Guintche – live music version

This piece derives from a person I drew as a memento of a concert. I called it Guintche and meanwhile it grew, acquired self-life, autonomy, rebelled. Guintche is a word in creole, cape-verdean spoken language; It is the name of a bird, the name of a prostitute, but it may stand as well for an attitude, the one of someone who jumps from an event to another, lacking coherence in his/her choices. Trough its counter-intuitive structure, Guintche respond as a wax sculpture: it melts, it solidifies, it brakes, changes form… Yet, it keeps the same nature, that is to say, it remains the same wax.

Choreography and Performance | Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Live Music | Cookie and Simon Lacouture (Drums)
Light | Yannick Fouassier
Music | Johannes Krieger (trumpet), “Rotcha Scribida” de Amandio Cabral, Cookie (drums), Otomo Yoshihide (excerpt from a guitar solo), Anatol Waschke (shrapnel)
Costume | Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Catarina Varatojo (shorts)
Production | P.OR.K (Lisbon, PT)
Distribution | Key Performance (Stockholm, SE)

Coproduction | ZDB-Negócio,Lisboa (Lisbon, PT)
Artistic Residencies | O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, PT), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon, PT)
With the support of | Re.Al (Lisbon, PT), Forum Dança (Lisbon, PT), Bomba Suicida (Lisbon, PT)
Acknowledgments | Avelino Chantre, Pedro Lacerda, João Francisco Figueira, Anatol Waschke.

Photo Laurent Paillier