Vära is a choreographic object that emerges from the urgency of the encounter between bodies. On stage, seven bodies inhabit a space surrounded by plastic, alluding to the exposure of meat in a butcher shop. It is here that they seek and enhance the attempt at dialogue through repetition, accumulating mistakes and amplifying the confrontation with each one's reality.
Vära presents the body as a sensitive field of possibilities. Echoing references such as Homer's Odyssey and Antonin Artaud's The Theater and its Double, the body is inscribed as a primordial place, as the transforming base of being and of its construction of reality. This naturalized, subjective, and solitary body reverberates its transforming power in the collective voice of the choreography. VÄRA is a work about the flesh.
I'm looking for a laboratory that's very white and cold and blue, resembling a butcher's shop the moment the kitchen lights come on, where we can hang our skins. A place where we can kiss and play violin together, inside carcasses, barefoot, harvesting liver.... Where cool techno goes by in the middle of orthodox choral music and lots of flowers, lots and lots of blue flowers, so it can be beautiful and so we can be happy.
Credits
Artistic Direction, Choreography and Concept | Daniel Matos
Performers and Co.creators | Adriana Xavier, Sofia Kafol, Joana Pinto, Jean-loup Gayrard, Lia Vohlgemuth, Mélanie Ferreira & Marco Olival
Artistic Collaboration and Rehearsal Assistance | Beatriz Marques Dias
Light Design | Manuel Abrantes
Technical Direction | Raúl Seguro
Original Soundtrack | João Galante aka Coolgate
Space | Daniel Matos & Diogo Silva
Photography | Rui Palma
Theater Photography | Bruno Simão
Textile Props | Marina Tabuado
Communication | Maria Tsukamoto
Production Direction and Administration | Joana Flor Duarte
Production Assistant | Filipa Garcez
Graphic Design | Sergiu Toma
Production | CAMA a.c.
Coproduction | Câmara Municipal de Lagos, Teatro das Figuras.
Artist Residencies in Co-production | O Espaço do Tempo, Verão Azul - Festival Internacional de Artes, CAMADA - Centro Coreográfico
Support | Estúdios Victor Córdon / OPART, Musibéria, Companhia Olga Roriz, Teatro Experimental de Lagos, Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, Pro.Dança, Estúdio CAB, Casa da Dança de Almada, Casa das Laranjeiras, Herdade do Freixo do Meio, Escola de Dança de Lagos
Acknowledgements | Sofia Soromenho, Francisco Pedro, Rui Horta, Mariana Malheiro, Hugo Cabral Mendes, Martim Alvarez.
Tour Support | Fundação GDA
VÄRA is a funded project by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture / DGARTES and by Programa Garantir Cultura.