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RETURN TO PALESTINE
Freedom Theatre - palestine
13rd apr
9.30pm | Cine-teatro Louletano | Loulé
theatre
“Return to Palestine” is the result of true story sharing, of testimonies in a sarcastic, comic and tragic style, told by the inhabitants of refugee camps. It is a way of reporting that helps in resist segregation, and the harshness it is to live under the Israeli occupation in Palestine, an “out of this world” reality.
ROMNIA
Belén Maya - spain
14th apr
12am | Cerca do Convento | Loulé
9.30pm | Teatro das Figuras | Faro
national premiere
dance
to be a gipsy woman (“Romania”) is to be doubly segregated.
To the sound of a vigorous soundtrack, which was the starting point of this creation, one speaks on slavery, Holocaust, ethnic cleansing, forced sterilization and dance. There is a lot of dancing, with the joy of the resistant.
FIEND
Tim Casson - united kingdom
28th apr
9.30pm | Cine-teatro Louletano | Loulé
national premiere
dance
It is a surprisingly solo that draws inspiration from Nijinsky’s
L’après-midi d’un faune. It is as disconcerting as it is poetic.
It works as a mirror, a game of doubles, drawing from digital
and new technologies, where real and imaginary, memory
and magic come across...It is a unique opportunity!
ATTRACTION
Cie KHAM - laos | france
28th apr
9.30pm | Cine-teatro Louletano | Loulé
national premiere
dance
The de-multiplied image of the performer projected on screen
in real time, with resource to new technologies, becomes an extension of the movement he produces, it works as a reverberation, an “attraction” to our senses where west and
east come across in each movement.
LIBERTAÇÃO
Hotel Europa - portugal
4th may
9.30pm | Cine-teatro Louletano | Loulé
theatre
It is a journey into the traumatic years of colonial war, into Overseas’ discourses, archives and memories. It is talking about colonialism, about defeat, about segregation and liberty.
⁃ It is talking of an otherwise unspeakable Portugal.
ONE STEP BEFORE THE FALL
Spitfire Company | Damúza - czech republic
5th may
9.30pm | Teatro das Figuras | Faro
national premiere
dance
In a boxing ring, a powerful dance accompanied by live music deals with a kind of segregation that is as violent as it is uncontrollable: the body v. the disease. Human suffering and hope associated with winning are present in “a step before the fall”, a creation dedicated to Muhammad Ali and to all those who fight.
SLAVE
Cie Sun of the Shade - france
18th may | 9.30pm
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
19th may | 9.30pm
Centro Cultural de Lagos | Lagos
dance
national premiere
Slave reminds us that what once was, and we thought it was forgotten, still is. We are absurdly forced to revisit the past, which we thought “dead”, in the daily news that are brought to us from the most different geographies. The 2016 Global Slavery Index report accounts for 45,8 million people enslaved all over the world.
dance
GULA BIRD
Vincent Mantsóe - france
18th may | 9.30pm
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
19th may | 9.30pm
Centro Cultural de Lagos | Lagos
national premiere
Gula was drawn from Vincent Mantsoé’s memories. The freedom of the birds in Soweto, one of Johannesburg’s largest neighborhoods, a symbol of the apartheid, a synonym of racial segregation, was in contrast with the condition of many of those fighting the regime that was in force between 1948 and 1994. Unreal! Deserving of the many awards and all the distinctions that were attributed to it.
ANI-MA
Roni Chadash - israel
18th may | 9.30pm
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
19th may | 9.30pm
Centro Cultural de Lagos | Lagos
national premiere
dance
There is a true will for transformation in this creation, much like Fernando Pessoa’s poem that originated it. It’s like magically inverted, producing twisted images and entangled movements to get to another body, to another place.
dance
GOOFY
Roni Chadash - israel
18th may | 9.30pm
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve
19th may | 9.30pm
Centro Cultural de Lagos
national premiere
In Goofy there is a feminine body with no identity, conditioned, segregated, tense, articulated, that exposes itself and shuts itself down. It is a truly surprising creation, translated into a very powerful performance, raw and intense, subtle, intelligent, and irrepressible.
BROTHER
Marco da Silva Ferreira - portugal
25 may
9.30pm | Cine-teatro Louletano
dance
Brother is also a bother. A common beat attempt, a feeling of belonging and affection, an echo of external forces and deep down an assumed frailty by the acknowledgement of loss and finitude. Yellow houses, bodies in sync and a lot of movement. A lot of beat and a movement that spreads and infects those who watch and those who produce it.
ROMNIA |excerpt|
Belén Maya - spain
14th apr
12am | Cerca do Convento | Loulé
performance
national premiere
ALMOST SOMA ARE WE
The body as living poetry
Frey Faust - EUA | germany
15th abr
4.30 | city streets (go from CAPa) | Faro
performance
national premiere
THE DANCE WE MADE
The body as living poetry
Tim Casson - reino unido
28th apr
11.30am | cerca do Convento | Loulé
performance
national premiere
REFÚGIO e SEGREGAÇAO
photography exhibition
Elisabete Maisão - portugal
2nd feb to 6th apr | mon to fri | 9am to 5pm | antigos Paços do Concelho | Lagos
10 apr a 5 may | tue to sat
1pm to 7.30pm | teatro das figuras (foyer) | Faro
exhibition
curatorship of this festival
Paris HOJE
photography exhibition
Elisabete Maisão - portugal
7th apr to 19th may | ter a sat
9.30am to 1.30pm to 3pm to 6pm
Praça do Mar gallery | Quarteira
exhibition
order of this festival
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
Elisabete Maisão - portugal
27 | 28 | 29 apr
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
workshop
MANIFESTO FRACTAL
introduction to Axis Syllabus
Frey Fraust - USA | german
13 | 14 | 15 apr
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
workshop
national premiere
SHORT FILMS
dance video
Festival Quartiers Danses - canada
3 may | 9.30pm
CAPa Centro de Artes Performativas do Algarve | Faro
movie theatre
national premiere
FREEDOM THEATRE - palestine
12 apr
Escola Secundária Tomás Cabreira | Faro
lecture
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