LONGO CURSO’s main engine is the research on the identity manifested through the body. It explores particularly the emigration, as a phenomenon that questions, transforms and redefines this same identity.
The performance uses the running practice as a means to deepen the topic of emigration and its process, as it explores a parallel between the athlete and the emigrant, both figures on the verge of losing the ineffective and typical gesture to give place to the effective and qualifying gesture…

Performance presented within the program of Temps D’Images Lisboa – 14º Festival de Artes em Movimento

credits

maker and performer Rita Morais
music Matteo Schuer
light design Carolina Caramelo
live music Miguel Curado (in Portugal) Jordan Dressen (in Belgium)
light, sound and scenography support Iben Stalpaert and Milan Van Doren
special participation Rancho Folclórico Casa do Minho Em Lisboa (in Portugal), Rancho Folclorico Emaus (in Belgium)
coproduction Horta Seca / Temps d’Images Lisboa

support Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Teatro Praga, Dupla Cena, Centro de  Criação de Candoso/A Oficina, CAMPO, Kc BUDA, Bregas, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Polo Cultural das Gaivotas, ESTC

acknowledgements Dirk Verstockt, Koen Augustijnen, Rute Reis, Álvaro Correia, José Maria Vieira Mendes, João Guimarães, Arber Sefa, to our families and friends