Choro
Gustavo Monteiro is a dancer and choreographer with an improvisational research on movement that has a strong relationship with music – be it the music itself or the musicality of the movement itself.
In this solo, his dance interacts with the baroque aria Lascia ch ‘io pianga by Handel, which is part of the opera Rinaldo. The libretto is by Aaron Hill and is based on Torquato Tasso’s poem Gerusalemme Liberata. The poem narrates a fictional version of the First Crusade, where Christian knights, led by Godefroy de Bouillon, fight Muslims in order to lift the Siege of Jerusalem.
Choro is a commission funded by the Kale Dance Company’s “unfinished#battleground” grant.
Dancer, choreographer and producer. He studied dance at SEAD and production at Forum Dança
He worked with Compagnie Thor–Thierry Smits, Joclécio Azevedo, Martin Nachbar, Michikazu Matsune, Marco Ferreira, among others
He created Looking for the face I had before the world was made, Unsettling Green and Persona. Choro and Youtopia are his latest creations and will premiere at the end of 2021 and beginning of 2022
He is founder, director and producer of Sekoia – Artes Performativas
Criação: Gustavo Monteiro e Vitor Joaquim
Interpretação: Gustavo Monteiro
Composição musical: Vitor Joaquim
Bolsa de criação “unfinished#battleground”: Kale Companhia de Dança
Parceiro Institucional: República Portuguesa – Ministério da Cultura
Apoio: Silly Session
Residências: Sekoia – Artes Performativas, Armazém22 e Espaço do Tempo
