Lígia Soares, Rita Vilhena & Diogo Alvim
Turning Backs [Temps d’Images]
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Friday-Saturday •
Duration: 50min
Age-range: 12
Booking: 7€ • 5€ [Discount]
TURNING BACKS is a project seeking the paradox: we are all included in exclusion. The two rows of seats have no back and require each spectator to use the other as a backrest. To be back to back is after all to lay back on someone who is, at the same time, the person to whom we just turned our backs to. This condition will also be a base to reflect on realities that, in spite of the fact that we are not looking at them, they cannot cease of touching us.
CONCEPT Lígia Soares e Rita Vilhena
CO-CREATION Diogo Alvim
VIDEO Mariana Castro
PRODUCTION (PORTUGAL) Máquina Agradável
PRODUCTION (HOLANDA) Baila Louca
CO-PRODUCTION Rotterdamse Productiehuis
RESIDENCIES Devir-Capa, Alkantara, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas Apoios Malavoadora.porto, GDA – Gestão dos Direitos do Artistas.
Diogo Alvim composes instrumental and electroacoustic music, plays live electronics, and develops sound art projects. He also makes music for dance and theatre. His PhD research (SARC, Belfast) focused on the relations between music and architecture. His work has been presented in Europe and Brazil. He has been developing collaborations with other artists and performers.
Lígia Soares is a Portuguese choreographer and playwright who has been questioning in the scenic space as a space distanced from the viewer. Her work has been presented nationally and internationally, in several programs of contemporary dance and theatre. Her last plays were edited by Douda Correria. She co-founded Máquina Agradável (Lisbon).
Rita Vilhena is a performance & dance maker. Established in 2005 the Baila Louca Foundation (Rotterdam / The Netherlands). She was an artist from Productiehuis Rotterdam, has worked with Meg Stuart, Jeremy Wade, Julien Hamilton, Ugo Dehaes, Keren Levi, Mohamed Shafik among many others. Rita has a master’s in Performing Arts (FCSH) and works as a researcher at INET-md (Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Music and Dance Studies Center), FMH pole.