12 to 24 aug 2024
creative residency
Performing Arts Centre of the Algarve CAPa
they can’t kill our spirit
Elizabete Francisca
Portugal
artistic direction and performance Elizabete Francisca
creation assistance Daniel Pizamiglio
rehearsal assistance Marta Cerqueira
sound design Kino Sousa
set design António Mv
costumes Eloisa d’Ascensão
light design Luís Moreira
image and video (communication) Tamara Seilman
production and financial management Lysandra Domingues and Elizabete Francisca
residencies ARS/Associação Luzlinar, Estúdios Victor Cordon, O Rumo do Fumo, Musibéria, Espaço Parasita
co-production residencies O Espaço do Tempo, DeVIR CAPa
co-production Zé dos Bois Associação (ZDB)
acknowledgements Mariana Tengner Barros, Ana Trincão, Andresa Soares and Mariana Brandão
Financial Support Directorate General for the Arts (DGArtes), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
They can’t kill our spirit This performance is ruled by principles of circularity and incompleteness, revealing an endlessly shapeshifting figure that crosses various dreamscapes. An oracular figure embodying three facets or unfoldings: “feminine divinity, feminine ferocity and feminine transgression*”, in which lightness, the macabre, the unknown and the subterranean combine and merge to create a place in-between.
This work follows on her last solo project, “the beast, the moons” in which she enunciates through gestures and sounds a possible representation of the political geography of a non-submissive body.
*Kristen J. Sollee, defining the concept of “witch” in Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive.