Assentar Sobre a Subida das Águas is a monologue-performance that explores the concept of a poetic vision of the possibility, more than certain, and eminent, of a catastrophe or catastrophic event. In which, when addressing philosophical, ecological and political questions, the frontier between the personal and the universal is blurred.
In Assentar Sobre a Subida das Águas, it is reflected on impermanence as a form of precarity, or of precarity as a form of impermanence.
Is it an allegory? It will most likely be between the allegory, the manifesto, and the confession. Because it also deals with memory as a fragile means of maintaining personal history.
If the water comes is the memory the anchor that they keep earthing. The land. So be it.

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created, directed, written and performed by Sónia Baptista
video Héloise Marechal e Sónia Baptista
violin Maria do Mar
watercolor Pedro Vaz
costume Sónia Baptista e Lara Torres
artist book Sónia Baptista e Raquel Melgue
coordination and technical execution and digital photography Raquel Melgue
co-production Alkantara, Transforma
support Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação GDA, Cão Solteiro, Douda Correria
production AADK
thanks Ana, Teresa, Horácio, Brigitte, Eduarda, Ana Vidigal, Clarissa Sachelli, Luís Firmo,Thomas Walgrave, Cláudia Galhós, Liliana Coutinho, Isaque Ferreira, Nuno Moura, João Concha, Paula Sá Nogueira, Sofia Campos, José Manuel Bernardo