Get ready for the first days of the DDD Festival, on 20 and 21 April
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José Caldeira
These are the DDD first programming days that are set to propel you to fascinating performances and animated shows. The first to be scheduled is the premiere BATE FADO, by Jonas&Lander, at Rivoli. What do tapping and singing the Fado have in common? That is precisely what you will discover on 20th April, at 7 pm.
Check out the first days of the DDD Festival in Porto, available on stage and at home: a hybrid programming that is meant to suit all audiences.
20th April, at 7 pm
Teatro Rivoli — Porto
M/6 | 1H10 | 9.00€
ROOM WITH A VIEW, The French collective (LA)HORDE is set to explore protest and rebellion through dance. In what can be described as a blank paper work, there are still sounds, bodies and images to ponder on Humanity’s instable stay.
20th April, at 10 pm
Available at DDD Website, Facebook and YouTube
Rone & (LA)HORDE with Ballet national de Marseille (FR)
M/12 | 1H10 | Free
LAST, a choreography based on Beethoven’s work Late String Quartets, performed in the year that marks the composer’s 250th birth anniversary.
21st April, at 7 pm
Teatro Municipal de Matosinhos Constantino Nery — Matosinhos
São Castro & António M Cabrita
M/6 | 1H00 | 9.00€
(B)REACHING STILLNESS, the show puts forward a constant and researched change, physically wise. The starting points of such performance were the Baroque still life paintings.
21st April – 23rd April
BOL Virtual Room
Lea Moro (DE/CH)
M/16 | 50min | 3.50€
Nídia (DJ SET)
20th April, at 11 pm
Free
Zoom DDD (Access)
+ Website, Facebook & YouTube DDD (Public streaming: DJ only)
Memorable parties are DDD’s DNA. A new experience: home alone, but gathered virtually to dance all night long.
MASTERCLASS
(LA) HORDE / Ballet national de Marseille
21st April, at 10 am
ZOOM DDD
Free
Elena Valls Garcia delivers a workshop on dance as a cohesion carrier and a collective mobiliser. It is based on the choreographic material of Room with a view.
Documentaries
Miguel C. Tavares
Available as of 20th April
Irmãos is a documentary of the making of the show “Os Três Irmãos”, presented by Victor Hugo Pontes at the DDD programme.
Available as of 20th April
Cristina Ferreira Gomes & Luiz Antunes
This is the first documentary series that gives more profile to the emerging generation of contemporary dance creators in Portugal.
ERA SÓ UM PEITO CHEIO DE PROMESSAS
21st April – 23rd April
Miguel Pereira
Virtual BOL Room
M/14 | 3.50€
“This film or document is used to share our rich and turbulent trip, while revisiting the past, projecting and looking at future possibilities”, Miguel Pereira
EXHIBITIONS
Catarina Miranda
20th April – 30th April
Site & YouTube DDD
A collection of video-portraits by choreographers, featured as oracles and poised in a sleeping position.