Zia Soares
ARUS FEMIA
March
2025
premiere
Fri
21
Sat
22
Sinopse
ARUS FEMIA (whose translation from Guinean Creole to Portuguese is “female rice”) is inspired by Guinean women whose hair would become storehouses of ancestral wisdom — human, botanical, spiritual. In the New World, women shook their heads and the seeds that fertilized the earth were released from their hair.
ARUS FEMIA, an inexorable tactography carried out by performers or irans (spirits/divinities) or kankurans (guardian spirits of initiation rituals) or humanphibians, a performance or a spell that is carried out in solemnity, where dystopian scenarios are obsolete mirages. — Zia Soares
ARUS FEMIA, an inexorable tactography carried out by performers or irans (spirits/divinities) or kankurans (guardian spirits of initiation rituals) or humanphibians, a performance or a spell that is carried out in solemnity, where dystopian scenarios are obsolete mirages. — Zia Soares
blackness
feminisms
rurality
agroecology
climate
© Arlindo Camacho
Aditional info
- Price
9€
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Duration
1h30
- Age rating
12+
- Additional information
Spoken in Portuguese and Kriol
Acessibilidades do espetáculo
Accessible to wheelchair users
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Subtitling
Author's bio text
Zia Soares is a director and actress. She works between Africa and Europe. In her practice she obsessively experiments with the construction of new dramaturgy that is rooted in poetics of divergent oralities and (in)corporealities. Recent stagings include Pérola sem Rapariga [Girl Without Pearl], co-produced by Sowing_arts, TNDM and apap – FEMINIST FUTURES, and O Riso dos Necrófagos [The Laughter of Scavengers], her own creation, co-produced by Teatro GRIOT and Culturgest, and distinguished with the Teresa Pomodoro International Prize (Italy) for Best Performance 2021/2022.
Ficha Técnica
- Directed, staged and written by
Zia Soares
Performed by
Albertinho Monteiro, Aoaní, Dionezia Cá, Izária Sá, Ulé Baldé, Urbício Vieira, Vladimir Bidam Quadé, Xullaji
Music and sound design
Xullaji
Choreographic movement
Vânia Doutel Vaz
Set design
Neusa Trovoada
Lighting design
Carolina Caramelo
Video
António Castelo, Lentim Nhabaly
Video design
Cláudia Sevivas
Visual content for 2D animation
Camila Reis, Nú Barreto
Costumes
Neusa Trovoada
Braids
Mariana Desidério
Translation to kriol
Miguel de Barros
Sound
Jorge Gonçalves
Production direction
Camila Reis
Research support
Tiniguena
Produced by
Sowing_arts
- Co-produced by
Teatro Municipal do Porto, Netos de Bandim, STATION service for contemporary dance
Support
Câmara Municipal de Lagos/Centro Cultural de Lagos, Casa da Dança, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, GROWTH, Largo Residências/Jardins da Bombarda, O Rumo do Fumo, Polo Cultural Gaivotas Boavista, RDP África
Acknowledgment
António Quintino, Auditório Camões, Comunidade de Angruman, Comunidade de Cabedu, Comunidade de Calaque, Comunidade de Contuboel, Comunidade de Cumuda, Comunidade de Djobel, Comunidade de Elia, Comunidade de Mansaba Sutu, Comunidade de Saridjai, Comunidade de Sintchã Sutu, Comunidade de Suzana, Comunidade de Tabato, Cooperativa Agropecuária de Jovens Quadros, Federação, KAFO – Banco de Sementes Tradicionais de Arroz, Joana Quintino, João Fortuna, Livígia Monteiro, Maria Reis, Nakasadarte RAMIRO NAKA & Afro Gumbe Show
This project has the financial support of the Portuguese Republic – Culture I Directorate-General for the Arts.
Zia Soares has the support of apap – FEMINIST FUTURES.
