Before being a piece for four dancers, Musseque [Shantytown] is home, is encounter, is a way of being. It’s where they left a long time ago and where they return to in memory—and in body—through kuduro. The bodies are asked for rhythm, precision and resistance so that, in the turbulence of a war, a piece of freedom can be found. The four performers are now being asked to continue what has been experienced and felt. One revisits the outskirts of Luanda that are home, the speeches that are revolution, and the bodies that are resistance, in a breakneck rhythm of movements that display the resilience of those who keep going beyond the war. — Fábio (Krayze) Januário
artistic direction and creation Fábio (Krayze) Januário ‧ performed and co-created by Fábio (Krayze) Januário, Selma Mylene, Xenos Palma, Elvis Carvalho (Grelha) ‧ artistic assistance Marco da Silva Ferreira, Piny ‧ sound design DJ Poco ‧ lighting design Pedro Guimarães ‧ lighting and sound operation Afonso Lemos ‧ set design Filipe Tootill ‧ costumes Susana Santos (Mana Terra) ‧ photography and video Afonso Sereno ‧ producer Rita Pessoa ‧ partnership Festival OU.kupa ‧ supported and produced by Pensamento Avulso ‧ co-produced by O Espaço do Tempo, Cineteatro Louletano and Centro Cultural Vila Flor in the scope of Projeto CASA ‧ acknowledgements Mélanie Ferreira, Marco da Silva Ferreira, OU.kupa, Fundação GDA ‧
april 24 + 25 ‧ mala voadora (Porto)