THE DANCE OF EXISTING
Conception and performance
Vera Mantero
Creation of the soundtrack
Vera Mantero and Sérgio Pelágio
Editing of the soundtrack
Sérgio Pelágio
With voices of
Joaquim, Mário and Jorge (Colonial War military), Pedro Paixão, Vera Mantero, Sérgio Pelágio among others
Texts by or based in
Gregory Bateson, Ruy Belo, William Blake, Eric Bogosian, John Cage, Teresa Montalvão and Michel Schneider
Light design
João Paulo Xavier
Duration
15 minutes
A dance of adequacy. Adjusting to a space, to adjust to an existence.
The dance of the concrete. A dance of what it is not articulated in words.
A dance on being here, just being. The dance of the impossible, of what it is.
A dance on the pleasure of the absolute strictness between space and time.
The dance that wants to know how it is to be in fact open.
The dance of the deep pleasure to be on stage (Oh dammit! How lucky I am!).
A dance of silence.
