A dancer who couldn't dance, a singer who couldn't sing, an actor who couldn't act, a writer who couldn't write, a painter who couldn't paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. One had to know how to do in order to know how to be. While the fine lines separating being from doing, self from action, thing from subject, are blurred, there is something that remains unfit and dysfunctional. A monster that does not fulfill the function.
Está visto (Interlúdio lírico, 2023) is the provisional title of a new solo piece by João dos Santos Martins in collaboration with pianist and composer Joana Sá and visual artist Ana Jotta. Based on the song cycle Dichterliebe [A Poet's Love] composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the piece is presented as a recital, with the intention that the practices of singing, piano playing, and dancing interact and overflow into each other.
The romantic-style songs with poetry by Heinrich Heine speak of unrequited love. This lack of reciprocity of the emotions is reflected in the idea of dance that is disarticulated from language through gesture, splitting between resonance and dissonance with both the lyrics of the songs and the sound.
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