Concept & Artistic Direction
André Uerba
Performers
Augusto Amado
Beatriz Dias
Cátia Leitão (aka Alface)
Miguel Nunes
Silvana Ivaldi
Sound Design
André Uerba
Choir
Coro dos Anjos / Edgar Valente
with:
Catarina Monteiro, Anabela Carrazedo, Sara Mercier, Anaïs Thínon, Helena Leonarda, Miguel Fernandes, Joana Veiga Sofia, Florencia Zsigmond, Andrea Vertessen, Camila, Teresa Charata, António Rivotti, Beatriz Leonardo
Music Excerpt
"Guitarra" de Rodrigo Leão & Pedro Magalhães
Light Design, Objects, Costume & Ocarinas
André Uerba
Residencies
Radialsystem Berlin, Flutgraben Performance, Estúdios Victor Córdon
Executive Production
SHORT HOPE
Co-Production
BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Lisbon
Financed by
Fundação GDA
Support
Câmara Municipal de Lisboa, Polo Cultural Gaivotas / Boavista, Estúdios Victor Córdon, Radialsystem
Thanks to
Tiago Gandra, Carlos Ramos, Curva Atelier
A hole the size of your touch
How does touch manifest in our bodies and what traces does it leave in an encounter? André Uerba researches the different dimensions of touch, its properties, qualities and complexities.
Through deceleration, inhibition of the sense of sight and a kinetic and somatic approach to the body and its movement, André Uerba and the performers experiment with different ways to get to know and feel each other. Bodies that meet, coordinate and communicate non-verbally – opening a space that is understood as political – in an urgency to find spaces to care for the body, researching listening zones which are not guided by the mind. André Uerba proposes a return to the body, to the pulse of nature.
Understood as a choreographic reflection that intertwines touch and closeness, this project is a research on touch that begun in 2019 in the frame of the Flutgraben Performances (1 Year Residency) and continued during the residency at radialsystem in 2021 (both in Berlin). “Um buraco do tamanho do teu toque” or “A hole the size of your touch” is an hybrid of research-performance that is expanded in this presentation at BoCA in October 2021.
photos: Bruno Simão
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