Created by Bruno Duarte
2020 season programme, premiered on September 18th and 19th, 2020, at Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite, Almada, on the occasion of the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Companhia de Dança de Almada.
"A Quiet Moment" brings to the stage a retelling of Alfred Hitchcock's "Psycho", casting a contemporary eye, to this historical object. It proposes a dialectical exploration between present and past, looking at what is undeniably one of cinema's great masterpieces. The notion of suspense is one of the main concepts explored, but also irony and meta-drama, as we follow the dancer becoming an actor, and the actor becoming a character, on what is simultaneously a stage, a set, and a film.
Creation: Bruno Duarte
Co-creation and Performance: Beatriz Rousseau, Bruno Duarte, Francisco Ferreira, Joana Puntel, Luís Malaquias, Mariana Romão and Raquel Tavares
Sound design: Bruno Duarte, from “Psycho”, by Alfred Hitchcock
Wardrobe: Micaela Sapinho
Set design: Bruno Duarte
Set design assistance: Carlota Machado
Lighting design: Hugo Franco – Stageplot
Répétiteur: Maria João Lopes
Bruno Duarte is currently studying for his Master's Degree in Dance teaching and a has degree in Dance from Escola Superior de Dança (ESD) in Lisbon. In 2011 he was an ERASMUS student at ArtEz-Institute for the Arts in the Netherlands completing the "Minor Dancer" plan. He was a dancer and performer in the Grupo Experimental de Dança and Quórum Ballet companies, (2011/2 and 2013 respectively). He’s been a member of Companhia de Dança de Almada since 2013. He was co-producer and performer in the "P48" videodance (2012), presented at the 20th Quinzena de Dança de Almada, and "5" (2013), presented at the Caldas Late Night (Portugal), L'art difficile de filmer la dans (Belgium) and InShadow (Portugal) festivals, the latter winning the award for best videodance in competition - audience choice. As a creator, he presented "Metamorphosis" (2011/2), for Culturgest in partnership with ESD, "someone else ago" (2013), for Centro Cultural de Belém’s BOXNOVA programme, "L'Veltro" (2016), in co-production with Elson Marlon Ferreira, and for Companhia de Dança de Almada, "Riot" (2014), "Dentro do Abraço" (2016), "Gaveston" (2016), "Fobos" (2017), “A Invenção da Resposta” (2018), in co-creation with Luís Malaquias, “SubRosa” (2018) and Inverno (2019). He’s participated in workshops and seminars by Mikael Fau and Pauline Journé (France), João da Silva (Brazil), Siri Dybwik (Norway), Jack Gallagher (USA) and David Zambrano (Venezuela) amongst others. He’s taught workshops at venues such as the Beijing Dance Theater (China), Giro8 Companhia de Dança (Brazil), FreeDance (Croatia), DNA (Portugal), amongst others. He’s been a guest teacher at Escola Superior de Dança (2016 and 2019), a teacher at Ca.DA Escola, and a guest choreographer in the Projecto Quórum. He was distinguished with the Almada Artes - Jovem Talento award, from Concurso Jovens Talentos 2019, promoted by the Câmara Municipal de Almada.
Tour
Cine-Teatro Avenida, Castelo Branco - Portugal, April 22, 2022
Teatro-Cine de Torres Vedras, Torres Vedras - Portugal, November 27, 2020
Teatro Municipal de Bragança, Bragança - Portugal, September 24, 2020
Support
70' | ages 6 and over
