CICLO TERESA SILVA Dance pouring from our heads
Joana Linda
Dance pouring from our heads, the title of this Cycle focusing on the performative work of choreographer Teresa Silva, is disquieting in the mystery of its meaning. It suggests a sensitive discovery through a program that brings together different proposals, which represent her curiosity and determination in experimenting with disciplines, explore materials and promote collaborations.
Based on her dance, film, sound, spoken word and stage design the Cycle will unfold across two weeks and include the sharing and transmission of her experience as a dancer and choreographer with different communities.
A part of the Serralves Museum Performative Arts program from the outset, Teresa Silva has distinguished herself for the originality of her choreographic grammar and the relevance given to the vitality of the materials in her pieces.
Voice, gaze, song and word are the tools she explores and obsessively includes in her unmistakably authorial and transdisciplinary research and creations.
Teresa Silva is also committed to participating in collaborative projects that shift between visual arts, performing arts, literature, ecology and film; she invests in how these ‘modes’ of encounter can always be revelatory, but above all transformative.
Indeed, her thinking and her artistic trajectory turn upside down established modes of creation and representation, following a profound and incessant intention to investigate and question.
This Cycle and program are meant to take us on a continuous, tireless quest.
The artist would like to dedicate this Cycle to the dancer, teacher and former director of Forum Dança, Cristina Santos.
PROGRAMME
PERFORMANCE
31 October, 21h30, 9:30 pm, Serralves Auditorium
Por motivo de Força Maior, 75’
a project by Teresa Silva
co-creation, performance, texts, costumes, objects, video and field recordings: Margarida Bettencourt, Sabine Macher e Teresa Silva
light creation and technical direction: Santiago Tricot
sound creation, sound design and field recordings: João Bento
CINEMA
2 November, 5pm, Serralves Auditorium
Documentário “Portugal que Dança” Teresa Silva, 45’
directed: Cristina Ferreira Gomes
authorship: Luiz L. Antunes
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En danseuse - Teresa Silva, 8’
conception, chorégraphie, film direction: Alain Michard
artistic collaboration-vidéo: Alice Gautier
sound: Manuel Coursin
light : Ludovic Rivière
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Enjoy the weather: the film, 32’
conception and camera: Teresa Silva
co-creation, performance, image treatment and subtitle translations:David Marques, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Sabine Macher e Teresa Silva
edition: Teresa Silva, David Marques e Sabine Macher
sound: Sabine Macher
PERFORMANCE
3 Novembro November, 19h00, 7pm, Hall do Museu, Museum Hall
Sinédoque, 60’
creation and performance: Teresa Silva
from the pieces “Um Espanto não se Espera” and “Leva a mão que eu levo o braço”, co-created with Elizabete Francisca; “O que fica do que passa” and “Nova Criação, co-created with Filipe Pereira; “A vida enorme/La vie en or”, co-created with Maria Lemos and “Oráculo”, co-created with Sara Anjo
SOUND INSTALLATION
9 and 10 November
Enjoy the weather: a sonic choreography, 20’
sound composition: Mestre André e Teresa Silva
with the participation and contribute: David Marques, Diogo Brito, Mestre André, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Sabine Macher e Teresa Silva
Galeria contemporânea do Museu
WORKSHOP
9 and 10 November,
10am to 01pm and 2pm to 4pm
Estados de atenção e cuidado através da prática performativa
with Teresa Silva
Sala do Serviço Educativo do Museu
by inscription
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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
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