To Die For Little Birds

To Die For Little Birds
To Die For Little Birds
Gaivotas Em Terra

Lígia Soares and Henrique Furtado Vieira

To Die For Little Birds

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Henrique Furtado Vieira and Lígia Soares come together for the first time in a co-creation to study, reproduce, reinvent artistic forms resulting from collapsing systems and thus create a collection of performances based on the historical relationship between the crisis and the emergence of different artistic vanguards.

To Die for Little Birds aims to find ways to meaningfully share with the audience the end of the world as we have known it and to remember the strength that collectively we can communicate the meaningless, the human being dissected by the disorder of the world, expressed in his mourning, contradicting the naturalness with which we accept its degeneration. A collection of funeral rituals that confront us with emptiness, fear, dehumanization, but mainly with each other.

The performances vary in form, discipline, size and space, pursuing the collective identity of the “audience”, seeking to activate it and make it indispensable, claiming its relationship with a space that has always been primarily dedicated to it: the stage space.

Performance Collection
9, 10 and 11 May
8 – 10.30 pm

#1: Godôs
Henrique Furtado Vieira and Lígia Soares

#2: Bocas
Henrique Furtado Vieira and Lígia Soares

#3: Apóstrof’apocalipse
with workshop participants

#4: Butôdadá
with workshop participants

#5: Ode Triunfal

Direction and Creation: Lígia Soares and Henrique Furtado Vieira
From an idea by Lígia Soares and Maria Jorge
Technical Direction and Lighting Design: Hugo Coelho
Music: João Lucas
Composição musical e sonoplastia: João Lucas
Production Direction: Ana Lobato
Production: Romance
Co-Production: Teatro-Cine Torres Vedras and Teatro Municipal do Porto
Residencies Gretua (Aveiro), Oficina (Guimarães), Gaivotas 6 (Lisbon), Teatro Viriato (Viseu), A Gráfica
(Setúbal).
Support: O Rumo do Fumo
Financed by Portuguese Republic / Dgartes- Direção Geral das Artes
HENRIQUE FURTADO VIEIRA
Graduated in energy and environmental engineering, currently a dancer, performer and choreographer, Henrique Furtado Vieira lives in Lisbon. He carried out his artistic training in several French institutions (INSA Lyon, Extensions – CDC Toulouse, Prototype II and Dialogues III – Royaumont abbey). He develops his artistic practice mainly between choreographic creation and collaboration as a performer with various artists such as Bleuène Madelaine, Eric Languet, Aurélien Richard, Céline Cartillier, Tino Sehgal, Salomé Lamas, Ana Renata Polónia, André Uerba, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, Vera Mantero, Boris Charmatz e Tania Soubry. From time to time, he dedicates himself to research, pedagogy and writing in relation to dance, in different contexts and through multiple partnerships (O Rumo do Fumo, Unlock Dancing Plaza, Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte, Colectivo 84, Comédias do Minho, GrETUA…), and more recently he has been involved as a dramaturg in the choreographies of Nicolas Hubert (Compagnie Épiderme) and Giulia Arduca (Compagnie Ke Kosa). He curated the second edition of the MATÉRIA project, together with Catarina Vieira and Josefa Pereira, organizing meetings, open to the community, on a monthly basis, to share artistic practices. His works are often created in synergy with other artists such as Bibi Ha Bibi, with Aloun Marchal, Stand still you ever-moving spheres of heaven, with Chiara Taviani, or To Die for Little Birds, with Lígia Soares. In his shows / performances, the overlapping of styles and genres, the vocal presence in dance and the space(s) of imagination have a prominent place. He has collaborated and presented his work in institutions such as Aerowaves, CDC Toulouse, Göteborg Theater and Dance Festival, Roma Europa Festival, DNA Network, Porto Municipal Theater, Temps d’Image Festival, Espaço do Tempo, CCB, among others.
LÍGIA SOARES
Lígia Soares is a Portuguese choreographer and playwright based in Lisbon. She was based in Berlin as artist in residency at TanzFabrik-Berlin from 2004 to 2006. Her work has been presented at home (TNDM II- National Theatre, São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Centro Cultural de Belém), and abroad, appearing in several theatre and contemporary dance programs such as Festival Materiais Diversos (Torres Novas), DDD- Dias da Dança (Oporto), Festival Art-Danthé (Paris), Kaaitheater (Brussels), Noorderzon Festival (Groningen) among others. She was the artistic director of Máquina Agradável between 2001 and 2014. She also developed several programming contexts with other artists such as Demimonde (Lisbon) or Face-a-Face (Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília). Since 2015, she has focused her research on finding scenic devices that include the presence of the spectator as part of the performance’s dramaturgy such as “Romance, 2015”, “Turning Backs, 2016” “O Ato da Primavera, 2017” or “Cuore, 2019”. Her plays Romance, Cinderela [Cinderella], Civilização [Civilisation], Memorial and A Minha Vitória Como Ginasta de Alta Competição [My Victory as a High Competition Gymnast] have been published by Douda Correria. She won an artistic and literary creation grant from the Directorate-General for Books, Archives and Libraries (DGLAB) in 2020.