Splinter
Andrei Bessa (BR), Leonor Mendes (PT),
Lucas Damiani (UY) and Vicente Antunes Ramos (BR)
Piece Length 50 min (aprox.)
Espaço da Penha | 12 and 13 of April | 19h00
Going through the gap. Going through the fall. Going through the excess.
Covering eyes with hands and trying to see in between the fingers. As if recalling that last image. Like a shadow, a detour.
To erase, to withdraw, to take away, to decompose, to disappear, to subtract, to dissipate, to cover, to exhaust, to extinguish, to hide, to disappear, to end.
Gap. Fall. Excess.
And the shadow to come may depend on a small gesture.
Concept and performance Andrei Bessa, Leonor Mendes, Lucas Damiani and Vicente Antunes Ramos
Andrei Bessa (Fortaleza, Brazil, 1987) is a performer, a dramaturg, and a professor, holding a master’s degree in Arts at the Federal University of Ceara (Brazil), and an artist at the Inquieta Cia. group. With focus on dramaturgy in progress, Andrei’s work has emphasis in performance and in theater, with creations that entangle dance, literature and audiovisual. Currently investigating his fat body as a material for artistic expansion and expression. In this perspective, his recent obsession is the fable of the mystical creature unicorn-bear.
Leonor Mendes,Torres Novas, 1999. Works as a performance artist since 2017. Holds a BA in Dance from Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa (2020), and has worked with Joan Jonas (US), John Romão (PT) e Sílvia Costa (IT), Henrique Furtado Vieira (PT) and Marcelo Evelin (BR). Leonor interpreted and was part of the creation of the pieces velã, by Leonor Lopes (2020) and Sonho que não se pode quebrar e não se pode quebrar e não se…, by A ves (2020). Created the piece À sombra de mais cabels, with Susana Gaspar (2021) and Que nos seja perdoada esta tentação with Carolina Inácio.
Lucas Damiani is a Uruguayan artist working-researching in the intersections between Visual and Performing Arts, with background studies in photography, psychology and contemporary dance. Born and raised by the sea in Montevideo, Lucas has lived and trained in Madrid, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Lucas’ photographic work has been exhibited individually and collectively in Uruguay, Italy, Spain and Bulgaria. In performance, has worked with Guillermo Weickert (SP), Lee Mingwei (TW), Marcelo Evelin (BR), among others. [website]
Vicente Antunes Ramos (São Paulo, 1993) develops his artistic research in the fields of theatre, dance, and performance, with the use of the voice and documents on stage as main creation lines. Vicente graduated in Scenic Arts (USP-SP), and founded, among other artists, the Comitê Escondido Johann Fatzer, an interdisciplinary collective, dedicated to scenic investigation. In 2021, Vicente moved to Lisbon, to participate in PACAP 5, at Forum Dança.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Caro, Márcia, Pablito, Miguel, Santi, Chichi, Dora, Carolina, Eduardo and Mafalda. To the pacapetes.
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