The Portuguese companies Formiga Atómica, Má Criação and Teatro Experimental do Porto (TEP) will take part in Mirada – Ibero-American Festival of Performing Arts in São Paulo, Brazil, in September, the organization announced.
The festival includes 33 shows, is organized by Sesc São Paulo and will take place between September 5 and 15, with Peru as the honoured country.
“The festival presents contemporary production from Latin American countries, Spain and Portugal, bringing to the stage a diversity of languages, themes and bodies. The works include relationships with nature and indigenous and decolonial issues, provoking reflections on violence, gender, migration, displacement and power relations,” said the organizers in their description of the event.
The Formiga Atómica company will take “O Estado do Mundo (Quando Acordas)”, the first part of a diptych about the environmental and climate crisis, to Brazil.
“Placing on stage cause-effect relationships between small gestures and major consequences, the creation of the Portuguese company Formiga Atómica questions the extent to which everyday objects can be responsible for major environmental catastrophes,” reads the synopsis published by Mirada.
The Portuguese cultural association Má Criação has teamed up with the Brazilians Foguetes Maravilha and Dimenti to present “Subterrâneo, um Musical Obscuro”, which stems from the story of the 33 miners trapped in a cave-in in Chile in 2010.
“On stage, the image of a group of people trapped underground serves as an impetus to talk about the world that surrounds us and continually challenges us with walls, fires, bombs and speeches,” says the synopsis.
The TEP takes to the stage with the Chileans of Teatro La María in the play “G.O.L.P.”, which toured Porto in April, in which the two companies bring Portugal and Chile together in a co-production in a reconstruction of history “as it could have happened and not as it actually happened”, in other words, a uchronia, in which Portugal is the only successful communist nation, and has ‘gulags’ in the Alentejo, and Chile a democracy in crisis that aspires to be what Portugal managed to be.
