Gaya de Medeiros
Gaya de Medeiros
Cafezinho is a multigenerational reflection on time and finitude, with a cast of dance, voice, and music performers, between 23 and 61 years old. The research is based on Café Muller by Pina Bausch and other post-war references, of reconstruction of places, collective, and intimate, which were devastated by the idea of the end.
This project aims to look at classics and cannons and think about what we want to survive time. Furthermore, it expresses the desire to leave the purgatory in which we find ourselves in, and create strategies that put anxieties to sleep in order to awaken new drives - to caress delicate powers and add fuel to incendiary powers. Cafezinho proposes dancing like someone sending another Voyager Golden Record into our future and facing time head on, paraphrasing Viviane Mozé, who said: “Time, if you’re going to eat me, let it be with my consent and looking into my eyes”!
10 APR 2025
THU 21:00
11 APR 2025
FRI 21:00
12 APR 2025
SAT 19:00
In Portuguese with subtitles in Portuguese and English.
FILM SCREENING
PINA BAUSCH
Café Müller (1985)
3 APR
THU 7:00pm
Small Auditorium
Free Admission
49 min.
M/6
Funded by the European Union's Horizon Europe programme, as part of the Dance Map project.
Support
Creation and artistic direction
Gaya de Medeiros
Co-creation and interpretation
Francisco Rebelo, Gaya de Medeiros, Iúri Oliveira, Lívia Espírito Santo, Helena Baronet, Paulina Santos and Ricardo Almeida
Dramaturgical support
Ana Rocha and Tiago Cadete
Composer
Ricardo Almeida and Gaya de Medereiros
Light and stage design
Tiago Cadete
Light operation
Ricardo Pimentel
Sound operation
Artur David
Communication
Marin Matos
Management
Marta Moreira / Irreal
Production
Daniela Leitão
Co-production
Culturgest, DDD - Festival Dias da Dança, Teatro Municipal de Torres Vedras, BoCA - Biennial of Contemporary Arts, Sekoia - Artes Performativas, e BRABA.plataforma
Project financed by
República Portuguesa - Cultura | Direção-Geral das Artes
Support for creation
OPART, E.P.E./ESTÚDIOS VICTOR CÓRDON