PERHAPS SHE COULD DANCE FIRST AND THINK AFTERWARDS
Concept and performance
Vera Mantero
Set
André Lepecki
Original light-design
João Paulo Xavier
Music
'Ruby, My Dear' by Thelonious Monk
Light adaption
Bruno Gaspar
Costume
Vera Mantero
Production
Pós d'Arte, 1991
Financial support
Instituto da Juventude
Other supports
Comp. de Dança de Lisboa.
Duration of the performance
20 minutes
Photo credit
Extension Sauvage Festival
Perhaps she could dance first and think afterwards was created by comission of the Klapstuk Festival 91 on the ocasion of Europalia Portugal.
I think all my pieces are born by chance. Too much by chance. I would like to be a little bit more methodical. But I think that to be methodical one has to believe and I have a problem: some lack of belief. Art and creation are some of the things that most interest me in life, but it seems that each time that I start doing something in that field I immediately stop believing in it. And then I finally stop believing in life itself and other things and so on.
My relationship with dance turns around the following questions: what does dance say? what can I say with dance? what am I saying when I'm dancing?
I didn't want to do this piece. Fortunately there was someone (Bruno Verbergt) who put a stage at my disposal and told me to do on it exactly whatever I needed to do. I did so. This piece evolved from all I just said.
Vera Mantero