Agora nascíamos outra vez (Now we are reborn)
Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2024
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Grand Auditorium Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Companhia Maior challenged choreographer Aldara Bizarro to create something new that reflected on the future, at a time when the young people of today will be the age of their grandparents.
The creation is based on the imagination of the dance company’s ensemble and on their understanding of and how they feel about the crises plaguing the world today, which pose a threat to us and demand action. Agora Nascíamos Outra Vez is a dance fiction embodying multiple perspectives and converging events, with texts by Patrícia Portela, music by Noiserv, set design by Fernando Brízio, and lighting designed by Daniel Worm.
After residencies and meetings with young people and seniors in Guimarães, Cartaxo, Lisbon and Viseu, Companhia Maior presents this new creation for the first time at Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2024.
“Here I am, naked, imagining that my granddaughter is older than me. I hear her commenting on the future I have jeopardised. I go over what I did each day, what I still have to do… and just as I’m about to ask her a question, she interrupts me and says:
‘Yes, it is still worth it. Because in the future, there will always be a future if you are present in the now.’
I wondered. Do I still have time?
‘There’s always time,’ my granddaughter replied there from the future, older than I am today. ‘Shall we get started?’
‘How?’
‘Close your eyes.’
I closed my eyes.
‘Now take my hand and we’ll link your past to my future.’
So I, a little younger than her, took my eldest granddaughter’s hand. I took a deep breath.
‘Now what?’”
— Patrícia Portela
Image © João Cardoso Ribeiro
Its project Causa Maior, supported by the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative between 2020 and 2023, seeks to promote artists over the age of 60, engaging partners, audiences and collaborators to appeal to conscience, reflection, debate and action with regard to ageing and the potential of cultural and art practices to tackle social problems and help shape policies that improve the health and well-being of older adults.
Credits
Choreography
Aldara Bizarro
Texts
Patrícia Portela
Musical composition
Noiserv
Set design
Fernando Brízio
Lighting design
Daniel Worm
Performers
Angelina Mateus, Catarina Rico, Cristina Gonçalves, Carlos Fernandes, Carlos Nery, Edmundo Sardinha, Elisa Worm, Isabel Simões, João Silvestre, Júlia Guerra, Kimberley Ribeiro, Manuela de Sousa Rama, Maria Emilia Castanheira, Maria Helena Falé, Maria José Baião, Michel, Paula Bárcia
Artistic Director
Paula Varanda
Executive Coordinator
Sofia Baptista
Photography and Video
João Cardoso Ribeiro
Communications Consultant
Inês Lampreia
Production assistants
Raquel Magayevski, Samuel Santos
Co-production
Cineteatro Louletano, Teatro Viriato
Financing and Support
PARTIS & Art for Change, an initiative of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and "la Caixa" Foundation; Lisbon City Council; GDA Foundation
Partnerships
Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas, Alcântara Library, Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa, Escola Artística António Arroio, Estúdios Victor Cordon, Alvalade Parish Council
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