CabraCega - Circolando

CabraCega
Oh, young lady who once fell
In the web of a spider’s spell
Caught in between ancestral strings
As a voice intimately sings
From howling sounds she will one day
Shatter the web and break away
From her sleep a flame will arise
And tear open the morning skies
Time is suspended as we enter an inner world
between dream and reality, the conscious and
the unconscious. A woman sets off on a journey
through her most obscure territories, haunted by
spells, imaginary beings, strange voices and an old
entangled web. In her suitcase, she brings the will to
love and her grandmother’s vegetables.
As in the game of cabra-cega (blind man’s
bluff), we searched for material in the darkness,
bringing to light the unspoken, the secrets,
the hidden faces enclosed in a biography. We
convoked the poetry of movement, the intimacy
of sound and the symbolism of object to create
an oneiric and evocative environment in which
the spectator finds a space of projection.
There, one enters a universe inhabited by a
young woman. Struggling against the loss of
innocence, she bears the failed encounter with
her lover as a confrontation with her illusions
and the image she had made of herself.
Inheriting the weight of past generations of
women, she arouses the will to emancipate
from the genealogical web. Yet only when she
embraces her own malaise does she arrive to a
truly new state, of unity and rest.
CabraCega is a reflection on the process of
growing and the abysms amidst the passage
into adulthood.
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A first version of
CabraCega was presented
in Fábrica da Rua da
Alegria, in Porto, Portugal,
in March 2012, and
six months later at the
Mindelact Festival, in
Mindelo, Cape Verde. Its
final version was selected
for the Mostra de Criadores
Emergentes 1° Andar
2012, in Covilhã, Portugal.
CabraCega has since been
performed in Paris, Rio de
Janeiro and São Paulo.
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Ana Madureira, actress and illustrator, has trained with Sofia Neuparth
in CEM (Centro em Movimento), Sergey Kovalevich and Natalka Polovynka
(in Grotowski Institute), and Yumi Fujitani, among others. She has been
collaborating with Circolando theatre company since 2008, and integrated
ClownLaboratori Porto in 2012. She guides theatre workshops and develops
community-based work, from which she has created various illustration objects.
Jaime Mears, a graduate of NIDA,
studied with Philippe Gaulier for two years
and trained with the SITI Company in
New York, Keith Johnstone and Complicite.
She has performed in several main stage
productions for the Sydney Theatre
Company as well as acting in acclaimed
television drama series All Saints. In
Portugal she participated in a residency
organised by Teatro do Frio and Teatro
Nacional São João, in the context of
Guimarães - European Capital of Culture.
She is the co-founder of Teatro Rei Sem
Roupa, for which she performs, directs and
teaches in workshops for professionals and
the general public.
Pedro Fabião, actor, director and teacher,
specialises in physical theatre and clown. Mostly
influenced by the pedagogy of Philippe Gaulier, Ami
Hattab, Keith Johnstone and Jacques Lecoq, he has
created, directed, produced and played within various
artistic structures in eight different countries.
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A collective creation
Stageplay: Pedro Fabião
Assistance to stageplay: Jaime Mears
Interpretation: Ana Madureira
Musical creation: Ana Madureira
Sound design: Vahan Kerovpyan
Collaboration to creation: André Braga, Cláudia Figueiredo, Blaise Powell
Construction: Nuno Guedes, Nuno Brandão
Light design: Francisco Tavares Teles
Production: Ana Carvalhosa (direction), Cláudia Santos
Special thanks: Inês Mariana Moitas, David Berndsen, Idalina Sousa,
Stratos Ntontsis, Teresa Fabião, Frederico Bustorff, Hugo Valter
Moutinho
Support: Erva Daninha, Teatro do Frio, Rei Sem Roupa, IPP/Fábrica da
Rua da Alegria, CACE Cultural do Porto
Duration: approximately 50 min.
CabraCega
A Circolando satellite-project
www.circolando.com
Illustrations: Ana Madureira
Photos: Hugo Valter Moutinho
Graphic design: Ana Madureira, Vahan Kerovpyan