Marlene Monteiro Freitas and her team P.OR.K (Portugal / Cape Verde) dramatize the eternal struggle between the two poles of existence: the splendorous form of Apollo and the chaotic formlessness of Dionysus. Bacchae features a team of dancers and musicians in a setting inspired by opera, mythology, Nietzsche’s philosophy on the Apollonian and the Dionysian, and Gustave Courbet’s pivotal and controversial painting L’origine du monde. The stage encompasses eclectic elements, including a music ensemble, in an atmosphere evocative of casinos or nightclubs. Freitas investigates archetypes and different facets of culture to address the multiplicity and mystery of form in a manner which harks back to the complexity of Euripides’ The Bacchae. Calmness, ambiguity, dissimulation, and distortion feature prominently in this production which both pays homage to and deconstructs the Western canon.
Choreography: Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Lighting - Set design: Yannick Fouassier
Sound: Tiago Cerqueira
Stools: João Francisco Figueira, Miguel Figueira
Costume assistance: Cristina Neves
With: Andreas Merk, Betty Tchomanga, Cookie, Cláudio Silva, Flora Détraz, Gonçalo Marques, Guillaume Gardey de Soos, Johannes Krieger, Lander Patrick, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Miguel Filipe, Tomás Moital, Yaw Tembe
Production : P.OR.K (Lisbon, PT)
Distribution: Key Performance (Stockholm, SE)
Co-production: TNDMII (Lisbon, Portugal) Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, Belgium), steirischer herbst festival (Graz, Austria) & Alkantara (Lisbon, Portugal) with the support of Athens & Epidaurus Festival (Athens, Greece)
NXTSTP - Culture Programme of the European Union
NorrlandsOperan (Umeå, Sweden)Ø Festival Montpellier Danse 2017 (Montpellier, France)
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy (Annecy, France) & La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland) as part of FEDER - programme Interreg France-Suisse 2014-2020
Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
Le Cuvier – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
HAU Hebbel am Ufer (Berlin, Germany)
International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg, Germany)
Münchner Kammerspiele (Munich, Germany), Kurtheater Baden (Baden, Switzerland)
SPRING Performing Arts Festival (Utrecht, Netherlands)
Zürcher Theater Spektakel (Zurich, Switzerland)
Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil - centre dramatique national (Montreuil, France)Ø Les Spectacles Vivants / Centre Pompidou (Paris, France).
Part of the project [DNA] Departures and Arrivals, co-financed by the Creative Europe programme / European Commission
Regular tickets: Prices starting from 20€ to 25€
Students: 12€
People with disabilities: 5€
Unemployed: 5€
