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AFRO SALOYÁ

Isabél Zuaa
©Joanna Correia
Dates and Schedules

20 to 24 January
Wednesday to Saturday, 7.30 pm; Sunday, 4 pm

Venue

Sala Mário Viegas

Price

€12 (with discounts) | (Included in the Culture Pass – available only at the Theatre box office)

Age Restriction

12+

Description

AFRO SALOYÁ has never been a solo act. I bring a lot of people with me.
To paraphrase Maya Angelou, I carry with me all the people who have been kind to me, who have taught me, who have loved me. I take all these people with me onto the stage.
I take with me my many different versions of myself: my 15-year-old Isabél, the 7-year-old, the 2-year-old, and the one from yesterday. All of them.
I take with me the bandstand, my bedroom, and the garden of our house in Zambujal.
And it was in Zambujal that we took the first photographs of the show. A place that is both ‘saloio’ and Afro. A place of multiple cultural, poetic, real and authentic intersections.
AFRO SALOYÁ was born out of this meeting place: between memories and futures, between roots and reinvention, between all the people who live within me.

 

 

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Cast and Creative

CREATION AND INTERPRETATION Isabél Zuaa DRAMATURGY SUPPORT Melissa Rodrigues, Mauro Hermínio MUSICAL DIRECTION Carolina Varela ARRANGEMENTS BY Yaw Tembe ORIGINAL COMPOSITION BY Didi VIDEO Heverton Harieno PHYSICAL TRAINING Piny, Vânia Dutel Vaz VOCAL SUPPORT Joana Campelo COSTUMES and STAGE DESIGN Eloísa d ’Ascensão LIGHTING DESIGN Bee Barros SOUND AND VIDEO OPERATION Isaac Veloso EXTERNAL CONSULTANT Bruno Huca SET DESIGN ASSISTANT Anaïs Ichiban PRODUCTION Joana Costa Santos ADMINISTRATION Agência 25 CO-PRODUCTION Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Festival Singular e São Luiz Teatro Municipal CO-PRODUCTION RESIDENCY O Espaço do Tempo, Centro de Criação de Candoso Supported by República Portuguesa — Cultura, Juventude e Desporto/DGARTES— Direção-Geral das Artes, Casa da Dança

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