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A ESTA HORA, NA INFÂNCIA NEVA

Companhia Maior e Victor Hugo Pontes

Bruno Simão

In this creation with Companhia Maior, Victor Hugo Pontes follows an emphatically physical approach, inspired by the potential of bodies that have lived for a long time — a counterpoint to his previous experience of working with adolescents. Where the vigour of youth is complicated by a lack of experience and self-mastery, in older age limitations are resolved through stage experience. What idiosyncrasies announce themselves in the physicality of these performers, who carry a long journey inscribed in their bodies? To this question, Victor Hugo Pontes set out to find a choreographic answer.On stage, bodies of different ages are layered to bring out contrast, but also to celebrate the beauty of the matured physique: a body in dance that has lost strength and speed, yet holds existential memory and has gained definition and intention. The younger generations create a mirror that allows us to reflect on what we still are, on what we once were — a trigger from the past, towards an open future, in a present where, as Manuel António Pina wrote, "the scars of the heart remain"**, where forgetting is also a form of wisdom and childhood reappears, refined.[* and **] "A esta hora, na infância neva" [At this hour, it is snowing in childhood], a poem by Manuel António Pina in Cuidados Intensivos*, 1994.*

Credits

Artistic Direction: Victor Hugo Pontes. Set Design: F. Ribeiro. Lighting Design: Wilma Moutinho. Costume Design: Cristina Cunha. Assistant Director: Cátia Esteves. Cast: Angelina Mateus, Beatriz Mira, Carlos Nery, Cristina Gonçalves, Dinis Duarte, Du Nothin (Duarte Appleton), João Silvestre, Kimberley Ribeiro, Michel, and Paula Bárcia. Artistic consultant: Madalena Alfaia. Musical consultant: Hélder Gonçalves. Video: Miguel C. Tavares. Costume design: Emilia Pontes and Domingos de Freitas Pereira. Interns: Catarina Gonçalves (ESD Master’s), Joana Belchior, and Mariana V. Pedreiro (ESTC Bachelor’s)

Companhia Maior

Artistic direction Paula Varanda. Executive coordination Sofia Gomes. Communications and press Raquel Ermida. Video and photography João Cardoso Ribeiro

Companhia Maior is a cultural association supported annually by the Lisbon City Council (CML) under the RAAML program.

Nome Próprio

Artistic direction by Daniela Cruz. Production and distribution by Andreia Fraga. Executive production by Nuna Reis

Nome Próprio is a resident company at Teatro Campo Alegre, as part of the Teatro em Campo Aberto program, and is supported by the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture/DGArtes.

Co-production: Companhia Maior, Nome Próprio, Centro Cultural de Belém, Cineteatro Louletano, RTP, Theatro Circo, Theatro Gil Vicente

Residency support: Comuna – Teatro de Pesquisa, Lisbon City Council (CML) – Polo Cultural Gaivotas

Support: São João National Theater

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