We often find improvisation in performance situations in music, but less frequently in dance and performance. However, there is a whole history of improvisation that has been happening in the field of dance over the last few decades. Elizabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner and Vera Mantero are experienced improvisers who intend to deepen this experience through a multidisciplinary framework, not only through the practice of improvisation in performance and its pedagogy, but also through its theoretical analysis, promoting thought, debate and publication.
Improvisation as the act of composing in real time. Composing in an irreversible way, in the tangled risk of the impossibility of redoing. Doing it at every moment, decisively, in cadence, each movement, each sound, responding to the instantaneous creative impulse. And in this, subverting roles, giving those who see and hear the possibility of seeing again, reflecting on hearing, enabling perception. The audience in the place of accomplice in the rehearsal, and the others in the place of the stage enjoying, watching in a doing. To compose here is to do it seamlessly, without going over it, on stage. Composing in emotion and watching rationally.
Ficha Artística
An initiative by
Elizabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner, Vera Mantero
Production
O Rumo do Fumo
Team at CCB/Lisboa | 24 November 2024
Interpretation
Carlota Lagido, Elizabete Francisca, João dos Santos Martins, Luís Guerra, Vera Mantero
Musician
João Bento
Light
Rui Monteiro
Costumes and Props
Carlota Lagido
Team at Serralves | 4 June 2023
Interpretation
Elizabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner, Vera Mantero, Bruno Senune, João dos Santos Martins, Luís Guerra
Musicians
João Bento, Pedro Melo Alves
Light
Santiago Tricot
Costumes and Props
Carlota Lagido
Cronologia
4 June 2023, Serralves em Festa 2023, Serralves Auditorium, Porto/Portugal
2024
Here now in this right moment
an initiative by Elizabete Francisca, Mariana Tengner & Vera Mantero
Pequeno Auditório do Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa/Portugal
Sunday at 8pm
As part of the celebrations for the 1st Anniversary of the MAC/CCB Museum of Contemporary Art