SAT 19 APR / 19h00
CASLAS – Centro de Assistência Social Lucinda Anino dos Santos, Lagos
Dance + Live Music
M12 / 50' / 5€
A dancer who didn’t know how to dance, a singer who didn’t know how to sing, an actor who didn’t know how to act, a writer who didn’t know how to write, a painter who didn’t know how to paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. One had to know how to do it to be it. As the lines separating being from doing, self from action, object from subject, remain blurred, something stays unfit and dysfunctional. A monster that fails to fulfill its function.
Está visto (2023) is the result of a collaboration between João dos Santos Martins and pianist and composer Joana Sá, and visual artist Ana Jotta. Having as starting point the Dichterliebe (Poet’s Love) song cycle, composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the piece is presented as a recital, seeking to create interactions and flows between singing, piano music, and dance. The romantic-style songs, with poetry by Heinrich Heine, speak of unrequited love. This lack of reciprocity is shown in a choreography that dis-articulates language, fragmenting the gesture with the lyrics and sound in a body in transit.
Performance: João dos Santos Martins, Joana Sá (piano and more)
Music: Dichterliebe, Op. 48, by Robert Schumann, (de)arranged by Joana Sá
Costume Design: Jotta & Faísca
Lighting and Stage Assistant: Filipe Pereira
Vocal Support: Rui Baeta
Lyrics in Portuguese Sign Language (LGP): Cláudia Dias
Gesture Support: Miguel Ralha
Co-production: Associação Parasita, BoCa – Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Vaga
Residencies: Casa da Dança, DeVIR CAPa, Espaço Parasita, Estúdios Victor Córdon, Forum Dança, Goethe-Institut Lisboa, Grand Studio / Materiais Diversos, Salão Nobre da Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Teatro da Voz, Vila Sul Goethe-Institut Salvador
Production and Administration: Sofia Lopes & Lysandra Domingues / Associação Parasita, Association Mimaï
Graphic Design: Nuno Maio
Acknowledgments: Ana Rita Teodoro, Ana Bigotte Vieira, Connor Scott, Joana Mário, Joana Nascimento, Luís José Martins, Luísa Saraiva, Rita Natálio, Sabine Macher, Sebastian Felten
Parasita is funded by the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
João dos Santos Martins is an artist. He studied at the Escola Superior de Dança (Lisbon), P.A.R.T.S. (Brussels), e.x.er.c.e (Montpellier), and the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies (Giessen). His work, generally developed collaboratively, includes forms that focus on dance: choreography, exhibition, or publishing. These are based on questions on the history of dance, its transmission, the relationship practice/discourse, and the paradoxes within the act of dancing.
Together with Ana Bigotte Vieira, Martins created a platform for the collective mapping of dance in Portugal: Para Uma Timeline a Haver. He has danced in works by Ana Rita Teodoro, Eszter Salamon, Moriah Evans, Xavier Le Roy, Jérôme Bel, Manuel Pelmuş, Rui Horta, among others. In 2014, he founded the artistic cooperative Parasita, and in 2019, he founded the journal Coreia.
