Hu(r)mano

Marco da Silva Ferreira (Portugal)

5,6/5|Friday,Saturday|20:00     Dom Pedro V Theatre     Tickets: MOP 200, 180

“We live in ourselves. We all live in ourselves.” Hu(r)mano, an urban dance piece by the emerging Portuguese choreographer Marco da Silva Ferreira, creates a world of ever-shifting relationships: the dancers’ body movements, from union to division and from individual to collective, explore the tension between “human me” and “urban we”, an echo of the modern urban reality.

With blank stares of expression, the quartet dancers are sometimes connected and sometimes scattered in the same space like four motionless wild beasts. Gradually members are loosened and the music is growing, leaving a dense and explosive energy. Their energies meet and repel, and multiple relationships between performers are built. Burlesque and troubling situations intertwine, leaving the dancers into a gap to find their space, their “ideal” location.

Duration: approximately 50 minutes, no interval

Artistic Director and Choreography: Marco da Silva Ferreira
Assistant Director: Mara Andrade
Performers: Anaísa Lopes, Duarte Valadares, Marco da Silva Ferreira and Vitor Fontes
Lighting Designer and Technical Director: Wilma Moutinho
Musicians: Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins
Executive Production: Marco da Silva Ferreira and Célia Machado
Production: Pensamento Avulso – Associação de Artes Performativas