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“Poetry is an awareness of the world”

Andrei Tarkovsky

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… is a performance of rhythms, akin to our lives.

It’s a collective creation based on a reading of texts written by Andrei Tarkovsky and Matsuo Bashô. By manipulating matter and materials, we’ve created a performance of visual poems, where images and live music come together in contemplation. In a world of visual chaos and constant conflict, we embark on a journey in search of images and rapport between the performers and the audience, who are invited to become space and time travellers.

Symbolic narratives using poetic images together with matter and material are built around their memories. We are the creators of images and, starting with our early childhood, it is with this mutual manipulation between audience and stage that poetry is created and understood. This multidisciplinary approach, in the form of a laboratory, brings us a rhythmic performance.

And the relationship between the puppeteer and matter brings us the age of images and poetry.

CAST AND CREW

Concept | Paulo Quedas, João Bastos, Jorge Serena and Amândio Anastácio

Artistic Director | Amândio Anastácio

Interpretation and puppeteers | Jorge Serena and Paulo Quedas

Live music | João Bastos

Images | Jean Dubuffet and Gustave Courbet

Texts | Andrei Tarkovsky and Matsuo Bashô

Design and lighting | António Costa

Photography | Inês Samina

Video | Pedro Grenha

Production | Teresa Mendes

Poster | Vasco Costa

CE | Ages 16 and over

Duration | 50 minutes

Production | Alma d’Arame

Supported by | Montemor-o-Novo City Council

Partners | Espaço do Tempo; Oficinas do Convento

Organisation funded by | DGARTES and the Portuguese Government