You will learn how to find your bearings with the polar star in the starlit sky. The night sky is like a stage with endless possibilities you can start to imagine, or if you prefer, to dream with your eyes closed. You can also dream with open eyes, but sometimes that’s more difficult as some dreams are still stuck to the roof of the sky. Universo no Céu da Boca is the result of a fifteen-day artistic residence in which a musician and a dancer got together at the Lagos Living Science Centre.
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creation
Alexandre Moniz and Beatriz Marques Dias
animation
João Figueiras, based on "The Heider and Simmel Illusion" (1944)
partnership
Centro Ciência Viva de Lagos
We would like to thank the entire tireless team of Pedra Dura Festival and Alice Duarte for all the advice and ideas to paint this little universe of ours.
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Alexandre Moniz, 1994, Lisbon. Alexandre has created several music projects such as GALGO, YAKUZA, MÔRUS, among others. In 2018 he started jazz classes at the Hot Club and specialised in percussion instruments while also gaining a deeper understanding of music theory and composition. He worked as music director and co-creator of 6 different performances throughout Portugal within the framework of the participative art project, Vilas Mutantes, and also in creating performances for ESD [Escola Superior de Dança] with the choreographer Alice Duyarte. He has also worked as music director and co-creator with Madalena Vitorino. He has been focussed to this day on musical creation and composition and has been working on his first solo music project.
Beatriz Marques Dias, 1997, Caldas da Rainha. Beatriz has been developing work as performer and co-creator of artistic work connected to contemporary dance, participative dance and childhood. As performer, she has worked in works created by Filipa Francisco, Francisco Camacho, Madalena Victorino and Tânia Carvalho. She is now taking a psychology course at ISPA [Institute of Applied Psychology] in Lisbon. She plans to work and conduct research into art, psychology and ways and means to end the various forms of oppression and structural injustices by using practices and tools that contribute towards social justice and the promotion of diversity.