The actress, creator, and playwright Teresa Coutinho will lead the workshop on Monday and Tuesday, under the theme “Being on stage is to see and to show,” according to the CCB program.
“Every time one steps on stage, it is a different entry. It is in the tension between repetition and risk, between listening and reacting, between biography and fiction that the creative specificity of each artist is most intensely manifested,” the CCB states about this workshop, which aims to “work and think about the scene with the performers, exercising their relationship with the present moment,” “without excluding […] body, word, space, audience, memory, emotion, imagination, biography.”
On the upcoming 10th and 11th, Teatro da Cidade will lead a workshop proposed as a “space for theatrical experimentation and creation.”
Based on the premise “collective as the engine of the artistic process,” the workshop seeks to develop “a joint work that runs through several fundamental stages of creation: from textual writing to dramaturgical reflection, culminating in a shared approach to staging.”
The method is based on “sharing tools and practices developed by the creators of Teatro da Cidade, promoting critical questioning around contemporary artistic creation issues, namely ‘How to create collectively? How does a performance come to life? And why do we do it?'” adds the CCB program.
The collective Aurora Negra will conduct the workshop on November 24 and 25, guided by the premise of inhabiting the “in-between space, a space of frictions, crossings, and multiple roots,” acknowledging that “it is in this fertile territory that identity is constructed and reconstructed.”
Therefore, the workshop is an invitation “to listen to the body, evoke ancestry, celebrate memory, and create possible futures,” because Aurora Negra aims to “question, remember, dream, and celebrate,” “allowing the past, present, and future to dialogue without limits or constraints.”
On December 1 and 2, Os Possessos will share their working method, organized internally by rotating the direction of different projects among its five members.
The group will present the creative processes of performances from the recent years, focusing on dramaturgy and staging issues as well as the production challenges faced by each project, the CCB program adds.
The structure Má-Criação will close the eighth cycle of meetings on December 8 and 9.
“Before starting to walk, we do not know where we want to go,” the collective states, adding that they want “to be in motion,” available “for what being in motion provides: change of perspective, unexpected encounters, mishaps, detours, deserts, and oases.”
The process “starts from experimentation in the studio as a basis for pre-creation, refusing to settle within a determined formula, discovering together what we have to say, what we can do,” the collective members add.
The workshop cycle titled ‘Creative Affinities’ began at the CCB on October 6, encompassing a total of eight meetings curated by Causas Comuns.
In the days following the workshops, the cycle includes an open session to the public in the Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen room, with tickets available two hours in advance at the CCB box office.
Gaya de Medeiros, Flávia Gusmão, and David Marques led the first three cycles.
