Quinta-Feira: Abracadabra
Quinta-Feira: Abracadabra
Quinta-Feira: Abracadabra
© Alípio Padilha

In Quinta-feira: Abracadabra, the fourth creation of the Sete Anos Sete Peças project, Cláudia Dias and Idoia Zabaleta give new uses to worn words.They start from scratch to recombine with the present people the minimum meanings of each word. Peace, bread, work, education mean what, more specifically? Demonstrating the true relationship between things and words, searching for the hidden names of injustice, inequality and oppression, the artists seek the magic word to move bodies and worlds.  

In the project Sete Anos Sete Peças, Cláudia Dias creates each year a piece from a meeting with a guest artist. Each creation is the basis for an illustrated edition by António Jorge Gonçalves (Sete Anos Sete Livros) and a creation project with young people in Almada and Porto (Sete Anos Sete Escolas). The openifront of the national parliament to create a show that presents bodies and techno music moving against the attacks occurred in clubs of the city. History is cyclical and dance is once again, in the country, a peaceful protest and a venue for youth emancipation.

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Credits

Direção artística / Artistic direction Cláudia Dias 

Invited artist Idoia Zabaleta 

Dramaturgical and technical assistance Karas 

Text and performance Cláudia Dias, Idoia Zabaleta 

Lighting design, technical direction, set design Nuno Borda d’Água 

Music Fuego ‑ Bomba Estéreo, Banho ‑ Elza Soares, De dentro do Ap ‑ Bia Ferreira, Canción Total ‑ Maria Arnal / Marcel Bagés 

Vídeo Bruno Canas 

Photography Alípio Padilha 

Critical follow‑up Jorge Louraço Figueira 

Produced by Alkantara 

Co‑produced by Teatro Municipal do Porto/ DDD ‑ Festival Dias de Dança , São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Moare Danza 

Artistic residencies and support Azala, L´animal a l´esquena, O Espaço do Tempo

Acknowledgements Mursego, María Arnal, Marcel Bagés, Hélder Azinheirinha 

Alkantara is supported by Républica Portuguesa | Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes. Azala y Moare Danza are supported by The Department of Culture of the Basque Country