Nortada
23/5│Wednesday│8pm
Macao Cultural Centre Grand Auditorium
Tickets: MOP 150, 120, 80
Director, Musical Selection and Costumes: Olga Roriz
Assistant to the Artistic Director: André Louro
Set Designer: Pedro Santiago Cal
Lighting Designer: Cristina Piedade
Performers: Catarina Câmara, Rafaela Salvador, Sylvia Rijmer,
Bruno Alexandre and Pedro Santiago Cal
Music: Amália Rodrigues, Bau, Corelli, Croke, Charles Trénet,
Dead Combo, Grupo Folclórico de Santa Marta de Portuzelo,
Pink Martini and Klezmer Music
Texts: Criação Colectiva
Sound Operator: Miguel Mendes
Lighting Operator: Daniel Verdades
Props and Wardrobe Assistant: Maria Ribeiro
Production Director: Pedro Quaresma
Nortada (‘North Wind’) is a show about the memories that famous Portuguese dancer and choreographer Olga Roriz has of her birthplace, Viana do Castelo. Though she has never lived there, it is the place that holds the strongest of her childhood and adolescent memories. Even though distances have been great and her absence even greater, everything there is familiar to her. In fact, it was exactly from this conflict – between the insurmountable distance and the profound emotional proximity – that this piece was born, developed and constructed.
Nortada (“North Wind”) centres on a place that is invaded by nostalgia, longing and intimacy. Each memory that is transformed into an image carries an innocent symbolism, much like the gaze of the child that was. The sets, which take us back to two distinct spaces – one on the outside and the other on the inside – is deliberately centred around the dining room, the place where the family would invariably gather. Regardless of the vicissitudes of life, everything starts and develops from a meal, only to return at the end to another meal, much like an inescapable and apparently perfect circle.
“The Portuguese Pina Bausch …”
Via Latina, Ad Libitum
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 40 minutes, no interval
