Mezzanine invited Antonija Livingstone (Canadian choreographer and performer) to present the solo "The Part" in Serralves Auditorium on April 24. In this context, in addition to her special participation in Quintas de Leitura, in the Teatro do Campo Alegre, April 22, she gave a workshop in Serralves Auditorium on 26 April.
22 April, 22h || Quintas de Leitura, Auditório do Teatro do Campo Alegre
Special Participation of Antonija Livingstone.
24 April, 22h || Solo ‘The Part’, Auditório de Serralves
"As has often been commented upon, social roles and performative ‘roles’ share many of the same traits and fascinations. There are ways you behave at work and ways you behave at a party, just as there are ways you behave in ballet and ways you behave in conceptual dance. In The Part such roles are little more than material for free and anarchic play: inhabited, questioned, transgressed and emptied of meaning, slyly re-packed with new meanings and unexpected (queer) sexual energies, continuously intertwined and blurred, forming a mix-and-match world of both cliché and startling originality."
Jacob Wren
Choreography and Performance Antonija Livingstone
Sound, Light, Scenographic and Costume Design Antonija Livingstone
Technical Direction Alexandre Pilon-Guay
Dramaturge tournee 2010 Wilson Blakely
Production Kris Nelson / antonym inc / Montreal, Qc.
Originally created with the support of Les Bains Brussels. Be. Hedvigsdal, Se.
Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec.
With special thanks to Heather Kravas, Marie-Andree Gougeon,Benoit Lachambre, Meg Stuart, and Vera Mantero.
26 April, 10h – 17h || Workshop Blood and Guts | Peace and Quiet, Auditório de Serralves
This workshop will operate as an introduction to personalized
practices for opening the body and the imagination into its potentials
for solo performance inquiry. Multi-disciplinary practices will be
used for body/mind preparation for applications to
spatialization/installation/choreography, and relation to
witness/spectator. The workshop is open to Dance, Theatre and
Performance professionals and advanced students and any body curious
to move to see into their Blood and Guts/Peace and Quiet for good
questions.