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Among other things, the pear tree and the real by Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real, 2025

In the beginning, it was emptiness, exhaustion, time slipping away, existential loneliness, among other things. Then came interaction, complicity, confrontation and shared reflection. The game begins again. Can we still play? It's not exactly an unlikely duo. Choreographers and dancers from very close generations, heirs to the old ‘Nova Dança Portuguesa’ of the early 90s, Sílvia Real and Miguel Pereira have built their body of work from the city of Lisbon, and that's how 22 years ago they met for the first time on stage. An encounter that has been repeated and left its mark, and which they are now taking up again, in a very specific period of their lives and their relationship with the current state of the world, launching themselves into the challenge of building a du-e-to fuelled by the specific complicity that unites them, captured here through the gazes and proposals of a group of people from different backgrounds, ages and disciplines, whom Sílvia Real and Miguel Pereira decided to invite. From the study and discussion of what remained and what these encounters revealed about themselves, the fragmentary material emerged that the duo set out to transform dramaturgically, incorporating it and then returning it to the audience, those others who are also us, as if in a recognisable game of mirrors, somewhere on the undefined border between reality and fiction.

Credits

Co-creation and Interpretation
Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real

Light, scenic space and dramaturgical support
Tiago Cadete

Rehearsal support
Marusya Byzova

Light operation
Pedro Guimarães

Sound
Kellzo

Executive Producers
Patrícia Teixeira / O Rumo do Fumo
Clara Motta / Real Pelágio Productions

Management and Administration
Daniela Ribeiro / O Rumo do Fumo
Ana Carina Paulino / Real Pelágio Productions

Communication
Susana Martins / Real Pelágio Productions
João Albano / O Rumo do Fumo

Photography
Mel Fox, Andreia Correia

Co-production
O Rumo do Fumo, Produções Real Pelágio, Teatrocine Torres Vedras, Câmara Municipal de Castelo Banco

Artist Residency
Casa da Dança

O Rumo do Fumo and Produções Real Pelágio are financed by República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direcção-Geral das Artes and Câmara Municipal de Lisboa

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by Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real

Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras/Portugal

Saturday at 9.30pm

Among other things, the pear tree and the real

by Miguel Pereira and Sílvia Real

Cine-Teatro Avenida, Castelo Branco/Portugal

Wednesday, hour to be defined

© Mel Fox
In the office of DEVIR CAPA/Faro, 2002
At the office of Produções Real Pelágio, Teatro da Voz, 2023