Promoter
Lavrar o Mar Cooperativa Cultural Crl.
Synopsis
"Paraíso" is three dinners and shows of dance, music and food. These dinners are designed with the intention of bringing the same audience back every night while providing them with food for thought. These dinners are unique and connected and will take place in the land of Savoy. The impression of how we live in a torrential zone will emerge from all of them.
The three nights will be crossed and enveloped by the river's energy. The river is a constant link that connects everything, always moving towards its nearby future, the next performance. This flowing water changes and transforms the elements that move from one night to the next, carrying them to other rivers and places at each dinner.
We will always be dancing to create the feeling of a constantly changing land. The serving of the meal always brings the river to the surface. We'll talk close to people, and there will be music, sounds and singing that flood the space with meanings crossed by contradiction but also by mutuality, hospitality, symbiosis and partnership. We will all be in a relationship with food, thought, action and sound. As if we were at the table of a great table that doesn't exist.
"Paraíso" is an idea created by Madalena Victorino for the "Águas Gémeas" colloquium. It is included in the programme of this conference and in the "Night of Ideas" organised by the Institut Français du Portugal.
30 SEP 2023
Second dinner
THE BREAD OF THE DAY BEFORE
"Who loses the land, loses his soul" (Bruno Latour).
O "Paraíso" of this second dinner are the gardens created by the men and women who, with their hands, bring moisture and humanity to the arid land. The river stops, and a lagoon appears, like a freshly ploughed, opaque field of liquid. Solid, hard, earthy energy that moves around is shared and bounces into everyone's lap during dinner.
A dinner made with the bread from the day before, as a deep source for the creation of muds, pastes and soups. An invitation to bite slowly into the hard stuff, to savour the stones that gave birth to the bread. The stones as symbolic fields of the human jungle. The deaf struggles and the ways of overcoming, succumbing, reacting and resolving will lead us to the courtyards where love is dressed inside out. What have we done? Untied and disarmed the earth.
Night should not be confused with fear but with food.
Only freshly baked bread tastes like hunger.
Artistic Team
An idea of Madalena Victorino (criação, dramaturgia e coreografia)
Original music Nuno Salvado
Text excerpts Afonso Cruz
In co-creation with Maria Ramos (choreography), Ana Carvalho e Mariana Canha (creation of Paraíso nutrition), Nuno Salvado e Inês Pereira (design of musical composition), Carolina Sendim, Noy Yona, Pedro Matias (dance), Inderjeet Singh, Johannes Krieger, Sheila Kamayd (musicians), Sónia Barradas (word), Caetana Coutinho, Inês Coutinho, Janik Brück, Nana Brück, Paul Brück, Afonso Kamayd (special participation) Grupo Etnográfico de Santa Clara-a-Velha: Adelina Maria, Adília Pereira, Alice Alves, António Perpéto, Armando Francisco, Conceição Dias, Dinas Silva, Idalina Abílio, Inácia Felicidade, José Nobre, José Simão Guerreiro, José Ventura, Manuel Duarte, Natércia Silva, Noémia Perpéto, Odália Gonçalves, under the direction of Odete Oliveira (interpretation)
Technical Direction and Light Design Joaquim Madaíl
Technical Direction Olivier Vincent
Production Lavrar o Mar
Production Support Patrícia Santos e Manuel Cheta