The ocean (in Vigo), that takes and brings back the beloved one, the friend, is also the one that gives life and movement to Sem Mim.
With a choreography by Rodrigo Pederneiras, scenography and lighting by Paulo Pederneiras and costumes by Freusa Zechmeister, the creation of the Brazilian dance group is rocked by the original soundtrack woven by the hands of the Viganese musician and composer Carlos Núñez and by the Brazilian José Miguel Wisnik, from the only set of pieces of music from the Galician-Portuguese medieval profane songbook that got to us with their respective original sheet music: the famous cycle of the ocean in Vigo, by Martín Codax. The seven chants, dated from the XIIIth century, are the oldest testimony and the most appreciated survivals of one of the aspects of the troubadouresque tradition in the region at that time: the so called “friend chants”. There, the poet always speaks in the name of the woman; more specifically, young women that mourn the absence or celebrate the imminent return of the beloved-friend. Avid for the reunion, they confide sometimes with the ocean, sometimes with the mother, sometimes with friends. And to pacify or fustigate the desire, they bathe in the waves of the ocean. (In case of the Codax girls, in the waves of the ocean in Vigo.)
The lyric of the Viganese medieval troubadour inspires Rodrigo Pederneiras to rule his movement music sheet by the alternation between the calm and the fury , and by the seesaw that is typical of ocean waves, and, also, to (re)produce, on the stage, the separation between feminine and masculine, where one always claims the absence of the other.
From the combination of a geometric shape (a huge hollow aluminium square) and an organic shape (meters and meters of a synthetic woof used to shadow agricultural cultures), both of them vertically manageable, Paulo Pederneiras builds a metamorphic scenario that, along the spectacle, changes and forms representations of sceneries and different elements: ocean, mountains, clouds, boat, fishing net, dawn. The light he makes fall on the ballet dancers goes from white to light yellow, while a cyclorama on the background allows the color to invade the scenic space in punctual moments.
Over thin meshes dyed according to the color of the skin of each ballet dancer, Freusa Zechmeister applies inscriptions and textures based on adornments from the Middle Ages and the Pre-Raphaelite period, transforming the body of the ballet dancers into a support for all the simbology from that time, and creating the illusion that the scene is populated by “naked” men and women, whose “nudity” is just covered by one of the most archaic signs of the marine imaginarium: the tatoo.
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PATRONOS & AMIGOS DO CORPO
PATRONOS DO CORPO
ALEXANDRE BIRMAN, ALEXANDRE E ANA ELISA AROEIRA, ANA ELISA E EUGÊNIO STAUB FILHO, ANA MARIA DINIZ, ANA PAULA E SÉRGIO SPINELLI, ANA SARKOVAS E DÁRIO GUARITA, ANDRÉ E CAROLINA SALAZAR, ANDRÉA JOHANNPETER, ANDREA LEONEL, BETÂNIA TANURE e FILHOS, BRUNO E PAULA WANDERLEY, ELEONORA ROSSET, ELIZABETH MACHADO, EUGÊNIO MATTAR, FÁBIO OLIVEIRA LIMA, FÁBIO PENTEADO RODRIGUES, FERNANDA FEITOSA E HEITOR MARTINS, FERNANDA VALENTE E SERGIO GORDILHO, FLÁVIA FARIA VASCONCELLOS, GEYZE DINIZ, GILDA BACALEINICK, GISELA NEGRÃO ASSIS, GUILHERME E FLÁVIA TEIXEIRA, HAYDÉE E ALAN BELDA, JULIANA SÁ E MANU FERRAZ, KARINA PYLES, LÚCIA FARIA, LUCIANA HALL, LUIS STUHLBERGER, LUIS E SÔNIA TEREPINS, MAGUY ETLIN, MARCELO TOSTES, MARCO ANTÔNIO E MARIANA PATRUS, MAURÍCIO E VALÉRIA CAMPOS, RENATA FISHER FERNANDES, ROBERTA DEMANGE, RODRIGO E ADRIANA CARNEIRO, ROSE BRATKE, RUBENS MENIN, TÂNIA HADDAD NOBRE, TED MASON E REBECCA, THIAGO GOMIDE E LÍVIA DEBBANÉ, VERA NEGRÃO.
AMIGOS DO CORPO
ADILSON AUGUSTO LARANJA, ADRIANA ALMEIDA DO CARMO, ADRIANA GOULART DE SENA ORSINI, ALBERTO GARCIA FERNANDEZ VARELA, ALESSANDRA CRISTINA PIMENTA, ALEXANDRE DA SILVA BORGES, ALEXANDRE MARQUES FERRARA, ALEXANDRE SANTOS HANSEN, ALICE FUSARO FAIOLI, ALICE HERRERA DE FIGUEIREDO, AMANA MATOS VELOSO, AMARILDO CRUZ, ANA CLÁUDIA GAMA, ANA CRISTINA DE ALMEIDA RIBEIRO, ANA LUÍZA DA SILVA VAZ BARRETO, ANA MARIA PORTUGAL MAIA SALIBA, ANA PAULA REIS, ANA PAULA SOUTO MELO, ANDRÉA COLSATO PRADO, ANDRÉA DE CAMPOS VASCONCELLOS, ANDREA FIGUEIREDO TEIXEIRA ALVARES, ANDRÉIA ANGEL DE MORAES DOMINGUEZ, ANGELA MARIA AMARAL, ANNA DA SOLEDADE VIEIRA, ANTONIA MASCARENHAS, MOREIRA, BÁRBARA FERREIRA PIRES, BEATRIZ BRITO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, BRUNO MOTTA, CAMILLO DE ALCÂNTARA CÉSAR, CAROLINE DE OLIVEIRA NERY, CÉLIA MARIA MEDEIROS DA ROCHA PAES, CELINA MACHADO DA SILVA MUYLAERT, CÉLIO AUGUSTO MARTINS LIMA, CLARICE MENEZES, CLÁUDIA MARIA QUIROGA DA CUNHA, CLÁUDIA MARIA VILAS FREIRE, CONRADO CHACON BORGES DE PAULA, DEISE ESTEFÂNIA DE SOUZA DUTRA, DENISE STARLING ARAÚJO DE FREITAS, DIANA MARA DA SILVA, DORA MARIA BARBOSA TORRES BUCEK, EDUARDO TEIXEIRA CARDOSO, ELIANE DE ASSIS REBELLO, ELIZABETH GAELZER JEOLÁS VALADARES, ELOÍSA DE ASSIS REBELLO, ELZA LOPES GAMA, EMANUEL APOEMA SORTICA, FABRÍCIO DE SOUZA CAMPOS, FELIPE GOMES DE ALCÂNTARA, FELIPE MASCARENHAS MOREIRA, FERNANDA SIQUEIRA DE QUEIROZ VARELLA, FERNANDO AUGUSTO SOUSA MONTEIRO, FERNANDO MELLO FRANCO, FERNANDO SOARES BRAGANÇA, FLAVIA CRISTINA ROSSI DUTRA, FLÁVIA MOURA MASCARENHAS, FLÁVIO SEHN, FRANCISCO EDUARDO DE CARVALHO VIOLA, GABRIELA SOUSA DE MELO MIETTO, GILMAR DE CARVALHO CRUZ, GLAYSON EDUARDO DE FIGUEIREDO, GREICE BALTIERI, GUILHERME BRITO RIBEIRO DE OLIVEIRA, GUSTAVO DE CASTRO MAGALHÃES, HELENA TÂNIA KATZ, HELGER MARRA LOPES, HENRIQUE KAHN, ILANA KATZ ZAGURY FRAGELLI, ISAK GWERCMAN, JACQUELINE FINKELSTEIN, JANAINA DOS SANTOS DAMAS RIBEIRO, JOÃO CARLOS SIMONETTI JÚNIOR, JOÃO HENRIQUE ROSCOE DINIZ MACIEL, JOÃO HILÁRIO ÁVILA VALGAS FILHO, JOÃO PEDRO PINTO COELHO, JOÃO VICTOR SANTOS MURUCI, JOICE TOYOTA, JOSÉ ALBERTO NEMER, JOSÉ MARTINS QUINTÃO, JOSÉ ROBERTO ALMEIDA FEITOSA, JULIANA BASTONE, JÚNIA MARIA VILAS FREIRE, KATHRIN ELLEN PFEFFER, KLEVERSON MESQUITA MELLO, LAURA BOGÉA MULLER DE ALMEIDA, LAURA VILLARES DE FREITAS, LETÍCIA FERREIRA GONTIJO SILVEIRA, LETÍCIA RODRIGUES DE ALENCAR, LÍVIA VILAS BOAS E SILVA, LUCAS ALEXANDRE DA SILVA, LUCAS ALMEIDA PEREIRA DE LIMA, LUCIANA SARMENTO DRUMOND, LUIS ROBERTO SILVESTRINI, LUÍSA ROCHA CABRAL, LUIZ FELIPE CORRÊA MOREIRA, LUIZ GONZAGA VAZ COELHO, LUIZA MARIA EKMAN SCHENBERG, LUZIA HELENA DA CUNHA, MARCELA MASCARENHAS MOREIRA, MARCELE FERNANDES DIAS, MARCELO AUGUSTO DE ALMEIDA BRITO, MARCELO CAMPOS GALUPPO, MARCELO DE CAMARGO MAIA , MARCELO JOSÉ BERABA, MARCIA AMARAL PEIXOTO MARTINS, MARCO ANTÔNIO FERNANDES FRADE, MARCOS GOMES AMORIM, MARCOS PORTO BARBOSA, MARCOS SÉRGIO PERES, MARIA ÂNGELA ALVES NOGUEIRA, MARIA ÂNGELA BRAGA REIS, MARIA CLARA DUARTE TEIXEIRA, MARIA DE FÁTIMA MARTINS HORTA, MARIA DO CARMO DOS SANTOS MACEDO, MARIA DO CARMO FRICHE PASSOS, MARIA ELISA BAPTISTA, MARIA EUGÊNIA DA ROCHA, MARIA INÊS TAVARES PINTO COELHO, MARIA IZABEL MACEDO DE LIMA, MARIA JÚLIA DE OLIVEIRA SANTOS, MARIA LÚCIA PEREIRA DE QUEIROZ, MARIA LUIZA VASCONCELOS NASCIMENTO, MARIA TEREZA LANNA DE OLIVEIRA, MARILDES LUIZA DE CASTRO, MARILDO REZENDE SILVA, MARÍLIA COSTA E SILVA, MARTA VIEIRA BOGÉA, MARZULO PAGANI VIVACQUA, MIRIAM LINS DE MACEDO, MIRIAM MENDES GANDELMAN, MIRIAM OLIVEIRA E ROCHA, MOISÉS DE OLIVEIRA ARIOZA, MÔNICA LODI XAVIER, NILCE ALVES DOS SANTOS, NILSON FONSECA AMARAL, PATRÍCIA ROCHA NOBRE, PATRÍCIA SOUZA BASTOS, PAULO RUBENS DE TATIT, PEDRO MARCOS OLIVEIRA BELLO, PEDRO MOUSINHO GOMES CARVALHO SILVA, RAFAELA SALGADO FERREIRA, RENATA RIZKALLAH, RENATA SIQUEIRA DE RESENDE CHAVES, RENATO FERREIRA FRANCO, RICARDO RIBENBOIM, ROBERTA CRISTINA SILVA ALVES, SANDRA MARIA DA MATA AZEREDO, SÉRGIO CARVALHO BANDEIRA DE MELLO, SÉRGIO DINIZ GUERRA, SÉRGIO HONÓRIO DE FREITAS, SHEILA REGINA MURGEL VELOSO, SIMONE COSTA NUNES, SOLANGE DOMINGO ALENCAR TORRES, SUSANA ISABEL VIDAL SEMEDO, TANUS VITAL SAUDE, TATIANA GUIMARÃES TEIXEIRA, TELMA MENDES SILVA, TOMAS FISCHER, VÂNIA LÚCIA DE LIMA ANDRADE, VÂNIA MINTZ, VERA LÚCIA LAGE DE OLIVEIRA, VLADIMIR BONONI, WAGNER BUENO CATEB, WALTER MARINHO DE OLIVEIRA, WEBER JOSÉ VARELA, WILMA DA SILVA LOPES, YARA ALVARENGA DRUMOND, ZENILCA SOARES DE NAVARRO.
Friendly company: ROUXINOL
Special thanks: WAGNER VELOSO