ANARCHISMS

Anarchisms (Through the middle of the room flows a lighter river) tells us about the dream of a man who remembers the house and the three companions with whom he shared his youth. Being aware that memories and dreams are imperfect mechanisms he also knows that only this fuzzy realm, filled with lights and sounds from past history, will reveal to him his present identity. Anarchisms is a performance about absence, dreams, fear and the silence that exist within any group or family constellation. And, at the same time, designs the expectations of a generation facing for the first time its mistakes and lack of a common project. Structured as an epic poem and a group portrait the performance draws on the point of view of the defeated, the outcasts and on the decisive moments in which those who had something in common, ideas and utopias, no longer have them.



The bodies in this performance have no history, no name, nor identity. Since they came into the world they have been told one doesn’t mess with history but they came prepared to mess with it from the beginning until the end. So they enter a room and question themselves, look back at themselves, create a language. The room is a small island in the middle of a wild river. The history trends give shape to the bodies and throw them against the walls. If only they knew enough about the history of dissidence and anarchy maybe, who knows, they could survive. But, had they known enough, they wouldn’t have locked themselves in, in a desperate attempt of living differently. Within this drift of love and hate the bodies are pushed into an impossible balance and only by staying together, touching each other, knowing each other, will they be able to grasp who they are, what they can put together, what life and which relationships they can still pursue. Which adventure is still possible in an ending world. Paraphrasing Ricardo Piglia in Anarchisms, “history is written by the winners but it’s the defeated that dance to it”.

Festival BAD

Centro Dramático Galego, Santiago de Compostela

Festival de Otoño, Sala Cuarta Pared, Madrid/España

Teatro Municipal do Porto

Théâtre de la Ville – Espace Cardin, Paris/Francia

Pablo Fidalgo

Ángela Millano, Cláudio da Silva, Rocío Berenguer

Cláudia Rodrigues y Pablo Fidalgo

Cláudia Rodrigues

Flora Detraz

Joao Bento

O Rumo do Fumo

Amalia Area

Maria Matos Teatro Municipal – Temporada 2017/18, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Centro Dramático Galego / Agadic / Xunta de Galicia, Festival BAD Bilbao, MA scène nationale – Pays de Montbéliard et Le Granit, Scène nationale de Belfort

Luis Nocete

Festival de Otoño de Madrid, Câmara Municipal da Moita / Centro de Experimentação Artística (Vale da Amoreira), Marche Teatro / Villa Nappi Residences, NAVE Santiago de Chile, Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Polo Cultural Gaivotas | Boavista, EGEAC, Causas Comuns, Teatro do Eléctrico