PASSAGE Performance/Installation

It's a Public Art project, an Performance/Installation that in order to enhance the artistic intervention in public space and transform a truly privileged stage for Visual Poetry. Colored by red and white, PASSAGE; includes a Performance of Physical Theatre in Stilts, using Mask Technique, and an Installation created entirely with reuse objects and materials, which here gain a new form and life, keeping saved however, their own stories.

A piece awarded in 2022 by the Jury from TAC Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle de Vallolidid with the Best Show Award, in 2013 receives by MONTENEGRO ASSITEJ International Association of Theaters for Children and Young People, upon the participation in Kotor International Theater Festival for Children, the Special Mention for artistic relevance of the project and new sensitivity level achieved, as referenced by Anna Jazgarska with the critical for one of the best performances of the 2014 edition of FETA International Street and Open-Air Theater Festival of Gdansk on the Magazine of Theatre and Performance Teatralny.pl.

SYNOPSIS

A Performance that tells the history of four old travelers, who walk among a universe of suspended objects, where through the memories of the past, that wrapped their lives, they find a new journey, fulfilled by an Installation in a form of poetic Interference that explores in the commonplace what the best it as, its multiplicity of sensations and feelings, making it unique by the environment that surrounds it, emerging this form from oblivion and routine, transforming this common place in a ephemeral place of contemplation.

CREDITS

Production: PIA Projectos de Intervenção Artística CRL

Author, Artistic Direction and Plastic Conception: Pedro Leal

Production Direction and Audiovisual: Helena Oliveira

Costumes: Maria João Domingues, Olinda Cordas, Filomena Godinho

Installation and Masks: Pedro Leal

Light Draw and Operation: João Nunes

Sound Design: Álvaro Presumido

Assistance: Pedro Vicente, Sara Araújo

Creation and Interpretation: Helena Oliveira, Mafalda Cabral, Ricardo Mondim, Sylvain Peker, Tiago Augusto

Special thanks to...

Joaquim Batista Dias, Miguel Cabral, Ricardo Brás, Paulo Morais (Video), Luís Fernandes (Video), Luís Amarelo (Interpretation), Filipe Couto (Video), Rui Rodrigues, Paulo Vargues (Operation), João Lopes (Operation), Associação de Reformados e Pensionistas de Pinhal Novo, Vidreira Pinhal Novo, Vidreira Moderna da Moita and ATA - Associação Teatral Artimanha

HIGHLIGHTS | PRESS, VIDEOS, AND PHOTO GALLERIES OF PERFORMANCES IN THE LINKS

FITS Festivalul Internațional de Teatru de la Sibiu (RO)

Kaldearte Muestra de Internacional de Artes de Calle, Vitoria-Gasteiz (ES)

TAC Festival Internacional de Teatro y Artes de Calle de Valladolid (ES)

Abertura Temporada Cine-Teatro Joaquim d Almeida, Montijo (PT)

B-FIT in the Street! Festivalul Internațional de Teatru de Stradă, Bucareste (RO)