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CONTRABAND [ARTISTIC RESIDENCE #1]

 


96 THEATRE PRODUCTION BY Teatro da Garagem
COPRODUCTION Teatro Municipal de Bragança
WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE PROJECT O Teatro e as Serras FROM THE Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY #1 | 5 TO 9 sePtembER 2018 
Trás-os-Montes [Bragança, Vinhais AND Montalegre]
 

con·tra·band
[1] s. m. clandestine introduction of products diverted to the rights; products that form the contraband; suspicious and poor people; prohibited trade. (From it. . contrabbando, «id.»).
[2] s.m. group of individuals of opinion contrary to that of another group. (Decontra+bando).
“contrabando”, in Dictionary of the Portuguese Language [6th Edition], Porto Editora

The theatre production Contraband is part of the programme O Teatro e as Serras, within the framework of the Portugal Participatory Budget 2017, promoted by the Government of Portugal, through the North Region Delegation of Culture. O Teatro e as Serras aims at contributing to the development of a set of hubs of theatre activity, organized according to the mountainous landscape of Trás-os-Montes, as an inclusive geographic element. In this context, Teatro Municipal de Bragança, responsible for implementing the programme in the mountainous areas of Montesinho and Coroa, has invited Teatro da Garagem to develop a research and artistic project in the Municipalities of Bragança, Vinhais and Montalegre.

Teatro da Garagem and Teatro Municipal de Bragança which this year celebrate their 30 and 15 years of activity, respectively, have been developing a continuous work of partnership, having the cultural and human landscape of Trás-os-Montes as background. If, on the one hand, a territory corresponds to a physical determination of a delimited geographical area, on the other hand, that determination is also defined by the relationships established between different individuals or groups, in a dynamic, affective and cultural perspective. Teatro da Garagem will be elaborating on this living heritage to create this artistic project on the topic of contraband at the border. Through revisiting the topic of contraband, the Company aims at giving visibility to this practice, not in a museological sense, but rather in an attempt of bringing to life a cultural legacy, transmitted from generation to generation, which embodies, in a poetic and artistic construction, the history of a place. A physical and affective place, relating to both individual and collective memory.

CREW AND CAST LIST
Written and Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa Assistant Director Ana Palma Acting Ana Palma, André Simões, Lara Matos, Tiago Bôto, Tiago Filipe and Rita Monteiro Original Music Daniel Cervantes Set and Costume Design Sérgio Loureiro Light Design Nuno Samora Light Technician Manuel Abrantes Production Director Maria João Vicente Production and Communication Carolina Mano Assistant Producer Joana Rodrigues Photo and Video Eduardo Pessoa, Joana Rodrigues and Marília Maia e Moura
With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior Financed by Governo de Portugal l Ministério de Cultura e Direção-Geral das Artes
Coproducer Teatro Municipal de Bragança
Within the scope of the programme “O Teatro e as Serras” from the Direção Regional de Cultura do Norte 

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DAYLIGHT PROJECT 2018

95TH Theatre Production by Teatro da Garagem
Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa
ARTISTIC RESIDENCY | 26 JUN to 27 JUL 2018 | TEATRO TABORDA
PUBLIC PRESENTATION | 28 JUL 2018 | 21h30 | TEATRO TABORDA

 

For the fourth consecutive year, Teatro da Garagem presents Daylight Project, an international project of practical research in theatre creative processes aimed for higher education theatre students and theatre professionals from around the world. In 2018, the participants are coming from universities in Spain, Finland, Portugal, Norway, Romania and Turkey, developing a research and artistic work articulated between rehearsals and fieldwork, with the artistic direction of Carlos J. Pessoa.
Flux, the show that will be created in this year’s Daylight Project, has as its starting point the theme of opposites that complement each other. Sixteen sub-themes serve as a motto for the sessions, which are taught by artists relating to, or being part of, Teatro da Garagem. Each of the subtopics provides a possibility of scenic construction, a starting point, which explores performative perspectives that plunge into the avant-garde(s) broad movements, from Malevitch to Abramovic, going through Lygia Clark, and from communication techniques, to fake-news, including Watergate and Guy Debord.

CAST AND CREW LIST

Concept, Project Coordination and Directing Carlos J. Pessoa Teatro da Garagem Ana Palma, Carlos J. Pessoa, Carolina Mano, Daniel Cervantes, Eduardo Pessoa, Maria João Vicente, Marília Maia e Moura, Nuno Samora and Sérgio Loureiro Guest Artists/Trainers Cláudia Madeira, Inês Vicente, João Damião Almeida, José Espada, Samuel Guimarães and Tiago Bôto Participants André Simões, Batuhan Baygin, Biatrice Cozmolici, Carmen Palau, Daniela Pascual, Emma Castrén, Øyvind Hovden, Özge Kırdı, Rita Monteiro, Robin Houbraken Support to production Germana Duarte and Marta Ascenso With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior, CML – Pólo Cultural das Gaivotas | Boavista Funded by Governo de Portugal | Ministério da Cultura e Direção-Geral das Artes

To see the video below, ask us first the password sending an email to geral@teatrodagaragem.com

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Choir CoLeGaS + Choir Staccato

Choir CoLeGaS + Choir Staccato
Visiting Artists – Cycle All on stage in June!
22 JUN 2018 | 9:30 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA

 

 

ALL ON STAGE IN JUNE! is a cycle promoted by Teatro da Garagem, in which the Company invites to come up on stage the people with whom a work of proximity and continuity is established throughout the year at Teatro Taborda. It is in this context that the Junior, Teen and Senior Theatre Clubs of Teatro da Garagem publicly present the developed work. The Theatre Clubs aim at promoting the passion for theatre the artistic practices, revealing the theatrical universe and the fantastic possibilities that it upholds

This year the Cycle also includes the presentation of the CoLeGaS concert – Lesbian, Gay and Sympathisers Choir of ILGA Portugal, within the scope of the Pride’s 22nd edition.

The CoLeGaS – Lesbian, Gay and Sympathisers Choir of ILGA Portugal, founded in October 2008, aims at contributing through music to a more inclusive, egalitarian… and fun society!

Following the success of the participation in Munich at the Various Voices 2018 LGBTI Choir Festival in May 2018, CoLeGaS performs again this year at the Teatro Taborda’s stage for another memorable night. Having been founded by maestro Alberto Pacheco in 2008, it was later directed, from 2014, by João Henriques, and it is now led by the master Rosie Brown, since November 2017.

This year we invited the Staccato Choir, directed by maestro João Sebastião, to share the stage with us on this great evening. Come celebrate diversity with CoLeGaS and Staccato, we promise to cheer you up with a rainbow of musical styles.

The Staccato Choir resulted from a challenge made by the singing students of Professor João Sebastião. It began with only 8 elements, who performed its first concert, in Palhais, at the invitation of the Choir “O Tempo Canta”. Still in its first season, the Choir has collaborated with a Philharmonic Band (Bands dos Bombeiros de Loures), amplifying its repertoire with songs with instrumental accompaniment. After the inclusion of the pianist Viktoriya Gakman, the Staccato Choir has intercalated its performances between “a cappella” songs and songs with piano accompaniment. With almost 3 seasons of existence, the Choir has performed in 25 concerts, participating at the Encounters of Choirs in Lisbon, Estremoz, Vila Viçosa, Vila Franca de Xira and Peniche. It has performed in nationally renowned venues such as Teatro de São Luiz (main hall), Cine-Teatro Joaquim de Almeida, Centro Cultural de Cascais, among others. In addition to the concert format, it has been invited to various types of events, such as Weddings, Inauguration of Exhibitions and Animation in Museums. The Staccato Choir is dedicated to the repertoire of Music of Cinema (Sound Tracks), Broadway Musicals and Ethnic Music.

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CECI N’EST PAS UNE GALERIE

CECI N’EST PAS UNE GALERIE
Public Presentation of the Senior Theatre Club

 

What you see is not a painting, it’s nothing. This is not a sculpture, it is not an artistic installation. Those works are not valuable, those employees do not work as much as they seem to work. This is not a gallery and those figures are not artists. This is not even a show – here there are no actors. Doubt everything you see, hear and feel. Doubt time and space. After all, the only thing this is… is Theatre.

Miguel Ponte

 

CAST AND CREW LIST

Written and directed by Miguel Ponte Senior Theatre Club Participants Akiyo Matsumoto, Ana Maria Pereira, Daniel Toscano, Elsa Venturini, Graça  Oliveira, Iria Gayo, Isabel Aires, Isabel Coimbra, José Pedro Magalhães, Júlia Catita, Júlio Reis, Luísa Guerreiro, Lurdes Vargas, Marina Preguiça, Rui Fernandes, Rui Tavares de Almeida, Vanessa Velosa Coordination, Production and Set up Teatro da Garagem

6+ FREE ENTRY

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RUINS, MEMORIES AND A FEW GHOSTS

RUINS, MEMORIES AND A FEW GHOSTS
Public Presentation of the Teen Theatre Club
9 & 10 JUN 2018 | 9:30p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA

 

 

Apocalyptic conference of carnival features. A rehearsal room, a sculpture studio, a cinematographic landscape collapsing, photographs in motion of possible revolutions, collapsing conflicts. Europe, the daughter of a great monster, remains the same, awaiting its true resumption. The ghosts arise as Pina Bausch continues to dance in her Café Muller, perhaps Shakespeare appears, while Hamlet continues to search for himself, the true self. The theatre as a space of rupture of the convention, of discovering a new vision, like Rimbaud who at 16 created a monument of revolutionary possibilities. A show of choreographic words, actions of sculpture, bodies that do not pretend to be actors or actresses but simply artists. The artist as an existentialist condition of relationship with the world that surpasses hope and builds a true space of action, the incomprehensible movement that separates the human being from the mediocre cyclical condition of history and recovers the unpronounceable state, the original place of the Self.
feel. Doubt time and space. After all, the only thing this is … is Theatre.

Tiago Vieira

CAST AND CREW LIST

Written and directed by Tiago Vieira Excerpts from “Desertos”, by Carlos J. Pessoa Teen Theatre Club Participants André Salvaterra, Beatriz Pereira, David Peres, Joana Vicente, João Almeida, Leonor Wiborg de Carvalho, Maria Aguiar, Mariana Ferreira, Nuno Souto, Rafaela Malheiro, Sara Pereira, Zenan Chen Coordination, Production and Set up Teatro da Garagem

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ALL ON STAGE IN JUNE! is a cycle promoted by Teatro da Garagem, in which the Company invites to come up on stage the people with whom a work of proximity and continuity is established throughout the year at Teatro Taborda. It is in this context that the Junior, Teen and Senior Theatre Clubs of Teatro da Garagem publicly present the developed work. The Theatre Clubs aim at promoting the passion for theatre the artistic practices, revealing the theatrical universe and the fantastic possibilities that it upholds. It is intended that children, teenagers and adults experience the various mechanisms that make up the theatrical show.

Teatro da Garagem’s Theatre Clubs are one of the visible and active features of the Company’s Educational Service, which, in parallel with a set of Theatre workshops aimed at the younger and older audiences, seek at bringing the theatre closer to the community. This movement of mutual knowledge constitutes for Teatro da Garagem a decisive factor in the access to culture, that we believe is of all and for all.

This year the Cycle also includes the presentation of the CoLeGaS concert – Lesbian, Gay and Sympathisers Choir of ILGA Portugal, within the scope of the Pride’s 22nd edition.

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MANIFESTO

MANIFESTO
Public Presentation of the Junior Theatre Club
3 JUN 2018 | 4:30p.m. | TEATRO TABORD

 

 

PIN, PAN, PUM… DIE PIN, DIE THOSE WHO DO NOT GIVE US VOICE AND WHO SUFFOCATE OUR ACTION.
Let’s do the exercise of manifesting through words and actions. For the existence to be concrete a political voice is necessary, but a creative one; the futurists already knew about that when they made their manifestos and we know it, now!
The idea was to start from categories that form our existence. After the challenge was proposed, from six categories, we chose only three – places, basic needs and school. “It’s time to have a voice, but not any voice.” A sincere voice, which comes from what I believe, think, breathe and sweat.
We are here to tell you what we think, and we will only stop when the lights go out…
(The text is based on conversations with students about topics proposed by them, trying to answer the question: “What are the categories that are part of your life?”)

CAST AND CREW LIST

Written and directed by Teresa Vaz from conversations with the participants; Ideas for the text Bárbara Calado, Beatriz de Prego Ramos, Eva Venturini Marciano, Francisco Silva, Gabriela Rodrigues, Inês Madeira, Júlia Coelho, Laura Henriques, Manuel Pessoa, Matilde Fernandes, Matilde Serrão, Melchior Morovati Aires, Miguel de Almeida, Miguel Fabião e Vasco de Prego Ramos; Junior Theatre Club Participants Bárbara Calado, Eva Venturini Marciano, Francisco Silva, Gabriela Rodrigues, Inês Madeira, Júlia Coelho, Laura Henriques, Manuel Pessoa, Matilde Fernandes, Matilde Serrão, Melchior Morovati Aires, Miguel de Almeida e Miguel Fabião; Coordination, Production and Set up Teatro da Garagem

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ALL ON STAGE IN JUNE! is a cycle promoted by Teatro da Garagem, in which the Company invites to come up on stage the people with whom a work of proximity and continuity is established throughout the year at Teatro Taborda. It is in this context that the Junior, Teen and Senior Theatre Clubs of Teatro da Garagem publicly present the developed work. The Theatre Clubs aim at promoting the passion for theatre the artistic practices, revealing the theatrical universe and the fantastic possibilities that it upholds. It is intended that children, teenagers and adults experience the various mechanisms that make up the theatrical show.

Teatro da Garagem’s Theatre Clubs are one of the visible and active features of the Company’s Educational Service, which, in parallel with a set of Theatre workshops aimed at the younger and older audiences, seek at bringing the theatre closer to the community. This movement of mutual knowledge constitutes for Teatro da Garagem a decisive factor in the access to culture, that we believe is of all and for all.

This year the Cycle also includes the presentation of the CoLeGaS concert – Lesbian, Gay and Sympathisers Choir of ILGA Portugal, within the scope of the Pride’s 22nd edition.

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The memory of who I am not

THE MEMORY OF WHO I AM NOT
Exhibition by Agnes Vera
Curatorship by Thomas Mendonça
1 JUN to 1 JUL 2018 | tuesday to sunday, 3:00 – 12:00 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA
[Vernissage 1 June, at 6:30 p.m.]

 

It begins with a correspondence between senders and receivers who were, at the outset, perfect strangers. The first  contact is always established by the initiative of Agnes Vera, who randomly writes to someone in the world a letter   requesting the correspondent to describe a childhood memory. These memories are varied, conveyed in both English and their native languages. Sometimes they are accompanied by photographs of the writer’s childhood. Some childhood memories are not childhood memories, they are just letters. They contextualize the correspondent, giving him a name, a gender, a nationality, an age and a calligraphy. They tell us details about where they live, they tell us about rain and   weather. Some are detailed, others not so much, they are all very curious, and one is particularly hilarious.

The postcards are all different, we feel that some have been handpicked, others refer to a sloppy chance, very few are illustrated by the correspondent. The stamps are the true national and sanitary mark of these letters. Superimposed on paper and writing – both graphic and content wise – the stamp acts as a mask that suddenly adds a point to the identity of these letters. As if the postcard was the body and the writing was our history as a subject, the seal reminds us that there are borders. That people are always born here or there, but they are never born alone. It also reminds us that childhood existed within each body, but never existed twice in the same way. It reminds us that part of our personal identity is collectively stratified. It reminds us, finally, that we are culture inside of an envelope.

Agnes Vera (n.1993, Portugal), a visual artist graduated at FBAUL, lives in Lisbon. Her work is manifested in sculpture, video and drawing. In 2015 she attended the Superior School of Arts of the Pyrenees in France, where she began her project to collect childhood memories from all over the world and her interest in      working on the physical and conceptual image of the child.

Thomas Mendonça (n. 1991, France), a visual artist graduated at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, Thomas works and lives in Lisbon where he has been developing some curatorial projects, but mainly where he exhibits regularly. Highlights include the exhibitions at the Teatro Taborda, FOCO gallery, Geological Museum, National Museum of Natural History and Science and National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado. His focuses of interest are  distributed among sentimental melodramas, the post-pop culture and the beauty of the iconic singularity in general. His production manifests itself through various technologies, although with greater emphasis on ceramics and  drawing.

FREE ENTRY | tuesday to sunday (3:00 – 11:00 p.m.)

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THE ANIMAL DANCING PARTY

THE ANIMAL DANCING PARTY

Children’s Day Workshop
29 MAY to 1 JUN 2018 | TEATRO TABORDA
10:30 a.m. | 2:30 p.m.

 

 

The Animal Dancing Party

On the Children’s day, we want friendship to play the leading role. And for this we have prepared a celebration for our children, a special and joyful celebration that reminds us of the importance of fraternity. We called it the Animal Dancing Party.

In the Animal Dancing Party, the dog dances with the cat, the rat plays with the cat, the duck and the tiger sing a song and even the elephant and the ant go skating together! At the animal feast we celebrate friendship, making theatre… and we even have songs to sing and dance together. We count on you, my friend!

Workshop directed and coordinated by Ana Palma
Instructors Ana Palma, Carolina Dinis, Clara Reis and Marta Lontrão
DURATION 90 minutes | for children from 3 to 6 years old

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MAY READINGS

MAY READINGS
Public Readings | EURODRAM 2017 Honours
23, 24 & 25 MAY 2018 | 7:00 p.m. | Teatro Taborda

 

The translations of the theatre texts selected in 2017 by the Portuguese Committee of Eurodram [European network for drama in translation] will now be presented to the audience, in public readings aimed at promoting the works and the debate around the themes of theatre translation.

May 23

Reading of “The Standard of the Breed”, by John Steppling, translated into Portuguese by Nuno Santos

May 24

Reading of Mark Ravenhill’s “Totally over you”, translated by Jorge Louraço Figueira

May 25

Reading of “I Want a Country”, by Andreas Flourakis, translated from Greek by José António Costa Ideas

With Ana Palma, Afonso Boffa Molinar, Afonso Viriato, Carla Bolito, Catarina Moita, Inês Lago, Júlia Valente, Lara Matos, Martyn Gama, Miguel Damião, Pedro Moldão, Roxana Ionescu, Rui Neto, Tânia Alves, Tiago Cunha Bôto and Wagner Borges

Coordination of the Portuguese Committee EURODRAM

Maria João Vicente

Free Entry

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ANTI-PREFACES

ANTI-PREFACES

BOOK RELEASE
Alberto Velho Nogueira

17 MAY 2018 | 7:00p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA

 

Release of the most recent book of essays by Alberto Velho Nogueira, composed of several articles on critique of literature and the arts in general.

ALBERTO VELHO NOGUEIRA

Writer. Editor. The books by Alberto Velho Nogueira are not available in bookstores, except for exceptions. The “Homem à Janela” publishes the works of Alberto Velho Nogueira, without going through the usual choices that publishers make, according to guidelines, economic or not, which are only justified by the fact that editors depend and belong more and more to the markets based on the commercial exploitation of the fictional. The works by Alberto Velho Nogueira do not belong to the usual categories of literature nor to the valuation systems that the markets of economic-commercial tendency, the critique in general and institutional critique seek. The critique is exercised in a demonstration of itself and its limits, except for a few cases. The markets that work for success are founders of mental conditioning. Institutional markets operate in a closed circle and for the defence of conventional values. Writings that represent an autonomous tendency of fiction literature are rare today.

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OLO A SOLO ABOUT A SOLO

OLO A SOLO ABOUT A SOLO
Teatro de Ferro
8 & 9 MAY 2018 | 9:30p.m. | Teatro Taborda
[Visiting Artist – FIMFA Lx’18 – International Festival of Puppetry and Animated Forms]

 

[Acolhimento – FIMFA Lx’18 – Festival Internacional de Marionetas e Formas Animadas]

In the beginning it was me and a puppet in an empty space. I was discovering what this puppet was able to do. With the insistence and the repetition, I realized that it was the puppet itself that was being discovered. I realized then that this was a solo on a solo.

This puppet play is animated by a question: is it possible to represent what happens when we lock ourselves in a rehearsal room or in an atelier aiming to create something new? What is discovered and what is invented in this chimera? What was already there? Are we really alone when we are performing a solo? What use is what we lived, read, dreamed, wished or fear… What use is what has already been done by others, in other times and elsewhere?

In this solo performance, we discover resonances from universes as diverse as Jorge Luís Borges, Andrei Tarkovsky, Ágota Krystóf or Heiner Muller.

OLO – um solo sobre um solo premiered at FIMFA Lx14.

BIO

Teatro de Ferro was founded in 1999. Originally created as a label identifying the creative works of Igor Gandra and Carla Veloso, the project gradually evolved towards the state of a professional creation structure.

The choice of the name – Teatro de Ferro (Iron Theatre) – presupposes a notion of primordial, resistant and at the same time changeable matter: this transformation process continues to inspire them.The work of the Company has been developed in the theatre of, and with, puppets and objects. They conceive their practice in the logic of a research in which the puppet has assumed a matrix value in its possible hybridations, both tempted and tempting.The relationships – of the body interpreter with the manipulated object and the implication of each spectator in the building of this relation – are lines of thought that are transversal to the artistic practice of Teatro de Ferro.

The promotion of Portuguese contemporary dramaturgy is a defining trait of their artistic project, the reason why the company has mainly worked with original texts by Portuguese writers.

TdF has been reaching heterogenic publics. Improbable partnerships, the search for alternative contexts outside of the usual circuits of the performing arts, the intense itinerating activity, the creation aimed to the youngsters, and the projects of cultural action, are TdF clearest gestures, and in this way they declare this plural wish of sharing.

CAST AND CREW LIST

Direction, scenography and performer: Igor Gandra Music: Carlos Guedes Lighting design: Rui Maia Direction assistant: Carla Veloso Video: Igor Gandra (concept), Riot Films (image and edition), Carla Veloso, Eduardo Mendes, Fátima Fonte, Hernâni Miranda (puppeteers) Mariana Figueroa (light fitting) Direction of assembly: Eduardo Mendes Set up and lighting operation: Mariana Figueroa Sound Operation: Carla Veloso Sets: Eduardo Mendes, Hernâni Miranda Seamstress: Ana FerreiraPhotography: Susana Neves Company supported by: República Portuguesa – Ministério da Cultura / DGArtes

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ATMAVICTU a breath of life | Try Better, Fail Better’18

by Bestiário
27, 28 e 29 ABR 2018 | 21h30 | TEATRO TABORDA

27, 28 & 29 APR 2018 | 9:30 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA
[THEATRE – Try Better, Fail Better’18]

 

Someone sings lullaby from his childhood, in moments that preceded sleep. A passage from life to dream – this is what happens in ATMAVICTU. We stand before a limbo, where one wanders about love; about the possibility of a revolution; about the planet Mars and the creation of the universe; and about the origin of the word orchid.

It is about experiencing staying, about not being afraid to stay, and thus clinging to the breath of existence.

The breath is gone.

What’s next?

 

CAST AND CREW LIST

Bestiário presents ATMAVICTU, Text and Artistic Direction Teresa Vaz Assistance to Artistic Direction Afonso Viriato Acting and Creative Process Afonso Viriato, Helena Caldeira, Miguel Ponte and Teresa Vaz Set and Costume Design Bruna Mendes Music FOQUE Coproduction Teatro da Garagem Support to Production Jackson Dheryg
Photography Daniela Jácome Rodrigues Video recording Inês Marques Thank you to Carolina Mano, Cláudia Pereira, Francisco Leone, João Belo, Marc Escrig, Maria João Vicente.

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ANTLIA “THE PORTUGUESE ASTRONAUT” | Try Better, Fail Better’18

ANTLIA “THE PORTUGUESE ASTRONAUT” | TRY BETTER, FAIL BETTER’18
By Filipe Moreira
20, 21 & 22 APR 2018 | 9:30p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA

[THEATRE / DANCE / PUPPETRY – Try Better, Fail Better’18]

“ANTLIA” (a constellation located in a very deserted part of the astral sky) is the story of the “Portuguese astronaut” and his journey throught the Space, searching new landscapes and new forms of intelligent life. “ANTLIA” proposes a new beginning and the attempt to create a new world, with new possibilities and new thoughts, through a narrative told from the word, movement and the manipulation of objects, lights and sound.

 

CAST AND CREW LIST

CONCEPT AND PERFORMANCE Filipe Moreira TEXT Filipe Moreira PUPPET Samantha Jesus LIGHSTS AND ORIGINAL SOUND Filipe Moreira SCENOGRAPHY Filipe Moreira and Samantha Jesus CO-PRODUCTION Teatro Historioscopio

ARTISTIC ADVICE | Carla Veloso & Igor Gandra, Mariana Figueroa and Sophie Pinto SUPPORTS Teatro de Ferro, Teatro da Garagem, OPART – Companhia Nacional de Bailado/ Estúdios Victor Córdan/ Teatro Nacional São Carlos e Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Nuno Santos, João Ventura, Daniel Pinheiro, Fátima São Simão, Isabel Costa, Mariana Amorim, Lola Sousa, Nuno Encarnação e Cláudia Chambino DOCUMENTATION Ana Sousa PHOTOGRAPHY José Costa CNB

AGE M/6 | TIME 40 MIN.

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ET – Workshop of Theatrical Expression

ET – Workshop of Theatrical Expression

Puppet Construction and Manipulation Workshop
With Historioscopio Puppet Theatre
Instructors Samantha Simões & Filipe Moreira/em>

17 & 18 APR 2018 | 10:30 a.m. & 14h30 p.m. | Teatro Taborda

 

WORKSHOP

The ET is a creative workshop aimed at young children that promotes learning through the construction and manipulation of puppets. Respecting the freedom and the imagination of each participant, this workshop invites to a journey across space, through animated forms and theatre. It is from this playful and creative universe that we propose to each participant the possibility of creating a new world and new thoughts.

THE COMPANY

The Historioscopio Puppet Theatre begins in 2013 as a traveling company primarily aimed at children and families. Historioscopio serves a diverse repertoire of shows, giving special attention to the universe of puppets and animated forms, as a vehicle for playful and theatrical communication. Its shows and workshops are intended to stimulate imagination and freedom of thought on fictional, historical or current issues.

For children from 6 aos 12 Anos
25 participants / session
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L.I.B.E.R.D.A.D.E. A cine-theatre in nine letters

L.I.B.E.R.D.A.D.E.
A cine-theatre in nine letters

994th Theatre Production by Teatro da Garagem
Texts by Miguel Torga
Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa

30 JAN – 3 FEB 2018 | Art Residence in São Martinho de Anta, Vila Real and Bragança
16 – 19 MAR 2018 | Artistic Residence in Bragança and Vila Real
13 & 14 APR 2018 | 2:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. | Municipal Theatre of Bragança (PREMIERE)
[vinte e sete – Festival de Teatro]
20 & 21 APR 2018 | 2:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. | Municipal Theatre of Vila Real
[vinte e sete – Festival de Teatro]
24 APR 2018 | 9:30 p.m. | Gil Vicente Academic Theatre
[20th Cultural Week of the University of Coimbra]

 

The word Liberdade [Freedom] is the motto of this show about Miguel Torga. The spelling of Freedom is the nexus of the dramaturgical proposal; each letter corresponds to the beginning of another word that we consider necessary, constitutive, of the semantic content of Freedom.

The texts by Miguel Torga used in this show are mostly spoken by children of Vila Real and Bragança; we wanted the poet’s words to find their proper place in the innocent voices; without virtues or unnecessary embellishments, pure voices to discover the letters, the words, the phrases and the senses, without preconceptions or pomp. We wanted the newest Trans Montanan generations, in their free purity, to discover the author without censoring the “errors” of reading. This magnificent spelling, stammering or even not understanding the meaning, but being stunned, astonished, is, we believe, the best tribute to the living words of Miguel Torga.
In the same way we did not want to celebrate the landscape of the Trans Montana region in a “postcard” evocation; we prefer a scenic discourse based on metaphorical or metonymic evocation in the elaboration of a look that reverberates and echoes, throwing a haze of invisibility capable of capturing the mysterious dimension of Torguian writing; no image is therefore literal, they are also photogrammatic sequences that punctuate the possibility of a visual lexicon, so that each spectator discovers his own “mountain”, his “river”, his “freedom”, his “Torga”.

Carlos J Pessoa

CAST AND CREW LIST
Texts Miguel Torga Directing, Dramaturgy and Visual Concept Carlos J. Pessoa Acting Afonso Viriato, Ana Palma, Lara Matos, Maria João Vicente, Tiago Bôto and Wagner Borges Participants from Sabrosa (School EB2,3 Miguel Torga) Bruno Pinto, Catarina Carvalho, Diogo Januário, Diogo Nóbrega, Francisca, Laura Alves, Mafalda Rodrigues
Participants from Vila Real (School nº7 de Vila Real) Afonso Matias, Beatriz Pereira, Bruna Costa, Carolina Nascimento, Diego Dinis, Diogo Catarino, Fernando Pereira, Guilherme Alvadia, Ivan Balsa, João Paulo Fonseca, Lara Cruz, Laura Simão, Maria Fernandes, Pedro Feliciano, Pedro Martins, Rodrigo Pinto, Sara Matias, Soraia Fernandes Participants from Bragança (School Miguel Torga) Adriana Alves, Beatriz Torrão, Carolina Esteves, Clara Dias, David Pérez, Inês Fonseca, João Kol, João Lobão, Manuel Madeira, Margarida Versos, Maria Inês Vaz, Maria Relvas, Mariana Brás, Mariana Pires, Marta Genésio, Marta Sabim, Matilde Alves, Pedro Ferreira, Rodrigo Versos, Tiago Barreira, Tiago Rodrigues Participants from Bragança (Senior University) Adélia Ferreira, Albertina Cristóvão, Alda Flaire, Carlos Genésio, Elza Pires, Ema Rodrigues, Ernesto Rodrigues, Fernando Costa, Filomena Nascimento, Francisco Barreira, Helena Ferreira, José Alberto Alves, Maria Fátima Corujas, Sérgio Nascimento Original Music and Sound Design Daniel Cervantes Set and Costume Design Sérgio Loureiro Light Design Nuno Samora Light  Manuel Abrantes Video Technician Marília Maia e Moura Production Director Maria João Vicente Production and Communication Carolina Mano Assistant Producer and Photography Marília Maia e Moura

This show is a commission from the Municipal Theatres of Bragança and Vila Real, within the scope of the Algures a Nordeste programme. Coproducer Gil Vicente Academic Theatre

Duration 70 minutes | 12+

 

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TORGA L.I.B.E.R.D.A.D.E. [Making of @Bragança]

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Party ending. | TRY BETTER, FAIL BETTER’18

PARTY ENDING. | TRY BETTER, FAIL BETTER’18
Drawing Exhibition by Cláudia Sofia and Thomas Mendonçaa
5 APR (6:30 p.m.) to 13 MAY 2018 | 3:00 – 11:00 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA
[VISUAL ARTS – Try Better, Fail Better’18]

[VISUAL ARTS – Try Better, Fail Better’18]

It is a set of pastel oil drawings and coloured pencils on paper. The end of the party, another one, and the beginning of another hangover. The tragic feeling when we realize that the party is over, both characterized by the bodies still sweaty and by the sudden melancholy that inhabits them. The feeling of discomfort, of regret, of guilt, whenever the lights of the disco are turned on. The urgency to flee and look for another darkness to inhabit for a few minutes, hours or nights. The ambiguous moment in which the day begins to overlap the night and in which we stop fleeing the light – Sleep all day – Physical exhaustion and emotional numbness that follow for weeks. The magic of fairy dust that makes us resurface glorious, inflamed and incandescent of our own ashes, weekend after weekend. We were shooting stars, we will be heroes in ruin.

Cláudia Sofia (n. 1993), from Castro Verde, Painting student at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. The practice of drawing was always revealed to her as a way of interacting with reality, so it is through daily life and personal memory that she finds the thematic centre of her production. With influences from   illustration and comics she invokes through her personal experience a fantasized and chaotic world.

Thomas Mendonça (n. 1991, France), a visual artist graduated at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, Thomas works and lives in Lisbon where he has been developing some curatorial projects, but mainly where he exhibits regularly. Highlights include the exhibitions at the Teatro Taborda, FOCO gallery, Geological Museum, National Museum of Natural History and Science and National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado. His focuses of interest are distributed among sentimental melodramas, the post-pop culture and the beauty of the iconic singularity in general. His production manifests itself through various technologies, although with greater emphasis on ceramics and drawing.

FREE ENTRY | tuesday to sunday (15h00 – 23h00)

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BLACK STARS

BLACK STARS
93th Theatre Production by Teatro da Garagem
Written and directed by Carlos J. Pessoa
28 FEB & 1 MAR 2018 | 9:00p.m. | SPAZIO TEATRO NO’HMA (MILAN)
PREMIO INTERNAZIONALE Il “Teatro Nudo” di Teresa Pomodoro | 2018

 

HONOURABLE MENTION – JURY AWARD
Internacional Jury: Peter Stein, Eugenio Barba, Lluís Pasqual, Tadashi Suzuki, Lev Dodin, Stathis Livatinos, Ludovic Lagarde, Ruth Heynen, Enzo Moscato, Oskaras Korsunovas and Livia Pomodoro.

Black Stars is a show about the possibility of finding a way where you least expect it, when all possibilities of hope for a better life seem exhausted. Black Stars therefore takes up a black luminosity which, instead of being negative, contains the possibility of a new, or at least renewed, matter.
This idea of ​​renewal is embodied not only on the text, but also on the scenic forms that are used. Black Stars is a show about the pleasure of the make-believe and the virtue of the theatrical here and now; of the informal meeting with the audience, in a close relationship, looking for lucid and fruitful commitment.
Black Stars are two actresses telling stories about people discovering a sudden unknown brightness, a dark, different and rare luminosity, reopening the doors of adventure.

CAST AND CREW LIST

Written and Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa Italian Translation Frederica Balzano Assistant Director Afonso Viriato Acting Ana Palma and Maria João Vicente Music and Sound Composition Daniel Cervantes Set and Costumes Design Sérgio Loureiro Light Design Nuno Samora Light Operation Manuel Abrantes Production Director Maria João Vicente Production and Communication Carolina Mano Assistant Producer and Photography Marília Maia e Moura With the support of EGEAC, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa and Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior Financed by DGARTES – Direção Geral das Artes | Ministério da Cultura | Governo de Portugal

Duration 70 minutes | 12+

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UNBOUNDED

UNBOUNDED
Concept and Choreographic Coordination Romulus Neagu

A production by Teatro Viriato with the support of Instituto Cultural Romeno and Teatro da Garagem

16 & 17 FEB 2018 | 3:00 and 9:30 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA [DANce]

Há uma relação de similitude entre o desenvolvimento humano e a criação artística. O processo de preparação do indivíduo como elemento social é igual ao processo de formação do indivíduo como performer. Os contextos são sem dúvida diferentes, mas os conceitos são muito semelhantes.
A questão da identidade revela-se como importante não apenas no plano social, mas também no contexto concreto das artes do espetáculo, na relação Eu-Pessoa – Eu- Artista no centro do discurso performativo.
Vida vs. Criação Artística, Indivíduo vs. Performer, Criação e Interpretação, Eu e a Personagem.

There is a relationship of similarity between human development and artistic creativity. The process of preparing the individual as a social element is equal to the process of training the individual as a performer. Contexts are certainly different, but the concepts are very similar.
The question of identity proves to be important not only in the social context, but also in the concrete context of the performing arts, in the I-Person-I-Artist relationship at the centre of performative discourse.
Life vs. Artistic Creativity, Individual vs. Performer, Creativity and Interpretation, Me and the Character.

Romulus Neagu

CAST AND CREW LIST

Concept and Coreographic Coordination Romulus Neagu Interprete rand co-creative João Santiago Light Design Cristóvão Cunha Music Peter Broderick & Machinefabriek, Nils Frahm and Orla Wren Photography Fernando Cargueja Production Teatro Viriato Support Instituto Cultural Romeno and Teatro da Garagem

UNBOUNDED is a commission by TEATRO VIRIATO.
Premiere 27 September 2017, TEATRO VIRIATO – Viseu.

Duration 45 min | 6+

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LIFE AS IT IS

LIFE AS IT IS

92th Theatre Production by Teatro da Garagem
Version presented at the Extension of FESTLIP – International Festival of Theatre in Portuguese in Portugal 2018
Tales by Nelson Rodrigues
Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa
11 to 21 JAN 2018 | 9:30 p.m. | TEATRO TABORDA

The show LIFE AS IT IS here taken up in a broad set of five stories and in a cast of three actresses, Ana Palma, Inês Lago and Teresa Vaz, deepens Nelson Rodrigues’ obsession with mischievous triangulations, entangled with morbid eroticism, which accentuates the character of exhibition of desire.
The women in Nelson Rodrigues add to their voluptuousness and revenge a supernatural aura, populated by menacing monstrosities, ghostly figures of the flesh, in an allusion to magical powers, to the demonic transition between life and death. The graces of Nelson Rodrigues are therefore not only funny, they are especially dangerous, figures of annihilation and contagion, figures of divination and secret conspiracy, forbidden purposes, voodoo agents and apocalyptic return from the dead; thus, voluntarily reactionary prejudice assumed by the author.
If this peculiar way of looking at women says much more about a kind of male impotence, a frightened look of a boy lurking beneath the ladies’ skirts, which will never have grown old, surprised and crushed by the revealed origins, a genuine joy is also symptomatic, a taste of dusty comedy, a will to play and simply that.

Carlos J. Pessoa

 

CAST AND CREW LIST

Tales by Nelson Rodrigues Directed by Carlos J. Pessoa Dramaturgy Ana Palma Acting Ana Palma, Inês Lago and Teresa Vaz Set & Costume Design Sérgio Loureiro Music Daniel Cervantes Light Design Nuno Samora Production Director Maria João Vicente Production and Communication Carolina Mano Assistant Producer Marília Maia e Moura Photography Marília Maia e Moura A partnership with FESTLIP – International Festival of Arts in Portuguese With the support of Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, EGEAC, Junta de Freguesia de Santa Maria Maior

Financed by Direção-Geral das Artes, Governo de Portugal | Ministério da Cultura

Duration 60 minutes | 16+

 

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Mesa redonda

LIFE AS IT IS | FESTLIP 2016 | Rio de Janeiro

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SPEAKING CLEARLY

SPEAKING CLEARLY
Saber Maior – Senior University of Santa Maria Maior
JAN TO JUL 2018 | Parish Council of Santa Maria Maior (Lisbon)

 

After the experience developed in the 1st edition of Saber Maior, Teatro da Garagem will continue to teach the discipline Speaking Clearly at the Senior University of Santa Maria Maior, in a partnership with the GES – Office of Social Entrepreneurship of the Parish Council of Santa Maria Maior. To communicate we use the voice, the body, the writing, the thought and the argumentation. The exchange of information allows us to socialise and to live better with each other. Thus, active listening, tolerance and discursive clarity (in a technical and organisational perspective of ideas) are fundamental to understand others and to make ourselves understood. Sessions run by Maria João Vicente.

 

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