THE CLEAN AND THE DIRTY
Artistic Director
Vera Mantero
Performance and cocreation
Elizabete Francisca, Vera Mantero, Volmir Cordeiro
Music
Joa?o Bento
Scenic space and costumes
Joa?o Ferro Martins
Light Designer
Eduardo Abdala
Rehearsal Director
Carolina Campos
Production
O Rumo do Fumo
Co-production
Maria Matos Municipal Theatre (Lisboa); Porto Municipal Theatre. Rivoli. Campo Alegre. (Porto); LE CN D, un centre d’art pour la danse (Pantin / Île-de-France); Musée de la danse- Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne (Rennes)
Artistic Residency
Materiais Diversos
Support
Instituto de Emprego e Formac?a?o Profissional, IP/Esta?gios Emprego; Ca?mara Municipal de Lisboa / Direcc?a?o Municipal de Cultura; EGEAC; Culturgest
Acknowledgements
Carolina Campos, Vi?tor Roriz
Photography
Tuna
"In fact, life is not a clean thing. To acknowledge this would be half of the battle of turning it less dirty, meaning also a chance of becoming happier."
Ana Cristina Leonardo
The play The Clean and the Dirty is part of the thematic cycle The Three Ecologies, taking place at the Maria Matos municipal theatre until April 25th. Curated by Liliana Coutinho, Mark Deputter and Vera Mantero, this cycle pays special attention to the personal and social dimension of environmental problems. Its title directly relates it to Guattari’s The Three Ecologies (1989), an essay that addressed the interconnection between those three ecological dimensions (personal, social and environmental) and recognized the intimate connection and reciprocal action that those three fields of experience enact upon each other.
“To handle materials in the world: this is one of the possible ways to describe what we do in art. To handle objects, images, words, movements, intensities. To handle spaces, times, affects, desires, vibrations. To handle ghosts. To get dirty handling all these things. To clean ourselves by handling them. A handling that, as it is performed, becomes a tool for several balances and ecologies, both personal and social. A specific tool to reinvent ways of being! In it lies richness, density, and meaning.”
Vera Mantero
