Portugal que dança - TERESA SILVA 

45’

In a former rural convent in the south of Portugal, Teresa Silva, one of the

most prominent young choreographers, works on her ""New Creation"".

In the environment of cloisters and artistic isolation, we follow the daily life of the

concept construction,  the creation dialogues, the definition attempts of the 

first movements, in an intimate approach to the challenges of the

contemporary artistic creation.

Director: Cristina Ferreira Gomes | Authorship: Luiz L. Antunes

Production: Mares do Sul Produções

Production Support: Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli Campo Alegre | GDA Foundation

Support for creation: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

""Portugal que Dança"" is a pioneering documentary series. It is the first documentary series produced about Portuguese contemporary dance that gives visibility to the most recent generation of dance artist in Portugal.

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En Danseuse

8’

En danseuse focuses on the body of the choreographer-dancer. A series of collaborations with choreographers from different generations and backgrounds led to the creation of this piece, which consists of a ‘collection of filmed dances’ presented in the form of a video and sound installation-show.

En danseuse is based on the idea that the choreographer's body is the very source of her work and carries within it a veritable History of Dance. Vast and singular, this History is made up of memories of dances lived, but also seen and fantasized, and of all the life experiences that are inscribed as ‘choreographic material’.

En danseuse questions the role of images in dance.

20 choreographers collaborated on this creation, including Portuguese choreographers Miguel Pereira, Vera Mantero and Teresa Silva.

Concept, choreography and direction: Alain Michard

Artistic and video collaboration: Alice Gautier

Co-author and performer: Teresa Silva

Sound creation: Manuel Coursin

Stage manager: Aurélie Ganachaud and Maël Barbier

Lighting: Ludovic Rivière

Co-production: LOUMA, with Serralves Foundation and O Rumo do Fumo

With the support of the Institut Français / Ville de Rennes as part of their agreement

LOUMA is subsidised by the Région Bretagne

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Enjoy the weather: the film

32’

Four people go through practices in which sound, weather, landscape and air are the protagonists. In the ecosystems they stage, they appear and disappear, weaving a fictional narrative or a speculative fabulation that intertwines human and beyond human. By the superposition of layers of image and sound, ""Enjoy the weather: the film"" presents an audiovisual experimentation in the form of a palimpsest, inviting the fusion of temporalities and places. This multisensorial experience reveals an interdependent world, in which forms of encounter, cooperation, sharing and storytelling unveil ways of being together.

This film is one of the multidisciplinary objects resulting from the Enjoy the weather research project directed by Teresa Silva and co-created with David Marques, Mestre André, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Sabine Macher and Diogo Brito. The film premiered in 2022 at FID - International Film Festival Marseille. 

Direction, conception and camera: Teresa Silva

Co-creation, performance, image treatment and subtitle translations: David Marques, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Sabine Macher and Teresa Silva

Editing: Teresa Silva, David Marques and Sabine Macher

Sound: Sabine Macher

Sonic meditation practice: Mestre André

Graphic design: Diogo Brito

Administrative production: Vítor Alves Brotas

Executive production: Cláudia Teixeira

Production: Agência 25 and Parallèle - Festival des Pratiques Artistiques Émergentes (Marseille) in the context of the european project More than this, supported by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union

Subtitles: Joana Linda

Co-production: Casa da Dança

Support: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes and More Than This supported by the Creative Europ