On stage since 1996, NU MEIO is a satire of a typically-Portuguese couple who seeks refuge in Fado and idle gossip. The Man, Firmino, stakes out a territory centre stage from which the two characters cannot escape. The Woman, Mila, obsessively attempts to climb, grab at, suffocate this mountain of a man. The dialogue between the two characters is like a soap opera, full of clichés, of words explaining meetings and failed encounters, of shrill laughs and church songs turned operettas. The performers use recent events in the country/city/occasion in which NU MEIO is performed as a base for their dialogue. To complete these dialogues, the authors collect love stories by interviewing couples of different generations (where the show is taking place).
To celebrate 29 years of the show NU MEIO, Filipa Francisco and Bruno Cochat created a new version, especially designed for Teatro São Luiz. NU MEIO Comvida opens on 29 April 2025, International Dance Day. The first part of the show will be performed by a guest artist. The invitation was directed at artists from the duo’s generation, who represent the New Portuguese Dance movement: Carlota Lagido, Félix Lozano, Sílvia Real, Sónia Baptista and M&M’S (Margarida Mestre & Miguel Pereira).
Guests
29 April | Carlota Lagido+ NU MEIO – BUY TICKET
NOTFORGETNOTFORGIVE
notforgetnotforgive, by Carlota Lagido, writes João Manuel de Oliveira, a researcher in Gender Studies, Critical Sexuality Studies and Feminist Theory: ‘The show can be read as a position on the importance of inscription in an increasingly amnesiac world. This refusal to forget and consequently to forgive is linked to a denial of collectively shared memory. In notforgetnotforgive, this amnesia is refused and deconstructed through the politics of memory, with possible autobiographical readings present in Carlota Lagido’s work. Boys in the backroom, originally sung by Marlene Dietrich, echoes a political claim in favour of the inscription of a woman, of a historical period, of a cinematic memory that gives body to this work. We are therefore in the presence of a piece that not only remembers, but proclaims a position in a world dominated by sound bytes. notforgetnotforgive refocuses this world on an aesthetic of intransigence with the moralistic figure of forgiveness. Instead, his rejection of forgiveness seeks to make us think about our position and our alliances…’
Creation and interpretation: Carlota Lagido
30 April | Félix Lozano + NU MEIO – BUY TICKET
“LA GUASA”
A banana, a toast, a bullfighter’s ride, your health! Three blows to the floor, why? For Guasa!
Flamenco comes from the Moorish Arabic, Felah Menkub.
Felah means peasant. In Arabic there are two degrees of expropriation, when they take away your material things you are a Mindum but when they take away your material and immaterial things, what you have and what you are, when you stop being who you always were, when you’ve lost everything and become an outcast or an excluded person, then you are a Menkub, initially it wasn’t the art, it was the person, the excluded, or marginalised. ( Antonio Manuel Rodriguez )
La Guasa in flamenco is the game, the joke, the pranks.
Here is a look at the past; rediscovering, reorganising, reviving, relearning.
Or re-educated habit.
Creation and interpretation: Félix Lozano
Costumes and props: Ana Direito
Flamenco consultant: Gema Marquez
Light Design: João Chicó
Support: ACCCA – Companhia Clara Andermatt, Adriana Queiroz, CAL – Primeiros Sintomas
Acknowledgements: Sandra Faleiro
2 May | Sílvia Real + NU MEIO– BUY TICKET
CONCERT NO. 2 FOR NU MEIO
“I’ve never performed naked on stage but I’ve always been in the middle of dances, films, books, music and lots of songs.
In this Concert No. 2 I celebrate 29 years of Nu Meio by performing old songs and new versions, with the special participation of guitarist Ana Sofia Sequeira.
CONGRATULATIONS Nu Meio!” Sílvia Real
Vocals, keyboard: Sílvia Real
Acoustic guitar, electric guitar, voice: Ana Sofia Sequeira
Sound: Kelzzo
Graphic design: Carlos Bártolo
3 May | Sónia Baptista + NU MEIO– BUY TICKET
I CALL HER WILL
A personal wander through some of William Shakespeare’s works. The criterion for this choice? A criterion of skin, of intuition. Or is it just a circumstantial choice? Based on a childhood book? A pairing of ideas of light, darkness, movement, nature. About the nature of the works and the characters, about the rightness of the echo of the words that, even today, make us shiver. From the notes and reflections of other women on the bard’s work, a critical will is drawn.
Creation, writing and interpretation: Sónia Baptista
Video: Raquel Melgue
Light design: Daniel Worm
4 May | M&M’S – Miguel Pereira & Margarida Mestre + NU MEIO – BUY TICKET
M&M’s – NOW AND EVER
A duo celebrating their silver jubilee in 2025, born in the 90s in an alternative underground, taking the Cacilheiro to rehearse at “ponto de encontro”, they had their debut at the Costa Cabral warehouses, at Manifesta, and since then they’ve had a spectacular career, always on the knees, ripping off other people’s songs and writing lyrics that blow the conventions of the woke movement out of the water. Now they’re older and, malgré tout, they’re phenomenal. Miguel and Margarida the M&M’s, always on fire!
Chá Dançante with Dj’s (after the show, free entry subject to capacity. Tickets available on the day at the theatre box office from one hour before the event [up to 2 per person])
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