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Splendour and Dysmorphia

de Vera Mantero e Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, 2019

A hybrid recital for two body-landscapes animated by breathing. A cluster that destroys and expands, disaster and anti-disaster in which acceleration, fungi and voice survive. Invisible splendours. Hyper-future and hyper-past. Between dysmorphia, the sun and the flesh.

Splendour and Dysmorphia premiered in June 2019 at the 73rd edition of the Avignon Festival, as part of the VIVE LE SUJET! programme at the Jardin de la Vierge. Co-produced by the Avignon Festival and SACD - Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatiques, the piece is a co-creation between choreographer Vera Mantero and musician and visual artist Jonathan Uriel Saldanha. The premiere in Portugal took place in February 2020 at the Vila Flor Cultural Centre, Guimarães, as part of the GUIdance Festival, and moved the project to a performance hall context, making use of other scenic resources.

Ficha Artística

Creation and Interpretation
Vera Mantero and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
 
Set, Costumes and Props
Vera Mantero and Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
 
Ribbon Mask Construction
Aldina Jesus

Light Design
Leticia Skrycky
 
Soundtrack
Jonathan Uliel Saldanha
 
Voice
Vera Mantero
 
Texts
Paysage avec Argonautes by Heiner Müller, excerpts of Le monstre dans l’art occidental by Gilbert Lascault. © edited by Klincksieck, Paris
 
Images
Joos van Craesbeeck and Erbe, Pooley: USDA, ARS, EMU
 
Production
O Rumo do Fumo
 
Co-production
SACD - Festival d'Avignon and Centro Cultural Vila Flor
 
Acknowledgements
André Guedes, Catarina Miranda, Miguel Pereira and Tiago Barbosa

Cronologia

12 - 14 January 2024, Teatro do Bairro Alto, Lisbon/Portugal
20 June - 20 July 2021, Portuguese Platform of Performing Arts, Online/Portugal
29 October 2020, Linha de Fuga - Laboratório & Festival Internacional de Artes Performativas, Oficina Municipal Do Teatro, Coimbra, Portugal
National Première 7 February 2020, Festival GUIdance, Pequeno Auditório, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães/Portugal
World Première 6 - 8 and 10 - 12 July 2019, Festival d'Avignon - Vive le Sujet!, Jardin de la Vierge du lycée Saint-Joseph, Avignon/France

Imprensa

Monstrification practices
Text by Cláudia Galhós