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In a vacant lot on the outskirts of a city, concrete grows as if trying to swallow what remains of nature — yet it is there that wild vegetation insists on flourishing, in a gesture of resistance and diversity.

Matagal is an interdisciplinary performance that brings together multiple artistic languages — dance, theatre, visual arts, music, video, and light design. In this creative process, deaf and hearing performers search, through poetry, for a gesture of resistance. They seek, in words, a broader way of inhabiting and contemplating the world — of existing in a continuous process of transformation.

Credits

Direction
Eduardo Breda

Co-creation and Interpretation
André Fereira, Beatriz Baptista, Fábio Madeira, Marco Olival, Mariana Camacho, Valentina Carvalho

Production Direction and Technical Direction
Roger Madureira

Production Assistant
Maria Olas

Scenic Space
Pedro Tudela

Press Officer
Mafalda Simões

Co-production
Gravity Forms - Associação, Festival Temps d'Image, FITEI, O Espaço do Tempo, Pangeia

Co-production in Residence
O Espaço do Tempo and CAL - Primeiros Sintomas

Support for the creation
Teatro A Oficina (Critical Creation Grant 2023)

Communication support
Gerador, Centro Nacional de Cultura

Project funded by the Portuguese Republic - Culture | DGARTES - General-Direction for the Arts.

© Eduardo Breda

32 years old, 1990 - PORTOGraduated from A.C.E. and later a degree in Theatre (Acting) at ESTC. He has presented his creations ECO, MappaMundi, Impressões de Viagem and co-created Maioria Absoluta , NADA#0. In the visual arts and performance, he has collaborated with André Guedes, Albuquerque Mendes and João Pedro Fonseca. He has made several documentaries about the Portuguese art scene, including: O Retrato, O Palácio de Cristal, Boa Alma, Caos Danado, Proskenion & Este Não é o Teu Corpo.

Eduardo Breda (PT)

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