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MADRUGADA

Direction and choreography

Victor Hugo Pontes

Estelle Valente

The time of day - night? - when the time machine seems most perfectly balanced is also the most excessive time. Twilight, exhaustion of the body, end of party, return to the light. Dancing the night away. In the end, the body no longer thinks, it just reacts. All together in the dark: the music, the eyes, the stories, the stumbles, the sweaty body. Everyone with themselves: eyes closed, looking deep inside, frantic body. The night belongs to everyone, but the dance is increasingly intimate, alone. All around, everything seems blurred, everything seems possible. Stepping out of your own body, as if your feet were no longer touching the ground. A trance, the time machine chokes. The place is fuzzy, somewhere between heaven and earth. “A slight tremor precedes the dawn": the excessive hour ends quickly, the day arrives, the stage lights up, the illusion fades, as if everything might not have been. For every clear dawn, there's a dawn where almost all the darkness of the nights when you don't know what happened fits.

Credits

Choreography and Costumes Victor Hugo Pontes. Original music by Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins. Set design F. Ribeiro. Light Design Wilma Moutinho. Assistant Choreographer Vera Santos. The piece was developed and is performed by Aeden Pittendreigh, África Sobrino, Almudena Maldonado, Francisco Couto, Gonçalo Andrade, Henriett Ventura, Inês Ferrer, Lourenço Ferreira, Michelle Luterbach, Miguel Ramalho, Nuno Tauber, Paulina Santos and Ricardo Limão. Principal patron Fundação EDP. Supported by Nissan.

Companhia Nacional de Bailado is directed by Sofia Campos.

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