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ATSUMORI

CATARINA MIRANDA
João Octávio Peixoto
Dates and Schedules

10 and 11 January
Friday and Saturday, 8 pm

Venue

Sala Luis Miguel Cintra

Price

€12 to €15, reduced prices available | Abrangido pelo Passe Cultura - disponível apenas na bilheteira do Teatro

Age Restriction

12+

Description

ATSUMORI, spectrum in repetition — visibility mechanisms — interstitial topography — apotropaic dance

ATSUMORI is a dance play for a quintet and a radiant stage. This creation is based on the Japanese play Noh Atsumori, written by Zeami Motokiyo in the 15th century, in which the ghost of a warrior-child returns to the battlefield to avenge their own death. Catarina Miranda studied this play in Kyoto (2018). It inspired her to develop her own narrative, addressing the double affection about the loss and the beginning of a cycle, as well as the appeal of the unknown. The transgressed body wishes to make contact and to assert itself in its maximum power. The quintet of dancers uses clapping, whistles, sparks, whispers and vocal callings, while it occupies an interstitial space through an apotropaic and rhythmic choreography, in a game of spectres, shadows and metamorphoses, revealed by different levels of visibility. There are echoes and traces of gestures from ancestral dances and contemporary social dances, here twisted and reshaped, as if both bodies and time could be unfolded, dismembered, passable, embodied by Cacá Otto Reuss, Hugo Marmelada, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes and Mélanie Ferreira. The stage lighting, designed by Letícia Sckrycky and Joana Mário, plays an active role in this game of shadows, amplified by the musical composition by Lechuga Zaphiro, revealing the bodies that dissolve, transform, and seek to emerge and coexist.

Cast and Creative

Artistic direction, Choreography and Costumes by Catarina Miranda Choreography co-created by Cacá Otto Reuss, Joãozinho da Costa, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Mélanie Ferreira Performed by Cacá Otto Reuss, Hugo Marmelada, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Mélanie Ferreira Lighting design Joana Mário, Letícia Sckrycky Sound composition Lechuga Zafiro Set designed by Catarina Miranda, Joana Mário, João Brojo, João Ferreira, Letícia Sckrycky Sound design by José Arantes Dramaturgy research assistance by Carlos Azeredo Mesquita, Ece Canli, Fernando Oliveira, Jonathan Saldanha Executive producer João Brojo Production Diagonal Animal /PT Production and broadcasting Materiais Diversos /PT Residency support CRL – Central Elétrica (Porto/PT), Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (Caen/FR), Centro Cultural da Malaposta/Minutos Redondos/Câmara Municipal de Odivelas (Odivelas/ PT), Montpellier Danse/Agora (Montpellier/ FR), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo/ PT), Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (Coimbra/PT), Teatro Viriato (Viseu/PT), Teatro Municipal do Porto – Teatro Campo Alegre (Porto/ PT) Supported by Shuttle/ Ágora – Cultura e Desporto do Porto, E.M., S.A (Porto/PT) Co-production Centre Pompidou/ Spectacles Vivant (Paris/FR), Charleroi Danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Bruxelas/BE), Diagonal Animal Associação Cultural (Porto/PT), One Dance Week Festival (Plovdiv/BG), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/PT), DDD – Festival Dias da Dança (Porto/PT), OOPSA (Porto/PT) e São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisboa/PT)

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