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Agora baixou o sol takes its title from a traditional song from northwest Portugal, sung at the end of the working day. This lost tradition of marking the day through song and gesture — as a kind of solar liturgy — serves as the starting point for a vocal choreography reflecting on states of vulnerability and fragility. The piece explores the physicality of calling songs, interjections and imitative sounds inherited from work practices and interaction with animals. In this solo, the relationship between loss, time and ageing questions the possibilities of regeneration and community through dance as a vehicle for belonging, resistance and pleasure. — Luísa Saraiva
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Credits
Choreography and performance
Luísa Saraiva
Sound design
Francisco Antão
Lighting design
Letícia Scrkycky
Instrument
Inês Tartaruga Água
Costume design
Isabelle Lange
Research and choreographic assistance
Connor Scott
Dramaturgical support
Bibi Dória
Outside eye
Niklaus Bein
Technical support (lighting design)
João Ferreira
Acknowledgements
John Cussans, Arnaldo Saraiva, Grupo Académico de Danças Ribatejanas, Lendl Barcelos
Production
Bactéria Associação Cultural, parasites projects
Executive production
Nadine Freisleben, Teresa Camarinha
Co-produced by
DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, PACT Zollverein
Funding
Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts, Kunststiftung NRW, supported by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ Co-Production Fund for Dance, via the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media
Support
Studio Rudolfo Quintas, Schloss Mentin, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, CRL Central Eléctrica
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