Binaural Nodar, in partnership with the Municipalities of São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela and Oliveira de Frades, announces the world premiere of the artistic creation “MEMORIES OF A NEAR FUTURE” by Rui Tavares and Érica Dias, the winning creation of the JOVENS EXPRESSÕES DE LAFÕES Award:
Artists: Rui Tavares and Érica Dias
Creation: Memories of a Near Future
Artistic Area: Music and Contemporary Dance
Dates:
4 November at 21h30
Cine Teatro Dr. Morgado (Municipality of Oliveira de Frades)
11 November at 21h30
Cine Teatro Jaime Gralheiro (Municipality of São Pedro do Sul)
25 November at 21h30
Cine Teatro João Ribeiro (Municipality of Vouzela)
Free admission to all performances
Description:
In an ode to rural life and the primitive values of sowing and tending in order to see things born and grow, comes an original show created by Rui Tavares and Érica Dias. A piece of music and dance that seeks to draw a parallel with an entire philosophy of life, faced with an increasingly less human world in which nurturing in order to reap, whatever it may be, has fallen out of fashion.
In a world where everything is a click away, including ourselves, a reversal of this journey is foreseen to come very soon, a human need to be human, to touch, to get one’s hands dirty, to feel and live firsthand every stage and experience of life.
As such, we will witness a reversal of the rural exodus that virtually emptied a large part of our country. In a general awareness that quality of life lies in the values of the land and in the power of productive independence, the population will tend to return home. Faced with abandoned land on the verge of barrenness, despair will arise, but it will merely precede the sweat, struggle and reconstructive work of a people who never give up.
The piece seeks to create associations with the Earth at various levels. The unconventional or barely conventional instruments live in harmony with the more traditional ones. The movements created will reflect the human essence in passages that will fly from the rough and primitive to the soft and ethereal, demonstrating the volatility of human feeling. And as a backdrop we will see emblematic locations of the Lafões region.
The Jovens Expressões de Lafões Award was established under the tripartite support agreement between the Directorate-General for the Arts, Binaural/Nodar and the three Lafões municipalities, to regularly support innovative artistic projects by young artists resident in any of the Lafões municipalities in diverse artistic fields, such as theatre, dance, music and/or their articulation with the visual arts (photography, video, sculpture, etc.) and with themes associated with the various territorial realities that make up the Lafões region.
The jury considered the creation “Memories of a Near Future” by Rui Tavares and Érica Dias (both residents of Oliveira de Frades) to be the strongest of the six applications received, fitting perfectly with the purposes of the Jovens Expressões de Lafões award, as it revealed enormous conceptual maturity and a well-achieved articulation between artistic fields (in this case between experimental music and contemporary dance).
Technical Details:
Title: Memories of a Near Future
A Binaural/Nodar production
Duration: 40 minutes
Age Range: 3+
Performed by: Rui Tavares, Érica Dias and dancers from the Creactive Dance Company / Acrof Oliveira de Frades
Dramaturgy: Rui Tavares and Érica Dias
Choreography: Érica Dias
Music and composition: Rui Tavares
Wardrobe: Érica Dias
Sets: Rui Tavares and Érica Dias
Executive production: Diana Silva
Graphic design and photographs: Liliana Silva
Biographies of the authors:
Rui Tavares (Oliveira de Frades, 1978) drummer and percussionist. Trained at the Escola Profissional de Música de Espinho, he was a musician with the Orquestra do Norte for almost a decade, while also developing his own musical projects and collaborating with a multitude of musicians. He is the drummer of the groups Basorexia Army, The Greyhound James’ Band and Gin Sónico Quartet, and teaches drums and percussion in various places in the Viseu region, while also occasionally collaborating with local philharmonic bands (such as those of Ribeiradio and Paços de Vilharigues).
Érica Dias, born in 1984 and living in Oliveira de Frades, took her first steps in dance at the age of 3 and never left that world since. She trained in Classical, Contemporary, Jazz and Hip-Hop at schools such as: Escola de Artes da ACROF, Academia de Bailado Clássico de Aveiro, Momentum Dance Studio, among others. Teaching since the tender age of 18, she has touched the lives of hundreds of young people, in the schools where she was a student and in many more, seeking to convey to each of her students, more than technique, a love for the art of Dance.
Additional information:
Binaural/Nodar Communication and Press Officer:
Liliana Silva: email: liliana.silva@binauralmedia.org and phone: 232 723 160.
Binaural – Associação Cultural de Nodar is an entity funded by the Government of Portugal, through a tripartite agreement with the Directorate-General for the Arts and the municipalities of São Pedro do Sul, Vouzela and Oliveira de Frades.
