photo: © Hugo Dust
Realms and Worlds: a play of borders between circus and dance
Reinos e Mundos (Realms and Worlds) is a kind of Labyrinth without time and space, but with infinite perspectives, where the different Kingdoms cohabiting it sometimes intersect. Here all the borders are blurred, but who are we by abolishing these limits? We imagine new frontiers in order to have a home again (the House), but without losing the humanity that we have built at such great cost.
photo: © Hugo Dust
We go back to the starting point, to the primitive, to the myth. Departing from Portugal, France and Brazil, worlds are unveiled in which the jurisdiction of natural laws loses its supremacy and borders are blurred as if we were returning to prehistoric Pangea.
What are we without borders? And what new borders can we imagine to have a house (the house), a city (the city), a homeland (the homeland) again, without losing the humanity we have so carefully built by abolishing borders?
Eduardo Lourenço
video: © Hugo Dust
Creation Team:
Alan Sencades
Recife, Brazil, 1996. He started in circus in 2016 and developed autonomously a work with the cyr wheel until 2018, when he went to Portugal in search of professional training in circus. In 2020, she graduated from INAC (National Institute of Circus Arts) and, during this period, she had the opportunity to participate in several festivals and projects, such as the CIRCa festival in France and the Crece project in Spain. Also in 2020, she started teaching cyr wheel classes. Currently, in addition to being part of the teaching staff of ACE (Academia Contemporânea do Espetáculo) - Escola de Artes de Famalicão, he is developing his personal project entitled ferro à ferrugem (2021).
Clara Zolesi
Marseille, France, 1994. Contemporary dancer, performer and interpreter. She graduated from a French school of Fine Arts and trained professionally at the AB13 centre, a multidisciplinary dance school in the south of France. She then settled in Florence, Italy, for a three-year professional contemporary training at Opus Ballet. She was part of Opus Ballet's Tirocinio company and other choreographic groups. She has done several workshops with international choreographers such as Emmanuel Gat, Ivan Perez, Jauregui, Marina Mascarell, Johan Inger, Lali Ayguadé, Bruno Guillore, Laura Aris, Wayne Byars, Satoshi Kudo, among others. During 2020, she worked as a performer in the creation Mirage, with the French company Dyptik. She currently focuses on exploring movement in circus, combining acrobatics, aerial and physical theatre, giving preference to artistic collaborations and co-creations in Europe.
Diogo Santos
Faro, Portugal, 1997. Graduated from the school of Arts and Crafts of the Spectacle, Chapitô (Lisbon), in the course of Interpretation and Circus Animation, and from INAC - National Institute of Circus Arts (Famalicão), in the professional course of Circus. He has done worshops in the areas of Movement, Dance, New Circus and Acrobatics. As a performer and dancer, he has worked for Teatro Nacional de São Carlos (Lisbon), Casa das Artes (Famalicão), Coliseu do Porto, Coliseu de Lisboa, Fundação Cupertino de Miranda (Famalicão), Alfândega do Porto, Associação Criativa e Cultural de Músicos (Faro), Cineteatro São João (Palmela) and Casa das Virtudes (Faro). Founding member of ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo), based in Ourondo, Covilhã. He has worked with choreographers, dancers and directors such as Gustavo Oliveira, Rita Spider, André Araújo, Luciano Amarelo, Mário Redondo, André Paes Leme and Clara Andrematt. Currently a freelance acrobat and dancer, he develops his work as an interpreter-creator in projects such as BAAL (2023), by Groupe Noces, and Entre deux Mondes (2022) by Horssurface, in France.
Luciano Amarelo
Guarda, Portugal, 1977. Creator, Performer, Clown, Director and Interdisciplinary Trainer. Trained at the École des Maîtres (Italy/Belgium), the Jacques Lecoq International Theatre School (France), Rose Bruford College (England) and the Academia Contemporânea do Espectáculo (Portugal). She has participated in several workshops in the areas of Theatre, Movement, Dance, New Circus (Clown, Rope, Fabric and Trapeze), Voice and Singing. Directs, Creates, Interprets and/or Guides: creations, projects and training workshops for various entities ranging from Physical Theatre to Circus, both in Portugal and abroad. Founding member and President of the Board of ATO (Associação Terras de Ourondo), based in Ourondo, Covilhã. Founding member, programmer, director, performer and artistic director of Terra na Boca - Cultural Association between 2009 and 2016; and of Teatro Bruto between 1995 and 2008 (Porto). Throughout his personal and artistic journey, he has been developing more and more projects and actions that cross artistic, social and spiritual components in union with the Earth.
foto: © Hugo Dust
co-production ATO, Teatro das Figuras, Teatro Municipal da Guarda and Cine-Teatro Avenida
artistic direction, dramaturgy and staging Luciano Amarelo
acting Alan Sencades, Clara Zolesi, Diogo Santos, Nuno Santos
light design Jorge Pereira
sound design Ricardo Branco
photography Hugo Dust and Eduardo Raposo
video Eduardo Raposo
partners CAMADA Centro Coreográfico, Centro Cultural e Recreativo do Ourondo
support INAC, Dom Afonso I
