Concert Nº1 to Laura
Francisco Camacho

“Not everything we face can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced”.
James Baldwin
The stage as a place of unification, combat and utopia. And, before anything else, the sound. Always the music as the engine: to act, react ,resist, re-exist. To stay in the present and rehearse the craving for a new world and new ways on interacting. To accommodate the bothersome, to embrace the risk of failure. To sing, to dance, to dare communicating in a way which best suits a collective change intention. To refuse the discrimination and social injustices which persist and grow even larger driven by one more crisis. To rebuild, restore, re-humanize.
In a nocturnal time of (im)possibilities, Sílvia Real decided to take a dive into her memory of 3 decades in artistic repertoire, in a universe saturated of eclectic musical references, marking female characters and figurine ghosts. An intimate five from which emerged words and songs with a renovated glow which, having been once familiar, are now appropriated by a (de)constructing band, delivering a voice to the movement which matters the most: empathy, cooperation, an idea of revolution.
So is Concerto nº. 1 para Laura, a call to reality and an appeal for action, to which Silvia Real summoned her old accomplices, the choreographer Francisco Camacho, the musician Sofia Sequeira, the researcher Simone Longo de Andrade, and the dancer and co-creators Beatriz Valentim and Magnum Soares.
Credits
Artistic Direction Sílvia Real
Choreography Francisco Camacho e Sílvia Real
Performers Beatriz Valentim, Magnum Soares e Sílvia Real
Musical Direction Ana Sofia Sequeira
Musical Assistent Sérgio Pelágio
Human Rights Research Simone Longo de Andrade
Costume Support (From The Collection Of Costumes By Ana Teresa Real) Ainhoa Vidal
Light Design Tasso Adamopoulos
Communication Susana Ribeiro Martins
Head of production Sofia Afonso
Executive Production Isabel Machado
Co-Production Produções Real Pelágio, Câmara Municipal de Castelo Branco, Câmara Municipal de Torres Vedras e São Luiz Teatro Municipal
Produções Real Pelágio é uma estrutura financiada pelo Ministério da Cultura – Direção Geral das Artes e apoiada pela Câmara Municipal de Lisboa e pela SIB A Voz do Operário