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O Centro do Mundo, Ana Borralho & João Galante
The Center of the World, Ana Borralho & João Galante
Event by: Teatro do Bairro Alto
Location: TBA - Teatro do Bairro Alto, Rua Tenente Raul Cascais 1 A, Lisboa
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About event
October 22nd to 25th
Tuesday to Friday 5pm, 7pm and 9pm
Main Room Stage
(performance/installation)
ACCESSIBILITY
In this show, virtual reality glasses and strobe light are used
Reduced capacity
Inserted in the Temps d'Images Festival + logo
Ana Borralho & João Galante< br/>THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Laurie Anderson
The work O Centro do Mundo captures and explores individual experiences in a shared environment, where the boundaries between the real and the virtual are blurred, and a community is formed in an indeterminate time. The duo Ana Borralho & João Galante invites us to enter a light and sound installation, introducing a parallel reality, which surrounds us, through virtual reality glasses. The visit of characters and their testimonies makes the audience a constant target of outside eyes, placing them, simultaneously, at the center of the show and outside of themselves, submerged in the contradictions of the contemporary subject. While the psychic labyrinth is configured as the center of the world, the multiplication of heterogeneous characters who question their own existence dilutes and subverts the notion of identity. In the field of plurality, all dualisms are dismantled, with the interior and exterior, the soul and the body, establishing permanent communication.
In O Centro do Mundo, Ana Borralho and João Galante invite us to enter a light and sound installation that presents us with a parallel reality through the use of virtual reality goggles.
Visited by characters and their testimonies, we get the feeling of being constantly under outside surveillance. A plunge into the unique experience of being at the show’s core, both inside and outside of oneself, amplifying and immersing in the contradictions of being human. While the psychic labyrinth appears as the center of the world, the proliferation of absurd characters who keep questioning their own existence dilutes and undermines the very notion of identity.
Concept, artistic direction and video camera
Ana Borralho & João Galante
Performers
Ana Freitas
Gustavo Sumpta
Inês Cóias
Joana Bernardo
Maria Antunes
Marco Mendonça
Imagery
Joana Mário
Vitória Gomes Molder
Óscar (dog)
Light design
Joana Mário
Original soundtrack, recordings and sound design
Coolgate
Text
From texts taken from Tiktok
Dramaturgical support
br/>Fernando J. Ribeiro
360th video editing
Micael Espinha
VR special effects
David Gabriel
Sound mastering
Pedro Augusto
Casting and wardrobe
Alma Mar
Makeup
Sara Marques de Oliveira
Artistic assistance
Daniel Matos
Production
casaBranca - Associação Cultural
Production and broadcasting management
Clara Sampaio
Andrea Sozzi
Executive production
Rita Conde
Executive and administrative management
Mónica Samões
Support to the administration
Teresa Serra Nunes
Communication
this is ground control
Web Design
José Pelicano
Coproduction
Teatro do Bairro Alto
Cineteatro Louletano
Teatro Viriato
Supports
theater turn around and then left when I say
Teatro do Vestido
Teatro da Voz – Produções Real Pelágio, MSM Studio< br/>DuplaCena - Temps d'Images
CasaBranca is a structure financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / General Directorate of Arts
12 Eur. (integrated into the Culture Pass only available at the Ticket Office of TBA)
Duration 50 min approx.
Age classification: to be assigned by CCE
Tuesday to Friday 5pm, 7pm and 9pm
Main Room Stage
(performance/installation)
ACCESSIBILITY
In this show, virtual reality glasses and strobe light are used
Reduced capacity
Inserted in the Temps d'Images Festival + logo
Ana Borralho & João Galante< br/>THE CENTER OF THE WORLD
Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
Laurie Anderson
The work O Centro do Mundo captures and explores individual experiences in a shared environment, where the boundaries between the real and the virtual are blurred, and a community is formed in an indeterminate time. The duo Ana Borralho & João Galante invites us to enter a light and sound installation, introducing a parallel reality, which surrounds us, through virtual reality glasses. The visit of characters and their testimonies makes the audience a constant target of outside eyes, placing them, simultaneously, at the center of the show and outside of themselves, submerged in the contradictions of the contemporary subject. While the psychic labyrinth is configured as the center of the world, the multiplication of heterogeneous characters who question their own existence dilutes and subverts the notion of identity. In the field of plurality, all dualisms are dismantled, with the interior and exterior, the soul and the body, establishing permanent communication.
In O Centro do Mundo, Ana Borralho and João Galante invite us to enter a light and sound installation that presents us with a parallel reality through the use of virtual reality goggles.
Visited by characters and their testimonies, we get the feeling of being constantly under outside surveillance. A plunge into the unique experience of being at the show’s core, both inside and outside of oneself, amplifying and immersing in the contradictions of being human. While the psychic labyrinth appears as the center of the world, the proliferation of absurd characters who keep questioning their own existence dilutes and undermines the very notion of identity.
Concept, artistic direction and video camera
Ana Borralho & João Galante
Performers
Ana Freitas
Gustavo Sumpta
Inês Cóias
Joana Bernardo
Maria Antunes
Marco Mendonça
Imagery
Joana Mário
Vitória Gomes Molder
Óscar (dog)
Light design
Joana Mário
Original soundtrack, recordings and sound design
Coolgate
Text
From texts taken from Tiktok
Dramaturgical support
br/>Fernando J. Ribeiro
360th video editing
Micael Espinha
VR special effects
David Gabriel
Sound mastering
Pedro Augusto
Casting and wardrobe
Alma Mar
Makeup
Sara Marques de Oliveira
Artistic assistance
Daniel Matos
Production
casaBranca - Associação Cultural
Production and broadcasting management
Clara Sampaio
Andrea Sozzi
Executive production
Rita Conde
Executive and administrative management
Mónica Samões
Support to the administration
Teresa Serra Nunes
Communication
this is ground control
Web Design
José Pelicano
Coproduction
Teatro do Bairro Alto
Cineteatro Louletano
Teatro Viriato
Supports
theater turn around and then left when I say
Teatro do Vestido
Teatro da Voz – Produções Real Pelágio, MSM Studio< br/>DuplaCena - Temps d'Images
CasaBranca is a structure financed by the Portuguese Republic – Culture / General Directorate of Arts
12 Eur. (integrated into the Culture Pass only available at the Ticket Office of TBA)
Duration 50 min approx.
Age classification: to be assigned by CCE