April at Teatro do Bairro Alto
Utopia
April 3 and 4, 6:30 pm, April 6 and 7, 5:30 pm
Session with LGP April 6
In Utopia, Diana Niepce honours bodies for what they are by way of her own history and knowledge. Through the fascination of reconstructing her own body, this choreographer will analyse and recreate contradictory representations of the object that is the body, in a performance based on the transgression and oppression of physical limits.
+18 years; 12€
Artistic direction and creation Diana Niepce
Interpretation Ana de Oliveira e Silva Diana Niepce Inês Cóias Tiago Barbosa Tiago Mateus
Light design Carlos Ramos
Sound design Gonçalo Alegria
Scenography Franko B
Costumes Silvana Ivaldi
Rigger Telma Pinto
Promotional photography Alípio Padilha
Portuguese Sign Laguage interpreter Bárbara Pollastri
Production assistant Nuno Pratas
Production Terra Amarela
Coproduction in residence Alkantara, Biblioteca de Marvila – CML, Espaço do Tempo
Coproduction DDD – Festival Dias da Dança 2024, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Terra Amarela
Project financed by República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-geral das Artes
Support Ribapor
Guião para um país possível (Script for a possible country)
April 12th and 13th, 7:30 pm, April 14th, 5:30 pm, April 15th (extra session), 7:30 pm
April 13th session with LGP and audio description
In the Portuguese parliament, between the MPs’ benches and the raised benches belonging to members of the government, there is a desk with nothing around it, exactly in the middle of the room, where two officials work, transcribing everything that is said there. Script for a possible country is a show by Sara Barros Leitão which was created from these records, in order to tell the story of the last fifty years of our democracy.
+12 years; 12€
Dramaturgy and staging Sara Barros Leitão
Interpretation João Melo and Margarida Carvalho
Light design Cárin Geada
Musical composition Pedro João
Sound design Mariana Guedelha
Costumes Cristina Cunha
Costume making Emília Pontes and Domingos Freitas Pereira
Scenography design António Quaresma and Susete Rebelo
Scenography execution António Quaresma
Screen manufacturing Beatriz Prada, Cristóvão Neto and Nuno Encarnação screens
Production direction Susana Ferreira
Production and Communication Mariana Dixe
Research coordination João Mineiro
Support for dramaturgy and coordination of Parlatório Carlos Malvarez
Scene photography Teresa Pacheco Miranda
Design Marta Ramos
Production Cassandra
Residence support CRL - Central Elétrica
Residences Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Teatro Viriato
Premiere residence Centro Dramático de Viana - Teatro do Noroeste
Coproducers 23 milhas, Casa das Artes de Famalicão, Centro Dramático de Viana / Teatro do Noroeste, Teatrão, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Teatro Municipal Baltazar Dias, Teatro Viriato
Project financed by República Portuguesa e Direção Geral das Artes
Support for Creation Abril é Agora
High Patronage of Assembleia da República
Semear (Sowing the seeds)
April 17, 6:30 pm
A series of talks that begins in the plural, featuring several voices, with Alice Azevedo, Cristina Roldão, Flávio Almada, Liliana Correia/Colectivo Gaio and Maria Gil. On the fiftieth anniversary of 25 April 1974, Semear aims to look to the past in order to dream of futures beyond the future promised by the revolutions.
Free entry, subject to space capacity and upon prior ticket collection on the same day from 3pm (maximum two tickets per person)
Sélébéyone
April 27, 7:30 pm
The international collective Sélébéyone, led by saxophonist Steve Lehman, brings us their latest album, "Xaybu: The Unseen," at TBA. Exploring spectral harmony and innovative rhythmic structures in a groundbreaking fusion of jazz, underground rap, and electronic music, which results in a profound musical expression that skilfully delves into spirituality and mysticism through the lens of experimental music.
+6 years; €14
Voice and text Hprizm, Gaston Bandimic
Saxophone and Laptop Steve Lehman, Maciek Lasserre
Drums Damion Reid