Corpo+cidade

B GIRLS - Max Oliveira

Premiere
21 APR | FRIDAY | 18h00
Avenida dos Aliados

Used to the fact that hip hop and the dances associated with it are mostly men's, B Girls emerges as a wave of the sea aiming to strengthen the place of the Bgirl. We challenged Max Oliveira, who has already participated in several editions of the Corpo + Cidade festival, to create a piece for the 2023 edition, with 4 B girls, a proposal for urban intervention, understanding and evoking a creative space where the feminine is voice, body, sound, and order/disorder. Isabel Barros & Flávio Rodrigues

MAX OLIVEIRA
Born in the city of Porto, professional Bboy and Funky Styler. Leader and founding member of Momentum Crew. Winner of numerous national and international competitions. Producer and choreographer of shows in theatres and casinos. Creator of two of the most important urban dance events - The World Battle and The Bboy Gala. He is responsible for the MXM Art Center and teaches at the MXM Dance Studio, teaches Post-Graduations and cooperates with teaching institutions in Portugal and abroad. He is also one of the persons responsible for the development of Breaking in the Olympic Games through the International Federation WDSF.

Dance Singers: Vanessa Marina (Portugal) Catarina Dantas (Portugal) Antilai Sandrini (Italy) Luma (Colombia)
Musical Performers: DJ Godzi
Beatbox: Jorge Loureiro
Choreographer: Max Oliveira
Idea/Challenge: Isabel Barros
Text/Synopsis: Isabel Barros and Flávio Rodrigues Lights and Sound: Miguel Martins

RITUAL DA VIDA - Bouziane Bouteldja / DANS6T

Premiere
22 ABR | SATURDAY | 18h00
Casa da Arquitectura

ESCRITA | DA ATENÇÃO PLURIPRISMA - Flávio Rodrigues

Premiere
23 APR | SUNDAY | 14h00
São bento Metro Station

"writing | from pluriprisma attention is an experimental, procedural and performative project, it is conceived in 360º and aims to be performed in spaces whose characteristics allow the audience to choose the perspective, the distance and the possibility to move around. Similarly to my previous projects, I propose to continue a reflection and research that puts into practice issues around the performativity associated with the action of designing or constructing devices within the field of installation and sculpture. For this particular project I will use materials that are stored without function and purpose in my father's carpentry workshop." Flávio Rodrigues

Flávio Rodrigues is a multidisciplinary artist. Since 2006 he develops his own projects of multidisciplinary artistic creation, experimental, procedural and autobiographical. Drawing, performance art, object manipulation, sound, movement and sculpture are the essential media he uses. As a performer, he proposes the construction and composition of intuitive devices, using materialities, sounds, images and objectualities that come mostly from processes of spontaneous encounter, reuse and gleaning. The walk and the state of drift have emerged as a meritorious processual base. He is associated artist of Balleteatro since 2021. www.flaviorodrigues.info

A creation by and with Flávio Rodrigues
Creation support: GDA Foundation, project created as an associated artist of Balleteatro

Image © Flávio Rodrigues

CROSSING SPACES / LIVING BODIES II - Encontro Corpo + Cidade & Estudantes da FBAUP

Premiere
28 ABR | FRIDAY | 18h00
Alameda das Fontaínhas

A meeting that marks a collaboration started in the first edition of the festival Corpo + Cidade. A dialogue of invited artists from the balleteatro with students from the FBAUP. A multidisciplinary and site-specific project. Motivated by sharing, by the proximity and creation in several hands, in a will to experience the Today, and seeking to inhabit the public space collectively. Open to all FBAUP students, the creation is generated collaboratively, specifically for Corpo+Cidade.

Jorge Gonçalves
Curator, choreographer, dramaturg, producer, performer, teacher and master in choreography from Amsterdam University of the Arts (2014). Since 2006, he has been presenting his artistic work in Portugal, Germany, Austria, Spain and the Netherlands. From 2009 to 2017, he co-founded and directed the programming and creative structure, MEZZZANINE. He has collaborated with several institutions, running workshops and as a student mentor. Since 2021, he is associate artist and coordinator of the Balleteatro Artistic School.

Mediation: Gabriela Vaz Pinheiro
Creation: FBAUP & Jorge Gonçalves (balleteatro's associate artist))
Intervenção Sonora: Francisco Pedro Oliveira
Production: balleteatro / Corpo + Cidade

PONDO REZAS NOS LÁBIOS - Isabel Barros & Carlos Guedes

Starting from the theme of the sea and the diverse relationship of the artists who live in Portugal or in Cape Verde, Isabel Barros, proposes a play for public space, created with Carlos Guedes, based on the assumption: how much the sea is in me and in the other. The choice of the actress Lisa Reis, born in S.Vicente, reinforces this research on the look of someone who was born in a country surrounded by sea. Putting prayers on lips, it is a project of spoken word, music and gesture.

Isabel Barros
Artist, co-founder of balleteatro (1983), artistic director of Teatro de Marionetas do Porto since 2010 and of the Museu das Marionetas do Porto opened in February 2013. She has a vast path of artistic creation, in which she highlights the crossing of languages, namely dance, theatre and puppets. He soon became interested in creating projects favouring transversal and alternative formats, with other artists and with the community. In 2014 he created the Festival Corpo + Cidade, dedicated to performance in public space, which since 2016 has become part of the DDD Festival programme. In 2018 he received the Municipal Medal of Merit - Gold Grade. Por1to is his city of origin and of choice, in which he develops his work with a sense of urgency and a strong social dimension.

Creation: Isabel Barros
Music: Carlos Guedes
Voice: Lisa Reis
Voice Recording: Eduardo Magalhães
Production: Balleteatro
Co-production: Mindelo International Theatre Festival - Mindelact
Support: NYU Abu Dhabi

WHAT TOOK YOU so long? - Maurícia | Neves

Premiere
30 ABR | SUNDAY | 16h00
Parque de Cidade

An ode on waiting, calm and courage. So rare nowadays. We try to go to the rhythm of other times building a polis with supernatural cadences.

Author's note: This is the last play of the triptych that begins with the play FUCK ME EVERYTHING but the heart!

Maurícia | Neves
Born in Portimão, 1989. Choreographer and performer, also venturing into the area of music, costume and lighting design in her creations. Created the pieces "WHAT TOOK YOU so long?" (2023); "FUCK ME EVERYTHING but the heart! " (2021/2023); "and STILL we MOVE" in collaboration with Joana Castro (2021 ); "anesthetize" (2019); "This is not for sale and is a manifesto" (2018); "I can't see the sea" (2018); "We are NOT so pretentious" in collaboration with António Torres and Barbara Carlos (2017); "The power of unknown CHAOS" (2016); "WE WILL USE SMOKE MACHINES" (2016); "I'm not comfortable talking to you from up here" (2015); "This is not a love story. This is A and B" (2015)

Creation and interpretation: Maurícia | Neves
Artistic Residencies: CAMPUS - Paulo Cunha e Silva Creation by and with Maurícia | Neves
Music edition, dramaturgy and costumes: Maurícia Barreira Neves
Assistance and external look: Joana Castro
Artistic residences and support CAMPUS - Paulo Cunha e Silva and Teatro da Voz - Real Plágio, Electronic Warfare
Acknowledgements: Catherina Cardoso, João Valinho, Mariana Figueroa and HF Tuela Porto.
Co-production: Corpo+cidade / balleteatro