Due to Force Majeure
CICLO TERESA SILVA Dance pouring from our heads
Bilheteira
7,5 euros com os descontos habituais
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
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Teresa Silva was born in Lisbon in 1988. She is dedicated to research, creation and interpretation in the areas of contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that goes beyond the physical body, which translates into a work of attention and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement. Graduated from Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, Escola Superior de Dança and PEPCC at Forum Dança, she has been developing choreographic work marked by collaborative processes since 2008. From her path as a choreographer and performer she highlights the collaborations with Filipe Pereira, Elizabete Francisca, Sara Anjo, Loïc Touzé, Vera Mantero, David Marques, La Tierce, João dos Santos Martins, Marco d'Agostin, Rita Natálio and Alain Michard. Since 2019, she has been developing the research laboratories ‘Can the body be an oracle?’ with Sara Anjo and ‘States of attention and care through performative practice’. In these, she draws on her experience of the body and movement to elaborate and make available a terrain of (self-)knowledge and transformation. In 2022, she made her first film, Enjoy the weather: the film, presented at the FID Festival - Festival International de Cinéma de Marseille. That same year, she collaborated with visual artist Kristina Norman on Orchidelirium - An appetite for Abundance, a trilogy of films created for the Venice Art Biennale. After producing a dozen pieces, including ‘Um Espanto não se Espera’, ‘What remains of what has passed’ and ‘New Creation’, she recently created ‘Synecdoche’, ‘Due to Force Majeure’ in complicity with Margarida Bettencourt and Sabine Macher and ‘A small composition exercise’ in collaboration with Vera Mantero. She is an associate artist of the Lisbon-based production company Agência 25. www.silvateresa.weebly.com
Image: Joana Linda