Sabine Macher, Margarida Bettencourt and I are women artists, born in 1955 in Germany, 1962 in South Africa and 1988 in Portugal. Building upon a shared history, this piece is founded on the intergenerational encounter as a space for reciprocal learning and is nourished by the desire to weave connections between a rebelliousness with a feminine affiliation and a sense of trembling. Within this correlation, I do not perceive trembling as fear or hesitation, nor rebelliousness as confrontation, but rather as potentials to disrupt certainties and systems. I am intrigued by the exploration of a rebelliousness that operates at the level of perception and setting in motion alternative modes of functioning and understanding the world around me.

Drawing inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin's speculative writing, which holds significance as a means of interpreting the present and suggesting a shuddering, a metaphorical and symbolic interval, we entertain the hypothesis of considering fiction as a basket. We conceive of this piece as a container, a meeting point, where we coexist with other women - artists, fictional characters, mythological and archetypal figures - who are rebels and tremor-makers. Our story intertwines with theirs. Here “Due to Force Majeure” sheds its legal connotation to act as a poetic engine, unleashing forces that oscillate between the inevitable, the untameable and the necessary.

Teresa Silva

A project by: Teresa Silva 

Co-creation, performance, texts, costumes, objects, video and field recordings: Margarida Bettencourt, Sabine Macher and Teresa Silva  

Light creation and technical direction: Santiago Tricot  

Sound creation, sound design and field recordings: João Bento 

Outside eye: David Marques 

Outside eye in CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva residency: Liesbeth Gritter 

Financial management: Vítor Alves Brotas 

Administrative management: Janine Lages 

Communication support: Maria João Bilro 

Executive production: Teresa Silva 

Touring: Nicolas Chaussy

Production: Agência 25 

Co-production: Teatro do Bairro Alto, O Rumo do Fumo/Vera Mantero and Chorège | CDCN Falaise Normandie 

Support: República Portuguesa Cultura/Direção-Geral das Artes, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Fundação GDA and CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva 

Co-production residencies: Alkantara, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Estúdios Victor Córdon, Marosi Stromboli, O Espaço do Tempo, Rumo do Fumo and The Place to Pause 

Photographs and video editing: Joana Linda

Acknowledgments: Alkantara, Alma d'Arame, Andrea Rodella, Anatol Waschke, Forum Dança, Jasmim Bettencourt, Joclécio Azevedo, Leonardo Garibaldi, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Margarida Bettencourt and Maria Lemos

Duration 75 minutes

Age restriction M/6 years