ATSUMORI
ΛƬSUMOЯI draws from the Japanese noh theater play Atsumori, written by Zeami Motokiyo in the 15th century, to create a stage dance piece anchored in movement, light, and sound, where spectres and memories, past and present, ancestral techniques and futuristic languages intersect. Catarina Miranda took this play to develop her own narrative around an apotropaic phantasmagoric dance, addressing relationships with evil, the unknown, the invisible. The quintet of dancers uses claps, whistles, sparks, whispers, and vocal calls while exploring the territory through an interstitial and rhythmic choreography, in a play of specters, shadows, and metamorphoses. There are echoes and traces of the gestures of ancestral and contemporary social dances, here twisted and reconfigured, as if bodies and time were unfoldable, dismemberable, transitional. With Letícia Sckrycky and Joana Mário, it is built a living scenic space, with luminous floor and ceiling, amplified by the original sound composition of Lechuga Zaphiro. The set design plays an active role in this play of spectres, revealing the bodies that dissolve, that transform, that seek to emerge and coexist. — Catarina Miranda
Co-presentation with Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (Coimbra)
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Credits
Artistic direction, choreography and costumes
Catarina Miranda
Choreographic co-creation
Cacá Otto Reuss, Joãozinho Costa, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Melanie Ferreira
Performed by
Cacá Otto Reuss, Hugo Marmelada, Lewis Seivwright, Maria Antunes, Melanie Ferreira
Lighting design
Joana Mário, Leticia Skrycky
Sound composition
Lechuga Zafiro
Set design
Catarina Miranda, Joana Mário, João Brojo, João Ferreira, Letícia Skrycky
Sound design
José Arantes
Dramaturgical research support
Carlos Azeredo Mesquita, Ece Canli, Fernando Oliveira, Jonathan Saldanha
Executive production
João Brojo
Produced by
Diagonal Animal / PT
Production and difussion
Materiais Diversos / PT
Co-produced by
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança (Porto/PT), Centre Pompidou/ Spectacles Vivant (Paris/FR), Charleroi Danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (Bruxelas/BE), Diagonal Animal Associação Cultural (Portugal), One Dance Week Festival (Plovdiv/BG), Teatro Aveirense (Aveiro/PT), São Luiz Teatro Municipal (Lisboa/PT), OOPSA (Porto/PT)
Artistic residencies support
CRL - Central Elétrica (Porto/PT), Centre Chorégraphique National de Caen en Normandie (Caen/FR), Centro Cultural da Malaposta/Minutos Redondos/Câmara Municipal de Odivelas (Odivelas/PT), Montpellier Danse/Agora (Montpellier/ FR), O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo/ PT), Teatro Académico Gil Vicente (Coimbra/PT), Teatro Viriato (Viseu/PT), Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto/ PT)
Support
Shuttle
Credits
The performance contains strobe lights.
