Enjoy the weather - a sonic choreography is a sound piece, 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. This sonic choreography was created entirely from the recording of ongoing practices and field recordings collected during the artistic residency at O Espaço do Tempo, in Montemor-o-Novo, in 2021.

Enjoy the weather was triggered by reading ‘The life of plants’ by Emanuele Coccia. This poetic and philosophical essay adopts the plants's point of view as a way to understand the world not as a simple collection of objects, but as a space of metaphysical interaction, where all living beings share the same breath. Following this hypothesis, the creative process is conceived as a common body, an ecosystem, which results from a set of relationships, interactions and affects. In the artistic residencies, ways of meeting, sharing, practicing, creating and presenting are explored, investigating how we perceive and act in this interconnected, impermanent and interdependent world.

Teresa Silva

Sonic composition: Mestre André and Teresa Silva

With the participation and contribution of: David Marques, Diogo Brito, Mestre André, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Sabine Macher and Teresa Silva

Duration 20 minutes

Sonic piece part of Enjoy the weather project

Enjoy the weather

Artistic direction: Teresa Silva 

In collaboration with: David Marques, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Mestre André and Sabine Macher 

Documentation and communication design: Diogo Brito 

Administrative management: Vítor Alves Brotas 

Executive Production: Cláudia Teixeira 

Production: Agência 25 

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 Europe Programme of the European Union 

Creation residencies: Casa da Dança, DeVIR/CAPa, O Espaço do Tempo, Estúdios Victor Cordon, Materiais Diversos in partnership with Grand Studio, Parallèle and Short Theatre as part of the More Than This project 

Acknowledgments: Margarida Bettencourt, João da Cunha Ferreira, Álvaro Guilherme, Pedro Cal, Margarida Mendes, Léa Bosshard, Bruno Faucher, Filipa Francisco, Jêrome Andrieu, Juvelina Cantanhede and André Lara Ramos for the availability and sharing in our meetings. Centrale Fies and Maria Ferreira Silva for their support in an research phase that led to the origin of this project.

Enjoy the weather residences are part of the More Than This project, supported by the Creative Europe Programme and by the structures Parallèle and Short Theatre.