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We live in a time that is no longer a passing moment, but one of suspension.
We are not just between one before and one after; we are inside an after that has not yet begun to exist fully. Between successive crises, latent wars and unnamed futures, a diffuse but persistent feeling sets in: something is changing profoundly, not as an event, but as a condition. We inhabit a world in permanent tension, where systems affective, social, political have lost consistency. We do not live within solid structures, but in precarious balances."

In this context, the question ceases to be "what comes next?" and becomes more urgent, more intimate: what to do with the after? As Simone Weil wrote, it is perhaps in attention to what remains, to what persists despite everything, that a possibility of meaning opens. Not an answer, but a practice: repair, sustain, listen to what still vibrates. O que fazer com o depois? (What to do with the after?) arises from this insistent and transversal question: what to do after a break, a loss, a crisis, a euphoria, a collapse collective or intimate? What to do when what we knew is no longer working, but nothing new has stabilized yet? From a personal disquiet - the "after" of a relationship, of difficult news, of a show that ends creation moves to a common territory: the afterword not as a consequence, but as a contemporary state of existence.

A space where time fails,
where gestures seek form,
where the body tries to reorganize itself without a map.


More than answering, this project inhabits this unstable area.
Express the after as sensitive matter: what is left, what insists, what can still be reconfigured. Because maybe the after is not the end of something but the place where another form of life, still undefined, begins to be rehearsed.

Public Program

11 June, 19h30
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Credits

Artistic Direction and Creation
Bernardo Chatillon

Interpretation and Performance
Gio Lourenço, Ana Rocha, Mariana Tengner Barros, Bernardo Chatillon

Consulting in Staging
Diogo Liberano

Light Design in Performance
Tiago Gandra

Sound composition in performance
Rodrigo Pereira

Artistic contributions during the creative process from the question: What to do with the after?
Teresa Campos, António Poppe, Fernanda Eugénio, Guilherme Luz and Carlota Lagido

Executive production
Teresa Leite

Communication Director
Sara Silva

Production
Flam Artistic creation

Co-production residence
The Space of Time, Factory of Creativity, Trust Collective and And Lab

Co-production
Cinema-Theatre Avenida de Castelo Branco, Cinema Theatre of Gouveia and Escape Line

Support
DGArtes, Antena2, Municipality of Arganil and Union of Municipalities of Côja and Barril de Alva

Thanks
Teresa Madeira, Amigos/as Flam, John Noble, Hiago Rodrigues, J.Crist, Bruno Esteves, Isabel Silva, Pateo José Matias Junior, SAL Mercearia, Nélia Calvino, TRIJu (Teatro da Riju), Francisco Salgado, Espaço Céuvagem, Energias In The Van, Tomé Chatillon, Rosa Castro.

Bernardo Chatillon is an artist working across theatre, dance, and performance, investigating perception, sensory experience, and invisible or neglected spaces through Magical Thinking as an artistic practice. He trained at the circus school (Chapitô), the dance and performance school (C.E.M), and the Lisbon Theatre and Film School (ESTC), and was part of the National Theatre D. Maria II (2012–2015). In 2016, he moved to Berlin, where he developed his work at Ponderosa and completed the MA SODA (HZT/UDK). He collaborates with international artists and regularly presents his work, while also engaging in curatorial, pedagogical, and community-based practices.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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