Theatre
Atlas da Boca
28th of May | 17.00h | Jonh dos Passos
29th of May | 17.00h | Jonh dos Passos
"Atlas da Boca" is an exploration by two trans artists about focusing on the mouth as a place of intersection between words, identity and voice, in public and in private, through eroticism and in politics. The work seeks new narratives by exploring the entry point of an open mouth, and the outward expression through the mouth. This show in which dance portrays the thoughts that are inscribed within the body.
Atlas da Boca discusses this symbolic space, where the mouth becomes the interface between the public and the private worlds, between the erotic and the political, between silence and the eternal word. It is in these situations that the word becomes identity, affection, faith, and laughter. Like babies discovering the world by putting everything in their mouths: to know the taste of the floor, the flavour of the house keys, or of their mother's hair. We grow up and the mouth becomes a place further and further away from the hand, more far-fetched, sober and yet superb. In this collection of words that move from the mouth to the outside world and the mouth to the inside, Gaya de Medeiros and Ary allow some words to overflow in a very horizontal and unpretentious relationship with the audience.
The performers let themselves be carried away by the stories their tongues invent as they roll towards the sacred that exists on the roof of the mouthes. As if they are like babies passing their existence into their mouths and tasting flavours for the first time.
This play was elected as one of the best shows of the year by Expresso in 2021 and was recently on stage at the D. Maria II Theatre. This is the first time it is being presented on Madeira Island at the Aqui Acolá Festival.
Maximum Capacity:180 seats.
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VOLTAGEM | DESVIO x FELICIANO | Marco O Desvio
27th of May | 00.30h | Largo do Pelourinho
"How do you find your body when you turn it all around?" is the question posed by performer Marco O Desvio, in a theatrical performance in which the author assumes that his greatest power lies in the deep desire to turn it all around.
All the inexhaustible possibilities that open up whenever you allow yourself to give in to letting it all go around you. All fragilities become strength when you allow yourself to turn it all around. All the infinite power blossoms when you allow yourself to turn it around. Because whenever you find yourself more or less in the middle (and never at the end. There is no end to this trip), you realize that the turn around is never fully complete.
Because, more or less in the middle, in the incredible spectrum that is all your body, you realize that it is not about finishing anything one day, by exhausting it. It is about understanding that it is always changing because you allow yourself to turn it around. Because you allow yourself to turn it around, you always discovers yourself as something else because everything is always in movement, always in the present moment. Our greatest power is in the profound desire to turn it all around.
VOLTAGEM | DESVIO x FELICIANO created and performed by Marco O Desvio with musical production and live operation by Feliciano.
