Toda a Gente Vai
Ana Rocha & Gio Lourenço
Performance
Mercado Municipal de Vila do Conde26 Sept. (Thu.) 18:00
Mercado Municipal de Vila do Conde
Mercado Municipal de Vila do Conde
“How much it takes to move away from oneself to experience another experience of being – and of being together”, writes Brazilian journalist, researcher and writer Eliane Brum in “Banzeiro Òkòtó – a trip to the Amazon center of the world” (2021). This is a reflection that derives from the dialectics of the Same and the Other, of disidentification and disidentity, and on the Common, starting from the philosopher Peter Pál Pelbart. What do these quotes have to do with Toda a Gente Vai?
In this site-specific performance, Ana & Gio invite us to dive into the (un)certainties of human (in)humanity. What is common to every individual is “everyone is going to die.” But, “everyone will be born”?, and who are these people that a whole individual represents, what conditionings and codes are attributed to them? From the voice, the text, the gesture and the body that is still a mystery, Ana & Gio start from a puzzle of conversations in search of one another and their maturation in the future.
Toda a Gente Vai, is a new creation by choreographers and multidisciplinary artists, Ana Rocha & Gio Lourenço, in response to an invitation from Festival Circular’24.
Ana Rocha, choreographer, curator and performer, has been mediating in the area of Culture & Arts for 23 years, co-creating a language of research and artistic action, and socio-politics engaged in the potential development of the process and its context. Ana operates in fields of cultural multiplicity and diversity, co-relating points of reflection and transition, through monitoring and consultancy in institutions, non-profit organizations, artistic collectives and national and international creators. Graduated in Visual Arts and Art History, and PhD student in Human Ecology at Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Gio Lourenço, was born in Luanda, Angola, and grew up in Portugal.
His recent performance, Boca Fala Tropa, premiered at Espaço do Tempo, then went on to the Alkantara International Festival of Performing Arts, and is part of the PT’23 Platform program. It was highlighted in the Expresso newspaper by Cláudia Galhós, as one of the best dance shows.
He received a scholarship from the National Culture Center for training in Dance and Performance at c.e.m. He took the Theater and Animation course at CERCICA.
He is a resident actor at Teatro GRIOT, having participated as an actor in plays staged by Zia Soares, Rogério de Carvalho, Nuno M. Cardoso, Guilherme Mendonça, Bruno Bravo, António Pires, João Fiadeiro, Hélder Costa, Paula Diogo, José Carretas, Amélia Videira and Genoveva Faísca. In dance and performance, collaborations with choreographers Filipa Francisco, Vânia Doutel Vaz and Calixto Neto stand out. Gio has also collaborated with visual artists Francisco Vidal and Michelle Eistrup.
His performance “Preta” was presented at the Holland Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale (on video due to the pandemic context), as part of the “Space of Others” project, by Afaina de Jong.
He developed the “Botany Memory” project for the Exploratorium catalogue, within the scope of the Venice Biennale, in partnership with Sofia Berberan.
In April 2022, he participated in the Charging Change project by visual artist Michelle Eistrup, presented at Documenta in Cassel, Germany in 2022.