14 to 20 oct 2024
creative residency
Performing Arts Centre of the Algarve CAPa
RE.SET a metaphor for my queer emancipation
Be Dias
Portugal
concept, performance, and styling Be Dias
co-creation, soundscape, and musical performance N▲N▼ (it’s pronounced Nany)
dialogue and dramaturgical insights Joana Levi
reflections, vocal experimentation practices, and voice support Patrícia Andrade
light design and operation Catarina Côdea
reflections and writing practices Sara Carinhas
listening and observation Pietro Romani
photography, recording and editing Tatiana Saavedra
video recording and editing Andreia Pereira Da Silva
management and administration Gustavo Monteiro
research residencies for project writing Sekoia – Performing Arts and O Espaço do Tempo
artistic residencies Casa Varela – Centro de Experimentação Artística, Ocupar a Velga, Trust Collective, DeVIR CAPa, A PiSCiNA, Teatro Viriato
co-productions Teatro Viriato, Festival New Age New Time; Teatro Municipal do Porto, DDD – Festival Dias da Dança
Artistic creation support Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
acknowledgments Jo Castro, André Uerba, Claudia Galhós, and Julieta Aurora Santos
Dedicated to Paula Pinto
Challenging themselves to create an autobiographical performance in collaboration with sensitive individuals, Be celebrates the re.birth of their queer identity, mapping memories that evoke the need to re.configure the body and re.discover their voice to translate what is intangible to the eye. RE.SET reflects on memory, intimacy, rupture, and liberation, drawing inspiration from the Queercore movement, from figures like Lene Lovich, Diamanda Galás, Siouxie Soux, Grace Jones, and Nina Hagen, and from the culture of love proposed by bell hooks in “all about love: New Visions”, to incite pleasure, reclamation, disobedience, and the celebration of a voice that decentralizes me like an orgasm – I am a phoenix medusa, a lesbian-hybrid mouth.