Under the pretext of the 500th anniversary commemoration of the circumnavigation trip of Fernão Magalhães, I have created this show that attempts, based on the legacy and consequences of this feat in our History, to reflect the dance we do and need nowadays.

When I began to conceive this project, I could not imagine how complex and at the same time stimulating it would be to dive into this adventure.

I accepted the challenge to work from this event knowing only a growing desire to leave my comfort zone and share a new experience, to rediscover a new energy that I had long felt dormant in me.

During the process I encountered several difficulties, from the confrontation with such a delicate and fracturing theme as this proposal, to various setbacks that arose along the way.

This play premiered in Montevideo in December 2019, unfinished, irresolvable perhaps, always in the attempt that time and distance would help clarify the very complex issues it raised.In the meantime, when we were going to present the play in Portugal, which should have happened first in 2020 and now in 2021, the pandemic happened, personal health problems occurred and once again its resolution and continuity were put to the test.

This film/document is intended on the one hand to share our rich and troubled experience of this journey, while at the same time trying, by revisiting the past, to project and glimpse a possibility for the future.

Ficha Artística

Film | Documentary (2021)

Artistic Direction

Miguel Pereira

 

Direction and Editing

Miguel Pereira with Hugo Coelho – Aldeia da Luz

 

Music and Sound Design

Diogo Alvim

 

Performer

Sérgio Diogo Matias

 

Testimonials

Diogo Alvim, Joaquín Cruz Marín, Leticia Skrycky, Marcelo Evelin, Rafael Silva Provoste

 

Talk

Marta Lança and Miguel Pereira

 

Camera

Hugo Coelho – Aldeia da Luz

 

Aerial Images

Samuel Morais

 

Images Chile

Miguel Pereira

 

Translation

Manuel Poças and Rita Monteiro

 

Subtitling

Hugo Coelho – Aldeia da Luz

 

 

 Era só um peito cheio de promessas  (video of the premiere in Uruguay 2019)

Direction

Miguel Pereira

 

Dramaturgic Support 

Marcelo Evelin

 

Cocreation and Performance

Joaquín Cruz Marín, Rafael Silva Provoste and Miguel Pereira

 

Light Design

Leticia Skrycky

 

Music and Sound Design 

Diogo Alvim

 

Assistance

Luna Anais

 

Production

O Rumo do Fumo

 

Coproduction

São Luiz Teatro Municipal, Teatro Municipal do Porto

 

Support

Auditorio Nacional del Sodre (Uruguay), Câmara Municipal de Lisboa / Divisão de Acção Cultural / Direcção Municipal de Cultura, CAMPO | gestão e criação em arte contemporânea (Brazil), Casa da América Latina (Portugal), Portuguese Embassies in Brazil, Chile and Uruguay/Camões I.P., Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Portugal), INAE - Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas (Uruguay), NAVE (Chile)

 

 

Support for the Tour in Chile

Fundação GDA