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Projects with João dos Santos Martins

THAT’S IT, 2023

João dos santos martins
with João dos santos martins, Joana sá, ana jotta, filipe pereira

Photos © Bruno Simão

A dancer who couldn’t dance, a singer who couldn’t sing, an actor who couldn’t act, a writer who couldn’t write, a painter who couldn’t paint. A dancer who sang, a writer who painted, an actor who wrote. It was necessary to know “how to do” in order to know “how to be”. While the fine lines that separates “being” from “doing”, the self from the action, the thing from the subject, are blurred, there is something that remains inept and dysfunctional: a monster that doesn’t do the job.
Está Visto (That’s It) is a collaboration between João dos Santos Martins, the pianist Joana Sá and the visual artist Ana Jotta. Departing from the song series Dichterliebe [A poet’s love] composed by Robert Schumann in 1840, the work take the form of a recital making singing, piano playing and dancing interact and overflow. The romantic-style songs with poetry by Heinrich Heine speak of unrequited love. This non-reciprocity of emotion is transcribed into choreographic ideas that disarticulate language, breaking up the gesture with the lyrics of the songs, the sound and the listening, in a body being crossed.

Performance: João dos Santos Martins, Joana Sá, piano and other
Music: "Dichterliebe" by Robert Schumann, (dis)arrangements by Joana Sá
Costumes: J & Faísca
Light: Filipe Pereira
Vocal coach: Rui Baeta
Coproduction: Associação Parasita, BoCa Bienal, Vaga
Residencies: Estúdios Victor Córdon (Lisbon), Casa da Dança (Almada), DeVIR CAPa (Faro), Grand Studio (Brussels), Vila Sul Goethe Institut Salvador (Salvador da Bahia), Goethe-Institut (Lisbon), Salão Nobre da Escola Superior de Educação de Lisboa, Forum Dança, Teatro da Voz
Production and administration: Sofia Lopes and Lysandra Domingues | Associação Parasita
Acknowledgments: Joana Nascimento, Cláudia Dias

2025

18.10
THAT’S IT
THEATRO CIRCO / BRAGA

11.01
THAT’S IT
IGREJA DA MISERICÓRDIA - CENTRO DE DIÁLOGO INTERCULTURAL DE LEIRIA / LEIRIA

2024

16.11
THAT’S IT
TEATRO STEPHENS / MARINHA GRANDE

12—13.10
THAT’S IT
MUSEU COMO PERFORMANCE / MUSEU DE ARTE CONTEMPORÂNEA DE SERRALVE

27.01
THAT’S IT
TEATRO MUNICIPAL SÁ DA BANDEIRA / SANTARÉM

2023

25.11
THAT’S IT
VAGA / ARQUIPÉLAGO — CENTRO DE ARTES CONTEMPORÂNEAS, RIBEIRA GRANDE, SÃO MIGUEL, AÇORES

15.09
THAT’S IT
JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS
BOCA BIENAL / CLUBE FARENSE, FARO

08—10.09
THAT’S IT
JOÃO DOS SANTOS MARTINS
BOCA BIENAL / ACADEMIA DAS CIÊNCIAS DE LISBOA

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