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02 This is not the possible festival... it is the necessary festival

03 festival map

04 daily programming

08 imaginarius companies

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33 installations

39 workshops

41 other projects

45 supported projects

49 information imaginarius This is not the possible festival... it is the necessary festival

Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, 2013. This is the space and time in which Imaginarius praxis, encouraging different approaches to Santa Maria da Feira's public space is taking place. It is in this space and time that this text is being written. and privileging proposals that question and integrate the local community. The quantity and quality of the applications we have received prove that there is a A festival in this present is built with people. People-citizens who believe in other strong vitality in creation, mainly home-grown, which is worthy of being safe and possible “Imaginaries”. To them I express my gratitude, specially to the ones who persistently supported and stimulated. Consequently, this year the festival will be are the least visible - yet just as essential - during these construction processes. awarding the three best projects with the possibility of an artistic residency with a view to the festival's 2014 programming. During the last year, based on 12 years of experience, we sought to redefine strategies and courses of action; proposals were explored, and the festival's The occupation of the old city Slaughterhouse (“Matadouro”), where young creators philosophy was rethought for the next four years. Our dialogue with the local develop their activity, shows the festival's continuous connection to the community community, namely the artistic one, was strengthened, fundamental subjects were and it's deep-rooted vocation towards a local artistic creation with strong links debated at the Imaginarius Talks, and training and organizational needs were to other national and international projects. In this sense, Imaginarius is also updated and envisioned. investing in training, by organizing an offer of workshops within this year's edition.

This festival's major challenge is to retain and deepen its vocation for public space, In 2013, the festival will contemplate 12 co-productions and programming while adapting its paradigm to the human scale in its relationship with a city like partnerships which, more than a number, represent the will and fulfilment of Santa Maria da Feira, with its particular physical and human geography, which is synergies that result in genuine networking – local, regional, national and international. organically linked to street arts. Bodies in Urban Spaces, by Cie Willi Dorner, is a good example of a co- production with the Serralves Foundation – a project whose cast and architectures This year, our programming mirrors this persistent, contemporary search. Among are shared by the cities of Oporto e Santa Maria da Feira. the 117 entries, involving 402 artists, during three days that will transform the city's public space in its rapport with the public that will inhabit it, we would like to point And because this festival is happening in 2013, the world we are inhabiting in the out the diversity of artistic languages, with the strengthening of the visual arts here and now inspires an “Imagined Europe” as the main subject of the International component through Vilhs' conceptual cork piece executed by workers from that Conference on Arts and Public Space, the world première of Teatro O Bando's area – Diorama Cork Faktory. One should also stress the diversity of the 16 Jangada de Pedra, and antagon theater AKTion's inquisitive Ginkgo. countries with creations, formats and contents in our programming. And it is precisely because we are living this moment that this festival is necessary. Imaginarius' transformation from mere programmer to creative structure has been For its will to transform, for the space open to creation, for the occupation of public consolidated, which is highlighted by the festival's 19 world premières, and its space, for the full exercise of the right to access cultural fruition, for its educational, own productions, such as Baile das Bicycletas, the European Project of music community, economical, urban and tourism impact on our territory. and dance Urban Ballets, or Community Theatre Project Travessia. Our will to overcome the idea that cultural activity is restricted to a linear relationship in which What are we still willing to “pay” for just living the possible instead of the necessary? the artists transmit their heritage to the audience without contemplating the latter's action as sensitive beings and reality builders justifies our clear and unequivocal Hugo Cruz investment in original creations as a distinguishing feature of this festival. This logic artistic festival director introduces a perception of the individual as being more than a cultural consumer, taking on the role of an emancipated producer within the process. In addition, local communities are active and critically involved in the creative processes of several of the programme's projects.

Mais Imaginarius takes on the role as the festival's cutting edge, the space where creators can take chances, privilege experimentation and an informed artistic

international street theatre festival 02 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 imaginarius festival map

OLD COURT

MUNICIPAL LIBRARY

MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH

GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE REPÚBLICA SQUARE

MUNICIPAL MARKET

OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE

POOLS - PARISH CHURCH

international street theatre festival 03 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 imaginarius daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints

24 MAY FRI 09.00pm 09.45pm 11.00pm vhils [portugal] teatro o bando [portugal] boris chimp 504 [portugal] 10.30am ‘diorama cork faktory’ [3 or older] ‘jangada de pedra’ [12 or older] ‘mission to kepler’ [3 or older] talentitos [germany / france] piece presentation rossio municipal market - entrance ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square 80’ 45’ igreja romariz basic school 30’ 50’ 11.00pm MUNICIPAL LIBRARY 09.30pm edith scher e omar trupe koskowisck [brazil] tresperté circo [spain] gasparini [argentina] 09.30pm ‘olha o palhaço ‘aquí sobra uno’ [3 or older] ‘travessia’ [3 or older] clown laboratori no meio da rua’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square municipal swimming pools porto [portugal] igreja lourosa basic school 50’ surrounding area ‘labaret 3 – a morte’ [6 or older] 50’ 60’ library entrance 11.30pm 45’ 02.30pm urban ballets [portugal / france / 00.00am trupe koskowisck [brazil] ireland / south africa] crassh [portugal] 10.15pm olha o palhaço ‘blast’ [3 or older] ‘crassh_street 2.0’ [3 or older] joão pamplona [portugal / norway] no meio da rua [3 or older] gaspar moreira square › court municipal swimming pools ‘hangover’ [12 or older] igreja lobão basic school 45’ surrounding area left library garden 50’ 45’ 45’ REPÚBLICA SQUARE MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH MUNICIPAL MARKET diana carneiro 06.00pm e joão dias [portugal] 04.00pm la compagnie 06.00pm ‘mr. shimokawa’ [12 or older] ljud group [eslovénia] en croq [france] colectivo ar_search [portugal] right library garden ‘the invasion’ [3 or older] ‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] ‘`peça para piano e bicho da 35’ dr. elísio de castro street › república square madeira’ [6 or older] república square › dr. roberto 60’ market barbershop 11.00pm alves street 15’ bárbara andrez [portugal] 35’ POOLS - PARISH CHURCH ‘bump dialogues’ [12 or older] 09.30pm library entrance 09.30pm 09.00pm talentitos [germany / france] 15’ grupo XIX de teatro [brazil] the purple ladies ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] ‘hygiene’ [14 or older] collective [united kingdom] descobrimentos street OLD COURT misericórdia church › dr. elísio de ‘human possibilities’ [3 or older] 50’ castro street › república square rossio 09.45pm 80’ 40’ 10.00pm desastronauts [spain] sérgio e maria [portugal] ‘losing grip’ [3 or older] GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE 09.30pm ‘um espaço aberto court garden ballet contemporâneo de desmembramento’ [3 or older] 45’ 05.00pm do norte [portugal] dr. vitorino de sá street tresperté circo [spain] ‘a construção’ [6 or older] 10.30pm ‘aquí sobra uno’ [3 or older] parish church cloisters 10.15pm bismas das acácias [angola] gaspar moreira square 40’ labu plataforma ‘ocisoko’ [3 or older] 50’ artística [portugal] court garden a world of bliss [holland] ‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ [3 or older] 45’ ‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] municipal market – interior parish church stairway 20’ 11.15pm 60’ mattatoio sospeso [italy] 10.45pm ‘tu me fais tourner residual gurus [spain] la tête’ [3 or ilder] LEGEND ‘residual gurus’ [3 or older] court garden imaginarius mais imaginarius zone show municipal market › gaspar 45’ imaginarius creation national premiere world premiere travelling moreira square 45’

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00.15am 09.30pm 09.15pm 10.15pm antagon teatro the purple ladies labu plataforma theater aktion [germany] de montemuro [portugal] collective [united kingdom] artística [portugal] ‘ginkgo’ [6 or older] ‘que raio de mundo’ [3 or older] ‘human possibilities’ [3 or older] ‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ [3 or older] court avenue prof. leão square rossio municipal market - interior 70’ 60’ 40’ 20’

OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE 09.30pm 10.45pm ballet contemporâneo boris chimp 504 [portugal] 10.00pm 05.00pm do norte [portugal] ‘mission to kepler’ [3 or older] mara andrade [portugal] sérgio e maria [portugal] ‘a contrução’ [6 or older] municipal market - entrance ‘oxitocina’ [16 or older] ‘um espaço aberto de parish church cloisters 45’ old municipal slaughterhouse desmembramento’ [3 or older] 40’ – left nave dr. vitorino de sá street MUNICIPAL LIBRARY 17’ a world of bliss [holland] 10.30pm ‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] 05.00pm 10.30pm talentitos [germany / france] parish church stairway clown colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] 60’ laboratori porto [portugal] ‘peça para piano e bicho da gaspar moreira square ‘labaret 3 – a morte’ [6 or older] madeira’ [6 or older] 50’ 10.00pm municipal library old municipal slaughterhouse edith scher e omar 45’ - right nave 11.15pm gasparini [argentina] 15’ les bleus de travail [france] ‘travessia’ [3 or older] 06.30pm ‘le voyage de noce’ [3 or older] municipal swimming pools poesia no corpo, corpo 10.45pm gaspar moreira square surrounding area na poesia [portugal] cychotron [portugal] 50’ 60’ ‘estás a olhar para mim?’ [3 or older] ‘cychotron’ [16 or older] municipal library old municipal slaughterhouse REPÚBLICA SQUARE 11.00pm 30’ – rehearsal room teatro o bando [portugal] 40’ 05.00pm ‘jangada de pedra’ [12 or older] 09.00pm la compagnie rossio ljud group [slovenia] 25 MAY SAT en croq [france] 80’ ‘the invasion’ [3 or older] ‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] firefighters parking › court 06.30pm república square 00.30am 35’ cie willi dorner [austria] 60’ orquestra todos [portugal] ‘bodies in urban spaces’ [3 or older] ‘concerto’ [3 or older] 09.30pm hospital › municipal swimming pools 10.30pm municipal swimming pools diana carneiro 45’ residual gurus [spain] surrounding area e joão dias [portugal] ‘residual gurus’ [12 or older] 90’ ‘mr. shimokawa’ [12 or order] MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH república square belchior cardoso da costa 45’ MUNICIPAL MARKET avenue 05.00pm 35’ cie du p'tit vélo [france] POOLS - PARISH CHURCH 07.00pm ‘pétafun tour’ [3 or older] colectivo ar_search [portugal] joão pamplona [portugal / norway] prof. leão square › s. nicolau 05.00pm ‘peça para piano e bicho da ‘hangover’ [12 or older] street › dr. vitorino de sá street a world of bliss [holland] madeira’ [6 or older] left library garden › descobrimentos street ‘bliss superstore’ [3 or older] market barbershop 45’ 90’ parish church stairway 15’ 60’ 10.15pm 05.15pm 10.00pm t&a [portugal / czech republic] grupo XIX de teatro [brazil] sérgio e maria [portugal] ‘kinowaltz’ [12 or older] ‘hygiene’ [14 or older] ‘um espaço aberto library entrance misericórdia church › dr. elísio de de desmembramento’ [3 or older] 42’ castro street › república square dr. vitorino de sá street 80’

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11.00pm OLD SLAUGHTERHOUSE POOLS - PARISH CHURCH 05.45pm bárbara andrez [portugal] cie du p'tit vélo [france] ‘bump dialogues’ [12 or older] 10.00pm 03.00pm ‘pétafun tour’ [3 or older] library entrance mara andrade [portugal] a world of bliss [holland] descobrimentos street › dr. 15’ ‘oxitocina’ [16 or older] ‘blissful picnic’ [3 or older] vitorino de sá street › s. nicolau old municipal slaughterhouse municipal swimming pools street › court OLD COURT – left nave surrounding area 90’ 17’ 05.00pm la compagnie OLD COURT talentitos [germany / france] 10.30pm en croq [france] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] colectivo ar_search [portugal] ‘funky pudding’ [3 or older] 03.00pm court garden ‘peça para piano rossio cie.willi dorner [austria] 50’ e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] 60’ ‘bodies in urban spaces’ [3 or older] old municipal slaughterhouse hospital › municipal swimming 06.00pm – right nave 04.00pm pools mattatoio sospeso [italy] 15’ sérgio e maria [portugal] 35’ ‘tu me fais tourner ‘um espaço aberto la tête’ [3 or older] 10.45pm de desmembramento’ [3 or older] 06.30pm court garden cychotron [portugal] municipal swimming pools patrick murys 45’ ‘cychotron’ [16 or older] surrounding area e casa da música [portugal] old municipal slaughterhouse ‘baile das bicycletas’ [6 or older] 06.45pm – rehearsal room clown court › s. nicolau street › vitorino bismas das acácias [angola] 40’ laboratori porto [portugal] de sá street › descobrimentos ‘ocisoko’ [3 or older] ‘labaret 3 - a morte’ [6 or older] street › municipal swimming court garden 26 MAY SUN rossio pools surrounding area 90’ 45’ 120’ MISERICÓRDIA CHURCH 09.45pm 04.45pm INSTALLATIONS desastronauts [spain] 04.00pm talentitos [germany / france] ‘losing grip’ [3 or older] ljud group [slovenia] ‘la boîte à musique’ [3 or older] 24 MAY execution from 05.00pm court garden ‘the invasion’ [3 or older] rossio 25 and 26 MAY 45’ dr. elísio de castro street › 50’ república square › dr. roberto gabriel loureiro [portugal] 10.30pm alves street 05.00pm ‘rendilhados urbanos’ [3 or older] antagon 35’ crassh [portugal] municipal swimming pools theater aktion [germany] ‘crassh_street 3.0’ [3 or older] ‘ginkgo’ [6 or older] GASPAR MOREIRA SQUARE municipal swimming pools marta angelozzi [portugal] court avenue surrounding area ‘live imaginary 70’ 04.45pm 45’ landscapes’ [3 or older] teatro municipal swimming pools 11.45pm de montemuro [portugal] MUNICIPAL MARKET urban ballets [portugal / france/ ‘que raio de mundo’ [3 or older] 157 [portugal] ireland / south africa] gaspar moreira square 04.45pm ‘do número ‘blast’ [3 or older] 60’ colectivo ar_search [portugal] para a revolução’ [3 or older] court › s. nicolau street › vitorino ‘peça para piano municipal swimming pools sá street › descobrimentos street REPÚBLICA SQUARE e bicho da madeira’ [6 or older] › municipal swimming pools municipal market surrounding area 03.00pm 15’ 24 and 25 MAY | 05.00pm › 45’ les bleus de travail [france] 07.00pm | 09.00pm › 11.00pm ‘le voyage de noce’ [3 or older] gaspar moreira square filomena almeida [portugal] 50’ ‘esculturas de bolso’ [3 or older] LEGEND gaspar moreira square e imaginarius mais imaginarius zone show imaginarius creation national premiere world premiere travelling república square

international street theatre festival 06 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 imaginarius daily programming subject to changes due to logistical or weather constraints

26 MAY | 04.00pm › 06.00pm 22 MAY | 10.00am and 02.30pm 06.00pm SUPPORTED book launch filomena almeida [portugal] binaural / nodar [portugal] ‘coro: corpo coletivo e espaço 23 to 26 MAY ‘esculturas de bolso’ [3 or older] ‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’ poético’ by cláudia andrade old slaughterhouse rossio meeting point – market from 2.00pm meeting point music ‘o mercado’ 23 MAY | 05.00pm › 08.00pm 24 to 26 MAY at location pending to municipal market 24 MAY | 04.00pm › 07.00pm be confirmed [portugal] vhils [portugal] ‘quarteto português bismas das acácias [angola] ‘diorama cork faktory’ [3 or older] de trompas’ [3 or order] 24 and 25 MAY gaspar moreira square ‘angolan folk dances’ dr. roberto alves street municipal swimming pools 30’ surrounding area (next to the 00.00am binaural / nodar [portugal] fogaceiras scupltures) dj pål / secam [holland] ‘a vaquinha 07.00pm meeting point – market no vouguinha’ [3 or older] mais imaginarius train station › old slaughterhouse 23 and 24 MAY | 05.30pm › winners announcement cabine aberta [portugal] › municipal market 08.30pm meeting point – market ‘porta 13’ e ‘transat’ gaspar moreira square patrícia geraldes [portugal] antagon 07.15pm ‘caderno diário’ [3 or older] theater aktion [germany] music avenue dr. roberto vaz ‘organic theater in public at location pending to 25 MAY de oliveira space’ be confirmed [portugal] feira fire department ‘funk you brass band’ [3 or older] 03.00pm colectivo ar_search [portugal] multipurpose room under the municipal market ágil [portugal] ‘peça para piano roof ‘imagin'battle’ [3 or older] e bicho da madeira’ [3 or older] OTHER 45’ municipal swimming pools old municipal slaughterhouse 240’ - right nave 24 MAY 26 MAY from 5.00pm crassh [portugal] 00.45am drawing contest [portugal] ‘crassh’ [3 or older] music at location 05.00pm ‘imaginarius na rua’ municipal swimming pools pending to be music historical centre surrounding area confirmed [portugal] at location pending to ‘osmavati’ [3 or older] be confirmed [portugal] 05.45pm opening teorema das linhas [portugal] municipal swimming pools ‘quarteto português exhibit ‘tece-me’ [3 or older] surrounding area de trompas’ [3 or older] by isabel lhano [portugal] school delegation 60’ dr. roberto alves street ‘gente com luz própria’ 30’ with a performance by r&r [portugal] ‘colectivo poético silêncio da ‘calados contra 25 MAY 06.00pm gaveta’ a corrente’ [3 or older] music municipal library pools surrounding area 03.00pm › 05.00pm at location pending to open until 22 june | hours mon to fri 9.30am › república square international be confirmed [portugal] › 7.00pm | sat 10.30am › 10.00pm | sun 9.00pm › 11.30pm conference ‘funk you brass band’ [3 or older] WORKSHOPS on art and public space under the municipal market ‘imagined europe’ roof 21 › 23 MAY | 05.30pm › 08.30pm meeting point – market 45’ ljud group [slovenia] ‘build your own interactive character!’ municipal library LEGEND imaginarius mais imaginarius zone show imaginarius creation national premiere world premiere travelling

international street theatre festival 07 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 IMAGINARIUS COMPANIES patrick murys e casa da música ‘baile das bicycletas’ portugal imaginarius creation | world premiere

First there was an invitation by the festival to imagine a show with and around credits bicycles. It is an intermediate transportation means that goes beyond walking direction Patrick Murys musical direction Filipe Lopes and Gustavo Costa and running while remaining linked to human strength. set design Maria João Castelo and João Pinto One pedals for pleasure, pedals by conviction, pedals for the glory. instrument construction Raul Constante Pereira It is about gathering cycling enthusiasts, but also curious people, men and women, performers Susana Madeira, Inês Lua, Nuno Nogueira, Viriato Morais and Vitor Gomes some able to keep their balance on two wheels, others not really, around this musicians Jorge Queijo, Maria Mónica, Tiago Ângelo, Paulo Neto, Henrique Fernandes, Artur Carvalho, Angélica Vasquez and Nico Tricot project and invent a peloton. costumes Helena Guerreiro This peloton, like the caravans of perpetually moving nomads, is a big family made community participation Ana Machado, Ricardo Machado, Helena Santos, José Ferreira, André Ferreira, up of the residents of Santa Maria da Feira, actors and musicians. There are five Maria Silva, Ana Alves, Paulo Sousa, David Silva, Mara Soares, António Monteiro, Manuel Silva, Lurdes teams competing, each looking for victory but all depending on one another. Oliveira, Joaquim Alves, Durval Pinheiro, Dário Almeida, Débora Marques, Paula Santos, Joana Moreira, Fernanda Morais, Sara Figueiredo, Paulo Ferreira, Ana Marau, Bruno Soares, Márcia Gomes, Ana Reis, There is a starting line, a race, a finish line, a path crossing the city... Fernanda Valente, Mónica Teixeira, Natália Silva, Vasco Valente, Movimento e Bem Estar groups elements of the Feira and Milheirós de Poiares parishes and 1st cycle pupils from the basic schools of Póvoa – Paços Baile das Bicycletas (”Bicycle Ball”) is a show on a human scale where the grand de Brandão Grouping and Aldeia Sanfins – Dr. Ferreira de Almeida Grouping. prize is soup... Real soup or imaginary soup, the race has begun!

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international street theatre festival 09 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 urban ballets ‘blast’ portugal / france / ireland / south africa imaginarius creation | world premiere

Blast – An explosion of energy, music, colour and dance is the motto for a parade participating groups that will invade the streets of Santa Maria da Feira, on 24 and 25 May. It will be International Urban Ballets Project Hamid Ben Mahi, Frédéric Faula - France; Steven Mpiyakhe Faleni, Vusumuzi Wellcome Mdoyi - South Africa; Jo Zanders - Belgium; José Carlos Gomes Ferreira - Brazil a concentration of movements, images and contemporary urban sounds, with Creative Orchestra of Santa Maria da Feira rhythms from Europe and Africa. Audience participation throughout the entire All About Dance Company, Santa Maria da Feira length of the parade will be the fuse that will feed and make the whole show Les Grands Personnes, France explode. Students from the All About Dance Academy, Santa Maria da Feira RITMARE – Colégio Liceal Santa Maria de Lamas; Maestro Professor Pedro Almeida Young Musicians of the Crative Orchestra of Santa Maria da Feira Blast – Urban Ballets is an inter-cultural project that combines an international Santiago de Lobão Musical Band – Youth Orchestra section dimension, featuring artists from seven different countries, with an intergenerational Urban Dances Group – Colégio Liceal Santa Maria de Lamas dimension, as it relies on the participation of people from all age groups and various Sempr´a Bombar - Associação Pelo Prazer de Viver, Saúde, Cultura e Vida Ensemble from the Creative Orchestra's Musical Entertainment Course social strata. Dr. Crispim Social Centre, Milheirós de Poiares Fiães Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School The visual part of the parade will be directed by choreographers from three different Milheiros de Poiares Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School countries, bringing together influences from hip-hop, house and various South Aldeia Nova, Lourosa Basic 1st Cycle School Famílias + from Ferradal, Fiães African urban styles, while its musical direction will include four different nationalities, Santa Maria da Feira, Senior University, Maestrina Saudade Campos combining Portuguese traditional percussion instruments and instruments built João da Madeira Rotary Senior University from recycled materials, with other sounds with a strong component of electric Rufus & Circus – Casa dos Choupos, Santa Maria da Feira and electronic instruments. A TruPe – section of Grupo Canto Nosso, Milheirós de Poiares A Rua´Da – Fórum Ambiente e Cidadania de Mosteirô Musicians from the Louredo Light Orchestra Blast is a stage for interdisciplinary experimentation, where cultures meet and Musicians from the Colégio Liceal de Santa Maria de Lamas Orchestra celebrate, which results in a fusion show played by communities that do not usually work together. It sets an example in social inclusion work. It is a great party credits musical director Aleksander Karic for its audience. choreographic direction Vítor Fontes European Project Team - Carnaval de Deux Rives (Bordeaux), Belfast Carnival (Northern Ireland) and National With the participation of over 400 persons, the Blast - Urban Ballets project will Arts Festival (Grahamstown - South Africa). also feature a strong component of urban plasticity, with people dancing on costumes Cláudia Ribeiro costume assistants Joana Araújo and Ana Berta Cardoso imaginary instruments. Costumes have been based in harmonic conceptual construction and manipulation of puppets Les Grandes Personnes and local groups elements, with references to urban musical tradition and including Portuguese folk elements, with a strong focus on local raw materials, profiting from the synergies financing of the whole region, which is rich in an innovating and diverse industry. We have, therefore, a group of colourful flying hats that intensify the parade's goal: to consecrate music and movement. This project also features the construction and manipulation of large puppets by French company Les Grandes Personnes and support local groups.

international street theatre festival 10 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 cie willi dorner ‘bodies in urban spaces’ austria imaginarius creation | world premiere

The Cie. Willi Dorner was founded in 1999 by Willi Dorner and is based in Vienna. Reviews Originally trained as a dancer at Konservatorium Privatuniversiät Vienna, Willi For sheer magnetic excitement, the Vienna-based choreographer Willi Dorner set in motion Dorner works as a choreographer, produces performances and installations, on the streets of Center City one of the most engaging public performances seen in recent photographs, videos and films. years. Besides his internationally touring dance performances, Willi Dorner is keen on Jonathan M. Stein, 2009 creating events that give the audience the opportunity for new experiences, insights and a different perception of everyday life. … the space between a lamppost and a wall will not be the same. Ballet.magazine UK, John Mallinson, October 2009 Bodies in Urban Spaces is a temporary intervention in a diversified urban architectonic environment. The intention of “Bodies in urban spaces” is to point credits concept, choreography Willi Dorner out the urban functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement assistants to choreographer Ian Dolan, Nicholas Keegan possibilities and behaviour, as well as rules and limitations. photos Lisa Rastl By placing the bodies in selected spots, the interventions provoke a thinking support of the cultural office of the City of Vienna process and produce irritation. Passers-by, residents and audience are motivated coproduction Serralves em Festa and Imaginarius Festival Its performance in Downtown Oporto and at Serralves em Festa! is supported by the Oporto City Council. and prompted to reflect on their urban surrounding and their own movement behaviour and habits. As a moving trail choreographed for a group of dancers, Bodies in urban spaces leads the audience through selected parts of public and semi-public spaces. It invites the residents to walk their own city, thus establishing a stronger relationship with their neighbourhood, district and town. The interventions are temporary and leave no traces behind, only imprints in the eye-witnesses' memory.

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international street theatre festival 11 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 edith scher and omar gasparini ‘travessia’ argentina imaginarius creation | world premiere

This project's specific goal is to create a show for Imaginarius 13, whose actors credits are residents/neighbours of Santa Maria da Feira (joining three parishes, Lobão, performers Lobão, Louredo and Guisande Community Theatre Group concept Collective. Louredo and Guisande, which, as part of a national territorial reorganization, are director Edith Scher currently in the process of merging into one). The objective in the middle term is assistant director João Pedro Correia that this show will result in consolidating a community theatre group that will grow music assistant Maria Vasquez and develop. The show is centred on the collective memory, a work methodology Costumes: Carolina Sousa and Nuno Encarnação sound Rodolfo Sá Pereira that has existed in Argentina for almost 30 years, called “From Neighbours to light Cláudia Valente Neighbours” research support Cecília Melo and Roberto Carlos Reis The neighbours were directed by theatre, music and visual arts professionals, in group management Ana Guiomar and Liseta da Costa a context which enabled them to develop their creativity within a collective creation drawing and completion of the mural at the lobão social centre Omar Gasparini with the Lobão, Louredo based upon memory and identity. and Guisande Community Theatre Group Where did we come from? What happened to us? What do our songs tell us about ourselves? thanks Lobão, Guisande and Louredo Parishes and Basic 2nd /3rd Cycle School of Corga de Lobão

Travessia (”Crossing”) brings back some of the historical moments of the last few years, narrated from the point of view of Santa Maria da Feira's neighbours. It is a journey that touches identity from the reports, fragments and memories of the neighbours. This collective production constructs a narration that weaves moments that lie dormant in the collective memory, incorporating the local characters and folk legends. The neighbours are both creators and protagonists of their own story in this production that aims to integrate the artistic praxis into the everyday lives of local residents. At the same time, and from the same material, muralist Omar Gasparini will sketch a mural which he will paint with all the neighbours. The mural, to be unveiled at the Festival, is an excellent way of bringing the residents of Santa Maria da Feira together to participate. This way, by making Art/Theatre, one intends to unite different groups, generations, histories and everyday lives, thus boosting social dynamics and promoting personal and collective development.

international street theatre festival 12 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 vhils ‘diorama cork faktory’ portugal imaginarius creation | world premiere

Alexandre Farto (1987), a visual artist, has been developing his work in an urban environment, under the name of “Vhils”, since he started doing graffiti, in the early 2000's. Having grown in Seixal, a region with a large industrial tradition, he was strongly influenced by the intense development that transformed Portugal during the 80's/90's. An avid experimentalist, he has developed his aesthetics of vandalism in interventions and in solo and collective exhibits around the world, on a wide array of media – from stencil painting to the mural sculpture technique – which has projected him as one of the most acclaimed names in world urban art panorama.

Diorama Cork Faktory is a large format sculpture based on the Diorama series, whose scale fills the space of an old factory with links to the cork industry. Its intricate lines express the close relationship between human beings and their working environment, a complex web of mutual influence which gives shape and substance to their bond. Made of cork, the piece explores the juxtaposition between the individual's social and cultural identity and the industrial environment where he plies his trade, while also reflecting on industry's role in the economy and the lack of investment that has plagued Portugal's secondary sector during the last few decades, as well as on the consequences that this abandonment has had on individuals and populations who depend on it. The piece will be carried in a procession by factory workers and placed on the City Hall's side wall facing credits Gaspar Moreira Square, where it will be exhibited for a fortnight. This action intends piece production Alberto Gomes, Amadeu Tavares, Américo Angélica, Arlindo Relvas, Fernando Fontes, Fernando Pereira, Francisco Rocha, João Oliveira, Jorge Guedes, Manuel Magalhães, Manuel Rocha, Maria to pay tribute to the workers' toil, while also underlining the importance of technical Silva, Maria Sousa, Pedro Melo and Rosalina Sousa work in artistic activity. Through the shadow play propitiated by its form, the piece takes on the role of a representative model that allows a new perspective and an extensive panoramic interpretation of the urban industrial contexts we live and work in, and of this process of mutual moulding.

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international street theatre festival 13 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 teatro o bando ‘a jangada de pedra ’ portugal world premiere

Rafts all of us leaving not yet knowing where for, setting off from the vices and the old, effete systems. All of us looking at that fragmented rock, that Europe divided into so many centres and as many peripheries. All of us searching for the difference, the identity, the sovereignty and asking the other travellers: WHERE ARE WE GOING?

Founded in 1974, one of the oldest cultural cooperatives in the country, Teatro O Bando sees itself as a collective that chooses aesthetic transfiguration as a way of civic and community involvement. O Bando's creations are defined by their visual and scenographic features, particularly marked by their Stage Machines and their dramaturgical work. Mainly by Portuguese authors, the texts they stage are mostly non-dramatic works, to which the theatrical form lends a whole different communicability. Teatro O Bando continues to pursue singularity in their creations through a collectivist methodology that seeks difference, interference, rupture and colliding points of view. Rural or urban, adult or infant, erudite or popular, national or universal, dramatic, narrative or poetic – such are the boundaries that Teatro O Bando got used to trespassing. Throughout their path, the group became involved in multiple national and international projects, and their investment in travelling still takes several shows around the country and across borders. After many addresses, for twelve years now Teatro O Bando has been residing in a farm in Vale dos Barris – Palmela, where a yet unknown number of potential stages made of stars, olive trees and boulders.

credits cooperative direction João Brites, Raúl Atalaia andSara de Castro artistic direction João Brites, Rui Francisco, Jorge Salgueiro, Teresa Lima, Clara Bento andMiguel Jesus permanent team João Brites, Raúl Atalaia, Sara de Castro, Fátima Santos, Miguel Jesus, Guilherme Noronha, Paula Gato and Lúcia Rus collaborators Ana do Rosário de Bragança, António Braga, Elsa Ferreira, Lima Ramos, Sérgio Milhano, Isabel Atalaia, Setulgeste and Famcorp cooperants Adelaide João, Ana Brandão, Antónia Terrinha, António Braga, Bibi Gomes, Clara Bento, Fátima Santos, Gonçalo Amorim, Guilherme Noronha, Horácio Manuel, Isabel Atalaia, João Brites, Jorge Salgueiro, Lima Ramos, Miguel Jesus, Miguel Moreira, Nicolas Brites, Paula Só, Pedro Gil, Raúl Atalaia, Rui Francisco, Sara de Castro and Suzana Branco

text José Saramago dramaturgy João Brites stage direction and set design João Brites and Rui Francisco actors Anna Kurika, Bruno Bento, Guilherme Noronha, Miguel Branca, Nuno Nunes and Sara de Castro music Jorge Salgueiro spoken word Teresa Lima costume design Clara Bento props Fátima Santos lighting design João Cachulo sound design Sérgio Milhano

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international street theatre festival 14 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 antagon theater aktion ‘ginkgo’ germany national premiere

Vita ”The task of art, culture, education, and the upbringing of the future generations can only be to sensitize humans to comprehend that they can break through the reins of control and once again perceive themselves as part of the Earth.” Josef Mayer

antagon theater AKTion, founded by Bernhard Bub in 1990 as the theatre on Wheels, is an independent performance theatre of the modern times, a theatre which nonetheless searches for traces of the forgotten, traditional roots of the theatre.

”Energy is there, where people come together with their strengths and weaknesses. It is a long process that differs greatly from the short-of-breath atmosphere that characterizes our current social situation, which cannot be won with money or deals. In the organic theatre, if it is about an honest and direct relationship to life, the human being is in the middle as the most important aspect.” – Bernhard Bub, Artistic Director, antagon theater AKTion

For us, theatre is the process that occurs within a group while collaborating on a project. antagon works with performers from all over the world, activating the audiences' senses with our voices and our bodies, through music, acrobatics and improvisation, by dancing on stilts, with fire, surrounded by sculptural stages built on the spot.

“The theatre is not violence, it is erosion. It likes to wear down the moulds of society. In contrast to a hurricane, it is rather like water or the wind, which form the ever changing face of the Earth in nearly imperceptible ways.” Omar Valiño

Ginkgo is a racy outdoor performance with pyrotechnic effects, fire, stilt artists, hanging installations as well as self – composed live music – a composition that creates vivid, haunting and, at the same time, poetic moments. The première took place in Bucharest, Romania, in 2008. Ginkgo has a 360° setting, mostly overhead, for a big audience. Play time is approximately 70 minutes. Its content is linked to the nuclear disaster in 1945. It shows how, even in a seemingly inverted world of egoism, exploitation, ecological devastation and wars, nature puts all its force at any time in living. Catastrophes can´t set back the force of nature. After the atomic strike on Hiroshima, the Ginkgo tree was nothing than a charred stump. However, it started out to new live. On a rather futuristic stage setting, a group of human beings struggles for life. Then they find hope and trust in the invincible, positive power of nature, origin for growth and prosperity. Where do humans find this power? How do we generate it? Is it an already existing, every human inherent power, concealed deep down inside of us, like old and forgotten memories? In an atmosphere of constant changes that we might very well perceive as threatening, our theatre dares to look back on the last six decades and, with this in mind, asks what Hiroshima has changed and whether we can live under the burden of the atomic threat. The tragic nuclear accident 2011 in Fukushima had a tremendous impact on the latest revival of Ginkgo. Ginkgo asks whether it is still possible nowadays to believe in a dignified world worth living in and answers the question positively.

international street theatre festival 15 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 ballet contemporâneo ‘a construção’ grupo XIX de teatro ‘hygiene’ do norte world premiere brazil portugal

Formed in 1995 as an amateur structure, the Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte Grupo XIX de Teatro has devoted the last 10 years to a continuous work of has developed an extensive activity in the field of Contemporary Dance. The period thematic research devoted to Brazilian history, an aesthetic research involving the between 1996 and 1997 witnessed the assertion and development of the existing exploration of historic buildings as scenic spaces and an investigation on active talent and willingness, which gained the attention from official entities, both local audience participation. Since 2004, the group conducts an artistic residency at and national. BCN relied from its beginning on financial support from the Estarreja the Maria Zélia Workers Village in Belém (São Paulo), which has been declared City Council, and in 1997 was granted a one-time subsidy by the Ministry of a national monument. The group is currently sponsored by PETROBRÁS. Culture (IPAE). Hygiene, the group's second play, is the result of the “A Residência”, one of the With a permanent concern for the artistic future of the BCN project, one sought 12 projects approved by the City of São Paulo's Theatre Investment Act (January to stimulate from the start the desire and talent for choreographic creation in all 2004). For this play, the group was nominated for the 2005 Shell Theatre Award members of its structure. To invest in the talent of BCN's young dancers is to and the Bravo! Prime Culture Award as one of the three best shows of the year, invest in the future of Contemporary Dance's artistic creation and, at the same and won, for best show of the year, the 2005 Brazil Quality Award – São Paulo. time, to put to practice the idea championed by Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte In 2006, the group took part in the Official Selection of Contemporary Theatre of of decentralizing artistic production: BCN is a place for creation and experimenting, the Curitiba Theatre Festival, in the Londrina International Festival, in the Extrema dialogue and discussion, exchanging ideas and knowledge, always with Art in Festival (Mato Grosso), in the Riocenacontemporânea, Araquara Festival, general and Dance in particular as its backdrop. Proximidades – Theatre Groups Meeting – Fortaleza (Ceará) and in the Paidéia Ballet Contemporâneo do Norte is currently taking up a residency in Santa Maria Festival. The play was also awarded with the PETROBRÁS FUNARTE Circulação da Feira, with the support of the local City Council and the Feira Viva municipal Nacional Award, which completed a season in the cities of Blumenau (Santa company, envisioning a new leap forward in its career and the beginning of a new Catarina), Santos (São Paulo), Salvador (Bahía), Ouro Branco and Diamantina cycle in its life. (Mina Gerais). In 2010, it was performed in Rio Branco (Acre) and Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais) and its circulation project was approved by ProAc (São Paulo) A Construção: How many persons does it take to build an idea? To give meaning leading to performances in Jacareí and Sorocaba. Since its première it has to the things we build every day? completed several seasons in the city of São Paulo. This construction comes from nowhere. It springs from the will to create and give meaning to an idea, the idea of building a space that can shelter all. A centre for Hygiene reflects on the historical moment when Brazil was being rapidly built, concerns and projections of a near future. and taking thousands of emigrants everyday. That was the contingent of cultures Built by unusual persons, designed by unusual persons, and perceived by other, and ideas that lived together in the large tenements in central Rio de Janeiro. And, equally unusual ones. We have built the idea that it is possible to build and continue, from that melting pot, it didn't take long for the seeds of important manifestations in a perpetual circular movement. of Brazilian identity to arise, alongside the social inequalities that have a profound From a collaboration with the Prison of Santa Cruz do Bispo, where the performers impact on our present day dilemmas. are temporarily living, this “Construction” was born. By telling the story of workers, immigrants, washerwomen, whores, freed slaves, healers and traders in turn-of-the-century Rio de Janeiro, when housing became credits a public issue and society, inspired by European urban models, decided to put stage direction and composition Pedro Rosa to practice the concept of the single-family house, Grupo XIX de Teatro brings to stage design, construction workshop direction João Pedro Rodrigues choreography, movement workshop direction Flávio Rodrigues the surface the features that will leave a deep impression on the construction of direction, picture and editing Nelson Castro and Sofia Afonso Brazilian identity. Samba, religious syncretism and workers struggles, among other lighting design João Teixeira sociocultural manifestations, were originated in those collective residences. By audio post-production and musical composition Carlos Salgueiros putting those past lives in contact with today, one is highlighting Brazil's dilemmas general coordination Susana Otero general coordination assistant Luís Carolino and challenges for the future. executive producer Joana Ferreira credits production Grupo XIX de Teatro executive producer research and creation Grupo XIX de Teatro dramaturgy Vanessa Candela partnership Imaginarius, O Teatrão, Janaina Leite, Juliana Sanches, Luiz Fernando Marques, FITEI and Teatro Virgínia under the Mostra de São Palco Paulo Celestino, Rodolfo Amorim, Ronaldo Serruya and Sara Antunes cast Janaina Leite, Juliana Sanches, partnership Paulo Celestino, Rodolfo Amorim, Ronaldo Serruya and Tatiana Caltabiano direction Luiz Fernando Marques costumes Renato Bolelli stage manager Felipe Cruz

international street theatre festival 16 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 teatro do montemuro ‘que raio de mundo’ poesia no corpo, corpo ‘estás a olhar p'ra mim?’ portugal world premiere na poesia world premiere portugal

It's been 20 years since the moment when a group of young people took their Promoted by Casa dos Choupos, the Poesia no Corpo, Corpo na Poesia first steps in theatre. Still today, it is in the village of Campo Benfeito, lost between project aims to experience performance in an attempt to transform a space, taking labyrinthine paths and hills circling Montemuro Mountain, that the team arduously into account collective creation and the performer as a total being. labours at creating innovative projects. Besides these persons, each new project It promotes intergenerational cooperation and collective involvement, as it relies brings to Campo Benfeito new collaborators from all over the country and abroad. on the participation of 12 individuals with ages ranging from 12 to 76. If, on the Actors, stage designers, playwrights and stage directors travel to the village feeling one hand, Poetry benefits from being a place open to crossings with other arts, enthusiastic for creating something different, something singular. Being a company namely Dance, on the other hand, Dance also benefits from being able to experience in a rural environment, Teatro do Montemuro is obligated, but also pleased, to be other universes, such as the Word. a travelling company, 21st century “harlequins”, that relies heavily on large sets, detailed costumes, masks, props and live music. Throughout these years as a Estás a olhar p’ra mim? (”Are you looking at me?”) is a piece about dance in professional theatre company, the group has distinguished itself for the authenticity people's lives, about giving and sharing. Dancing with your eyes closed. Dancing and originality of its texts, visual, music, and also for the work of its actors, based in a group. Dancing alone. Dancing in the streets. Dancing at home. Dancing with on truth, emotion, joy and physicality taken to exhaustion. a partner... Twelve persons of different ages demonstrate the pleasure of dancing, in a piece Teatro do Montemuro has now created a new street project. Que Raio de that reflects upon intimacy and desire. By dancing, each performer is rewarded Mundo (“What Kind of a World”) is an entertaining and exiting new story. A show by the sensation of that pleasure, through movements that are present in their full of surprises and with a strong musical side. As always, a set that is rediscovered lives. at every moment. Somewhere between a music concert, a physical theatre performance and a surreal political rally by a party that doesn't exist yet, a bunch credits of old-school storytellers seize the moment and the fact that the people has created by Helena Oliveira, Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro gathered around the old oak to earn some extra change, entertain us and make and Mariana Nascimento. us think. costumes Helena Oliveira, Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro credits and Mariana Nascimento. staging Graeme Pulleyn cast Armanda Alves, Margarida Teixeira, Manuel Magalhães, Constança Rodrigues, Celeste Silva, José dramaturgy Eduardo Correia Santos, Joana Carmo, Bárbara Correia, Mariana Ataíde, Sandra Esteves, Raquel Monteiro and Mariana musical direction António Pedro Nascimento. set design Kevin Plumb music Mum – “Finally We Are No One”; Arvo Pärt – “Passio Tonus Peregrinus”; Tindesticks – “Falling down cast Abel Duarte, Eduardo Correia, Paulo Duarte, Tanya Ruivo + 2 a Mountain” sets built by Cal Carlos assistance to set desing and contruction Maria da Conceição Almeida lighting design Paulo Duarte production and communication Paula Teixeira

international street theatre festival 17 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 bismas das acácias ‘ocisoko’ les bleus de travail ‘le voyage de noces’ angola france national premiere

Founded on 21 April, 1984, the Bismas das Acácias group was the result of a In 1998, after passing through the Archaos and Plume circuses, Sylvain Granjon, merger of groups, namely the Acácias, the Pop's and a bunch of boys that break Alexandre Demay and Danier Péan created the Les Bleus de Travail company. danced. The name of the group was inspired by the abundance of “Marias” in its Six shows were performed: “ça s'annonce mal” in 1999, for the theatre midst (“Bis” for “repetition” + “Mas” for “Marias” = BISMAS); and because they “Sous les pavés, les Bleus” in 2002, for the street; were from Benguela, known as the City of Acacias. The group is currently owned Then in a duo with Alexandre Demay and Sylvain Granjon: “Bonjour Bonheur” in by Bismas das Acácias - Acção para a Cultura e Desenvolvimento (since November 2004, for the theatre, “Le Ring” in 2005, for the street, “Le voyage de noces”, 1998). 2009, street; It sees itself as one of the bulwarks of the roots of Angolan culture, through its Then solo: “Les histoires de Marcel”, 2008, clown by Alexandre Demay, “Mr Sylvain rural research of national folklore that is the base for the creation of its choreographies. et son petit chien”, 2008, act with a dog by Sylvain Granjon. This will be its third appearance in Portugal - the first was in 1995 and the second More than 800 performances in 12 countries and 5 languages (France, Spain, at Expo 98. Italy, Japan, Germany, Holland, Switzerland, Quebec, Portugal, England and The dances that will be performed (Koti Kolumbula, Ndungo, Ukongo, Firmino, Austria). Cidungue, Sindeta...) portray the everyday lives of Angolans in the fields of An estimated 300 000 spectators have seen at least one show by Les Bleus de agriculture, hunting, leisure and cultural institutions like evamba (a school fore male Travail! initiation among the ovimbundo people), marriage and masked folklore, and many others. Marcel and Raymonde are about 31, the chrome trimmings of their Fiat 500 have It won the dance category of the first National Culture Festival “FENACULT/89”. just been polished and Kiki (their stuffed dog) has been brushed and groomed. In 2007, it received the National Culture Award for dance - the highest state They are ready to leave for their honeymoon!! accolade in the field. But the Fiat 500 breaks down. The battle continues, for, according to its motto, “movement without effort is They are still far from suspecting that this trip will turn into a real initiation journey! worthless”. For an hour they will face endless ordeals. It has toured Egypt (1988 and 2000), Sweden (1998 and 2000), Spain (Expo 2008), Rwanda (2011), South Africa (1999) and Namibia (1997).

international street theatre festival 18 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 crassh ‘crassh_street 2.0’ trupe koskowisck ‘olha o palhaço no meio da rua’ portugal ‘crassh_street 3.0’ brazil

After several years of work, the Crassh project was born spontaneously, but with Trupe Koskowisck is a group of actors-clowns which develop work and research determination, in 2007, in the county of Oliveira do Bairro. It resulted from the in Street Theatre, Circus and Circus-Theatre. It was born in 2005, performing dedication of Bruno Estima, its mentor and artistic director, together with the work improvised scenes on the street. Presently, it aims to perform sketches with and commitment of 12 percussionists. Besides countless other performances, differentiated looks and language, while, of course, keeping all its essence. Their in 2012 it toured the European Capitals of Youth and Culture. The CRASSH repertoire includes about 12 shows. Their history features several important events, project was awarded with: 1st Place TETRA 07 – d'ORFEU Águeda; 1st Place such as: II International Female Clowns Festival /07; SESC Street Theatre JOVENS Criadores IPJ 08 (musical field) - National; 1st Place Carlos Marques 08 Exhibition/09; Satyrianas 2009/10/11; Rio das Ostras Nacional Festival RJ/10; – EAB; Trophy “Performance on Stage 2009” – Aveiro FM e 1st Place GrandeC Patacomico Festival - El Bolsón - Patagónia 2012/2013. 2011 – Ministry of Education. Crassh presents shows that are adaptable to all stages and audiences, with no language barriers and suitable for all ages. The Olha o palhaço no meio da rua (“Look at the clown in the middle ofthe street”) Crassh performances reach their peak during the moments of interaction with the is a musical concert. The two musician clowns fight for the audience's attention, audience, making for total, surprising and captivating shows. Its audience is served in a competition that admits all kinds of tricks and traps. Unusual situations ensue. by a contagious energy, energetic playing and full-proof humour. Crassh_Street Mice, water and baby powder on the face are just a few of those gimmicks. The is made with buckets, pipes, helmets, saws... everything becomes a motive and show spontaneously divides the audience, seduced by conventional and alternative an instrument for creating movement and sound. In Street, voice is a new element instruments alike. The various rhythms and each one's favourite style encourage where all lyrics are in “Crasshonese”, a universal language. the audience to take part in that dispute. When they realise that there is no harmony when they are apart, they join forces credits to produce a great and unusual show. concept and artistic direction Bruno Estima Right after the musical, the clowns perform classic circus openings and encores artistic direction assistant Artur Carvalho players / músicians Cristiano Rios, David Valente, Nuno Ferreira, Miguel Estima, Micael Lourenço, Roberto like “Abelha Abelhinha”, “Pilherias”, “Malabares Cómico” and Magia Cómica”. This Carvalho, João Bastos, Luís Carcoleiro, Gonçalo Garcia, David Calhau, Artur Carvalho and Bruno Estima time, the audience is invited to take an active part in the scenes, thus strengthening human resource management David Calhau the bond between the spectators and the artists. sound design Gonçalo Garcia All sketches are circus classics that were passed on orally from one generation stage manager Rogério Garcia logistics João Bastos to the next. costumes Patrícia Costa design e photography Rita Silva credits executive producer Cândida Silva cast Geisa Helena and Alexandre Malhone (Chiquita and Cotonete the Clowns) production WETUMTUM directed by Hudson Rocha (Kuxixo the Clown) thanks to Bairrada Arts School and Oliveira do Bairro City Council this show was put on with support from ProAC and toured several cities in Brazil and Agentina

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international street theatre festival 19 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 diana carneiro ‘mr. shimokawa’ joão pamplona ‘hangover’ e joão dias portugal / norway portugal

Uggh… Blahhh. Nhec. Burp. Glup. Ppfii… Plof! Flush... Done. The three players, Kristian Winther, João Pamplona and Mads Petterson – Slowly I pull myself together and, shamelessly, rapidly wrap myself in a frantic, graduates from the Norwegian Theatre Academy in Fredrikstad (NO) in 2006 slimy whirlpool of immaculate impurity. – proposed to the Nordland Teater the creation of an original performance that My muse is my stool. would depart from conventional theatre based on text or written narrative. From the ambition of composing visual, physical theatre, and inspired by “Plank Mr. Shimokawa is a performance that has been developed from a brief presentation piece” by Charles Ray – an installation featuring himself bending over a wooden by the students of contemporary dance, part of the BOOM show by the All About plank – “Hangover” was born, premièring in Moirana (NO), at the Nordland Dance Academy. The piece's starting point is the hero of the story “Abandon the Teater, in March 2007. In May of the same year, Hangover was staged at the Old in Tokyo” by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, which focuses the piece's essence on the gut Stamsund Festivalen in Lofoten (NO). feelings experienced during a casual and unwelcome visit to the most vulgar of João Pamplona returned to Portugal in 2011, recruited a work team and re- community lavatories. premièred Hangover at the Manobras no Porto festival in 2012.

Diana Carneiro – Graduated in Dance by the Balleteatro Escola Profissional Hangover (2003/2006), with a degree in Entertainment and Cultural Production from the “Hangover will never be the same”. Oporto Higher Artistic School (2006/2009) and a post-graduate in Arts Management Three strangers wake up in a closed space with no comfort and, apparently, no by the Catholic University of Oporto. Participated in several workshops and training exits either. With no idea where they are or how they got there, they all share a courses, where she learned different techniques, in London, Brussels, Berlin and common grievance – a terrible hangover. Will they withstand this situation? Portugal. Presently she is a dancer and choreographer at the LABU Dance Hangover was born by researching the meaning of word in a particular space with Company, and performed “Psicanálise” at the Hard Club in Oporto and Mais specific situations that promote actions of a physical nature. Imaginarius 2012; and “Uma Pequena Morte” at Made in Feira 2012. In the same It's an almost dialogue-free performance, with a painful humour subject to multiple year she led the Choreographic Creation Lab by Companhia Instável, which interpretations. Hangover, hang-over, over. resulted in the solo “Daddy's Little Girl”. She is a dancer at the All About Dance company. credits concept and creation Kristian Winther, João Pamplona and Mads Petterson performers João Pamplona, Martinho Silva and Gilberto Oliveira João Dias – A dancer since 2003, he received dance training in Portugal, London stage design Andreia Leandro and Brussels. Presently, he is a dancer and choreographer at the LABU Dance light design Øyvind Furuhatt Company and the All About Dance Company and a former member of the Kuki machinery Filipe Silva Dance Company. As a performer and co creator, he participated in “Asylum” executive producer Cristiana Gaspar (Imaginarius 2010), “Distortion” (Imaginarius 2011), “Psicanálise” (Mais Imaginarius 2012), “A Ballet Story”, a Nome Próprio/Guimarães European Capital of Culture 2012 co-production performed in Guimarães, Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro (Festival Panorama 2012), “Untitled# .1981” (a duet with Helena Oliveira within the Choreographic Creation Lab – Palcos Instáveis 2012. He is currently taking the Integrated Masters degree in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Oporto. credits art direction Diana Carneiro and João Dias choreography Diana Carneiro and João Dias performers Students from the contemporary project of the All About Dance Academy sound design Marco Ferreira lighting design Diana Carneiro and João Dias costumes / props João Rola supported by LABU_Plataforma Artística, All About Dance and Cogruci

international street theatre festival 20 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 cie du p'tit vélo ‘pétafun tour’ residual gurus ‘residual gurus’ france spain

Cie du P'tit Vélo has worked since 2001 around a surrealist, musical, circus-like, Residual Gurus was born of the idea of creating a street show that would combine poetic incursion, everywhere and for everyone. This human and artistic adventure quality music and mime theatre with a component of social criticism, thus raising develops, working collectively, an atypical fanfare. Improvisation, direct contact consciousness regarding the issues of today's world, like interpersonal reclusion, with the audience and the world of travelling make the singularity of this company. economical inequalities and industrial overproduction, from a humorous and creative point of view, serving all kinds of audiences. Pétafun Tour – A crazy street punk fanfare, both travelling and fixed. Aboard a Music is this show's central axis, its main inspiration source being Southern India's tiny car towing a mini-caravan, 6 reckless musicians drag their patched universe, carnatic percussion and its rhythmic language – the so-called konnakol. The their battered metals and their overflowing energy; their accordion player muffled sounds made by materials from the industrial society (bottles, pipes and cans), by the loud bass-drums and the backfiring exhaust. They will turn your bodies together with the magic of Bali's gamelan gongs, create a style somewhere into an undulating material for an unforgettable, unique and warm moment. between electronic music, new-age and Brazilian beats. The combination of these – apparently so distant – elements is just a sample of the globalized reality we live For the Imaginarius festival, this wild bunch is inviting an artist from the Au Tour in; a reality that favours, at the same time, totally original, innovating music. Since Du Nez company, born in Santa Maria da Feira, for a French-Portuguese creative its première at the 2009 Tàrrega Theatre Fair, the show has been performed in meeting. various festivals around the world, always generating a positive reaction from audiences and promoters alike, making Residual Gurus a constantly evolving The P'tit Vélo company has participated in the international street theatre Aurillac show. festival (France); Rendez Vous Chez Nous festival in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso); Nuit des Lampions in Wiltz (Luxembourg), Fête de la Brebis in Réquista (France). Five executives, absorbed by their cell phones, turn their lives around as they convert a pile of garbage into a sound laboratory, through games, interaction, listening, group work, experimenting, love…

international street theatre festival 21 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 ljud group ‘the invasion’ slovenia national premiere

The Ljud group was established in 2006, aiming to bring high quality contemporary art to a wider audience. It consists of directors, performers and visual artists from across Europe dedicated to exploring the possibilities of artistic expression in public space and new theatrical forms based on interaction rather than presentation.

The Invasion project is a mixture of visual spectacle and interaction between audience and actors, based on non-verbal physical theatre and site-specific live compositions. An interplanetary expedition of immigrants from outer space has landed on our planet. Members of the expedition belong to different alien species, but as a reaction to the Earth atmosphere they have all gained a new protective colour, so that humans would not take them too seriously. Every alien character has its own story, its own ways of communicating, and challenges the public in a different way. The aliens have a special sensibility, seeing the world around us as a completely new and exiting place. In search of a new home, they try to integrate into our society. The Invasion examines questions concerning multicultural societies and the conventions of behaviour in public space. The audience is invited to react spontaneously, become part of the story and join the performers as they explore the border between fiction and reality, establishing theatre as a game, a ritual and a social event. Prepare yourself for some truly unexpected “interplanetary” dialogue. But please, don't panic! They come in pink …

"Authentic madness." Fiesta cultura magazine "... addictive interactions ..." Delo, Ljubljana "Simple and ingenious." Ve_erka, Brest “Better then “Avatar” in 3D!” Sjaellandske Medier, Vordingborg credits This project was developed as a co-production with La Strada Festival of Graz and supported by IN SITU (European network for artistic creation in public spaces). Since its première in Graz, August 2008, the aliens appeared on more than 60 international festivals in 27 countries. More information available at: www.ljud.si

international street theatre festival 22 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 orquestra todos ‘concerto’ portugal

Orquestra Todos – A Lisboan Dream I always thought that the reality of a large city is made of complex relationships that are weaved everyday between people and places. Thus, cities often into laboratories for experimenting with everyday life: being, thinking, living.

Meeting different cultures is, as I see it, an added value that belongs in every city's history. These meetings transform and remodel relationships between people and the very meeting spaces. As maestro Mario Tronco used to say at the concerts by Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio and Orquestra Todos, “Mixing cultures creates beauty. Mixtures and contaminations are one of the basis of contemporary cultures. Naples is unique and fascinating because it's Arab, French, Spanish... Like it's own language, Neapolitan, which contains all those sonorities; even German.”

This project for a Lisboan Orchestra, which was born in the midst of TODOS Festival, sprang from several meetings with Italian Maestro Mario Tronco, during the many concerts by the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio (OPV) in Lisbon. From those meetings and many exchanges of views concerning the role played by culture in various cities and countries around the world, questions/reflections on art arose: Festival Todos is a place for cultural practices around a multicultural geographic The importance of art and the need for its existence within both individual and territory in the city of Lisbon. It was here that the adventure of Orquestra Todos social life; began, in the same way the history of OPV started in the Esquilino neighbourhood The analysis of the strength of artistic projects as an engine for the development in Rome, 10 years ago - as an answer to artistic and political concerns in of contemporary social life; search of a praxis; bringing to life a project that had been though by others The redefinition of the role of artistic programming – from its own spaces, its before, but never consummated. relationship with the public, its links with the territory and the presence of artists After OPV's concert at the TODOS Festival, Caminhada de Cultural in 2009, and their creations in that territory; at Largo do Intendente, near Martim Moniz, the idea came up to create a new The arts configure a living sensitive space in order to invent new meeting musical project from Lisbon. Mario Tronco and Pino Pecorelli, both from OPV, arrangements for the various communities that inhabit the city and its territory were ready to start a new experience, where it would be possible to find new – a cultural place that provides us with a feeling of common belonging and sounds, other cultures, new musicians. A new orchestra could be born from helps the community to look differently at life; the sounds that Portuguese culture welcomes and contains from the richness Art as one of life's necessities; art as a world view, art which is missed, art of the relationships it always nourished with territories both near or on the which is mindful of social transformations, a reflex of changes, art as a living other side of the world: northern, central and southern Portugal, Cape Verde, space, full of critical questions regarding world order; India, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola. The role of art in our society – the cultural identity of a city from its relationship Project TODOS, Caminhada de Culturas and Academia de Produtores Culturais with art, the various urban spaces and artistic creation. were, at the same time, the engine and the context for the birth and growth of this orchestra. The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Lisbon City Considerations and points of view in search of a cultural praxis. Council/GLEM (Gabinete Lisboa Encruzilhada de Mundos) were our leading partners. Creating the group of musicians that would become the orchestra's organic future was a fascinating process. The search for the various possible musical connections, the research of various musicians in all of the city's social contexts, street included, under the watchful guidance of Francesco Valente, an Italian bassist and an adopted Lisboan musician, made it possible for us to have an effective relationship with the multicultural musical world of mixed-blood Lisbon, the hidden musical Lisbon. The first rehearsals took place in the heart of Mouraria, at Sport Club do Intendente. Ours is an experimental work method that is built upon each of the musical and cultural personalities, according to our own concept of collective; continuously adding and subtracting in our search for a common language. Generosity and knowing how to learn and give build, throughout rehearsals, the possible group. All musicians in the orchestra live in Portugal and bring their cultural heritage with them. The fact that they remained in this country enables the first mixture. They no longer belong to their country but they are not Portuguese yet. They are foreigners everywhere and in search of a new culture that mixes them all. Orquestra Todos is the meeting place where a common language is born that belongs only to this group and this collective. This music and this culture speak their own language, which is mixture of them all. Bastard music, with many fathers and many mothers: that is the nature and pride of this orchestra.

international street theatre festival 23 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 MAIS IMAGINARIUS COMPANIES

More Imaginarius has established itself, in recent years, as an essential component of the Imaginarius Festival, challenging and opening the public space to daring proposals from young artists offering artistic paths that question the public's perceptions.

In 2013, More Imaginarius will privilege projects promoting independent thinking, taking and assuming the risks of experimental creation and creating an informed and sustained artistic praxis, as well as proposals that confront local culture and community with contemporary artistic languages, in an On Trial / On Process (artistic objects that are at an advanced stage of creation, but need a “shock/confrontation” with the public and the presentation space in order to progress and evolve in their process) logic, thus valuing concepts that will have a specific implementation in Santa Maria da Feira's public space.

More Imaginarius'13 will contemplate proposals in eleven artistic fields, divided into two great themes: Visual Arts and Performing Arts. Visual Arts: New Media | Digital Art | Installation | Graffiti | Performing Arts: Theatre | Dance | Music | Circus | Performance | Intervention | Multidisciplinary. the purple ladies ‘human possibilities’ labu ‘réplica… éplica… éplica’ united kingdom world premiere plataforma artística world premiere portugal

The Purple Ladies is a women-led collective of performers based in south-east Replica of an uncontrolled eruption, an emergency, a sort of apotheosis. Me, London. Their repertoire is eclectic and draws from aerial, dance, mime, physical here, now, like a balloon about to reach its limit and burst. An ultra-concentrated, and visual theatre. abrupt moment of adrenalin release, filling me with potential energy that derealizes Their current formation emerged at the now vanished artist warehouse Area10, and depersonalizes me. Maybe I'll be perplexed, terrorized or deployed… where they organised site specific, cutting edge performances and Cabaret nights oyed…oyed. such as Psychological Art Circus shows, Cabaret HomoLudens and Sawmill Collective Events. Marco Ferreira – A dancer since 2004, he has worked with: Companhia de Dança Since their birth in 2010 they have performed in various places in Europe such do Norte; Companhia Tok'Art, choreographed by André Mesquita; Companhia as Wilton's Music Hall, The Pleasance Theatre, Jacksons Lane (Postcards Festival), Instável with Victor Hugo Pontes and Hofesh Shechter in 2011 and 2012. He was Stoke Newington International Airport, The Woolwich Grand Theatre (Kings of part of the piece by Elisabeth Lambeck, the piece Rendez-Vous, A strage land Comedy) and Cuartel del Conde-Duque (Fringe Madrid). and Zoo by Victor Hugo Pontes and he performed a solo by Sylvia Rijmer. He debuted as a choreographer in 2008 with Asylum, co-produced by All About Human Possibilities will reveal the extraordinary story of a woman and her Dance and Feira Viva within Imaginarius 2010 and Duas Faces, co-created with washing machine, with poetry, aerial circus, dance and video projections. Mara Andrade. On a day like any other, a friend/alter-ego appears from inside a washing machine, Nevoeiro 21 premiered in 2012 at Palcos Instáveis and was revived at 'Mais subsequently unveiling an intimate story of mutual trust, love and laughter, and Imaginarius' 2012; he co-created Psicanálise by Plataforma Labu. after years of endless routine, leads to a vision of desire: a spectrum of possibilities infinitely wider that one could imagine... This piece's starting point was my interest in the impressions left by ash and rocks from the volcanic impression in Pompeii in 79 AD. The bodies caught off-guard The Purple Ladies focus on giving voice and support to women as creators in all in the middle of the emergency were petrified, and those who managed to escape disciplines. They strongly believe that art should be accessible to all, and dedicate amongst the panic, dread and chock are not there to tell. their activities to make it happen, through performances, live-art action and workshops. The performance moment that was found is mainly a warped exploration of reality. A replica which, like all replicas, is faulty and different from the original. Nevertheless, credits this is meant to be, in itself and as a whole, an ultra-concentrated, unpredictable director Lina Jungergard and intense moment, where the notion of emergency has been developed, and performers Christelle Lafille and Zahara O'Brien projections Prasanth Visweswaran connections are to be found with the biology of the “panic situation”, of an “anxiety crisis” and a state of alert and watchfulness.

During the piece's construction, and as material was being collected, it was fundamental not to lose the sensation of unpredictability and the feeling that the piece could go anywhere at any time.These moments of emergency should be perceived as flashes charged with emotions and instincts, during which the components of time and control are almost withdrawn, and violent transformations occur in fractions of a second.

credits Direction, performance, costumes, set design and sound design Marco da Silva Ferreira assistant director Mara Andrade production Pensamento Avulso associação supported by Academia All About Dance, Lugar Instável and Quinta do Rio

international street theatre festival 25 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 bárbara andrez ‘bump dialogues’ desastronauts ‘losing grip’ portugal world premiere spain national premiere

Desastronauts are a UK/Spanish contemporary circus company established in 2009. Its members are Girisho (UK) and Raquel Veganzones (Spain). They are both graduates from the Circus Space in London. Raquel specialized in swinging trapeze and Girisho in static trapeze. They originally began working together in London in 2004 where they formed Circo Expreso, an aerial circus company. Desastronauts was formed in Galicia, Spain, representing a move into unexplored space and towards the many, many disasters ahead. Their first project, Losing Grip, was selected by Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2010.

Losing Grip is a highly skilled, physically demanding and beautifully presented contemporary circus show. Using original aerial equipment and specially designed Bárbara Andrez was born in 1983. She is a professional actress and a visual harness clothing, the artists attempt a new approach to their discipline. Danger, artist. Her work crosses both universes, focusing on performance and voice. Her trust, balance, agility, strength and endurance become the language of their vision is built on everyday subjects, like feminine issues, and a close connection relationship. Losing Grip is an honest and passionate performance beyond words, with film culture. By using words and iconography she seeks a direct communication beyond sentimentality and beyond limits. perception. A twenty minute work-in-progress of Losing Grip was presented in Helsinki, Bump Dialogues is a performance work created for Imaginarius 2013. Its starting Malmitalo (August 2010), Strasbourg, Théâtre de Hautepierre (Sept. 2010) and point was the 2012 Carros de Choque video installation, where she explored the in Paris, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale (November 2010). Losing Grip had its deconstruction of urban rituals and popular celebrations. It is from this crossing world premier at MIMARTE Festival, Braga, Portugal (06 July 2011), in France at that Bump Dialogues appears: mouths in monologue, mouths that interact and the ZOOM Festival, Académie Fratellini, Paris (29-30Sept. 2011) and in Spain at call to one another with festive sounds in the background. As it finds its space in the FIOT Festival, Carballo, Galicia (23 October 2011). the performance work, the spoken voice both leans on and distances itself from Since October 2011 Raquel and Girisho have taken a break from performing the performer's body. The words, sonorously placed in the body and in space by Losing Grip to have a baby. The spring of 2013 signifies a return to performing the voice, reveal images and allow the characterization of experiences, thoughts for Desastronauts. and distinctly feminine and stereotyped events. The uttered word thus reflects its ultimate importance and it is up to the spectator to choose to follow these dialogues credits that constantly bump each other. In the enlarged image of a mouth, the venue desastronauts Raquel Veganzones / Girisho concept & direction Desastronauts for discourse is thus established. mise-en-scène Marcos PTT music Maximilian Latva credits light design Fidel Vazquez Díaz artistic creation | performance | video | editing and post-production Bárbara Andrez harness design / maker Chloe Black costumes Maria Chenut & Chloe Black aerial equipment Simon Peevers support of Jeunes Talents Cirque Europe 2009-2010, operation funded with the support of the European Commission. residencies CREAC (Marseille – FR), Les Migrateurs (Strasbourg – FR), La Grainerie (Toulouse – FR), Espace Périphérique (Paris-FR) AGADIC Centro Dramático Galego (Santiago de Compostela – ES), Auditorio de Valga (Pontevedra – ES)

international street theatre festival 26 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 talentitos company ‘la boîte à musique’ tresperté circo - teatro ‘aquí sobra uno’ germany / france spain

Tresperté is a young company from Granada that mainly works in circus theatre, taking circus as a technique and the theatre as a language. Its works feature trio acrobatics and humour, never forgetting to convey a message to the audience and tell a story. Everything from the search for movement to the coherence of a story that can be understood by all audiences. Its career started in Andalusia in 2011, rapidly extending to the Tafalla Va de Calle Festival (2011, 1st place), Certamen de Jòvenes Artistas de Calle de Mollina (2011, 4th place), or their début as a professional company at the Circada de Sevilla Festival in June 2012. They crossed the Mediterranean and toured Italy in 2012 (at such festivals as Lunathica -where, for the first time abroad, they win an award - Sul Filo del Circo, Sarnico Busker Festival, Salento Busker Festival…) and Germany (Circus Mignon - Sylt). The Talentitos Company, a French-German company, was created in 2007 in They premièred their latest work in February 2013 with the Beca de Artistas en Granada (Spain), a city that was the company's source of inspiration and base Residencia program of La Nave del Duende (Càceres). during its first years. We have worked in cabarets, street performances and theatres, and offer a fusion Circus and theatre at the rhythm of a radio tune. Jealousy, passion and love with of circus, dance and humour in an alternative format with a lovely personal touch. acrobatics. The story tells us of three artists and their technician who come to The "multi-culti Company" stayed for a while time in Madrid, later ending up in perform for us an acrobatics show that they have been rehearsing for a long time. Berlin. Everything must be perfect. We soon discover that there is something else. The tension underneath the show La Boîte à Musique (“The Music Box”) is a one-woman clown show, directed makes it impossible for the relationship between them not to unveiled. Jealousy, and performed by Salomé Hadji, which combines theatre, dance and circus. passion, love; feelings that cannot remain hidden, will be unveiled until a conclusion Tired of her boring daily routine, the music-box doll creates an funny escape plan is reached: Aquí sobra uno (”Somebody here is unwanted”). involving audience participation.

“It's not theatre, it's not circus, it's not dance... you will just die laughing!” a spectator once said informations www.talentitoscompany.com

international street theatre festival 27 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 company en croq ‘funky pudding’ a world of bliss ‘bliss superstore’ france holland ‘blissful picnic’

The En CroQ Company was founded in 2010 within the AtelierTeatro Fisico (Turin, BLISS Superstore Italy), thanks to the encounter between Luigi Ciotta and Aurélia Dedieu. The With diligence and passion, our experienced BLISS team will happily advise you company based its research on the roots of comic and popular theatre, combining on all our BLISSful products that will change your life. A superstore with everything it with civic and social engagement. you wish for and even more...

Funky Pudding, their first show, was also played in Italian and, later, in French, BLISSful Picnic Spanish and English. During the last three years, it has toured many international On Sunday BLISS will have a picnic and you're invited! Come and join a festive festivals in several European countries, reaching almost 150 performances. moment together in one of our lovely enormous picnic dresses. While Funky Pudding is a show of buffoonish clowning, it is certainly not your usual clown show. We are BLISS from a World of BLISS, an artist collective formed by Charlie Zwart, Big Mac and Marilyn are a heavily overweight couple that live “just like everyone Gwen van Zaane and Lauren M. Dyer. With our soft performance and social else”… except they live in a trash can; yes, the very the same sort of bin that we sculptures we aim to grab hold of our audience and leave them mesmerised after all know. As they live in and play with the waste around them, our protagonists sharing a moment of happiness, a moment of BLISS. create a caricature which describes the processes of consumerism and sheds Donning custom-made outfits and set against an idyllic backdrop, we are three light on its very worst traits. They paint a slightly less than pretty picture of an ladies who draw you into a world of BLISS: a picture perfect yet often mundane excessive, selfish and superficial society where all that is short-lived is regarded world where the smallest details are carefully orchestrated, clichés meet surprising as indispensable and all that is truly essential as boring. elements and dreams come true. Every part of our universe, whether it be a Beware!.. for everything you wast can be used against you! multiple, our installation or ourselves, is viewed as an opportunity to create a small sculpture that's essential to our microcosm. With a wink and an endless smile "The Franco-Italian company En Croq tackled a big subject with their cruel, lucid we welcome you into our world. and humorous satire. A joyful show, inventive, enormously buffoonish which doesn't The nice thing about soft performance is the interaction we have with people, and hide its writing quality, accuracy and richness of mise-en-scène." Midi-Libre (France) so we hope to bring our art to a wider audience. You don't have to fully understand it to enjoy it, and that is a quality of ours we cherish; to be accessible. Each work should be for people of all walks of life – not just for those who visit galleries or museums. Our international upbringing and rich fantasy is probably what makes our work so appealing and universal. We communicate through a visual language that everybody understands. A work of BLISS can been seen at festivals, exhibitions, openings and in public space. Each work tells the story of a world of BLISS and is specifically designed to the occasion, its location and its audience.

information www.aworldofbliss.com

international street theatre festival 28 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 sérgio e maría ‘um espaço aberto boris chimp 504 ‘mission to kepler’ portugal de desmembramento’ portugal

Sérgio Pantana and María Aguayo live in Lisbon but met dancing in Madrid. Boris Chimp 504 was born in 2010, in Barcelona, after Miguel Neto and Rodrigo They connected and danced. In Madrid, together with Iris Muñoz, Diana Bonilla Carvalho completed their Master of Digital Arts from Pompeu Fabra University and Camille Hanson. In Lisbon, with Jácome Filipe, Sylvia Rijmer and others. They (UPF) and, based on audiovisual improvisation, started to recreate the adventures danced together in projects led by Camille Hanson, Emanuele Sciannamea and of cosmonaut chimpanzee Boris 504, an urban legend of space engineering, Jácome Filipe and, restless, they began to desire and finally generated: A space allegedly sent by the Soviets on a mission to the Moon, having reported to Earth of dismembering. for the last time on July the 7th,1969. This is a real time performance that enhances the synthesis between audio and graphic languages , within a futuristic aesthetics, Um espaço aberto de desmembramento (”An open space of dismembering”) with the intention of creating an immersive and multi sensory experience for the The Impossible is the state of all possibility: An absolute. audience. You and I in absolute simultaneousness. Two solos which call for a Everything for two. Mission to Kepler Dance is not a means. It is the thing. During a recent exploration to Kepler22b, an exoplanet in the binary Kepler-16 The need for the maximum: An open space is a Spacial everything. By believing solar system, Boris Chimp 504 finds some metallic objects on its surface. Although in the non-existence of limits, we allow that very non-existence. We want to contain of an unknown origin, one suspects they are pieces of technology from an everything: the space, the materials, and the flesh. extraterrestrial civilization, and preliminary tests lead to believe that it is in fact an interface to control the time-space position and orientation of something bigger, perhaps a spacecraft...

Miguel Neto (Lisbon, 1979), musical producer and new media artist has a Degree in Psychological Sciences (FPCE – UL) and a Master of Digital (UPF, Barcelona). He is co-founder of the international art and technology Once Upon A Byte collective, focusing on the Synaesthesia phenomenon and multi sensory experiences and on the creation of interactive interfaces that allow to explore new musical languages, through the use of new digital technologies. Rodrigo Carvalho (Porto, 1983) has a Degree in Design from the University of Aveiro (2001 - 2005). In 2008 he completed a Master in Digital Arts (UPF, Barcelona) and in 2010 he joined SPECS (Synthetic Perceptive, Emotive and Cognitive Systems Group), under the Inov – Art program, developing a real time interactive performance project. He is currently a PhD student a student in Digital Media at the University of Oporto, under the UT Austin|Portugal partnership program.

international street theatre festival 29 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 clown laboratori porto ‘labaret 3 - a morte’ mara andrade ‘oxitocina’ portugal portugal

O Clown Laboratori is a platform for training, creating and experimenting the Monsters that abuse their lordosis. Apathetic. I let this seduction evolve. Unlimited art of the clown. This project, launched in January of 2010, currently resides self-seduction. Someone shows up and it's late. A never ending growing line with in Fábrica da Rua da Alegria (ESMAE, Oporto). no return. On all fours, contortion. It's getting on my nerves, it's beyond me. Besides its continuous training, it also develops performances resulting from Ashamed, I turn into a monster with lordosis and something oozes. Gloomily, I research. Three productions in a cabaret format have been performed so far, remember the past, five minutes ago, more or less. with sketches where comical effect is explored through the clown's simplicity, Hello. My name is... I don't know, and it doesn't really matter. My back hurts. naivety and generosity. In Oxitocina (”Oxytocin”), the performer suffers from several daily “little deaths”, There's no point in being squeamish about it: Labaret 3 is a cabaret about mediated by that hormone that nearly causes a transitory and orgasmic cerebral death. So, can children come too? Yes, there is no realism, only the hilarity ischemia. Expressions and sensations that we assume to be linked are broken, that can be found underneath the subject. and something new arises from this metamorphosis. A strange pansexual state. How does a clown look at death? How far can our imagination and ability to laugh go before the most obscure reality of human existence? After two years Mara Andrade, was born in 1987 in Santa Maria da Feira. In 2011 she took a of building a solid, rigorous and effective training path in the art of making master's degree in medicine, and developed a Therapy Dance project at Magalhães people laugh, the members of Clown Laboratori Porto have constructed their Lemos Psychiatric Hospital. Since 2004, she was trained at several schools in darkest cabaret, once more under the direction of Pedro Fabião. While the Portugal, London, Brussels, Amsterdam , Berlin and New York in contemporary group's focus on a disarming stage energy continues, Labaret 3 has a different dance and urban dances. breathing when compared to our previous show. We focused on the particulars She choreographed pieces which were co-produced by All About Dance, Feira of the performance's construction, attention to detail and the use of silence. Viva and Companhia Instável - Asylum, Distorction, Duas Faces, Psicanálise, Uma Pequena Morte e Oxytocin. The latter won, in the Dance category, the 2012 Young credits Creators Contest, organized by the Portuguese Youth Institute and the Portuguese concept and performance Alexandre Sá, Ana Madureira, António Lago, Cecília Dias, Filipa Portela, Club of Arts and Ideas. During the same year, she performed solo #8 Mara, Frederico B. Madeira, Guillem Gerónes, Hugo Valter Moutinho, Hugo Vieira, Janela Magalhães, João Sá, José Magalhães, Luís Almeida, Marta Costa and Sara Araújo choreographed by Tânia Carvalho, within the Movimentos Diferentes project. direction and staging Pedro Fabião set design Guillem Geronès credits light operation Joana Domingos concept, choreography, dramaturgy, text, set design, costumes and performance Mara Andrade still Images Vítor Leite assistant Marco Ferreira support ESMAE, Fábrica da Rua da Alegria, Erva Daninha, Tenda de Saias, Teatro do Frio and Rei Sem photography Marco Ferreira Roupa lighting design Marco Ferreira and Mara Andrade original music Deaf Center – “Close Forever Watching” production Pensamento Avulso supported by Companhia Instável, Teatro Campo Alegre and Academia All About Dance

international street theatre festival 30 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 mattatoio sospeso ‘tu me fais tourner la tête’ cychotron ‘cychotron’ italy portugal

Mattatoio Sospeso is a flying company founded by Marco Mannucci in 2006. Cychotron appeared in 2011. It is a group made up of people from different Each of their works results from collaborations with other artists. Climbing, backgrounds, but who all share the idea of creating an alternative, multidisciplinary acrobatics, street theatre, theatre, out of the ordinary Poetics and circus are some show that is able to bridge several artistic expressions, like Body Art, Theatre, of its main ingredients. Evoking Chagall's suspended images, Mattatoio becomes Performance and Electronic Music. airborne, flying on the façades of towers, palaces and castles. Every new performance is dedicated to the architecture that welcomes it, turning it into an In a laboratory, the last stage of an experiment. A body is brought in and prepared alternative theatre. These suspensions happen in a non-place where the law of for Mankind's worst fate. Made into a puppet, for him Freedom no longer exists, gravity does not apply, carrying the audience and the architecture, which are the just his will is left, to be bent to the point of becoming unsustainable, until the very objects of the performance, into another dimension: a dream-like dimension, inevitable rebellion, the struggle for liberation. He represents Man in his eternal where anything can happen. There are no rules: you fly, you daydream. attempt to dominate, to control, to create a new species of subdued beings, regardless of their suffering, and the consequent struggle for liberation. Tu me fais tourner la tête (“You Make My Head Spin”) It refers us to the manipulation of consciences and behaviours and the loss of A mental space, 2 ropes, 2 figures, a flying rope. After fragmenting Chagall, Barthes acquired liberties and rights, reflecting the thinking of the ruling elites of so-called and Sartre, what remains, what begins? developed western societies, and to the growing suffering and social struggle by Inspired the suspended figures in La Promenade, by Chagall, the acrobatic dance the oppressed classes and oppressed people in general. is a space in suspension, a dream space, the driving force behind one's relationship A musical and visual show focusing on body suspension. with the other. credits original concept Ricardo Neto Reminiscent of Fragments of love by R. Barthes, especially where he discusses stage direction Cychotron one's hallucination and obsession for the object of desire. A mental space, a desire performers Daniel Carvalho, Jorge Fontão, Miguel Branco, Ricardo Neto, Rui Gonçalves and Vítor Costa for something unknown, unreal… suspended “dans la tête”. The book is written body suspension Jorge Fontão, Rui Gonçalves and Vítor Costa in “fragments”, like closing/opening eyes, like in a dream; but also space fragments, original music Daniel Carvalho sets and props Ricardo Neto each able to create and recreate something new. A man sits, obsessed by a costumes Ricardo Neto recurring thought (the other figure?...), and the acrobatic dance enables us to lighting Filipe Rebelo follow his train of thought. Something comes from the flying object in The Room graphic design Ana Pereira by Sartre, but not all fragments must be known. The beginning is a hallucination photography André Henriques production Cychotron of the man...or maybe not: the end will be the same, only inverted, i.e. a hallucination of the other “suspended figure” or just the audience daydreaming. The performance employs a circular mechanical rope system, in order to create a “total stage” concept, encompassing ground and air, while evoking a circus arena, with the audience around the stage.

international street theatre festival 31 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 t&a ‘kinowaltz’ portugal

Kinowaltz is a journey of dance through the world of cinema. Starting from the Tereza Havlicková, has studied at London's Laban Centre (BA Dance Theatre) childhood dream of going inside the silver screen to live the most wonderful and at Goldsmiths University, (MA Performance Making). She has worked and adventures, we began researching the relationship between the body's movement studied with such artist as Graeme Miller, Marie Gabrielle Rotie, Twitchin Mischa and the moving picture, which led us to a deconstruction of iconic images between and Steve Paxton, and has worked with Gui di Firenza, Ermini Etta, FurseA nna, static and moving screens. Thus exploring a new way of looking at emblematic Fong Joanne, Morissey Charlie and Ajaykumar. films and giving the audience a new dimension on those films. André Amálio, has studied at ESTC (BA Acting Training, with a Degree in Stage Direction) and at Goldsmiths, University of London (MA Performance Making). He T&A is an artistic duo (born at the Master MA Performance Making of Goldsmiths has taken part in shows involving such directors and choreographers as Ajaykumar, University, London) from two different countries (Portugal and the Czech Republic). Anna Furse, Antónia Terrinha, António Feio, Francisco Alves, João Brites, Lúcia They explore the boundaries between dance, performance and theatre, in a Sigalho, Luís Castro and Marie-Gabrielle Rotie. He has created shows like Estamos process of collective creation. Their work method involves superimposing Agora Sós, Construção Revisitada and Amalio VS Amália. autobiographical material, mythologies, family stories or national histories, thus creating a complex web of popular and classical culture references. They create credits shows that allow the audience to travel between cultures, ages and genres, and concept André Amálio and Tereza Havlickova performer Tereza Havlickova to build their own meaning and narrative. video editing André Amálio technical operation André Amálio

international street theatre festival 32 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 INSTALLATIONS binaural / nodar ‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’ gabriel loureiro ‘rendilhados urbanos’ portugal world premiere portugal world premiere

Binaural / Nodal is a cultural organization devoted to local and international Rendilhados Urbanos (”Urban Filigree”) – This project consists in applying stencils cooperation in the fields of artistic and social research as privileged means of (masks/moulds) with a typical Portuguese tile pattern on shabby or abandoned articulation between creation, technology and the surrounding social and geographical urban spaces. For the Imaginarius Festival, the author proposed painting a “tile” context. The most visible feature of its activity is the Nodar Rural Art Lab (county mural on a public wall in the centre of the city of Santa Maria da Feira. Repeated of São Pedro do Sul), a program for the development of international artistic application of this “tile-stencil” generates a pattern, which brings the audience in creations in a rural context, with emphasis on sound arts and exploratory media, direct contact with culturally familiar/close graphic elements. With this intervention followed by public performances in the region. Since 2006, the more than 100 the author intends to value our cultural heritage and, at the same time, raise the Nodar resident artists have established interactions with the region, its geographical audience's awareness to other forms of urban expression. and social space and its identity and memory. Alongside, Binaural/Nodar founded, in 2011, together with six other associations, the Tramontana Network of memory archives, which is linked to an articulated work between mountainous areas of Southern European countries, particularly of romance languages, from which one studies, compares and spreads cultural materials and innovating methods for the documentation and audiovisual archive of the aforementioned contents, with the ultimate goal of preserving the memory of the landscape and its communities and using the documented materials as a tool for education, self-esteem and appreciation of these mountainous territories.

It is precisely within this scope that A Vaquinha no Vouguinha, da montanha à planície (”Miss Cow rides the Vouguinha from mountain to plain”) exhibit takes place – a triptych of sound and audiovisual installations, whose narrative, set somewhere between the dreamlike and the documentary, is based on the historical fact that the Arouquesa cattle breed, from the upland regions of Gralheira, Arada and Freita, used to be transported on railway cars from the Vouga Valley to the coastal slaughterhouses, Santa Maria da Feira's among them. The exhibit takes place in three of the city's structures that are associated with the process of transporting, slaughtering and selling cattle (the old slaughterhouse building, the railway station and a meat counter at the municipal market), where the fact that these structures are now abandoned or practically unused lends a delicious irony to the audiovisual return of Arouquês cattle to those places of yore. Hopefully as delicious as the delicacies of Alvarenga Steak or Lafões Veal. credits co production Binaural / Nodar and Imaginarius Festival original idea and concept Luís Costa artistic support Manuela Barile and Rui Costa sound and video records Luís Costa, Manuela Barile, Nely Ferreira, Ricardo Frade, Nuno Sousa, André Moita sound and video editing Manuela Barile collection and organization of printed documentary materials Luís Costa this exhibit is co financed by the European Commission's Culture Program 2007-2013. information www.binauralmedia.org | www.re-tramontana.org

international street theatre festival 34 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 marta angelozzi ‘live imaginary landscapes’ 157 ‘do número para a revolução’ portugal world premiere portugal world premiere

Marta Angelozzi makes site-specific abstract drawings in which lines resemble textures, and patterns twist and stretch into landscapes. It is in the nature of such drawings to adapt, like a second skin, to the place where they are made. Marta enjoys the idea that lines are like thoughts, they can form or deconstruct ideas, and at times hint something important but don't always have to form a conclusion.

Marta Angelozzi combines the use of video with drawing and projection as tools Do número para a revolução (”From number to revolution”) is an intervention for experimentation and practice, by playfully animating video drawings. stencil painting on three random walls, in the centre of Santa Maria da Feira, one of which to be preferentially performed at night, with the help of a video projector By creating a drawing before a live audience, Marta intends to celebrate the and a ladder, which will allow to paint directly on the wall and the projected drawing. moment and the place in which a drawing is made. Since life keeps us busy, it is not easy to stop, just be or do something with no other intention than to observe or reflect, which can bring you immense benefits. For Imaginarius, Marta intends to share her method, by making a drawing intervention on the walls of Santa Maria da Feira and projecting it in real time for the audience. Space around us is valuable, and we should take time to understand and appreciate it.

Marta Angelozzi lives and works in Lisbon where she is an active member of the Roundabout LX, an experimental artspace in Anjos. informations www.shadecage.com | http://roundaboutlx.wordpress.com/

international street theatre festival 35 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 filomena almeida ‘esculturas de bolso’ patrícia geraldes ‘caderno diário’ portugal portugal world premiere

The Esculturas de Bolso (”Pocket Sculputures”) project is part of a wider artistic “The sun has set, the journey is long and the train is full. I've never dreamt of project in which, starting from nature, and through the sculptor's intervention, people from around here. There are two worlds: mine, with my love, and other objects become something portable and of personal use, thus exploring the people's world... I'm heading for the south. interaction between public and sculpture in public space. Its first presentation/ This is one of the sentences from my diary that have been drawn on in some of performance happened in 2011, at the Pedvale Open-Air Art Museum, in Latvia, Santa Maria da Feira's trees, the words written in Braille and engraved in the tree within the museum's annual programme, called Stone Space: Reflection on Space. trunks become drawings whose lines and stains have been replaced by dots. Since then, presentations took place in 2012 at Studio Banana in Madrid, in They are messages that have been left as in a diary; the meaning of the words Guimarães, at Guimarães Noc Noc 2 and Pecha Kucha Night Guimarães vol #4, gains and loses significance, transforms itself, gets drawn and becomes tactile, both times within the programming of Guimarães European Culture Capital. The opening space for imagination. performance consists of distributing a pocket sculpture to passers-by at a random public space and the public's action results in the voluntary participation on digital Caderno Diário (”Diary”) is a project conceived by Patrícia Geraldes for Imaginarius. platform http://www.facebook.com/ pocketstones.pocketstones, where the owners The author starts from the language of drawing to elaborate her entire body of of a pocket sculpture can share images, photos, comments and daydreams about work, and it is by drawing her thoughts that her public art projects come about. how they use their own pocket sculpture. Esculturas de Bolso project intends to perpetuate its presentation/ performance at Imaginarius 2013 in Santa Maria Patrícia Geraldes lives and works in Oporto. In 2005 she completed a Degree da Feira and strengthen its interactivity with the various audiences, as well as in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Oporto and, since then, has exhibited increase the number of participants in its participatory digital platform. both collectively and individually in Portugal and abroad.

international street theatre festival 36 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 colectivo ar_search ‘peças para piano teorema das linhas ‘tece-me’ portugal e bicho da madeira’ portugal world premiere world premiere

Ar_Search is a collective founded on multidisciplinary partnerships and oriented Based in Santa Maria da Feira, the Teorema das Linhas project was founded towards the research of sound and performing resources. Their début project in 2010 by an industrial designer, Cristiana Henriques, and a visual artist, Ana Rita (Voyger#1 - Golden Records Series2011) was the first of a series of performances Leite. The project intends to articulate the authors' know-how and tools in order and experimental sound installations. to process them into solutions, based on experience and lots of persistence. Teorema das Linhas, (“Theorem of the Lines”) as a means of choosing certain Peças para Piano e Bicho da Madeira (”Pieces for Piano and Woodworm”) clues, started from a wide range of possibilities, thus presupposing a combination This performance results form the deconstruction process of a woodwormed of both concepts. Theorem, that meant “spectacle” for the Greeks, and Lines, piano, where its resident insect colony, once amplified, acquires a privileged space which covers a series of pertinent meanings for the path that the team has been within the universe of the instrument's sound resources – a sound sculpture. following. The project's main concern is to promote development and the creation of Once the piano's regular functioning and physical integrity has been compromised, relationships between the space and the people that roam in it, thus articulating a sound object of an experimental nature is made. From the deconstruction of critical thinking and potentiating learning through practice. an instrument another sound object takes its place, another way of listening to the same piano, where the amplified woodworm colony, which undermined the Tece-me (”Weave me”) is an intervention in a 19th century building, consisting whole instrument by compromising its functioning and physical integrity, as in the presentation of a set of nine looms to the causal public, in an artistic action inhabitants of the very mechanism, can participate in the performance. which aims to (re)discover the significance of the city's elements and give social meaning to the space. Developed during the exploration process of hidden sonorities which are revealed This intends to draw the spectator's attention to weaving, an activity with a long, through a sound amplification process, the video projection intends to help the exclusively feminine, tradition in the County. spectator to understand the origin of those sonorities, by showing hidden details In an unfinished process, the community is stimulated to structure critical and of the instrument through a visual amplification of the source of the sound. comforting thinking, thus creating the possibility of (re)living the past in a visible present, and allowing this architectural space to gain a new identity. The performances are open to guests that compose for and interact with the sound object and its woodworm colony, structuring short performances of various credits formats in their own image. concept and construction Cristiana Henriques and Ana Rita Leite credits concept and design Ana Guedes creation and performance Ar_Search guest Jorge Queijo

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international street theatre festival 37 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 r&r ‘calados contra a corrente’ portugal world premiere

Rebecca Moradalizadeh and Ruben Pires are two portuguese visual artists that have been sharing work and companionship, which is the reason for this partnership.

Calados Contra a Corrente (”Quiet Against the Current”) From the story of “caladinhos” (a famous local sweet) came the idea of creating a travelling sound installation, where an “artificial” intervention – based on recordings of voices of local residents – combines with a natural intervention – the sound of the water current that crosses the park and the city centre, creating a constant murmur, i.e. natural censorship.

credits direction and prodution R&R – Rebecca Moradalizadeh and Ruben Pires

international street theatre festival 38 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 WORKSHOPS ljud group ‘build your own interactive bismas das acácias ‘angolan folk dances’ slovenia character!’ angola

Trainers Trainers The workshop will be led by Jasa Jenull and Vida Cerkvenik Bren the directors Cristóvão Kajibanga, Eliezer João Teca and Deolinda Trindade of the Ljud group. Ljud is a international group of artists focused on theatrical work with an emphasis on physical-interactive theatre and work in public and Number of participants environmental spaces. no more than 30 persons

Number of participants between 10 and 40 persons Founded on 21 April, 1984, the Bismas das Acácias group was the result of a Participants in this workshop will also perform on the show. merger of groups, namely the Acácias, the Pop's and a bunch of boys that break danced. The name of the group was inspired by the abundance of More Information “Marias” in its midst (“Bis” for “repetition” + “Mas” for “Marias” = BISMAS); Because of the individual nature of the character building method the workshop and because they were from Benguela, known as the City of Acacias. The is appropriate for participants on different levels of skill and performing experience. group is currently owned by Bismas das Acácias – Acção para a Cultura e Desenvolvimento (since November 1998). It sees itself as one of the bulwarks of the roots of Angolan culture, through The relationship between improvised and fixed theatrical performance has fascinated its rural research of national folklore that is the base for the creation of its performers since the dawn of theatre. The workshop is built around the idea that choreographies. a rich, rounded character based on the characteristics of each individual performer This will be its third appearance in Portugal – the first was in 1995 and the can make a very interesting bridge crossing the gap between momentary inspiration second at Expo 98. and well planned preparation. Taking the idea of stock characters with clearly The dances that will be performed (Koti Kolumbula, Ndungo, Ukongo, Firmino, defined physical and psychological characteristics (like one can find in Commedia Cidungue, Sindeta...) portray the everyday lives of Angolans in the fields of dell arte or Japanese No theatre) and developing it further into highly individualised agriculture, hunting, leisure and cultural institutions like evamba (a school fore characters that are capable of reacting to any given situation but are still functioning male initiation among the ovimbundo people), completely within their fictional frame. The participants of the workshop will marriage and masked folklore, and many others. familiarise themselves with the basics of the character building method which has It won the dance category of the first National Culture Festival “FENACULT/89”. evolved from many different techniques and principles (physical and vocal group In 2007, it received the National Culture Award for dance - the highest state improvisations, basics of theatrical biomechanics and butoh, specific exercises accolade in the field. for understanding rhythm and composition in the context of physical theatre, The battle continues, for, according to its motto, “movement without effort is basics of contact improvisation, etc.) All of the participants will be given the worthless”. possibility to present their interactive characters in public as part of a performance It has toured Egypt (1988 and 2000), Sweden (1998 and 2000), Spain (Expo and several public interventions on the festival. 2008), Rwanda (2011), South Africa (1999) and Namibia (1997).

binaural / nodar ‘a vaquinha no vouguinha’ antagon theater aktion ‘organic theater in public space’ portugal germany

Trainer Trainers Luís Costa antagon theaterAKTion

Number of participants Number of participants 20 persons 20 persons

Duração 45 minutes Physical theatre, focusing on the reproduction of theatre in public spaces. Learning antagon's techniques, based on 23 years of method and working experience. A Vaquinha no Vouguinha, da montanha à planície (”Miss Cow rides the Vouguinha, from mountain to plain”) is a triptych of sound and audiovisual installations by Binaural / Nodar, whose narrative is based on the historical fact that the Arouquesa cattle breed, from the upland regions of Gralheira, Arada and Freita, used to be transported on railway cars from the Vouga Valley to the coastal slaughterhouses, Santa Maria da Feira's among them. This workshop proposes a research on Santa Maria da Feira's old slaughterhouse among the Feirense community.

international street theatre festival 40 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 OTHER PROJECTS book launch by cláudia andrade ‘coro: corpo coletivo e espaço poético’ portugal interseções entre o teatro grego antigo e o teatro comunitário

By crossing the contemporary dynamics of community theatre with ancient Greek theatre, this work intends to investigate the structure and function of the Greek choir, with a view to developing community artistic processes. As a primordial element which is at the root of theatre's origin, and by articulating ethical, ideological, aesthetic and civic assumptions, the choir could represent a powerful asset for community creation. As a theatrical convention, a character and the fulfilment of a civic, festive theatre like the Greek had, the study of the choir intends to confront concepts and articulate ideas that can lead to its redemption as a base and foundation for the creative process. In order to promote a dynamic dialogue between our ancestral traditions and present time, this research is structured under an interdisciplinary perspective whose goal is to equip the conceptual basis and methodological practices for theatrical work with the community.

Série Investigação · Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra Coimbra University Press 2012

biographical note A graduate in Acting/Gestural Theatre by the Estudis de Teatre School (Barcelona), she has a master's degree in Theatre and Community by ESTC (The Lisbon Theatre and Film School). She has worked as an actress since 1993 in various projects with Teatro Meridional, Teatro da Cornucópia, Trigo Limpo teatro ACERT, Quarto Período-o-do-Prazer, Teatro do Morcego, Théâtre de la Mezzanine, Cia Jordi Bertrán, Próxima Estação, among others. She was trained by Marcia Haufrecht, Neville Tranter, Norman Taylor, Alain Gautré,Philippe Gaulier, Christophe Marchand, Claire Heggen e Monika Pagneux in various fields, like movement, clown, buffoon, puppet manipulation, singing and aerial dance. She conceived several projects for the educational services of CCB, Teatro Maria Matos and Culturgest and developed several performances in the area of community theatre, such as Um Elo chamado Jarmelo (with the people of Jarmelo), Cientistas ao Palco (a part of the European Researchers' Night) and Inesquecível Emília (at the Prison of Santa Cruz do Bispo). Recently she has participated in an artistic exchange with community theatre group Pompapeytriasos (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She collaborates with CIAC and is a member of the Community Theatre Researchers Network.

book presentation Armando Nascimento Rosa (ESTC) Delfim Ferreira Leão (director of Imprensa – Universidade de Coimbra) Hugo Cruz (artistic director of Imaginarius)

international street theatre festival 42 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 international conference on arts and public space ‘imagined europe’ portugal / argentina / germany

At a moment when Europe is living a crisis that has turned into several crisis speakers (economical, social, cultural, moral, environmental...), “trenches” and “wounds” Edith Scher that may compromise our collective future are being opened . This moment in the director of the Matemurga Community Theatre Group, Buenos Aires festival intends to explore the “Imagined Europes”, the other “Possible Europes”, as alternatives to the present one. João Brites artistic director of Teatro O Bando The International Conference on Arts and Public Space is a unique moment for reflection by Imaginarius, allowing to cross perceptions, experiences and concepts Bernhard Bub on its subjects. This year, several of the Festival's protagonists will discuss the artistic director of Antagon TheaterAKtion subject “Imagined Europe”, based on the creations that mark this edition of Imaginarius. Hugo Cruz artistic director of Imaginarius

moderator Inês Nadais journalist at Ypsilon – Público

international street theatre festival 43 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 music at location pending to be confirmed ‘quarteto português de trompas’ portugal ‘funk you brass band’ ‘ósvamati’

The Quarteto Português de Trompas was founded in 2007. Its repertoire extends Ósmavati present a show where the joy of Jewish music spreads to audiences from Renaissance music to 21st century music, and has already premièred works of all ages . The fusion of klezmer with other musical styles and approaches dedicated to the group. In 2010, they won 2nd prize at “24º PJM” and at the 10th enriches the proposal of this fun-loving quintet. International Music Competition for “Città di Chieri”, and, in both cases, no 1st Prize was awarded. In the same year, they participated as a guest group in the The group was founded in 2008 from the common desire of a group of friends: 1st Trompas Lusas Festival. They performed in concerts in Portugal and Italy, to make music and have a good time. Initially made up of four clarinet players, some of which were recorded by Antena 2 and RAI. the group later invited two friends from percussion.

Today, Ósmavati are formed by Manuel Lemos (clarinet), José Luís Carvalho (violin), Tiago Soares (bass clarinet and alto saxophone), Andrés Perez (guitar and electric bass) and Leandro Teixeira (drums). Although all of the group's members have classical training, their appreciation of other styles, namely klezmer music, lead Ósmavati to look for new sonorities. Klezmer, with its festive character became then the foundation of Ósmavati's language, who also integrate in their music Balkan, Jewish, Argentinian, Irish, Brazilian and American influences.

“Portuguese group Ósvamati has discovered how to extract pleasure from this freedom, with their serious, challenging and innovative attitude. And so they set out to discover Jewish musical tradition - that precious century-old heritage, also called “ klezmer music” - in order to recreate the more festive and celebratory side of it, in a new appropriation of high artistic value. This recreation, while respecting the stylistic precepts of Jewish music, sometimes visits other styles and approaches which enrich it with a touch of fusion.” - Jorge Castro Ribeiro, 2011.

The guaranteed quality of execution of Ósmavati takes the contagious joy of Jewish with it, and reaches all audiences.

Founded in 2010, the Funk You Brass Band project is made up of musicians Ósmavati have performed all over the country, in World Music festivals, important from the Aveiro area whose musical training was acquired in the Aveiro, Águeda venues and on radio and television. In 2011, they recorded their first EP, made and Jobra Conservatories and also in Aveiro University, where they met. up of 5 klezmer tracks. With a strong component of wind instruments, like saxophones and trumpets, plus two percussionists, the Funk You Brass turns anything from Michael Jackson to Portuguese Philharmonic Hymns into great funky beats, with incursions in Latin, Dixie, Pop-rock and traditional Brass Band music, always with their trademark power, liveliness, relaxation and good-humour. The project is made up of eight musicians (three sax players, two trumpet players and two percussionists).

international street theatre festival 44 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 SUPPORTED PROJECTS ágil ‘imagin'battle’ exhibit ‘gente com luz própria’ portugal by isabel lhano with a performance by “colectivo portugal poético silêncio da gaveta”

Imagin'Battle, an initiative by ÁGIL Lordelo do Ouro Youth Association, is a 2 on After all, like Oscar Wilde would have imagined, portraits do grow old. Time gives 2 Bboying (break dance) competition. The competitors will show their skills and them other meanings and, as they stand still, their movement is the way we relate moves before a renowned jury. This event continues the work developed by ÁGIL to them, the way memory operates on them within the elasticity of what, at each around urban art, lending greater visibility to this culture. given moment, they mean to us.

Founded in 2008, ÁGIL aims to diversify the cultural experiences of young people The almost two hundred portraits created by Isabel Lhano, in more than eight and promote non-formal education thorough art, by organizing several activities, years, sound what we do with ourselves; they sound what we expected and what such as painting and drawing workshops, exchanges and visits to shows, parties actually happened or still happens. I am clearly involved in this matter because I and cultural events. It promotes the stimulation and participation of the young was portrayed twice and, while it is true that I have changed since, I see myself people from the parish of Lordelo do Ouro, Oporto, by getting them involved in ancient in those pictures, as if today, instead, meant what is timely and the possible the community's cultural, social and sporting life, thus favouring sharing and youth of all things, and the portraits were, by definition, the old and the obsolete. togetherness among the youth. It intends to develop everyone's sensitivity, by As if it was the painting that was escaping me, and I the sincere version to be focusing their attention on various forms of artistic and cultural expression, using considered. art as a way of bringing the community together. In 2010 and 2012, they organized PACS - Public Art Community Spaces, an Once the portrayed have been chosen among those that belong affectionately event that intends to diversify the experiences of various audiences that usually to her universe, Isabel Lhano not only defends herself against indifference but also stay away from these movements, relying on partners such as the Hard Club, takes a stand on behalf of the urgency of the collective. She praises her own and Armazém do Chá, Casa da Música e Serralves seduces towards an ethics of inclusion and communion, from the full acceptance (http://publicartcommunityspaces.blogspot.com/). of the other. In an open oeuvre, subject to both consolidation and illusion, what This association relies on occasional support from IPDJ and, since 2011, in a we see the most is how the painter and those she portrays behave during the partnership with INDUCAR, has provided young people with the chance to judging passage of time. Between approximations and deviations, the collective participate in exchanges and international training. Through the Juventude em becomes effective or unravels. The paintings, always honest, appear, through their Acção Program, it has implemented two actions: Iniciativa Juvenil MURO - Mais techniques and compositions, as living animals that won't stop maturing. um Rasgo Original (http://maisumrasgooriginal.tumblr.com), putting creative and artistic processes in favour of the community, which allowed to rehabilitate CIJ, Valter Hugo Mãe a youth space where various activities are conducted daily for the young people from Lordelo do Ouro; and the Creative Art Learning Exchange, which took place open in 2012, in Oporto, with the participation of 30 youngsters between 18 and 30 until 22 June from Portugal, Greece, Germany, Slovenia and Lithuania. ÁGIL is part of the consortium of the METAS E5G Project, financed by Programa hours Escolhas and promoted by ADILO, and its work has been acknowledged by the mon to fri 09.30am › 07.00pm Oporto City Council, which awarded it, in 2012, with the Young Oporto Award. sat 10.30am › 10.00pm sun 09.00pm › 11.30pm

international street theatre festival 46 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 meeting point ‘o mercado’ cabine aberta ‘porta 13’ portugal ‘transat’

This space is inspired by the spirit of popular Portuguese fairs (music, snacks and Cabine Aberta (“Open Cabin”) is a project where the two proponents leave it to drinks) and intends to be a meeting point for the 400 hundred artists or so that the public (subject to a pre-selection) to chose the music that will be played during participate in the festival and their audience, leading them to mingle every night the Imaginarius nights. after the day's performances. In an event that turns the streets of the historical centre into a cluster of passers- by with a predisposition for street art and growing creativity levels, Porta13 and horário do meeting point Transat provide a Stage and the tools to transform that creativity into music. This 23 MAY 02.00pm › 00.00am | 24 MAY 02.00pm › 02.00am | 25 MAY 02.00pm way any visitor can become the evening's DJ for a few minutes, playing some › 01.30am | 26 MAY 02.00pm › 09.00pm favourite tracks in a display of musical taste. The chosen visitors will also rely on the assistance and a short training session by the resident DJ's.

dj pål / secam ‘music’ drawing contest ‘imaginarius na rua’ holland

From ear ticklers to feet shufflers, Pål/Secam's music travels through Electric Soul Aiming to promote and develop artistic activity among young people, Rotary and Ancient Hip Hop, serving Pan-Amafropean Flavors passing by Rub-A-Dub, Clube da Feira will organize the “Imaginarius na Rua” drawing contest. Quirky Jazz, Chunky Funk and Limo-Disco. Young people will be encouraged to observe and register the city's historical centre It's the soul... innit! as an urban space, with its own heritage and hidden corners, but also the people, the Imaginarus shows and the mood of the moment. information www.facebook.com/paletsecam entries [email protected] | regulation available www.facebook.com/rotaryclubedafeira

international street theatre festival 47 santa maria da feira 24 › 26 may’13 contacts credits

management management artistic direction assistance feira viva – cultura e desporto, e.m. Santa Maria da Feira City Council, Feira Viva, Cultura Adelaide Osório Centro de Negócios do Cavaco e Desporto, E.M. and Orquestra e Banda Sinfónica Apartado 160 de Jovens de Santa Maria da Feira mais imaginarius consulting 4524 - 909 Santa Maria da Feira Rodrigo Malvar Portugal artistic direction pho +[351] 256 33 09 00 Hugo Cruz production fax +[351] 256 33 09 09 Humberto Teixeira, Andrea Valente, Cristina Pedrosa, www.feiraviva.com production direction Adriana Brandão, Pedro Oliveira, Helder Silva [email protected] Mónica Pinto and Silvia Pinto santa maria da feira city council technical direction communication praça da república · apartado 135 Wilma Moutinho Gilda Sá, Isabel Ferreira, José Vinhas, Marta 4524 - 909 Santa Maria da Feira Bernardes, Pedro Alves, Rui Silva, Sofia Tavares Portugal community projects coordination and Suzete Monteiro pho +[351] 256 37 08 00 Lisete Costa and Inês Pinho fax +[351] 256 37 08 85 translations www.cm-feira.pt educational projects coordination Vítor Magalhães [email protected] Ana Carvalhinho and Carla Palhares volunteering programming mais imaginarius coordination Carla Palhares and João Silva Rua dos Descobrimentos Márcia Fernandes Mercado Municipal, loja 5 community projects 4520-201 Santa Maria da Feira volunteering coordination Ana Guiomar e Daniel Moreira Portugal Teresa Ferreira cell +[351] 918 171 304 educational projects www.imaginarius.pt atmosphere creation and welcoming Claúdia Espassandim, Marco Chaves, Carlos [email protected] coordination Batista, Margarida Carneiro, Anabela Valente and www.facebook.com/festival.imaginarius Vânia Costa and Clara Pinto Sandra Cadete

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