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© Joana Rodrigues / “Timber”, by Roberto Olivan, interpreted by Joana Couto, João Cardoso/Ilan Gratini, Lara Serpi, Liliana Garcia, Liliana Oliveira and Ricardo Machado
Even having the good fortune to be based in the wonderful city of Porto, Instável tries to take the projects it creates and/or supports to tour beyond it, both nationally and internationally.
On stage, a character for two interpreters who invoke memories, fears and insecurities, in a deaf dialogue with each other. The inside and the outside, the fall and the jump, the private and the public, all wrapped up in lullabies. On stage, two bodies that never tire of trying. Two bodies that know that sometimes you have to relearn how to live, and even relearn how to breathe.
The game is played with your eyes closed to switch off the violence of unattainable ideals of beauty, representations and preconceived ways associated with femininity. Connecting with the authorship of their own body, the performers.
"Simulacro" is an exercise in intimacy, repetition and resistance. Two bodies in continuous action explore the limits of their proximity through the degenerative nature of the gesture.
TIMBER is a journey into the depths of our existence, a visit to every corner that we failed to visit due to fear, ignorance or abandonment of ourselves. A personal disconnection from what unites us to our unique and authentic nature.
This is the first piece in a trilogy around the questioning of the concepts of strangeness examined by Mark Fisher in The Weird and the Eerie. These are two terms that are difficult to translate into Portuguese: weird (strange) and eerie (unsettling).
Choreographing the invisible, destroy the cycles: now you see me, now you don't, you disappear inside me, I disappear inside you - you who are seeing me. We find in-between spaces: un-looking, un-formatting, projecting desires, nightmares, dust.
One or two bodies, six at most. It's a long yesterday is an exercise in desire, fracture and multiplication.
“The search for a line that finds us, an absence that once seemed tender to us and that today remains with us like the distorted trail of memory.”
Partindo da ideia de transgressão, “Trespass” procura encontrar o chão comum e ao mesmo tempo a polaridade humana entre o “bem” e o “mal”, explorando formas de humanizar o demoníaco e visceralizar o Humano. Procura o conflito e a paz, a sedução e o grotesco, a perfeição e o erro.
BOWND focuses its research on movement from the universe of Boundaries (individual boundaries). Own, Bond (connection), Bound (limit and leap) are key words on a path towards the construction of the limits of the human being and towards a clearer awareness and expression of who we are and who we are not, discovered only in relationship with the other.