nobody would know to tell that story: junho 2011

Sara Serrão

She was born in Lisboa in 1981. She graduated in Conservation and Restoration of works of art by FCT-New University of Lisboa. At a professional level she works in the field of cultural programming and drawing comics. Concerning cultural programming, she is a coordination member for the Convergence Centre project, a multidisciplinary centre for arts, culture, social sciences and the environment. In 2006 she coordinated "Voz do Campo" ("Voice of the Countryside") project, which was presented in Portugal, Slovakia and Italy. She completed a one year voluntary service in cultural programming at Art Center - Institute for Culture, Art and Development, Slovenia, between 2004 and 2005. During 2008 she coordinated the project of communitary art "BD a Fresco" ("Fresco painted Comics") which resulted in five mural paintings in the public space of Aldeia das Amoreiras, Alentejo region. This project was recently exhibited at the VI International Comics Festival of Beja.

In the field of comics drawing, she won the first prize for comics of BDTECA Odemira in 2008 and the second prize at the International Comics Festival of Amadora in 2006.

In the field of performing arts she partipated in Madalena Vitorino's project "Caruma" in 2007 and in Wassily Kandinsky "Yellow Sound" representation, presented in CCB in 2003.

Sylvia Mirey

Sylvia Mirey (Co-creation)

She was born in France (1982). She was graduated by Superior Dance School in dance and by Chapitô in Performing Arts.

She works in theatre and dance field.

In the theatre has worked with Nuno Carinhas, António Pires, among others. She has collaborated with Theatre/Circus Company – Trupilariante and integrated the musical Cabeças no Ar, staged by Adriano Luz.

Concerning dance she was co-creator and performer of the project ID, for the inclusive dance company's PLURAL (2009) and performer in a contemporary dance performance Raiz presented in Festival Lusofonia.

She has also been involved in film projects, including the short film Alogicamente, of Andre Viuvens and Nuno Rebelo where she was assistant producer (2011).

Sophie Leso

She was born in 1982 in Belgium, where she started her artistic training, in the Academy of Dramatic Art of Verviers. In her childhood she experienced gymnastic and circus practices. She likes to dance, to reed books and to eat waterzooi.

In 2001 she moved to Paris, where she studied in the Marcel Marceau Mime’s school. At the same time, she got experience and training in creative dance (Laban) and in Laura Sheleen’s work about Space and Time.

She loves silence and got interested into the gestual language, by taking classes of it.

She frequented the program of Choreographic Research and Creation in the Forum Dança, Lisbon, with Vera Mantero, João Fiadeiro, Emmanuelle Huyhn e Margarida Bettancourt.

As an actriz/dancer/performer, she works mainly in Belgium, France and Portugal with people like: Cie. Kumulus, Cie 36,37 etc, Madalena Victorino, Romulus Neagu, Nuno Nunes, Gonçalo Lobato, Rafaela Santos, Miguel Moreira, Pippo Delbono.

She teaches physical theater and creative dance.

Since 2009 she’s working in Brussels with disable people, creating circus performances (First at Varia Theater in February of 2011).

Catarina Câmara

Catarina Câmara was born in Lisbon in 1975. She got a Law Degree from the University of Lisbon (Universidade Clássica de Lisboa) and in Dance, from the Dance High School (Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa). She had training classes at Forum Dança, Centro em Movimento and Centre Coreographique de Bruxelles, La Raffinerie and has attended a Master's Degree in Literary Theory, at the Faculty of Letters, University of Lisbon.

She has worked as a dancer/performer at Olga Roriz Company, since 2001. She has also been teaching dance- theatre classes,dance movement and coreographic composition(Escola Superior de Tecnologias e Artes de Lisboa, Espaço Evoé, Conservatório Nacional de Lisboa, etc) as well as movement at professional courses for actors training.

She has also created coreographic movement for theatre plays and done coreographic assistance.

She has two co-creations, "De duas uma"and "Rosa de Papel".

She staged her first solo, "A Cabra Sou Eu", in 2009, BoxNova, CCB.

Margarida Mestre

She studied pedagogy, sound design and dance in Fórum-Dança, along with many workshops in the dance and performance field in Lisbon, Madrid and N.Y..

Did her Master in Performance Art – Mouvement Theatre.

Has been developing a research and practise around body and voice work from which some performance pieces have come out, like: "a Blues" and "por um TRIZ..."; “Burn”; "Três actos da tragédia da Mariquinhas"; "Thrillogy of the cut"; "Fuga em mim menor"; "materiais sonoros..."; “Tudo gira”, poetry for children; and four “Poetic Objects””, presented all around Portugal and two of them in Marseille, Cape Vert, London and New York.

As a performer worked with Madalena Victorino, Miguel Pereira, Vera Mantero, Jasmeen Godder (Judson Church, N.Y.) and Guillermo Gomez Peña, among others.

Studied voice with: Shelley Hirsch and Lynn Book (both in N.Y.), David Moss, Japp Blonk, Miriam di Palma, Valérie Marestin, Amélia Cunni, Nona Hendrix, Chris Mann, Michiko Hirayama and Phill Minton. Did intensive voice training at the Roy Hart International School with Kaya Anderson, Susanne Weins, Albino Bignamini and David Goldsworthy as well as with Jonathan Hart Makwaia and Rosemary Quinn.

Sara Anjo

Sara Anjo ( Direction and Conception) PT, Funchal 1982

Sara was born in Madeira, a portuguese island, close to Africa, and in the "extreme suburbs" of Europe. Her experience of being far away from everything, surrounded by an open horizon and by the ocean, has given her a genetic impulse to seek other realities. As a teenager she went to Lisbon to study and graduated from the Contemporary Dance Academy in Portugal (2001). Immediately after she started dancing in the National Company and she felt completely displaced trying to be a "hi-tech" ballet performer. Reacting to this she started studying yoga, as a more balanced and complete form of working with the body. Yoga became her ''dance'' for the next four years. Sara kept studying arts and did two theoretical programs: Performing Arts (BA) at the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon (2008) and Contemporary Art (post-graduation) at Lisbon’s Catholic University (2011). In 2010 she meet and studied with Anna Halprin, one of her main inspirations in the dance field.

Sara has collaborated with Portuguese choreographers and emergent artists as a performer. Since 2009, she has established work with the Group Dançando com a Diferença (this is a inclusive dance group that works with people with disabilities) and with the choreographers Clara Andermatt and Rui Horta. Connected to the work with inclusive dance a book with her authorship, Espontâneos (Spontaneous), was released in 2010 by the portuguese editor Colibri.

Curious about the world of choreography and creation, particularly through collaborations Sara devised the dance/performance project "Nobody would know to tell that story" (2011), developed by six female artists. In 2012 she created 'Liquid Landscapes" a dance performance developed in an old washing house in Lisbon. She has collaborated with Silence Theatre in a dance/music piece for children "In search of Ballerina feet" (2013). Since 2011 she's working in co-creation with Ana Irene Rodrigues (saxophone player) in a dance/music composition based on embroidered scores.

This year she participated in the Dance Community Program of Fórum Dança, in Lisbon. Soon afterwards she packed half of her life, sold the other half and become a nomad. Participating in Porch Program at Ponderosa (Stoltzenhagen,Germany) was an important encounter for her to study with Stephanie Mayer, Kirstie Simson, Keith Henessey, Maria F. Scaroni and Diego Aguilló. She immersed in the world of improvisation with Rosalind Crips and Andrew Morrish. At the moment she is participating in Smash Program (experimental physical performance) in Berlin. Sara is also preparing a project in West Africa with the traveller and writer Carlos Carneiro.

Sara Anjo

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Calendar

2012 Performances

:: 14 and 15 of June, Fiar - Arts Festival, in Palmela.

2011 Performances

:: 26 of November, at 7 p.m., in CCB (Centro Cultural de Belém ) Black Box, in Lisboa.

:: 17 and 18 of Setembro, in Gardens of the Museum Quinta das Cruzes, Funchal.

2011 Artistic Residencies

:: From 7 to 19 of November, residency in CCB (Centro Cultural de Belém), Lisbon.

:: From 5 of September to 18 of October, residency in Fajã da Nogueira's house, in Madeira Island.

:: From 18 to 24 of July, residency in Herdade da Tojeira, in Vila Velha of Ródão.

2011 Workshops

:: From 1 to 3 of September, workshop with the local community of Madeira Island in association with Parque Natural da Madeira, in Funchal.

:: From 7 to 12 of June, workshop with the female vocal group of Amoreiras Gare, in Sociedade Recreativa de Amoreiras – Gare, in Amoreiras Gare Village.

:: From 31 of March to 12 of May, workshop with the female and youth community of Batoto Yetu's Group, in Centro Cultural da Pedreira Italiana, in Caxias.

Team

Direction and Conception: Sara Anjo

Creation: Catarina Câmara; Margarida Mestre; Catarina Câmara; Sara Anjo; Sara Serrão; Sophie Leso; Sylvia Mirey

Interpretation: Catarina Câmara; Sara Serrão; Sophie Leso; Sylvia Mirey

Sound Landscape: Margarida Mestre

Texts: Margarida Mestre; Catarina Câmara; Sophie Leso

Illustration: Sara Serrão

Colaboration in the Creative Process: Associação Juvenil Batoto Yetu; Grupo Coral Feminino de Amoreiras Gare

Aknowledgements: Magda Bull, Nuno Borda d'Água, Gonçalo Alexandre, Firmino Pereira, Tiago Fróis e Oficinas do Covento, PI - Produções Independentes, Centro de Convergência, Museu Quinta das Cruzes, Graça Passos, Tânia Albuquerque, Cristina Guerra e a todos os que contribuíram para a realização deste projecto, os nossos sinceros agradecimentos.