Grande Colheita (The Great Harvest)
Isto é PARTIS & Art for Change 2024
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Date
- / Cancelled / Sold out
Location
Gulbenkian Garden Jardim Gulbenkian
A travelling show. Every place a stage, every stage a scene, every scene a different season.
Everything revolves around Persephone and Persephone revolves around herself, like the earth revolves around the sun, like the moon revolves around the earth, like the seasons revolve around the year, like everything is born, everything grows and everything dies.
Persephone is youth, the future, struggle, passion and the will to live. She is the search for beauty and the need to dream.
The performance is a journey, which is a dance, which is a tasting, which is listening to nature. It is the product of three years of exploration, fun, work and creation. An open-air performance that can be presented in any of the four seasons. The audience is guided by an unusual couple. Persephone, who is also Alice, who is also Filipa, is accompanied by her faithful and hasty companion, the White Rabbit, who is also Raphael. On the journey, which is also a fall, which is also an adventure, you will come across the most unlikely characters in the most unlikely situations.
In three different locations, three performances, accompanied by three tastings, three soups made with ingredients grown in Demeter’s Garden, three recipes created by the actor-cooks.
Image © Luís Belo
What if a vegetable garden were also a stage?
The gathering point of the Horta de Deméter project, supported by the 1st edition of the PARTIS & Art for Change initiative, is in the community gardens of the Quinta da Cruz estate, in Viseu. On two plots of ancestral land, the young Horta de Deméter participants create and look after a special garden that produces cabbages and beans, maize and courgettes, strawberries and sunflowers. But there are other things that also grow in the garden. It is the stage for theatre and music rehearsals and performances. A statuesque space and a constantly growing set.
The young horticulturist-artists participating in Horta de Deméter gather together once a week in this special place. After digging, planting, watering and weeding, in short, getting their hands dirty, the group dedicates itself to artistic creation. Theatre and music games and exercises help everyone feel part of the group and pave the way for creating theatrical performances or lyrics, rhythms and melodies for songs and much more. The young people are the ones who decide what they’re going to work on, what stories they want to tell, what questions they want to ask, and what themes they want to explore.
The show Grande Colheita is the culmination of this project, but more important than the destination is the journey the participants embark on together. Horta de Deméter is a project where difference is celebrated: everyone is welcome.
Credits
Authors and performers
Carla Santos, Carlos Vale, Clara Pulleyn, Dinis Augusto, Diogo Costa, Eduardo Mata, Filipa Fróis, Filipe Costa, Gustavo Iván, Hugo Carvalho, Isabel Monteiro, Ismael Santos, José Santos, Juliana Ribeiro, Maria Francisca Gama, Marta Gomes, Milagros Sayavedra, Nuno Augusto, Raquel Soares, Raphael Cruz, Ricardo Augusto, Rodrigo Ferreira, Teresa Coelho
Staging
Graeme Pulleyn
Staging assistants
Filipa Fróis, Gustavo Iván e Ricardo Augusto
Assistant in the creation of the texts and storytelling
Andresa Soares
Musical Director
Ricardo Augusto
Set and giant puppet
Vítor Freitas
Costumes
Cláudia Ribeiro
Costume assistants
Ana Luísa Pinto and Daniela Fernandes
Editing and layout of the Almanac
Raquel Balsa
Coordination of the horticultural component (ESAV)
Daniela Vasconcelos (Supervisor)
Culinary Consultant
Rosário Pinheiro
Communication design, photography and video
Luís Belo
Press relations and content
Susana Morais
Production
CEM Palcos
Executive Producer
Guida Rolo
Production Assistants
André Félix and Laura Tavares
Social Coordinator
Catarina Martins
Social Worker
Carla Moraes
Financing and Support
Partis & Art for Change Programme – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and La Caixa Foundation, Portuguese Republic, Ministry of Culture /DGArtes, and the Municipality of Viseu – Department of Culture
Partners
ASSOL, APPDA, ASPEA, AVISPT21, Escola de Viriato, Instituto Politécnico de Viseu – Escola Superior Agrária, Lar Escola de Santo António
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