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From a body at various times where memory reinvents itself, Gio Lourenço builds, based on the movements of Kuduro, a biographical itinerary where the body becomes an allegory of memory. Kuduro appears in the 1990s, in Luanda, in the context of a civil war. The specific codes of this dance style, which expressed the Angolan daily life, reached Portugal through the bodies and cassettes of those who transited between these two countries. It is at this time that the creator becomes a kudurista, the dance steps, the music, and the aesthetics of this style, established a codified language that allowed him to maintain a connection to Angola, where he was born and lived until he was 5 years old, when he move to Portugal. Boca Fala Tropa proposes an identity territory displaced from a concrete geography -the transit between Angola and Portugal- starting from the Kuduro movements to cross elements of individual memory, and its inevitable fictions, with elements of collective memory.

 

Credits

Artistic Direction
Gio Lourenço 

Script
Cátia Terrinca, Gio Lourenço 

Dramaturgy
Cátia Terrinca

Creation Support
Neusa Trovoada, Sofia Berberan

Performers
Gio Lourenço, Xullaji, Vânia Doutel Vaz (video)

Vídeoartist
Michelle Eistrup

Sound Design
Xullaji

Light Design
Manuel Abrantes

Movement Support
Vânia Doutel Vaz, Fogo de Deus

Body Assistance
Sofia Neuparth

Scenography and Costumes
Neusa Trovoada

Video Costumes
Magda Buczek

Video Clothing
Ulla Jensen

Photography
Sofia Berberan

Executive Production
Paulo Lage

Production
Medusa Material

Support
Bolsa de Criação O Espaço do Tempo e BPI – Fundação La Caixa, Alkantara, c.e.m.-centro em movimento, Casa dos Direitos Sociais, Fonden FABRIKKEN for Kunst og Design, Companhia Olga Roriz e Fundação GDA.

Gio Lourenço was born in Angola in 1987. He is a resident actor at Teatro GRIOT and has worked, among others, with directors Zia Soares, Rogério de Carvalho, Nuno M Cardoso, Guilherme Mendonça, Bruno Bravo, António Pires and João Fiadeiro. He took the Theater and Animation Course at CERCICA and attended CEM through a grant from the Centro Nacional de Cultura. His creation “Preta” was selected to be presented at the Holland Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, rescheduled for 2021. Also within the scope of the same Bienal, he developed, for the Holland Pavilion catalogue, the project “Memória Botânica”, in partnership with photographer Sofia Berberan.

Gio Lourenço (AO)

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