ARUS FEMIA, by Zia Soares
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Date
- 19:00 / Cancelled 19:00 / Sold out Wednesday, 19:00
Location
Studio Centro de Arte Moderna GulbenkianIn the New World, the women shook their heads and, from their hair, the seeds that fertilised the earth were released.
Director and actress Zia Soares, artistic director of Teatro GRIOT, presents a spectacle or sorcery fulfilled in solemnity, where dystopian scenarios are obsolete mirages.
‘ARUS FEMIA’ is an unrelenting tactical diagram enacted by performers or ‘irans’ (spirits/divinities) or ‘kankurans’ (guardian spirits of initiation rituals) or ‘humanfibians’.
Biographies
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Zia Soares
Zia Soares is a director and actress who works between Africa and Europe. In her practice, she experiments with the construction of new dramaturgies rooted in oral poetics, in which the verb is a manifestation of images. Her trajectory includes the shows ‘Pérola sem Rapariga’, co-produced by Sowing_arts/TNDM/apap FEMINIST FUTURES and ‘O Riso dos necrófagos’, written by her and co-produced by Teatro GRIOT/Culturgest, which was awarded the Internazionale Teresa Pomodoro Prize (Italy) for Best Play 2021/2022.
Credits
Main image
© Arlindo Camacho
Direction and writing
Zia Soares
Cast
Albertinho Monteiro
Aoaní
Dionezia Cá
Izária Sá
Ulé Baldé
Urbício Vieira
Xullaji
Music and sound design
Xullaji
Choreography
Vânia Doutel Vaz
Scenography
Neusa Trovoada
Light design
Carolina Caramelo
Video
António Castelo
Lentim Nhabaly
Video design
Cláudia Sevivas
Visuals for 2D animation
Camila Reis
Costumes
Neusa Trovoada
Braids
Mariana Desidério
Translation to creole
Miguel de Barros
Sound Engineer
Jorge Gonçalves
Production direction
Camila Reis
Research support
TINIGUENA
Production
Sowing_arts
Coproduction
Netos de Bandim
Teatro Municipal do Porto
STATION service for contemporary dance
Support
Câmara Municipal de Lagos/Centro Cultural de Lagos, Casa da Dança, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, GROWTH, Largo Residências/Jardins da Bombarda, O Rumo do Fumo, Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista, RDP África
Acknowledgements
António Quintino, Auditório Camões, Comunidade de Angruman, Comunidade de Cabedu, Comunidade de Calaque, Comunidade de Contuboel, Comunidade de Cumuda, Comunidade de Djobel, Comunidade de Elia, Comunidade de Mansaba Sutu, Comunidade de Saridjai, Comunidade de Sintchã Sutu, Comunidade de Suzana, Comunidade de Tabato, Cooperativa Agropecuária de Jovens Quadros, Federação, KAFO – Banco de Sementes Tradicionais de Arroz, Joana Quintino, João Fortuna, Livígia Monteiro, Maria Reis, Nakasadarte RAMIRO NAKA & Afro Gumbe Show
Project funded by República Portuguesa - Cultura I DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes.
Zia Soares is an artist supported by apap – FEMINIST FUTURES
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