UM LUGAR SEM COORDENADAS is a performance by Maria Fonseca and Miguel Moreira created in the context of the multidisciplinary project “Rastro, Margem, Clarão”, in which a collective of creators in the performing arts, visual arts and essayists set out to think about the writing of Rui Nunes (b. 1945) in its heterogeneities, thematic nodes and concerns, in a bold and heuristically transdisciplinary approach.
SYNOPSIS
Lying down: a man, a woman, two naked, nameless bodies. The gaze of the beholder unfolds, hesitates, chooses to approach one, knowing that this will distance them from the other. The next moment, the beholder doubts their choice; they rethink the position of their eyes. He waits, hesitates: his gaze is, from the start, a combination of the senses. He also sees Cage’s music, he sees the smell of bodies wet in the water. And finally, he sees what he wanted: two bodies bursting simultaneously from the same space and from different spaces. Bodies that, without words, are like Rui Nunes’ words: they fight, each one, with their own body. They are sometimes commas, or the undoing of syntax. They search for the other in a movement that is both desire and fear. They turn their backs on us, confuse us, camouflage themselves among the black hair. They seduce. They look for each other in the reflections of the water, in a head, in a vase, in the drawing that will be made. Finally, a recognition. Finally, a retreat: they slowly abandon our gaze, leaving us alone with the emptiness of our senses.
A place without coordinates is a performance by Maria Fonseca and Miguel Moreira, created in the context of the multidisciplinary project “Rastro, Margem, Clarão”, which involves creators in the performing arts, visual arts and theoretical essay around the universe of Rui Nunes’ writing.
ARTISTIC AND TECHNICAL FILE
Creation and interpretation_ Maria Fonseca and Miguel Moreira based on writing by Rui Nunes
Design and operation of Luz_ pedro fonseca/colectivo, ac
Stage design_ Maria Fonseca, Miguel Moreira, pedro fonseca
Scenic space construction_ collective, ac
Poem_ Rui Dias Monteiro
Synopsis_ Vítor Ferreira
Research and Theory_ Diogo Martins
Photographs in the performance_ Rui Dias Monteiro, Susana Paiva and Valter Vinagre
Stage photography_ Helena Gonçalves
Rehearsal accompaniment_ Ana Gil, Nuno Leão and Tiago Moura
Music_ John Cage – Sixteen Dances
Executive producer_ Bruno Esteves
Production_ Third Person
Funding_ Directorate-General for the Arts / Portuguese Republic – Culture, Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras
Creative residency: Fábrica da Criatividade, The Space of Time