A Being Here Full is a piece from 2001 that was only performed in three venues. Twenty-five years after its premiere, it is being performed for the first time in Lisbon, at the Centro Cultural de Belém, with most of the original cast, joined by a new performer.

A Being Here Full is part of a unique artistic journey, where dance intersects with philosophy, poetry, music and performance. Vera Mantero offers a sensory and reflective experience that defies categories: it is dance, it is installation, it is spoken word, it is lucid delirium. The play is built on a raw, instinctive presence, where body and word become matter for thought and emotion. Between repetitive gestures and uncontrolled impulses, human figures emerge, revealing their fragility and intensity. The piece quotes Herberto Helder, uses voice, song, improvised and read text, inhabiting a disturbing sound atmosphere created by Boris Hauf. An exercise in emptying and reconnecting with the intimate. A piece that invites the viewer to abandon their detached gaze and enter a space where the absurd and the poetic intertwine.

If they ask: of the arts of the world?
Among the arts of the world I choose the one of seeing comets
crushing down
on the big masses of water: then, the hot coal over the nooks,
marshes between them.
I want in the darkness digged over by the lights
to win baptism, skill.
Burned on the edges of fire of the puddles.
That is my name.
And the days cross the nights until the other days, the nights
fall into the days – and I study
crumbled heavenly bodies, abundant sources, the secret.

Herberto Helder in “Do Mundo”
(translated by Vera Mantero with the help of the French translation by Christian Mérer and Nicole Siganos)