Manuela Azevedo, Hélder Gonçalves and Victor Hugo Pontes (Portugal)
27,28/5｜Friday, Saturday｜8pm (27/5);3pm (28/5)
Sands Theatre
Tickets: MOP 200, 150, 100
Manuela Azevedo, Hélder Gonçalves and Victor Hugo Pontes (Portugal)
Co-Creation: Manuela Azevedo, Hélder Gonçalves and Victor Hugo Pontes
Musical Direction: Hélder Gonçalves
Direction and Set Design: Victor Hugo Pontes
Technical Direction: Wilma Moutinho
Lighting Design: Nuno Meira
Lighting Operation: Ricardo Santos
Sound Design: Nelson Carvalho
Performers: Hélder Gonçalves, Joana Castro, Manuela Azevedo and Valter Fernandes
Co-Production: Centro Cultural de Belém, Nome Próprio
For this joint venture, Manuela Azevedo, vocalist of renowned Portuguese pop music group Clã, challenged a couple of old accomplices – Hélder Gonçalves for the musical direction, and Victor Hugo Pontes for the direction and set design. And this way, in a trio, but always side by side, COPPIA was designed – a journey that only makes sense together, as a pair.
“Coppia” means pair, double, couple. And if the word immediately refers to the idea of an amorous couple, space is left for other pairs, such as the professional, the artistic or the familial. And there is also the obvious association of the Latin ancient word “coppia” with the modern word “copy” and its meanings – replica, reflection, and repetition. The idea of exploring all these possibilities of expression and of doing so by using as a starting point songs by David Byrne, Sérgio Godinho, Gilberto Gil, Sonny & Cher, Clã and others became the central idea of COPPIA, a show in which dance and music play in a tennis court.
Performed in Portuguese, with surtitles in Chinese and English.
Duration: approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes, no interval
