor is a performer and dance maker born and raised in the northeast of England. They’re background in movement stems from their studies in martial arts, breakdance and most prominently Latin and ballroom dances. Their practice is shaped through various intersections of performance from choreographic and movement research to texts, interviews, and archives. In their own dances they often work with the notion of people as an already existing choreography, looking at how to generate a collective energetic event departing from the hope in which dance instils within them. They are currently investigating how to disappear and reappear in the act of dancing…

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Duarte Amado, Yagiz Akin, João Dos Santos Martins, Alex Cassal, Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz, Forum Dança and PACAP 6 artists.

Image Credits © DR “The Newbiggin sword dancers in 1925”

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

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.

Please Kick Me Out Before I Get In

Duration 50 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Culturgest garden pond

6 and 8 July, 19h00

The tragedy is rather distant and brusque, as if poking fun at the protagonist. The spatial arrangement raised the question of commitment. Their medium: sited awareness. Io non credo a nulla, credo soltanto che sai un bene tradire, credo che sai bene trasgredire qualcosa negli ordini. Or what precisely it is that they drive? Dominar o mercado espectacular. É aqui que se faz a prova de vida? She’szzzz seizing something though.*

*This text is an assemblage by Silvana Ivaldi from: Frédéric Gros; Claire Bishop; Peggy Phelan; McKenzie Wark; Shusaku Arakawa and Madeline Gins; Fleur Jaeggy; Judith Butler; Guy Debord and Silvana Ivaldi.

By Silvana Ivaldi

With Silvana Ivaldi e Tarli Lumby

Bordighera, 1987. Graduated in Fashion and Master in Image Design, she makes use of the heterogeneity of her path to think, explore and create poetic forms through visual, performative, and spectacular means. She is a creator, performer, actress, costume designer, art director and graphic designer. She is the founder of Sr. João e Activo Tóxico. She is an associate artist of Cão Solteiro.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Armando Carvalho, Bobby Brim, Camilla Morello, Connor Scott, Diana Niepce, Estrellx Supernova, Lorea Burge, Lucas Damiani, Marcelo Castro, María Ibarretxe, Mariana Catalina Iris, Patrícia Soares, Pedro Barreiro, Rafaela Santos, Vanessa Lonau and Victor Lattaque.

Image Credits © Pedro Barreiro. Editing: Silvana Ivaldi

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

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.

VERMELHO BEATS / Sculpturing the white

Duration 45 min (aprox.) | M/16

Culturgest | Room 1 and Foyer of Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium

6 and 8 July, 17h00 and 18h00

This site-specific work is part of the choreographic investigation “The Spontaneous Breath of Enthusiasm”, driven by the threefold Ancient Greek concept of enthusiasm: “In”, “Theo”, and “Asthma” which combine to mean “inner breath of God”.
Ibarretxe adopts this definition, changes the gender, and transforms it into “Inner Blow of the Goddess”, as in the engine that starts (or activates) bodies after times of mourning and grief.

Concept and direction María Ibarretxe del Val

Collaboration and performers Lucas Damiani and Victor Lattaque

Artistic accompaniment Carolina Mendoça and Silvana Ivaldi

María Ibarretxe is a visual and performing artist who combines various mediums including film, sound, installation and choreography. Her live performances and installations simulate cinematographic experiences in which the audience becomes part of the action. Her work is driven fundamentally by artistic research–inspired by the culture and context of each individual project.
She studied drama art in Basque Country and direction at the EICTV/Cuba. In 2002 she co-funded with Alaitz Arenzana the artistic collective Sra Polaroiska, obtaining awards such as Gure Artea for best creative activity in Basque Country 2017, Ertibil 2012, Choreographic Contest of Madrid 2012 or INJUVE 2003 (Ministry of Culture of Spain). They were associated artists in Azkuna Zentroa 2019-2021. Parallel, Ibarretxe collaborated with Koen de Preter in Belgium, Renate Keerd in Estonia and Miriam Sedacca in Japan.
Since 2014, Ibarretxe has developed a project-process that reflects on states of mourning throughout different residencies in Belgium, South Korea, Japan, up state New York and Kurdistan Irak.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Robert Jackson, Elena Oguiza, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz Gisela Dória, Alex Cassal, Márcia Lança, Filipe Lemos, artistas PACAP 6 e equipa Forum Dança.

Image Credits © María Ibarretxe (2023)

Culturgest | Inside Out: PACAP 6 New Creations

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

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.