JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS WITH JOANA SÁ, ANA JOTTA AND FILIPE PEREIRA
THE MUSEUM AS PERFORMANCE
ESTÁ VISTO, 50’
Performance
12 OCT | 19:45
A dancer who couldn't dance, a singer who couldn't sing, an actor who couldn't act, a writer who couldn't write, a painter who couldn't paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. You had to know how to do in order to know how to be. As long as the fine lines that separate being from doing, the self from action, the thing from the subject, are blurred, there is something that remains inept and dysfunctional. A monster that doesn't fulfil its function. — João dos Santos Martins, 2022
Está Visto (2023) is the result of a collaboration between João dos Santos Martins, pianist and composer Joana Sá and visual artist Ana Jotta. Based on the song cycle Dichterliebe [Poet's Love], composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the piece is presented in recital format, seeking to make the practices of singing, piano and dance interact and overflow into each other. The romantic-style songs, with poetry by Heinrich Heine, speak of unrequited love. This lack of reciprocity is reproduced in choreographic ideas that disarticulate language, fractioning the gesture with the lyrics, sound and listening in a crossing body.
Performance João dos Santos Martins, Joana Sá (piano and others)
Music Dichterliebe, op. 48, by Robert Schumann, (un)arranged by Joana Sá
Costume design Jotta & Faísca
Lighting and stage assistance Filipe Pereira
Vocal support Rui Baeta
LGP lyrics Cláudia Dias
Sign support Miguel Ralha
Co-production Associação Parasita, BoCa - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Vaga
Residencies Casa da Dança, DeVIR CAPa, Espaço Parasita, Estúdios Victor
Córdon, Forum Dança, Goethe-Institut Lisboa, Grand Studio/Materiais Diversos,
Salão Nobre da Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Teatro da Voz, Vila Sul
Goethe Institut Salvador.
Production and administration Sofia Lopes and Lysandra Domingues | Associação
Parasita, Association Mimaï
Graphic design Nuno Maio
Acknowledgements Ana Rita Teodoro, Ana Bigotte Vieira, Connor Scott, Joana
Mário, Joana Nascimento, Luís José Martins, Luísa Saraiva, Rita Natálio, Sabine
Macher, Sebastian Felten
Parasita is a structure funded by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of
Culture/Directorate-General for the Arts for the 2023-2024 biennium.
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João dos Santos Martins is an artist. He studied at Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), at P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), at the e.x.er.c.e, (Montpellier) and at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies (Giessen). His work, usually developed in collaborative processes, encompasses various forms that focus on dance, whether through choreography, exhibition or editing. These forms are crossed by questions that concern genealogies of dance history, transmission processes, the relationship between practice and discourse, and paradoxes about the activity of dancing. Together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, he created a device for the collective mapping of dance in Portugal — Para Uma Timeline a Haver. He danced in works by Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans, Xavier Le Roy, Jérôme Bel, Manuel Pelmuş, Rui Horta, among others. He founded Parasita in 2014, an artist cooperative he is a part of.