Sonhos Comuns takes place between seeing and not seeing, in Ana Rita Teodoro's encounter with Joana Gomes. Two dancers dedicated to tactile communication are accompanied by the "serpenteadores" - bodies wrapped in duvets that dance in a shared dream. Inspired by traditional Portuguese songs, Guarda-Rios sing and narrate movements and dreams already dreamt. Thinking of dance as close to dreaming, Sonhos Comuns proposes to remove the visual from the hierarchy of the senses and create a poetic and musical plot, accessible to the reverie of dreams and dances. — Ana Rita Teodoro
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Credits
Dream and choreography
Ana Rita Teodoro with the complicity of Joana Gomes
Lighting design
Laura Salerno
Dance
Joana Gomes, Ana Rita Teodoro and "serpentadores" Adriano Vicente, Bruno Brandolino, Joana Simões, João dos Santos Martins, Leo Lopes, Nicole Gomes, Natacha Campos, Suiá Ferlauto
Sung and told
Guarda-Rios, a vocal trio composed of João Neves, Mariana Camacho and Susana Nunes with adaptations of traditional melodies
Lyrics
Ana Rita Teodoro with Guarda-Rios
Sound design and creative operation
Master André
External look and movement research
Sofia Kafol (Ana Rita Teodoro and Joana Gomes), Francisca Pinto (Serpenteadores)
Costumes
Leen Van den Bogaert
Photographs
Aline Belfort
Portuguese Sign Language Interpreter
Teresa Vasconcelos
Audio Description Team
Isadora Dantas and Leo Perene (script writing and narration) and Inês Gonçalves (consultancy)
Production
Associação Parasita, Culturgest
Executive Producer
Andrei Bessa, Catalina Lescano
Administration
Sofia Lopes, Lysandra Domingues, Helena Baronet
Communication and press
Manuela Costa
Co-production in residence
Espaço do Tempo
Residences
Victor Córdon Studios, Rumo do Fumo, Espaço Parasita
Accessibility