EU FÊMEA
creation and direction Julieta Aurora Santos
Eu Fêmea is a short solo for an actress, about the invisibility of women in history. A physical performance that takes place within a structure alluding to a Peep Show. Limited to 20 spectators, equipped with headphones and placed in individual booths, the performance takes on a particularly intimate character. The actress, enclosed within the circular set, has no physical or visual contact with the audience.
MUTABILIA MUTABILIA RETURNS ON TOUR IN 2023
MUTABILIA is a contemporary circus and physical theatre show, based on a minimalist, mutant and rotating scenographic structure. Inspired by an idea of "house", its shape changes throughout the show due to its movement. The scenography contains, in its formal aspects, intrinsic contents to the dramaturgy of creation, starting from principles related to the instability of our time, reflecting, simultaneously, about our behaviour and emotional states, in public, private and intimate space.
NUMB NUMB PREMIERS IN 2023
NUMB is a multidisciplinary and multimedia street performance, medium / large, using video mapping, physical theatre and aerial acrobatics. About apathy, seen as a virus, this creation alludes to a dystopian future, where the ability to feel and express emotions is forgotten.
Dispersion has disconnected us affectively from one another. A deep indifference due to saturation, information overload and isolation, takes over all of us, identifying today as a kind of "emotional anaemia".
THE AGE OF SILENCE STILL ON TOUR
We live in a tension between permanence and transience in life and total impotence in the face of our condition of finitude.
This creation reflects on our relationship with the temporal dimension, putting in conflict the frenzy of contemporary man and the immediacy of everything, with the time of the elderly and their need for habits that, incorporated into life, become poetry of everyday life, appearing to establish an ongoing and lasting relationship with the world.
M.A.R. STREET ARTS FESTIVAL 2022
M.A.R. 2022M.A.R. 2022, THE RETURN
2022 marked the return to Sines of M.A.R. - Mostra de Artes de Rua (Street Arts Festival), a co-production of Teatro do Mar and Sines Town Council, which presented, at the beginning of autumn, its 4th edition.
From 22, 23 and 24 September, the streets and the historical and natural spaces of Sines were the stage for about 120 artists, from Belgium, Spain, Portugal, United Kingdom and Switzerland, that integrate the 23 artistic projects presented, in areas such as theatre, circus, dance, music, performance, installation, workshops, interactive projects and a space for children and families.
LETTERS FROM THE INDIAS PAYS TRIBUTE TO THE MARITIME QUARTER
Public space is historically a central link in social dynamics. Based on good practices, specificities and trends, the Outdoor Arts Portugal platform dynamised a training module dedicated to new dramaturgies in artistic creation for public space, based on Jordi Duran's experience. This training, hosted and promoted by M.A.R., focused on the Maritime Quarter, also known as the Indian Quarter. In the creative process letters were "written", with words, with the voice, the song or the body, in a multidisciplinary approach, inspired by the people, the stories and the geography of one of the most iconic neighbourhoods of the city of Sines, from the perspective of the different artists/trainees and their different disciplines and tools.
SEE THE BEST MOMENTS OF M.A.R. 2022 | SINES, PORTUGAL
TEATRO DO MAR IN THE PANDEMIC
AUSENCE TEATRO DO MAR ON DIGITAL
TEATRO DO MAR, in partnership with Dona Edite Dona Edite Films (Image and Photography), premiered in April 2021 a film that celebrates the performing arts, the street, and the resilience of artists in a hazy time, made of postponements and waits.
"The audience has stopped turning up to the shows.
Without his presence, the scene empties of what defines it: the relationship between performer and spectator in the common experience of the same time and space.
In a dressing room, an actor is preparing to perform.
In front of the mirror, his face transfigures, multiplies itself in several characters that come to life. Lost, they wander the streets in search of their stage and audience. But the world is deserted".
M.A.R. OUT 2020
Poetic writing in the landscape, a meeting of territory and culture with street arts, music and video.
Due to the Pandemic, and in the impossibility of holding the 4th Edition of M.A.R. - Mostra de Artes de Rua 2020, Teatro do Mar/M.A.R., in co-production with Sines Town Hall, advanced with a project that, although not invoking face-to-face audiences, pursues, in some way, the artistic objectives of the Festival.
M.A.R. Out are four videos for digital media. From a proposal of the Artistic Direction, national artists were challenged to create for the street.
Fusing street arts (in this case dance, circus, clown and performance/object manipulation) with original music, the videos are inspired by the streets, landscape, culture and history of the city, having invited a performer and a musician composer for each of the 4 distinct artistic objects. The videos, short and as distinct pieces, focus on the industrial landscape, natural landscape, riverside and city.
DISSOLVER
The industrial landscape of the city of Sines is the frame of the artist Rui Paixão, clown and performer, and the ethereal music of Surma. In the inhospitable, impersonal, cold and metallic environment of the industry, in contrast with the poetry of his character, the artist intends to dwell on the idea of a universe where the physical has stopped, a non-place where time is suspended, memory of the work of man, like rust that corrupts and transforms the heart of the earth.
Artistic Direction Julieta Aurora Santos Cast / Creator Rui Paixão Soundtrack Surma
Directed by André Costa Santos Direction Assistance Mariana Machado Photo Scene Mariana Machado
ORTO
ORTO (birth; origin) is set in the natural landscape of Sines. In a poetic register, Carlos Campos develops an interpretation that appeals to an ecological conscience, of preservation and love for the planet. An earth body that seeks to survive an inevitable transformation with the excess of human information and production, which annihilate the sea's breath and the life of the birds. More than immersed in nature, in ORTO, he represents nature itself, and its tremendous capacity to survive the intervention and presence of our species, on Earth.
Artistic Direction Julieta Aurora Santos Cast / Creator Carlos Campos Soundtrack Miguel Ramires Text Pica Lima Voice Julieta A. Santos Directed by André Costa Santos Direction Assistance Mariana Machado Photo Scene Mariana Machado
SAL
The river and its textures of boats, nets and buoys, the continuous cries of the seagulls and the fishermen leaning over the quay, are the setting and inspiration for the work of a dancer who invokes the longitude of the sea and the harsh, yet beautiful, hardness of the men who face it. In the veins of the city runs this salt that draws the horizon, tempers the soul, the days and unites all things. A creation that invokes the spirit of the element that most characterises the culture and history of Sines, the one that defines its breath: the sea.
Artistic Direction Julieta Aurora Santos
Cast / Creator André de Campos Soundtrack Diogo Melo Text Al Berto Directed by André Costa Santos Direction Assistance Mariana Machado Photo Scene Mariana Machado
ARTÉRIA
A dancer walks through the streets of the city. Between history and modernity, ruin and contemporary construction, this creation intends to show urban life, its contrasts and human landscape and, in the case of Sines, all its diversity and multiculturality. Someone who drifts in search of his own identity and place. Between movement and staticity, a present and absent body, in a wandering in search of an imagined city.
Artistic Direction Julieta Aurora Santos
Interpreter / Creator Beatriz Dias Soundtrack Tiago Inuit Text Mariana Machado Directed by André Costa Santos Direction Assistance Mariana Machado Photo Scene Mariana Machado