André Braga & Cláudia Figueiredo
28 March 2024 | 10ª edição do Junta Festival, Teresina, Brazil
01 April 2024 | Bienal do Ceará 2024, Fortaleza, Brazil
18 May 2024 | Maputo, Mozambique
30 November 2024, 19h00 | Festival Dantzaldia, La Fundición, Bilbao, Spain
A pile of rocks, a microphone and a smoke machine. The sound. The breath. A confession.
What can a body do?
We are looking for new grammars of sensitivity, of the wild intelligence of bodies, of the earth’s ground body that reflects ancestral and unknown memories.
“The body has geometry and shapes that no one hears”.
The sound captured and manipulated live was the chosen track to focus the research. Feedback as an invisible element that promotes a shuffle between the inside and the outside, a variable set of places that you can visit.
“Feedback” searches for the meeting point the confessional memories and topics from a searching board with keywords that we’ve been mapping. The air, the listening, the expansion of microperceptions, or the dilatation of time, the reversion of the skin, the evocation of a primitive time.
The rawness, the stripping down to the essentials: the body, the origin of the sound, the technique, the matter.
Artistic Info
Artistic direction: André Braga and Cláudia Figueiredo
Interpretation: André Braga
Live sound: João Sarnadas
Light: Cárin Geada
Production direction: Ana Carvalhosa
Production: Cláudia Santos
Technical coordination: Pedro Coutinho
Photos: Miguel Fernandes, Daniel Pina, Cláudia Santos and Pedro Sardinha
Special thanks: Vera Mantero, Alejandro Ahmed, Inês Castanheira, Daniela Cruz Texto: composição livre a partir de excertos de Herberto Helder, Rui Nunes, Marguerite Yourcenar, Davi Kopenawa, Walter Benjamin, Francis Ponte e Antonin Artaud
Co-production: CRL – Central Elétrica, Teatro Municipal do Porto / DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro das Figuras, Teatro Académico Gil Vicente
Residencies: Mindelact (Cabo Verde), 23 Milhas – Fábrica das Ideias
Other supports: Apoio à Internacionalização das Artes / DGArtes, Município do Porto and IEFP / Cace Cultural do Porto