O Canto do Bode in RIO
Canto do Bode will be in Rio de Janeiro between March 21st and April 2nd, with a program that will include four performances of the show "Exercício para uma metamorfose" (Exercise for a Metamorphosis), a workshop, and two guided demonstrations of their research on the creative processes of the actress and the actor.
Below is complete information on all activities:
1. Acting in the Unknown
workshop
It is not necessary to know how to do it, but how not to hesitate in the face of a challenge, when it is necessary to do what is unknown and to do it, leaving the "method" (as much as possible) to our nature.” Jerzy Grotowski
"In the world we live in, what we know and what we don't know coexist in a state of perfect confusion, fatally linked like Siamese twins."
Haruki Murakami
About the workshop
The workshop "Acting in the Unknown" will offer participants the opportunity to learn about and experience practices developed by Vitor Lemos and the artists of the O Canto de Bode studio (Lisbon). These practices share a common focus on situations and phenomena that escape the actor's comprehension and control. By privileging the unknown, the actor expands their understanding of what they can do, what they believe the character, the scene, and the world to be, moving scenic creation away from the mere representation of ideas and closer to an acting experience of intensity. What is the problem to be faced? The unknown also causes discomfort, generates fear and hesitation. Even aware that, in the face of the unknown, it is necessary to take risks, the actor, albeit involuntarily, tends to defend themselves. The practices to be experienced allow the participant to become aware of their resistances; to review perceptual habits and automated ways of acting; and to attune themselves to the adventure of difference.
When
March 21st and 22nd, from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM
Where
Studio Casa de Pedra - Rua Major Rubens Vaz, Gávea .
Target audience
Artists, teachers, and students of performing arts.
Registrations
Fill out the form at the link: Workshop Registration and send an email to ocantodobode@gmail.com with proof of bank transfer (PIX key 909.640.807-10) of the amount of R$ 300.00.
2. TO ACT IN THE EXERCISE OF DIFFERENCE
work demonstration
Two meetings will be held with the artists of O Canto do Bode, in which conceptual premises and references will be presented, accompanied by demonstrations of practices from the research project Acting as an Exercise in Difference , developed over six years in the studio and which also underpins the dramaturgy of the show Exercise for a Metamorphosis . The meetings will be attended by all the artists who created the show, including co-director André Paes Leme.
Meeting 1
March 23rd at 7 PM
Location: Alexandre Mello Studio
Alice Street, 1658/201, Laranjeiras.
Free admission
Send an email to ocantodobode@gmail.com indicating your interest in participating in the event. After the demonstration, there will be a discussion session, which will precede the evening gathering at the pleasant Alexandre Mello Atelier.
Meeting 2
March 31st at 8 PM
Location: ESAD - Sesc School of Dramatic Arts / Sesc Educational Center
Ayrton Senna Avenue, 5677, Jacarepaguá.
After the demonstration, there will be a discussion session with the participants.
Free admission.
Tickets can be collected at the box office one hour before the start of the session.
3- EXERCISE FOR A METAMORPHOSIS
show
Duration
60 minutes
Classification
14 years old.
Where
Sergio Porto Theatre
Visconde de Silva Street, no number, next to number 292.
When
March 27th, 28th and 29th.
Friday and Saturday 8pm | Sunday 7pm.
Tickets
https://bileto.sympla.com.br/event/116241
Full price: R$60.00
Socks: R$30.00
Where
ESAD - Sesc School of Dramatic Arts
Ayrton Senna Avenue, 5677, Jacarepaguá.
When
April 1st at 8 PM
After the presentation, there will be a discussion session with the participants.
Free admission
Tickets can be picked up at the box office one hour before the start of the show.
About the show
The performance "Exercise for a Metamorphosis" interprets the transformation of Kafka's protagonist into an insect as a description of existence itself. The experience of life is understood as an encounter with events impossible to anticipate, events that challenge everything we think we know. Such events are quickly classified as absurd and incoherent because they disrupt our expectations of stability and control over the world. A different attitude—like that resulting from Gregor Samsa's metamorphosis—can lead to a revision of our automatisms, generating immense discomfort, but also offering the opportunity to appropriate and expand our ways of being.
Creative team:
Playwriting and direction (based on "The Metamorphosis" by F. Kafka)
André Paes Leme and Vitor Lemos
Performance
Geraldo Monteiro, Nisa Eliziário, Samuel MacDowell
Light design
Renato Machado
Direction of movement
Monica Emilio
Verses
Zé Luiz Rinaldi (from the book Poems for the Actor ).
Voiceover
Mauro Corage
Photos and graphic design
Flavio Pereira
