Por motivo de Força Maior — Teresa Silva
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Sabine Macher, Margarida Bettencourt and I are women artists, born in 1955 in Germany, 1962 in South Africa and 1988 in Portugal. Continuing a common history, this piece is based on the intergenerational encounter as a place for mutual learning and is nourished by the will to weave relationships between a rebelliousness with a feminine affiliation and trembling. In this correlation, I do not see trembling as fear or hesitation, nor rebelliousness as confrontation, but as potentials to shake certainties and systems. I am interested in the exercise of a rebelliousness that acts at the level of perception and sets in motion another functioning and understanding of that which surrounds me.
Resorting to Ursula K. Le Guin’s speculative writing, relevant as a way of reading the present that proposes a shuddering, a metaphorical and symbolic interval, we follow the hypothesis of considering fiction as a basket. We think of this piece as a container, a meeting point, where we coexist with other women – artists, fictional characters, mythological and archetypal figures – who are also rebels and tremor-makers. Our story intertwines with theirs. Here “Por motivo de Força Maior” (“Due to Force Majeure”) abandons its legal charge, to act as a poetic motor, unleashing forces that move between the inevitable, the untamable and the necessary. – Teresa Silva
Credits
a project by: Teresa Silva
co-creation, interpretation, texts, costumes, objects, video and field recordings: Margarida Bettencourt, Sabine Macher and Teresa Silva
light design and technical direction: Santiago Tricot
sound creation, sound design and field recordings: João Bento
outside eye: David Marques
outside eye at the residence at CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva: Liesbeth Gritter
financial management: Vítor Alves Brotas
administrative management: Janine Lages
communication support: Maria João Bilro
executive production: Teresa Silva
production: Agência 25
co-production: Teatro do Bairro Alto, O Rumo do Fumo/Vera Mantero, Chorège | CDCN Falaise Normandie
support: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and Fundação GDA
co-production residencies: Alkantara, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Estúdios Victor Córdon, Marosi Stromboli, O Espaço do Tempo, Rumo do Fumo and The Place to Pause
Acknowledgements: Andrea Rodella, Anatol Waschke, Jasmim Bettencourt, Joclécio Azevedo, Leonardo Garibaldi, Marco da Silva Ferreira, Margarida Bettencourt, Maria Lemos and Forum Dança
A project supported by República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes
About Teresa Silva
Teresa Silva was born in 1988, in Lisbon. She dedicates herself to research, creation and interpretation in the areas of contemporary dance and performance. She sees dance as something that exceeds the physical body, which translates into a work of attention and sensitivity, as well as a multidisciplinary approach to movement.
She graduated from the Dance School of the National Conservatory, Superior School of Dance of the Polytechnic of Lisbon and the PEPCC – Programme of Study, Research and Choreographic Creation of Forum Dança.
She has been developing her creative work since 2008, namely through the pieces “Ocooo”; “A vida enorme/La vie en or”, co-created with Maria Lemos; “Um Espanto não se Espera” and “Leva a mão que eu levo o braço”, co-created with Elizabete Francisca; “Conquest”, the adaptation of a solo with choreography by Deborah Hay; “Nova Criação”, “O que fica do que passa” and “Letting Nature take over us again”, co-created with Filipe Pereira; “Oráculo” co-created with Sara Anjo; the research project “Enjoy the weather” with David Marques, Jean-Baptiste Veyret-Logerias, Mestre André and Sabine Macher; and the solo “Sinédoque”. In 2022 he directed his first film “Enjoy the weather: the film”.
As a performer she has worked with artists such as Vera Mantero, the collective La Tierce, composed by Sonia Garcia, Séverine Lefèvre and Charles Pietri, Loïc Touzé, Marco d’Agostin, David Marques, Sónia Baptista, Alain Michard, Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard, Tânia Carvalho, Luís Guerra, Rita Natálio and Sofia Dias & Vítor Roriz.
She collaborated with the artist Kristina Norman on “Orchidelirium – An appetite for Abundance”, a trilogy of films created for the Venice Biennale 2022.
Since 2020 he has been part of the production company Agência 25.
