Este é o Meu Corpo

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Este é o Meu Corpo [This Is My Body] brings together four crucial solo pieces by Mónica Calle, created across a time expanse of 28 years and fittingly presented at the centuries-old surroundings of the São Bento da Vitória Monastery. With this action, the creator and performer revisits, questions and updates a body of work, looking into its future. A body that is physical, personal and artistic, but also collective, always created as an offering, in connection with others, exploring the word, the word made body. A Virgem Doida (1992), with a text by Rimbaud, was the first solo piece by Mónica Calle and Casa Conveniente, the structure she had founded, the inaugural spark of a close, intimate theatre. Rua de Sentido Único (2002), a monologue that is also a turning point, marked the start of a still ongoing study on the place and role of the viewer. In Os Meus Sentimentos (2013), Calle reads the words of Dulce Maria Cardoso, inhabiting them as a second skin in a rich stream-of-consciousness solo. Henry Miller’s writing provides the raw materials for Rosa Crucificação (2018), creating a time and a place of liturgy and communion, where our fears, desires and memories confront one another. A time apart, sacred and profane, a minimal theatre, a total theatre.

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