“MAN-MAN”, by Tiago Miguel
MAN-MAN transports the audience to the intimate and ordinary setting of MAN-MAN, the character who inhabits the stage and his body in the same way: by dressing, undressing and covering. It is in undressing that the fictional character finds a kind of liberation, subjecting himself to layers of identity which, once revealed, can be constantly undone. Between each strip, the body reinvents itself. Sometimes it really wants to squeeze the opportunity to live in its body. At other times, it wants to escape from it. A cycle that survives with the promise of a return to paradise, the moment of cleansing from identities, lusts and false egos.
Tiago Miguel (Portugal, 2004) is a performer, interpreter and creator with an interest in different languages that communicate visually, such as costumes, scenography, objects and exhibitions, based on the body and improvisation in everything he does. He completed an acting course at the Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo in Porto and attended FAÍCC – Formação Avançada em Interpretação e Criação Coreográfica, as well as FOCAR – Formação Orientada em Coreografia para Arquitetura da Instável, both at Instável – Centro Coreográfico.
Dance, M12 – 45 min
material – multipurpose – impossible – transformation – superfluous
Dec 5 and 6 / Sala Estúdio at Teatro Campo Alegre
Created and performed by: Tiago Miguel
Residency support: Instável – Centro Coreográfico
Co-production: Instável – Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto, as part of the Palcos Instáveis cycle