2016

Brother

artistic direction and choreography

Marco da Silva Ferreira

artistic direction assistance

Mara Andrade

performers

performers (original cast)

Anaísa Lopes, Cristina Planas Leitão, Duarte Valadares, Filipe Caldeira, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Max Makowski, Vitor Fontes

performers 

André Cabral, Elisabth Lambeck, Gonçalo Cabral, João Cardoso, Maria Antunes, Nelson Teunis, Thamiris Carvalho

technical direction and light design

Wilma Moutinho

music (live act)

Rui Lima and Sérgio Martins

executive production

Joana Costa Santos

production

Pensamento Avulso, associação de artes performativas

coproduction

São Luiz Teatro Municipal (PT); Teatro Municipal do Porto (PT); Centre Chorégraphique National de Rillieux-la-Pape / Direction Yuval Pick (FR)
Residencies Centro Cultural Vila Flor, O Espaço do Tempo, Quinta do Rio

Support

República Portuguesa - Cultura I DGArtes – Direção-Geral das Artes and aerowaves – dance across europeu (Marco da Silva Ferreira is an Aerowaves Twenty18 Artist)

Diffusion

Art Happens

Brother is a creation for seven performers that, through a game of imitation, repetition, complicity, and challenge, develops a constantly evolving language. This language builds bridges between the performers living in the present and places of the past—both real and fictional—linked to the history of dance and its meaning.

Through constant mimicry, which generates movement, behaviors, and patterns, Brother establishes a collective practice based on shared responsibility.

With a playful and curious tone, this metamorphic choreography amplifies the negotiation between individual power and group integration, offering a reflection on codes, memory, and culture.

Mobile bridges between the present and the distant past emerge and fade away.