Dance
A Hora em que Não Sabíamos Nada Uns dos Outros – (The Time We Knew Nothing About Each Other)
Olga Roriz Company
Fri 10 Nov, 9:30 pm
Águeda Arts Center | M/16 | €6 to €8 (with discounts)
“The Hour We Didn’t Know Anything About Each Other” (1992) is a play originally composed of 450 characters, walking in a square represented as a city. Your goal would be to create a day in the life of a square following a set of stage directions. The size of this production requires a large cast, made up of seven dancers and people from the community, renewed at each performance location.
In this Handke square, there is a recurrence of a square norm that seems to no longer exist. We witness a rolling of time without time, of stories without stories, characters without verbal speech, and with an indefinite past and future.
It is a timeless piece in its translation of humanity to the stage because it is open to the here and now of whoever takes it to the stage. The writing itself is choreographic in both form and content. Composed of didascalia, profile indications and actions of each participant, it still offers great freedom of creation.
We are interested in questioning, thirty-one years after the creation of this piece, what has changed in the world. It seems to us that this title now tells us much more. That what we know about each other and ourselves is an increasingly dark well and that it is urgent to open channels for transformation, for the creation of utopia.
Olga Roriz, April 2022
Artistic Sheet
Direction
Olga Roriz
Text
Peter Handke
Interpreters
António Bollaño
Dinis Duarte
Gaya de Medeiros
Marta Jardim
Marta Lobato Faria
Roge Costa
Yonel Serrano
OPEN CALL
Companhia Olga Roriz (COR) is looking for people, residents of Águeda, to participate in the show “The Hour in which we knew nothing about each other” to be presented at CAA on November 10, 2023.
SELECTION:
Interested parties must respond to this Open Call via email tocaa.educativo2@cm-agueda.pt indicating name, age, origin/nationality, email, telephone, face photograph, full body photograph, measurements (height, shirt size, pants and footwear) and additional information that you find relevant.
Selection date
November 5th, 5pm
Local
Águeda Arts Center (CAA)
Recipients
The general public, from 18 to 80
Time
After-work to be defined with the group of participants
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