Coletivo POP. Artist Residency
DIRECTION Tiago de Faria
ART DIRECTION Rocío Matosas
COMPOSITION OF ORIGINAL MUSIC Mónica Reis
Estreia - 29 de Nov de 2023 - Coliseu Micaelense
Coletivo POP
ACTING, MAKING COSTUMES AND PROPS FOR THE STAGE AND DRAMATURGICAL CREATION
Alexandra Baptista; Anabela Almeida; Francisco Albergaria; Joana Matos; João Malaquias; José Jorge; Katarina Rodrigues; Lua Perelló; Luísa Cavalleri; Maria Beatriz Raposo; Nuno Pedro; Paula Wallenstein.
INTERPRETATION AND DRAMATURGICAL CREATION
SET DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION OF COSTUMES AND STAGE PROPS AND DRAMATURGICAL CREATION
CONSTRUCTION OF COSTUMES AND STAGE PROPS AND DRAMATURGICAL CREATION
DRAMATURGICAL CREATION
DURATION 130 MIN.
M12+
ABOUT THE PLAY
"I hear you in the shadow of the empty square, but I can’t find you"; draws a picture of countless mosaics, each depicting a public square. It’s unclear if the final frame depicts a single square or several, glued together, overlapping.
The paths that meet in the place where this work started are all born in the island of São Miguel. Everyone that joined us and gathered for the meeting in the designated square at each moment have walked those same paths. The conversations that spread almost immediately in this meeting are about our relationships, our identity, our memory, and migrations in our lives. Sometimes they become material through paintings composed of sensitive actions exposed with the rawness of what, being private, is exposed in the public space. Other times, only allegories unfold in the paintings, not always of religious origin, but recurrently of a fantastic nature.
Inspired by the work "The Hour When We Knew Nothing About Each Other", by Peter Handke, this is a proposal of joint creation with the population of the Island of São Miguel in the Azores, directed by Tiago de Faria, scenery, lighting and costumes directed by Rocío Matosas. It is a show born of a research process from the memories of those who live on the island. The research will become the show, through the transformation of records into movement and finally into a square that alters to accommodate the testimonies of the island habitants. The musical construction was made with the guidance of Mónica Reis and the participation of other musicians residing on the island.
I hear you in the shadow of the empty square, but I can’t find you", is a community and participatory project with its dramaturgy, music and sound space, scenery, light and costumes developed throughout the POP Artistic Residency.
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