OFF
Theatre
25 Sept. (Fri.) | 9:30 PM
In a closed room, an inert body lies at the center: this will be the only clear image we have before disappearing into total darkness, imprinting itself on the retina and in memory.
When the lights go out, we are left alone in the company of a voice. The voice-over guides us through imaginary spaces and situations that seem to occupy the same place as the body once did or still occupies. It is a walk through the shadows, where what we do not see becomes more present than what we do.
OFF explores the universe of the invisible - that which resides off-stage, hidden, unofficial, or that refuses the center of attention - focusing on objects in a state of absence-presence. Through an investigation of the voice-over - and the concepts of phantasmagoria and spectrality that surround it - the project analyzes this resource as an agent capable of influencing our gaze and transforming our perception, challenging the way we see the world and distinguishing what we believe we see from what we speculate exists on the margins.
Creation, Interpretation, Voice: Romain Beltrão Teule | Light and Space Design: Santiago Rodriguez Tricot | Sound Design and Soundtrack: Suse Ribeiro | Dramaturgy Support: Paula Caspão | Artistic Support: Márcia Lança, Bruno Brandolino, Bibi Dória | Production: O Rumo do Fumo
Executive Production: Patrícia Teixeira / O Rumo do Fumo | Management: Daniela Ribeiro / O Rumo do Fumo | Production Support: Le Vertige | Support: Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Artistic Residencies: DeVIR CAPa, crl - central elétrica, OSSO Associação Cultural, Programa Em Trânsito/Materiais Diversos, Rua das Gaivotas, Cão Solteiro Residências 120, Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva | Acknowledgment: Vera Mantero, Nadia Lauro, Sara Vieira Marques, Ana Dinger, Patrícia Portela, Agapi Dimitriadou, Elisabete Paiva, Ida Cwojdzinski, Patricia Nunes, Forum Dança | O Rumo do Fumo is financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direcção-Geral das Artes
orumodofumo.com/pt/projectos/off
instagram.com/orumodofumo
instagram.com/romainbeltraot
Romain Beltrão Teule (Creation and Performance)
French-Brazilian. Lives and works in Lisbon. They have a degree in design, a master's degree in visual arts and graduated from Forum Dança's PEPCC programme. Works on translation, interpretation, semiotics and has a particular interest in "interstitial spaces". They created the solos "Elisabeth" (2014), Légende (2017) and "Dobra" (2021). Their work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, France, England and Belgium. "Légende" won the jury prize for Best Show at the FITT Noves Dramaturgies in Tarragona.
Suse Ribeiro (Sound Design)
Master in Sound Design and Interactive Music from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She studied Music Production and Technology at Esmae. She is a PhD student in Digital Media at the FEUP- UT Austin Programme. She works regularly with Drumming GP, Ictus Ensemble and Rosas, Companhia de Dança. She was a musical assistant at Casa da Música. Her research and practical work is based on sound spatialisation techniques as a tool for artistic performance.
Santiago Rodriguez Tricot (Creation of light and space)
Santiago Rodríguez Tricot is a visual artist and scenic designer. He performatively explores the languages of light, space and matter through collaborative creation processes. He has a degree in plastic and visual arts (UdelaR, UI) and a master's degree in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture from the Reina Sofia Art Museum (ES). He collaborates on projects with Tamara Cubas, Juan Domínguez Rojo, Marcela Levi, among others.
Paula Caspão (Dramaturgy Support)
Writer and artist, Paula Caspão is a lecturer at the Centre for Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon (CET/FLUL), and an associate researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History (IHC/UNL). She has a PhD in philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. She is currently researching the gestures, ecologies and poetics involved in the specific practices and forms of (i)material labour that constitute the museum, the archive and historical making.
Márcia Lança (Artistic support)
Founder and artistic director of VAGAR since 2008, she stands out for her creative work, including "Cavala" (2023), "É só um dia" (2022), "Outro lado é um dia" (2021) with Carolina Campos, among others. She received an award in 2006 in the Young Artists Programme with "Dos joelhos para baixo". She has collaborated with various artists and has a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL. She also curated PACAP 5 – Forum Dança.
Bruno Brandolino (Artistic support)
Choreographer and performer. His practice focuses on the study of choreography as a tool for fictional writing and the incorporation of iconographic and audiovisual archives through vocal and physical experimentation. The language of his work combines theatricality, choreography and music. His pieces Melodrama: senza te (2024), LA BURLA (2022), co-created with Bibi Dória, and El Universo no se asemeja a nada (2019) have been presented in various contexts in Latin America and Europe. He collaborates as a performer with artists such as Tamara Cubas, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, João Fiadeiro, Julián Pacomio, among others.
Bibi Dória (Artistic support)
Bibi Dória (Campo Grande, 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in Dance from UNICAMP (BR) and member from the Rose Choreographic School (UK) 2024-26. Her work intersects dance, performance and film. Residing in Lisbon (PT) since 2018, where she develops personal projects and collaborates as a performer, assistant, and dramaturge with various artists, including Bruno Brandolino (UY), with whom they co-created and performed the piece "LA BURLA" (2022). Her work focuses on themes related to memory, archives, fiction and imagination
When the lights go out, we are left alone in the company of a voice. The voice-over guides us through imaginary spaces and situations that seem to occupy the same place as the body once did or still occupies. It is a walk through the shadows, where what we do not see becomes more present than what we do.
OFF explores the universe of the invisible - that which resides off-stage, hidden, unofficial, or that refuses the center of attention - focusing on objects in a state of absence-presence. Through an investigation of the voice-over - and the concepts of phantasmagoria and spectrality that surround it - the project analyzes this resource as an agent capable of influencing our gaze and transforming our perception, challenging the way we see the world and distinguishing what we believe we see from what we speculate exists on the margins.
Creation, Interpretation, Voice: Romain Beltrão Teule | Light and Space Design: Santiago Rodriguez Tricot | Sound Design and Soundtrack: Suse Ribeiro | Dramaturgy Support: Paula Caspão | Artistic Support: Márcia Lança, Bruno Brandolino, Bibi Dória | Production: O Rumo do Fumo
Executive Production: Patrícia Teixeira / O Rumo do Fumo | Management: Daniela Ribeiro / O Rumo do Fumo | Production Support: Le Vertige | Support: Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian | Artistic Residencies: DeVIR CAPa, crl - central elétrica, OSSO Associação Cultural, Programa Em Trânsito/Materiais Diversos, Rua das Gaivotas, Cão Solteiro Residências 120, Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva | Acknowledgment: Vera Mantero, Nadia Lauro, Sara Vieira Marques, Ana Dinger, Patrícia Portela, Agapi Dimitriadou, Elisabete Paiva, Ida Cwojdzinski, Patricia Nunes, Forum Dança | O Rumo do Fumo is financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direcção-Geral das Artes
orumodofumo.com/pt/projectos/off
instagram.com/orumodofumo
instagram.com/romainbeltraot
Romain Beltrão Teule (Creation and Performance)
French-Brazilian. Lives and works in Lisbon. They have a degree in design, a master's degree in visual arts and graduated from Forum Dança's PEPCC programme. Works on translation, interpretation, semiotics and has a particular interest in "interstitial spaces". They created the solos "Elisabeth" (2014), Légende (2017) and "Dobra" (2021). Their work has been presented in Portugal, Spain, France, England and Belgium. "Légende" won the jury prize for Best Show at the FITT Noves Dramaturgies in Tarragona.
Suse Ribeiro (Sound Design)
Master in Sound Design and Interactive Music from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. She studied Music Production and Technology at Esmae. She is a PhD student in Digital Media at the FEUP- UT Austin Programme. She works regularly with Drumming GP, Ictus Ensemble and Rosas, Companhia de Dança. She was a musical assistant at Casa da Música. Her research and practical work is based on sound spatialisation techniques as a tool for artistic performance.
Santiago Rodriguez Tricot (Creation of light and space)
Santiago Rodríguez Tricot is a visual artist and scenic designer. He performatively explores the languages of light, space and matter through collaborative creation processes. He has a degree in plastic and visual arts (UdelaR, UI) and a master's degree in Scenic Practice and Visual Culture from the Reina Sofia Art Museum (ES). He collaborates on projects with Tamara Cubas, Juan Domínguez Rojo, Marcela Levi, among others.
Paula Caspão (Dramaturgy Support)
Writer and artist, Paula Caspão is a lecturer at the Centre for Theatre Studies at the University of Lisbon (CET/FLUL), and an associate researcher at the Centre for Contemporary History (IHC/UNL). She has a PhD in philosophy (epistemology and aesthetics) from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre. She is currently researching the gestures, ecologies and poetics involved in the specific practices and forms of (i)material labour that constitute the museum, the archive and historical making.
Márcia Lança (Artistic support)
Founder and artistic director of VAGAR since 2008, she stands out for her creative work, including "Cavala" (2023), "É só um dia" (2022), "Outro lado é um dia" (2021) with Carolina Campos, among others. She received an award in 2006 in the Young Artists Programme with "Dos joelhos para baixo". She has collaborated with various artists and has a degree in Anthropology from FCSH-UNL. She also curated PACAP 5 – Forum Dança.
Bruno Brandolino (Artistic support)
Choreographer and performer. His practice focuses on the study of choreography as a tool for fictional writing and the incorporation of iconographic and audiovisual archives through vocal and physical experimentation. The language of his work combines theatricality, choreography and music. His pieces Melodrama: senza te (2024), LA BURLA (2022), co-created with Bibi Dória, and El Universo no se asemeja a nada (2019) have been presented in various contexts in Latin America and Europe. He collaborates as a performer with artists such as Tamara Cubas, Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz, João Fiadeiro, Julián Pacomio, among others.
Bibi Dória (Artistic support)
Bibi Dória (Campo Grande, 1995) is an interdisciplinary artist with a degree in Dance from UNICAMP (BR) and member from the Rose Choreographic School (UK) 2024-26. Her work intersects dance, performance and film. Residing in Lisbon (PT) since 2018, where she develops personal projects and collaborates as a performer, assistant, and dramaturge with various artists, including Bruno Brandolino (UY), with whom they co-created and performed the piece "LA BURLA" (2022). Her work focuses on themes related to memory, archives, fiction and imagination