- Teatro Aveirense . 6 December. Friday. 21:30 . Main Hall
- CCB . 13 and 14 December. Friday, 8:00 pm and Saturday, 7:00 pm. Grande Auditório
- Accessibility: December 14 session with audio description
- Artistic direction Victor Hugo Pontes
- Set design F. Ribeiro
- Technical direction and light design Wilma Moutinho
- Original music João Carlos Pinto
- Musical arrangements of works by J.S. Bach and C. Debussy
- Recorded musicians Pirii Pimentel Rodrigues and Bruna Maia de Moura
- Assistance de direction Cátia Esteves
- Artistic consultancy Madalena Alfaia
- Production direction Joana Ventura
- Executive production Mariana Lourenço
- Production assistant trainee Nuna Reis
- Interpreters Abel Rojo, Alejandro Fuster, Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Ángela Diaz Quintela, Daniela Cruz, Dinis Duarte, Esmée Aude Capsie, Fabri Gomez, Guilherme Leal, Inês Fertuzinhos, João Cardoso, José Jalane, Liliana Oliveira, Rémi Bourchany, Rita Alves, Tiago Barreiros, Valter Fernandes
- Interpreters trainees Joana Couto, Tomás Fernandes
- Co-production Centro Cultural de Belém, Centro de Arte de Ovar, Teatro Aveirense, Teatro Nacional São João
- Support to the residency A Oficina/CCVF, GrETUA, Teatro Municipal do Porto
- Apoio Camões – Portuguese Cultural Center in Maputo
The Nome Próprio is a resident structure in the Campo Alegre Theatre, under the Open Field Theatre program, and has the support of the Portuguese Republic – Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General of the Arts.
The new creation of Victor Hugo Pontes debuts in 2024, in the autumn of a year that will be spent by many looking back to 50 years of history of a free country, as we look forward, trying to glimpse the way to go in order to preserve this greater freedom. Victor Hugo Pontes wants to occupy this medium, and in this blank place will design his new show.
We started by isolating a verse of a song, as if he were isolating, in the laboratory, an essential particle to illuminate the complexity of the whole: we plunged into José Mário Branco’s Inquietação and when we came back up, all our senses became alert, in a state of mindfulness, of absolute freedom. We decided to go there. There is something about to happen, the body will be the great sign on the scene – a collective physical mass, which will forge a vigorous choral piece, composed of naked bodies and plastic images, primordial. There will be no immediate allusions to a political, ideological or environmental state of affairs. There will be no watchwords or cries of alarm. There will be, however, the confrontation with the imminent time. From the danger outside (in the world) to the barriers inside (in our head); we continually see new things and reconfigure our understanding of what surrounds us and the place we occupy.
In the body of interpreters, we will discover what moves us, what frightens us, what threatens us, what transforms us, what conditions us, and what frees us. There is something about to happen, Victor Hugo Pontes will work the nudity as the opposite of the instinctive and primary: in the body of naked dance on stage, we will find the most rational sense of human, the most forged, the most virtuous and, therefore, the most free.
Victor Hugo Pontes was born in Guimarães, in 1978. He has a degree in Plastic Arts – Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. In 2001, attended the Norwich School of Art & Design, in England. Completed the professional courses of Theatre of the balleteatro Escola Profissional and the University Theater of Porto as well as the course of Research and Choreographic Creation of the Dance Forum. As a creator, his career began to blossom in 2003 with the work Puzzle. Since then, he has been consolidating his choreographic brand, having presented his work throughout the country as well as in Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Russia, Austria and Brazil, among others.
Among her most recent creations, we highlight Fuga sem Fim (2011); A Ballet Story (2012); ZOO (2013); Ocidente, by Rémi de Vos (2013); Fall (2014); COPPIA (2014), in co-creation with Manuela Azevedo and Hélder Gonçalves; Se alguma vez necessitas da minha vida, vem e toma-a (2016); Carnaval (2016) and Madrugada (2019), both at the invitation of the Companhia Nacional de Bailado; Nocturno (2017), in co-creation with Joana Gama; Margem (2018; SPA Award for Best Choreography); Drama (2019); Os Três Irmãos (2020), with text by Gonçalo M. Tavares; Meio no Meio (2021); Porque É Infinito (2021); Clandestine Corps (2022) and Bantu (2023).
Since 2009, he has been the artistic director of Nome Próprio, a cultural association dedicated to contemporary dance and theatre. The Name has developed projects with numerous artists and institutions, presented throughout the country and also internationally: Cultural Center of Belém, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Culturgest, National Theater São João, Municipal Theatre of Porto, Vila Flor Cultural Center, Maria Matos Municipal Theatre, São Luiz Municipal Theatre, Panorama Festival (Brazil), Cannes Dance Festival and Théâtre de la Ville (France), Liége Theatre (Belgium), among others. More information at www.nomeproprio.pt.
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