Teatro de Ferro (Portugal)
ARQUIVO ZOMBIE - O ARQUIVO MORTO DO TEATRO DE FERRO
MUSEU NACIONAL DO TEATRO E DA DANÇA
26 May at 10.30am and 3pm (Fri) - Schools
27 and 28 May at 11.30am and 4pm (Sat, Sun) - General public
⇨ FREE ENTRY, SUBJECT TO AVAILABILITY
Make your prior admission: geral@mnteatroedanca.dgpc.pt
Technique: Performance-installation Language: Portuguese Age guidance: +12 Runs: 50 min. Limited capacity
In this new creation, Teatro de Ferro proposes to revive objects that have been chasing them for some years.
These creatures, stage machines, kinetic sculptures and other things that are difficult to name will be reinvented, they will produce new senses and meanings that are yet to be discovered – above all in their interaction with each other. At the same time, they also come back to life to help us reflect on a path, a way of doing things, a strong identity that has been changing over two decades.
This is not, however, a retrospective. It is perhaps an “other perspective”. In this performance/ installation, the public will be invited to discover these objects, through a guided tour, which will also include short performances and brief notes, information and curiosities about the works.
BIO
Teatro de Ferro was founded in 1999. The artistic directors are Carla Veloso and Igor Gandra. The choice of the name - Teatro de Ferro (Iron Theatre) - implies a notion of primordial, resistant and at the same time changeable matter: this transformation process continues to inspire them. The work of the Company has been developed in the theatre of, and with, puppets and objects. They conceive their practice in the logic of a research in which the puppet has assumed a matrix value in its possible hybridizations, both tempted and tempting. The relationships - of the body interpreter with the manipulated object and the implication of each spectator in the building of this relation - are lines of thought that are transversal to the artistic practice of Teatro de Ferro. The company has the support of Ministério da Cultura, Direção-Geral das Artes, since 2003. Igor Gandra is the artistic diretor of the Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto, since 2009.
CREDITS
Artistic direction: Igor Gandra, Carla Veloso Visual execution: Eduardo Mendes, Hernâni Miranda Text (excerpt): Regina Guimarães Performers: Carla Veloso, Catarina Chora, Eduardo Mendes, Igor Gandra, Mariana Lamego Video: Carlota Gandra Lighting design: Teatro de Ferro, Mariana Figueroa Sound design: Teatro de Ferro Photography: Susana Neves Graphic design: Gráficos do Futuro Construction workshop: Carla Veloso, Catarina Lopes, Eduardo Mendes, Guilherme Vieira, Hernâni Miranda, Igor Gandra, Lara Oliveira, Mário Gandra, Matilde Rovisco Production: Carla Veloso, Catarina Lopes Acknowledgments: Maria dos Prazeres Rovisco Partnership: Festival Internacional de Marionetas do Porto Coproduction: Programa Cultura em Expansão da Câmara Municipal do Porto Company sponsored by: República Portuguesa - Ministério da Cultura | Direção-Geral das Artes