FRESH

Giovanna Monteiro (BR), Nazario Díaz (ES) and Roberto Dagô (BR)

Piece Length 50 min (aprox.)

Espaço da Penha | 15 and 16 of April | 19h30

FRESH is a choreographic study developed from an interest in working with materialities and their latent dramaturgies. Plastic is the raw material with which the performers create a virtual landscape simulator, where mountains and plains take turns in a constant sliding topography. In this universe, body and plastic blur the boundaries between the ideal of “fake” and “natural” until a new organism emerges from this collision.

Creation and Performance Giovanna Monteiro, Nazário Díaz and Roberto Dagô

Collaboration Bárbara Cordeiro and Nicole Gomes

Giovanna Monteiro (Brazil, 1994) is an actress and performer. Giovanna graduated in Scenic Arts at the University of São Paulo and studied theater at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema de Lisboa. In 2017, together with other artists, Giovanna founded the Comitê Escondido Johann Fatzer, a collective based in São Paulo, and has been working in the collective’s work as creator and performer. As a performer, she has participated in several creations, most notably: “Terra Tu Pátria” and “Antígona Sonora” by Comitê Escondido, “Iracema Fala” by Nuno Ramos and “Os Fuzis da Senhora Carrar” by Maria Thaís, and “Marcha à ré” by Teatro da Vertigem. She currently lives in Lisbon to attend PACAP 5 at Forum Dança and has been working on the creation of her first solo project “Tudo que que”.

Nazario Díaz (Andalusia, Spain) develops his work mainly in the performative arts, focusing on the tension generated between body, gaze and writing. In recent years, he has participated in several collective learning contexts (Máster en Práctica Escénica y Cultura Visual, Madrid / 2016-2017; PICA, Azala-Vitoria / 2018-2019; Invitación, Bilbao / 2019-2020) that exchange methodologies and tools from dance and living arts. He currently resides between Lisbon and Bilbao, and develops the projects Conversation pieces, together with the Basque choreographer Isaak Erdoiza, and Otro borrado a través de la insistencia, within the framework of the Advanced Program of Creation in Performative Arts, curated by João Fiadeiro for Forum Dança / Lisbon.

Roberto Dagô (Brazil, 1990) is a performer and choreographer. His works articulate body, image, and politics as pillars of creation and research in solo and collective projects and in territories contaminated by practices, languages and materialities. Dagô graduated in Visual Arts at the University of Brasília (Brazil) and studied Scenography at the Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal). Awarded with the IdEX-Initiatives d’Exellence (Programme “Investissements d’avenir”), he completed a master’s degree Création Artistique / Arts de la scène at the Université Grenoble Alpes (France), in the practice-based-research modality.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Image Credits © Lucas Damiani (2022)

PACAP 5 | Bloc 2 Presentations

Support and Partnerships

PACAP 5 Coproduction: Teatro do Bairro Alto

PACAP 5 Support: O Rumo do Fumo, Alkantara, OPART | Estúdios Victor Córdon, O Espaço do Tempo, Fundação GDA, Piscina