Teatro Carlos Alberto

GAP

artistic direction Vasco Gomes

GAP

Description

The Erva Daninha company brings us VÃO [GAP] a unique contemporary circus show, continuing their research work into new ways of making and showing this art. Two characters share the stage like it was a one-way road, congested with information, illusion and influences. Throughout the show, this univocal space is being turned into a laboratory space. In it, the characters attempt to cross the gap between reality and imagination. Their interior turmoil and the unpredictability of events cause them to now cooperate, now fight among themselves. In the tense, unexpected atmosphere of VÃO, risk and illusion lead the viewer through skilful acrobatics and object manipulation, turning them into means for the communication of emotions and ideas. The meeting-point of two creators from different generations, each with his own technique and life experience – Vasco Gomes, a juggler who is also the artistic director of Erva Daninha, and Leonardo Ferreira, an acrobat who has just graduated from the Centre National des Arts du Cirque –, VÃO is an enquiry into the paths we desire and those that life offers us, as well as into the transformations the body undergoes while facing the adversities of those paths.

Credits

artistic direction Vasco Gomes

direction assistance and visual concept Julieta Guimarães dramaturgy Julieta Guimarães sound design Baltazar Molina light Romeu Correia Guimarães

co-created and performed by Leonardo Ferreira, Vasco Gomes

co-produced by Companhia Erva Daninha, Rede 5 Sentidos: Centro de Arte de Ovar, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Espaço do Tempo, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente, Teatro Micaelense, Teatro Municipal da Guarda, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Teatro Nacional São João, Teatro Viriato, Teatro Virgínia

opening 28Set/Sep2019 Teatro Viriato (Viseu) playing time 1:00 Ages 12 and up**

Sessions

Teatro Carlos Alberto

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· sex · 21:00
· sáb · 19:00
· dom · 16:00