MÁRCIA LANÇA/VAGAR

DENTRO DO CORAÇÃO
12 OCT' 19

POR ESSE MUNDO FORA
01 MAR' 16

Happiness and Misery
08 OCT' 14

Enough Evidence for the Incoherence of the World
15 MAY' 14

MEIO MUNDO ESTRADA FORA
14 FEB' 14

9 Possible Portraits
15 NOV' 13

O Desejo Ignorante, 19 & 20 October - Porto NEC
19 OCT' 13

Tallinn CityLab
09 JUN' 13

Helsinki CityLab
05 JUN' 13

CALMA BABY
31 MAY' 13

DENTRO DO CORAÇÃO

Première at 12nd October in LU.CA

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POR ESSE MUNDO FORA

+ 4 years old

Márcia and Nuno are explorers always available for their next adventure, curious of the unexpected and open to the unknown. Around the corner they find a place full of boxes. Intrigued, they question themselves: "What are these boxes doing here? What is inside on each one of them?". Each box a surprise, every surprise a thrill, every thrill an action, every action an image, every image a story. A perpetual act of discovery and inquiry. Permanent transformation of one thing into another. A constant movement of change. How far takes your curiosity?

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Happiness and Misery

Our past works as a lens through which we perceive the present. Where do we come from? Where are we standing? Each person has a personal history that is diluted when it gathers in a group which is classified by abstract categories. That’s how nations, states, unions are created. A small oneiric girl and an old and tired mascot invite us into a parable of contrasts and contradictions of a citizen’s life. The appearance of freedom gives place to the impossibility of communication where words said are never to be done and actions taking place need to be hidden. When everything goes wrong the idea of a better place, the promised land, is sold to us over and over again. Happiness & Misery proposes an experience where the audience can live the great illusion of participative democracy.

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Enough Evidence for the Incoherence of the World

This work presents the abrupt disappearance of several evidence, it reveals incoherences as paradoxes, questioning whether it is things that produce sense or us who create sense from things. It reflects on contexts, their creation and transfiguration artifices. A context is itself a framework, a cultural construction. When making archeology with people, they are removed from their places, from where they were, and presented somewhere else - decontextualized and recontextualized. We describe a context, we imagine it. When describing someone, we are building that person. Evidências Suficientes para a Não Coerência do Mundo (Enough Evidence for the Non-Coherence of the World) is built of several stories: the body and its monsters, portrait painting, costumes, the use of scenarios in front of which people used to let themselves be captured and the building of social power relations, among others. A choreographic non-chronological narrative, fictional yet with documentary contours is proposed.

Then we placed the following question: "If one never moves and everything around her/him changes, has she/he changed?"

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MEIO MUNDO ESTRADA FORA

Meio mundo estrada fora is a journey in a van undertaken by DEMIMONDE, an itinerant artistic residence travelling through Portugal, Spain and France, presenting performative works and experimenting new models of joint action.

Meio mundo estrada fora makes three stops in three cities of its journey: February 8 at Maus Hábitos (Porto), February 12 at Teatro Pradillo (Madrid), and February 14-16 at Festival ArtDanthé (Paris).

In each stop DEMIMONDE artists propose an informal space of presentation and relationship, where they will show some of their individual pieces and videos, ending the program with a meeting which will be an invitation to play and think.

Demimonde is a collective of performance and dance artists living, meeting and working in Lisbon. Its aim is to regenerate the cultural tissues and revitalize contemporary creation, giving rise to necessary contexts and dynamics and creating an experimental window which reflects modes of thought and joint action.

Demimonde appeared first as a space provided by the City Hall of Lisbon for creation and artistic experimentation managed by structures AADK Portugal and Maquina Agradavel and several independent artist and associations. Then, as informal group of artists with its different structures launched Celebraçao at Cultugest, which took place in November 2012 as a dance and performance festival, designed by artists whose main stance is resistance as artistic community. And finally, Demimonde created the programs ORA BOLAS! HÁ ESPAÇO! VAMOS USÁ-LO! (December 2012) and DEMIMONDE at Galeria da Boavista (December 2013) which proposed an OPEN CALL to everyone to present work and experiments at the space of Gallery.

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9 Possible Portraits

9 Possible Portraits is made out of nine performances that are snippets of my own personal experience in nine different European cities. When I say “personal experiences” I mean my personal visions, which were framed by the constructed perspectives of reality I had contact with during the project Global City – Local City. By using the word “possible” in the title and by using it also as a practice, I intend to move way from the construction of a city based on totalization and homogenization. I intend to stay away from ideas of uniformity. I want to state that several artistic choices were made during the dramaturgical process that led me into one among many possible portraits of a city experience. Regarding the process, I should mention that this work has been driven by actions of extraction and removal – what I think of as artistic archeology – on which I take away materials from its contexts and work them, creating new situations where different meanings and senses are evoked.

Everyday in Spielart, nine short city portraits, which derive from my interpretation and consequent transformations of information, will be shared in an intimate ambience. A total of 126 performances will take place in a container during the Spielart Festival.

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O Desejo Ignorante, 19 & 20 October - Porto NEC

On stage the dancers wait for something to happen to them, awaiting the moment when desire shows up. Action might come up from desire, and with it gestures, movements and words. A constant dialogue between what is known and what isn't is to be built in front of the audience. The dancers present themselves rawly in a kind of documentary dance. In O Desejo Ignorante, the video takes a similar function as the painted sets of the Great Russian Ballets and the Renaissance Operas, imitating reality by bringing majestic images to the scene, creating a context, a set and a landscape. One of the key questions of the research behind O Desejo Ignorante is to unite thought and action by making them dialogue simultaneously and not separating them.

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Tallinn CityLab

GLOBAL CITY - LOCAL CITY PROJECT

Tallinn – the city of interruptions. Constantly changing ideologies have shaped the form of the city and the mind-set of the inhabitants. Also, the past has been constantly reconstructed. There is no proper story to dwell on. And, to be honest, it has been just peasantry and mud, and barley and potato. So - nothing glorious yet. But we are positive, because we have future! Let the utopias roll! Let the golden age be still to come! Future will be the best as it has always been. Tallinn’s CityLab will be about past and present futures. Utopias. We will be investigating different ideas and memory games lay on the physical space. It will all happen in the veil of the Nordic white nights, when people and the time they constitute are silenced and the ideas of the constructed space is revealed the clearest.

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Helsinki CityLab

GLOBAL CITY - LOCAL CITY PROJECT

When we think of a city, we immediately imagine public spaces: streets, squares, museums and shopping malls. However, as much as it is a public space, for its residents the city is an accumulation of private spaces. This hidden vast network opens up only when you gain trust of the city residents. In this Lab, we will meet and spend time with Helsinki residents in their private spaces. For many of us in the art field, at some point a conflict emerges between private and public, or professional, lives. How do we balance the families and careers? How do we define ourselves outside of the professional realm? Do we have a right for private life? How do we define and deal with private in art and in politics? We asked Helsinki hosts to share their views and strategies on this subject.

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CALMA BABY

Residency Festival Les Informelles

Théâtre des Bernardines Marseille - 16th to 31st May

"The Ever Ending Story"

We will focus on revealing the beauty that is there but not normally visible. CALMA BABY is a project that wants to continue going deeper and deeper into nature. To challenge the way we look at CULTURE, as it is a part of nature. Like: if there’s an avalanche in nature there’s an avalanche because of tension in the rocks. If there’s an avalanche in culture expression then it’s a metaphor. We don’t want to work with metaphors and treating life as a problem. No underlines, just the meaning of life – the beauty.

We’re cool and collective, share the not knowing the end, share the pathway – aborate – and rest less.

CALMA BABY is a Process Specific Work.

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