The Citemor festival, which takes place from Thursday to August 13, between Coimbra, Montemor-o-Velho and Figueira da Foz, hosts the premieres of shows by Diana Niepce and Dinis Machado, in an edition in which the body is the center of attention.
“This summer’s programming emphasizes the productive vocation of the festival and consecrates Montemor-o-Velho as a “place of creation”. It has been more than 40 years of continuous practice, with each edition adding meaning and questioning, but also generating discourse”, the organization stressed, in a press release sent to the Portuguese agency.
The 44th edition of the oldest festival in the country kicks off on Thursday, with the presentation of “A Sagração da Primavera — Tender memories of a queer affection”, by Dinis Machado, at the Academic Theater of Gil Vicente (TAGV), in Coimbra.
The show, co-produced by the festival, is a dance starring “five queer performers”, in which the bodies “question the dominant ideas of freedom, as a territory without rules”.
The next day, it will be the turn of “Wow”, by Sónia Baptista, at the Teatro da Cerca de São Bernardo (TCSB), in Coimbra, in which the artist questions the idea of beauty.
Saturday will be in Montemor-o-Velho, at the Esther de Carvalho Theater, which will host the premiere of “Noche Cañon”, by Sofía Asencio, in a play that interacts with the public and where it seeks to create text within a comic monologue.
The following week, Rogério Nuno Costa informally presents, on August 4, the “Retrospetiva” project, and Diana Niepce, who was at the festival in 2021, directs “The Other Side of Dance”, at TCSB, on August 5 .
The dancer, who was left quadriplegic after a fall, proposes in this show to observe the archive and history of dance and map the “representation of the invisible” in this field.
The following Saturday, the Spanish group Serrucho presents an object theater show in Montemor that “uses time as a working material”.
In the last week of Citemor, there is a show by Jonas & Lander in Figueira da Foz, and, in Tentúgal (Montemo-o-Velho), Pedro Lacerda directs and performs “Paixão Segundo João”, by Antonio Tarrantino, a show about “ the , on the justification of existence so that it cannot be defined as a failure”.
On August 13, the last show takes place, with a concert by drummer Gabriel Ferrandini, at the Esther de Carvalho Theater.
The program also includes “Cortejo”, by Solange Freitas & Tiago Cadete, the screening of the film “El Camino Divino”, by Ilaria di Carlo, and the presentation of the book “Cuaderno de Montemor”, by Mariana Barassi and Pablo Caruana.
Source: Observadora
