ⓒ Hugo David
Coreografia de Margarida Belo Costa
27 e 28 de setembro de 2025, no Teatro Municipal Joaquim Benite (estreia)
25’* | M/6
Discovering happiness is like looking for a unicorn in a virtual forest: we know it exists, but... It is a kind of cliché that lives tattooed on the surface of the skin and is not always visible. It's like trying to unravel a silent and very valuable myth every day. Is it in the subjective contrast that it emerges? Can this fantasised state also bring happiness?
Choreography: Margarida Belo Costa
Music: Green Lung, Meredith Monk, Delia Derbyshire, Mark Van Hoen, Mike Harding, Claudio Monteverdi, Bell Witch, MMMD, Monolord, Anna Von Hausswolff
Performance: Bruno Duarte, Filipa Pereira, Inês Barros, Lúcia Salgueiro, Mariana Romão, Raquel Tavares and Vítor Afonso
Costumes: Bruno Duarte
Light design: Paulo Santos
Acknowledgements: SO.MA, Martinho Silva
Margarida Belo Costa is an independent artist who has simultaneously developed her work as a performer, choreographer and dance teacher. She has a degree and a master's in Dance education from the Escola Superior de Dança-IPL, and is a PhD candidate in Artistic Studies - Art and Mediations - NOVA FCSH. In the 2010/2011 academic year, she was recognised with the IPL Merit Scholarship. In 2024, she was awarded the Medal of Cultural Merit by the Municipality of Caldas da Rainha. As a performer, she has collaborated with various organisations and artists, with national and international tours, including: Quorum Ballet, Teatro Mosca, Teatro Meridional, Teatro Nacional São Carlos, Companhia Paulo Ribeiro, Henrique Rodovalho, António Cabrita, São Castro, Marcos Morau - La Veronal, among others. As a creator, she has been presenting her work since 2012, working independently, with professional dance companies, specialised art schools and multidisciplinary research projects. She has collaborated with Companhia de Dança de Almada, with the work “P.S. Carmen” (2018); with Companhia Portuguesa de Bailado Contemporâneo, with “Promise” (2018), “Apperception Plotline” (2022) and “FRACTAL” (2024) an RTP2 and CPBC production. Independent creations include: “displaced episodes” in CCB (2015); “Who do you want to be today?” (2016) and “Too Loud too Specific” (2018) in collaboration with Elson Ferreira; “Our Last View” Ravenna, Italy (2019) “Faustless” (2020), “Renova” - in collaboration with Nuno da Rocha - Renova Art Commissions (2021), and “Practices of Rebirth”, Cistermúsica (2023). In 2024, She created the DOOR dance project, for contemporary choreographic creation, artistic training and mediation, which aims to provide a meeting place between Specialised Artistic Education, Higher Education and the professional environment, with the support of the Maria Magdalena de Mello Foundation.
* This creation could be part of a three-part programme with the pieces "Whispers of a shadow", by Tiago Coelho e "Echoes of Your Loss", by Alessio Damiani.
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