It's a long yesterday
One or to bodies; six at most.
It’s a long yesterday is an exercise on desire, fracture and multiplication.
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For this project we are driven by the personal and intimate purpose of working on our condition of twin sisters - and what that means for us - as a research tool to reflect on the potentiality of an imprecise and multiple body. Therefore, we start from a concept that is always present in our biographical universe – resemblance. A dubious concept in itself, since what is similar is neither the same nor different, but is placed in an intermediate space between the two opposites. Resemblance is nothing more than a space of indefiniteness, of anonymity, and for that very reason it is an open space to multiple senses and meanings. "It’s a long yesterday” is located in that intermediate place: between the same and the different, between the one and the multiple, between a gesture of love and a gesture of hate.
Creation and performance: Carminda Soares and Maria R Soares
Original music: Antonio Marotta
Lighting design: João Abreu
Video: Alberto Seixas
Outside look: Cristina Planas Leitão, Lara Russo, Rogério Nuno Costa and Susana Otero.
Co-production: Instável - Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto;
Financial support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Residency support: Instável - Centro Coreográfico, Visões Úteis, TUP - Teatro Universitário do Porto, Circolando, Associazione Culturale Alchemilla (IT)
Management: Sekoia - Artes Performativas
Performance dates
31 March 2021- Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto - PREMIERE
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8 May 2021 - MIRA Artes Performativas, Porto (PT)
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24 June 2021 - GrETUA, Aveiro (PT)
21 August 2021- Traffic Festival, San Lorenzo in Campo (IT)
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5 October 2021 - GIRO Dance Festival, Faial (PT)
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18 October 2021 - Festival contraDANÇA, Gouveia (PT)
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1 April 2022 - Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras (PT)
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21 April 2022 - CineTeatro Alba, Albergaria-a-Velha (PT)
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22 June 2022 - Theatro Circo, Braga (PT)
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25 June 2022 - III edição Vale d-artes, Vale de Cambra (PT)
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29 October 2022 - Favo das Artes, Mondim de Basto (PT)
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27 April 2022 - Paços da Cultura, São João da Madeira (PT)
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21 May 2023 - Inestética, Palácio do Sobralinho (PT)
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27 May 2023 - Babylon Europa, ufa Fabrik, Berlin (DE)
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5 August 2023 - típica festival, Erfurt (DE)
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9 December 2023 - Teatro Ribeiro Conceição, Lamego (PT)
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