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MEIO NO MEIO

Artistic Direction

Victor Hugo Pontes

Vera Marmelo

Meio no Meio, a creation by Victor Hugo Pontes, reflects a three-year process with an intergenerational group from four territories - Almada, Barreiro, Lisbon, and Moita - which was joined by other professional performers, in a work that combines and portrays different artistic paths from those on stage. Accompanying the lives of these participants over three years, crossed by a pandemic, Meio no Meio starts from the ideas of journey and expectation; of memory and autobiography; and the incessant movement of bodies pushed to the limit by Victor Hugo Pontes, in his unique choreographic language. The show's title stems from a space of possibility (the medium) and the paths that open up in front of a kind of clearing (this medium). Sometimes these paths are called 'future', or just 'life', or 'destiny', or one of those words that designate what is to come. The show also questions the way in which we organize and tell our past and point it toward the future to come. Meio no Meio uses documentation and (self)reflection on each of the lives portrayed on stage to build an affective map of memories and possibilities, set in Joana Craveiro's text. All this, to the sound of the intense, but also intimate, warlike, and liberating music of Throes + The Shine, which was the music requested by those bodies.

Credits

Artistic Direction Victor Hugo Pontes. Text Joana Craveiro. Scenography F. Ribeiro. Music Marco Castro and Igor Domingues (Throes + The Shine). Technical Direction and Light Design Wilma Moutinho. Costumes Catarina Pé-Curto and Victor Hugo Pontes. Video Maria Remédio. Artistic consultant Madalena Alfaia. Performers Alegria Gomes, Benedito José, Dúnia Semedo, Leopoldina Félix, Luís Nunes, Maria Augusta Ferreira, Mavatiku José, Nérida Rodrigues, Paulo Mota, Ricardo Cardoso Teixeira, Rolaisa Embaló, Sidolfi Katendi, Teresa Amaral, Valter Fernandes, Yana Suslovets. Production Director Joana Ventura. Executive Producer Mariana Lourenço. Co-production Nome Próprio, Artemrede, São Luiz Teatro Municipal. Partnerships Municípios de Almada, Barreiro, Moita, Lisboa, Rumo-Cooperativa Social, CIES-IUL – Centro de Investigação e Estudos de Sociologia do Instituto Universitário de Lisboa. Residency support Centro de Experimentação Artística. Support PARTIS III – Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Nome Próprio has the support of the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts and is a resident structure at Teatro Campo Alegre, within the scope of the Teatro em Campo Aberto program.