Agenda Municipal / Dance Bantu
Fri 13 Oct
Casa das Artes programme
Casa das Artes | Grand auditorium - 21h30
Entry: 6 euros. Cultural quadrilateral card, Students and seniors (aged 65 and over): 3 euros | Rating: M/12 | Duration: 70 min
Bantu is a family of languages spoken in sub-Saharan Africa. In Mozambique, the predominant language is Makhuwa. However, Bantu is more than just a linguistic occurrence. It can also be a language of its own that survived the European languages that were imposed in the meantime; an identity mechanism; a sign that remained closed to the coloniser; a form of communication, with its own cultural, historical, religious and political codes; an ephemeral materialisation of the longest encounter. Bantu, the title, encompasses everything we want or imagine Bantu, the show, to be. In Bantu, Victor Hugo Pontes goes in search of a language that will probably even be devoid of words: when you speak with your body, language is universal. Bantu is a path yet to be travelled, and the journey will be made between two continents, between two countries with complex affinities and deep memories of each other.
Credits
Art direction: Victor Hugo Pontes
Stage design: F. Ribeiro
Music: Throes + The Shine
Technical direction and light design: Wilma Moutinho
Sound design and operation: João Monteiro
Costume design: Cristina Cunha, Victor Hugo Pontes
Assistant director: Cátia Esteves
Artistic consultant: Madalena Alfaia
Production manager: Joana Ventura
Executive production: Mariana Lourenço
Production assistance: Inês Guedes Pereira
Cast: Dinis Abudo Quilavei, Dinis Duarte, João Costa, José Jalane, Maria Emília Ferreira, Marta Cardoso, Osvaldo Passirivo
Trainee: Francisco Freire
A Victor Córdon Studios programme and Camões - Portuguese Cultural Centre in Maputo, institutional partner of the EVC | Camões I.P.
Nome Próprio is a resident structure at Teatro Campo Alegre, as part of the Teatro em Campo Aberto programme and is supported by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.
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