5th and 6th December 9.30pm
Teatro
Nacional S. João
Companhia Paulo Ribeiro
(Portugal)
Ao Vivo
(Live)
Musical Director Mário Laginha
Music Songs from Cor and Fábula by Maria João and Mário Laginha
Lighting Cristina Piedade
Costumes Manuel Alves and José Manuel Gonçalves
Musicians Maria João, Mário Laginha, Invited percussionist Helge Nörbakken
Co-production Teatro Nacional S. João and Companhia Paulo Ribeiro for PoNTI (Portugal)
Approximate Length: 1 hr (no interval)
With Ao Vivo, Paulo Ribeiro returns to his work
based on already existing musical structures, in this particular case calling on the
complicity of Maria João and Mário Laginha. Paulo Ribeiro has created, through rigorous
choreographic writing, a space for improvisation which produces tension between the known
and unknown. A Live show. One of PoNTI's World Premieres.
"It's a live encounter, it's the pleasure of
musicality, it's allowing the body to be epidermis, it's breathing through the skin, it's
creating space for dialogue, it's fleshing out surprise, it's going transparent on stage,
it's forgetting oneself, it's giving voice to the body, it's giving body to the voice,
it's listening and dancing, dancing."
Paulo Ribeiro