Odete
Anita Escorre Branco
[Young Emerging Performers]
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Thursday-Sunday •
Duration: 60min
Age-range: 16
Booking: 5€ • 3€ [Discount]
Still about utopia, knowing it’s impossibility as my friends struggle with emptiness, survival in late capitalism, power relations, dependency. He takes care of me – they dance – we paint each other’s lips – she goes to the library for some time alone with books – everyone talks about the sensation of craving something – we talk about nothing mattering anymore – did we forget the pleasure of sun rays? She says that we did. That possibly there is no way back. We hug each other. I feel nothing except my addiction for you and the pleasure of touching the mass of your body, your textures. I tell you that I’m starting to feel the limits of capitalism – of course you laugh. But I feel it now, it crushes, passes, fucks within, through and with my body. This is a cry for another lyf 4 us.
This performance is presented within Young Emerging Performers, a result of the partnership between Rua das Gaivotas 6 and Espaço do Tempo.
Odete works mainly with the mediums of writing, daying, within the performing and visual arts – her work is explicitly biographical, highlighting the links between the personal and the political – currently researching on the sensations/notions of belonging and not belonging, trans narratives and ways of turning sadness, fragility and flaw tangible, as political potencies. Odete presented her work in several places and contexts, like Teatro Taborda, Teatro Municipal Campo Alegre, malavoadora.porto, CasAzul (Barcelos), CAPC (Coimbra), Festival DDD or Rua das Gaivotas 6. Odete performed for “Cyborg Sunday”, by Dinis Machado, a Project showcased at WELD (Stockolm, Sweden) and SKOGEN (Gottenbour, Sweden), at the Chelsea Theater (London, UK) and at Teatro Municipal Rivoli (Oporto). Recently she participated in Teatro Praga’s play, “Spring Awakening”, premiered at CCB (Belém’s Cultural Center) and pre premiered at Ílhavo’s Cultural Center. Odete co-created, with Bruno Cadinha, DRLNG, supported by Fundação GDA and presented at Rua das Gaivotas 6