{"id":149,"date":"2021-07-14T22:11:31","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T22:11:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/companhiamaior.pt\/en\/?page_id=149"},"modified":"2022-12-09T16:04:36","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T16:04:36","slug":"bela-adormecida","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/companhiamaior.pt\/en\/bela-adormecida\/","title":{"rendered":"Bela Adormecida"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Sleeping Beauty<\/span><\/i> was the first show staged by Companhia Maior, the result of a residency at the Centro Cultural de Bel\u00e9m. Invited to direct the company’s first creation, Tiago Rodrigues wrote and directed a contemporary version of Sleeping Beauty<\/i>, where fragments of memories of the performers themselves merge with a reflection on memory, ageing and \u2018awakening\u2019 to new worlds.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u2018The prince takes a lifetime to find the palace. He kisses Aurora. He breaks the spell. When the inhabitants of the palace wake up, they realise that time didn\u2019t stop at the moment they fell asleep. While they were sleeping, they were ageing.\u2019 These are more or less the words I\u2019ve used whenever, over the last few months, I\u2019ve tried to explain to someone what Sleeping Beauty<\/em> is.<\/p>

The idea of reinventing a \u2018classic\u2019 emerged from conversations with Lu\u00edsa Taveira, the driving force behind the Companhia Maior project. Invited to direct the first creation by this company, I always assumed that this show would also serve to invent and affirm an artistic identity. A group of performers over the age of 60 and with experience in various areas, willing to risk confronting the work of contemporary creators. The \u2018classic\u2019, inscribed on the collective imagination, allowed us to use a vocabulary that spanned generations. Being a classical ballet, it was possible to mix disciplines, principally dance and music, but also theatre. I had my first contact with this cast months before rehearsals began, during a ten-day workshop, where we explored personal memories to create fragments and scenes. The awakening of each of the artists with this project found its metaphorical version in the narrative of Sleeping Beauty<\/em> and the trick of using the past as fuel for the present seemed to me to be the starting point for an adaptation. The past that feeds us in this show is also the artistic tradition of the \u2018classic\u2019 debuted in Saint Petersburg, without much success, 120 years ago. Here, Tchaikovsky\u2019s music or Petipa\u2019s choreography fade into memories of characters and performers.\u00a0<\/p>

We could talk about a comment on artistic tradition, but I am more interested in the notion of inheritance. Because tradition is fixed and doesn\u2019t belong to us. But an inheritance, we can spend as we like. We own it.<\/p>

In Sleeping Beauty<\/em>, the symbolisms are subverted, analysed or taken literally. An inheritance is owned, always attempting a poetry of the memory. A memory that pursues us or flees from us. A memory that imprisons or frees us. But, inevitably, the memory that is the source of energy that lights up the present.<\/p>

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Text and direction
Tiago Rodrigues<\/strong><\/p>

Cast
Ant\u00f3nio Pedrosa, Carlos Nery, Celeste Melo, Cristina Gon\u00e7alves, Diana Coelho, Helena Marchand, Isabel Millet, Isabel Sim\u00f5es, Iva Delgado, J\u00falia Guerra, Kimberley Ribeiro, Manuela de Sousa Rama, Michel, V\u00edtor Lopes<\/strong><\/p>

Staging assistant
Cl\u00e1udia Gaiolas
<\/strong>Lighting and set designer
Thomas Walgrave
<\/strong>Costume designer
Patr\u00edcia Raposo
<\/strong>Video
Bruno Canas
<\/strong>Executive production
Magda Bizarro
<\/strong>Mariana Sampaio
<\/strong>Photography
Cl\u00e1udia Varej\u00e3o
<\/strong>Magda Bizarro<\/strong><\/p>

A production of
Mundo Perfeito<\/strong> and Companhia Maior<\/strong><\/p>

In co-production with
Centro Cultural de Bel\u00e9m<\/strong><\/p>

Acknowledgements<\/h5>

Cl\u00e1udia Varej\u00e3o
<\/strong>Clara Andermatt
<\/strong>Eduardo S\u00e9rgio
<\/strong>Jacinto Lucas Pires
<\/strong>Jo\u00e3o Lucas
<\/strong>Lula Pena
<\/strong>Rita Bagorro
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PREMI\u00c9RE
28 to 31\u00a0 october 2010 <\/b>
Centro Cultural de Bel\u00e9m
Lisbon<\/p>

FURTHER PERFORMANCES
27 november 2010
<\/b>Teatro Municipal de Bragan\u00e7a<\/p>

11 december 2010
<\/b>Cine-Teatro de Estarreja<\/p>

21 january 2011<\/strong>
Centro Cultural Vila Flor
Guimar\u00e3es<\/p>

15 january 2011<\/strong>
TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portim\u00e3o<\/p>

28 to 29 january<\/strong> 2011
<\/b>Teatro Viriato
Viseu<\/p>

3 to 6 february 2011
<\/b>Teatro Carlos Alberto
Porto<\/p>

26 february 2011
<\/b>Teatro Micaelense
S\u00e3o Miguel, Azores<\/p>

26 march<\/b> 2011<\/strong>
Teatro Virg\u00ednia
Torres Novas<\/p>

29 april 2011
<\/strong>Teatro Municipal da Guarda<\/p>

21 may 2011<\/strong>\u00a0
Casa da Cultura
Alfandega da F\u00e9<\/p>

8 july 2011<\/strong>
Tr\u00f3ia Design Hotel<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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