As part of Season Partners, a program of the Victor Córdon Studios (EVC), the SEIXAL DANCE COMPANY is developing a Repertoire Workshop for the piece My Father's Collection - A Tremendous Journey.
About the piece: My Father's Collection - A Tremendous Journey
This first chapter is based on one of the neorealist books in Anselmo Dias' collection: A Selva by Ferreira de Castro. The phrase “a tremendous journey of the disinherited over the centuries”, which can be read in the preface of the book, was the starting point for the construction of this show. What is this journey? The journey in search of work and a better life. It's a show centered on the work and the proletariat of those who are in a new country. With two performers from Brazil, we once again see this intersection between individual history and collective history: we bring to the stage bodies that carry the weight of those who have already made this journey of emigrating to a new country (they carry their journey and that of so many others like them who are still making it today), and the weight of their cultural heritage marked by emigration, exploitation, slave labor and colonialism. These words reverberate in this play as words of access to the deconstruction of a way of thinking and being, of normative thinking that is still present today and that conditions us.
Aimed at: People with previous experience in performative arts, interested in learning Company's repertoire, starting from ways of operating collectively, and available to experiment improvisation and composition practices using the body.
Limited to 12 participants.
Participation: free of charge subject to registration; mandatory personal accident insurance.
Registration: via this form, in order of response and until September 7th. You will receive an e-mail of confirmation.
Contact: Lina Santos | seteanos@seteanos.pt