Folklore
Resistance
Feminine
Sounds

estreia

Bocarra 4
Bocarra 3
Bocarra 2
Bocarra 1

Bocarra means a very big and open mouth or maw. In Bocarra we depart from female singing repertoire from northern Portugal and Galicia about violence, feelings of bitterness and foreignness. Understanding many of these songs as traditions of non-conformity and as veiled and unresolved resistance against heteronormative roles, we work with movement that deals with the continuum between care and violence within physical closeness and the particular vocalic qualities of these musical forms. In collaboration with sound artists Inês Tartaruga Água and Francisco Antão we propose an understanding of musical objects/instruments as organic beings and extensions of the inner organs, the breath and the physical body. Together with performers Luisa Alfonso and Alexandre Achour we sing through and with bodies in space, beyond binary and exclusive categories of vocal registers and range. — Luísa Saraiva

estreia

12

1H
16+

Credits

Artistic direction and choreography
Luísa Saraiva 


Created and performed by
Luisa Fernanda Alfonso, Alexandre Achour, Luísa Saraiva


Instruments
Inês Tartaruga Água 


Sound design
Francisco Antão 


Lighting
Cárin Geada 


Costumes
Isabelle Lange 


Vocal training
Fabíola Fernandes  


Self-defence training
Zeina Hanna, Manuel Peréz Bouza 

Executive production
Apricot Productions, Mariana Costa 


Produced by
Crybaby GbR, Associação Calote Esférica


Co-produced by
DDD – Festival Dias da Dança, La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle Aquitaine and PACT Zollverein


Support Residencias
Paraiso, Colectivo RPM 


With the financial support of the
Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts and the North-Rhine/Westphalia’s Ministry of Culture and Science 

Credits

Text in Portuguese and Spanish