Bocarra means a very big and open mouth or maw. In Bocarra we depart from female singing repertoire from northern Portugal and Galicia about violence, feelings of bitterness and foreignness. Understanding many of these songs as traditions of non-conformity and as veiled and unresolved resistance against heteronormative roles, we work with movement vocabulary that deals with the continuum between care and violence within physical closeness and the particular vocalic qualities of these musical forms.
Bodies are placed discursively and performatively in the voice, and are shaped and transformed by the voices that produce them.
choreography, artistic direction: Luísa Saraiva
performance by and with: Luisa Alfonso, Alexandre Achour, Luísa Saraiva
instruments: Inês Tartaruga Água
sound design: Francisco Antão
light design: Cárin Geada
costumes and textiles: Isabelle Lange
martial arts training: Zeina Hanna, Manuel Pérez Bouza
vocal coach: Fabíola Augusta
outside eye: Niklaus Bein
production management: Övgü Özen/Apricot Productions (DE), Mariana Costa/Associação Calote Esférica (PT)
acknowledgements: Matthias Mohr, Arnaldo Saraiva
A production by Associação Calote Esférica and Crybaby GbR. Co-production Festival Dias da Dança/Teatro Municipal do Porto Rivoli.Campo Alegre; La Manufacture CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine; PACT Zollverein. Funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia/NRW Landesbüro Freie Darstellende Künste and Direcção-Geral das Artes/República Portuguesa - Cultura and Kunststiftung NRW. Supported by Residencias Paraiso, Colectivo RPM.
This work was produced with the financial assistance of the European Union and implemented by Goethe-Institut. The views expressed herein can in no way be taken to reflect the official opinion of the European Union.
Premiere April 2024 Festival Dias da Dança, Porto (PT) and May 2024 Pact Zollverein, Essen (DE)
