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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