Vera Mantero & Accomplices
Vera Mantero & Accomplices
"Only the body is capable of jumping over the difference while preserving it" - José Gil
Multiplicity, Counterforce, Dual Citizenship, Junction of Opposites, Incandescence, Enchantment, Symbol: words that are now almost mantras, notions that have been pulsating through the processes undertaken by Vera Mantero and her guests since 2021, from the piece The Fright is a Whole World, through A small composition exercise (2023) and more recently __ groundsky |(2024). These works create frictions between different categories, oscillations between different spheres, incandescences at the crossroads of different domains, and place us on the threshold of the unconscious, allowing us to almost enter the world of dreams. Abstract figures and symbols cross paths with common everyday actions, bodies transmute at the intersection with objects and the poetic word. It is in these intersections and counterforces that our capacity for change is rehearsed, the translation of a destructive energy into an energy of openness and stripping away.
Artistic direction, co-creation and interpretation
Vera Mantero
Artistic direction assistance
David Marques
Co-creation and interpretation
Henrique Furtado Vieira, Joana Manaças, Paulo Quedas, Teresa Silva
Music and sound design
João Bento
Set design
João Ferro Martins
Costumes
Marisa Escaleira
Light design
Joana Mário
Production
O Rumo do Fumo
Executive production
Carlota Borges Lloret / O Rumo do Fumo
João Albano / O Rumo do Fumo
Co-production
Teatro Municipal do Porto – Festival DDD, Culturgest, Cineteatro Louletano, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
Residency co-production
O Espaço do Tempo, Centro de Experimentação Artística Vale da Amoreira
Rumo do Fumo is funded by República Portuguesa|Cultura / Direção Geral das Artes and Lisbon City Council.