A recipe for pastel de nata, another for a Berlin ball, all in the rhythm of hip-hop, with beat box effects and totally in the dark. This is the summary of the eight-minute performance that the 17 students of a class from the EB 2,3 D. Martinho de Castelo Branco School will present this Thursday night, in another session (the last) of the Tell Festival, in Portimão Municipal Theater.
The 17 students, between the ages of 12 and 16, are in the 7th grade and are part of the Alternative Curriculum Path group. The school tells them little, some have complicated life histories, they are “difficult” students, but they all share a common characteristic: great creativity.
And it was from here that the teacher Fátima Mártires, responsible for the Theater Workshop, started working at the beginning of the school year, with the precious help of two other teachers: the class director Vasco Dantas and Carla Travessa, from Music Education.
«But they did everything: the lyrics, the music, everything», explains Fátima Mártires. Since their performance will be done completely in the dark, which is one of the most original features of the Tell Festival, the class has also been rehearsing in the dark, in the school auditorium.
Two weeks ago, when the second session of the Tell Festival brought rapper Chullage and Pacman/Algodão to Portimão, the group of 17 kids went to the Municipal Theater to see what it was like. Núria, responsible for the lyrics of the performance that the group will present this week, on the very same stage where the two renowned musicians performed, was happy because Pacman gave her his email so she could send lyrics and said: «still in let's see a day in the world of music».
But there were other performances that caught the class's attention. Like actress Flávia Gusmão, who, having the sound of the Lisbon underground as a background, enumerated a list of things to do, from the most trivial to the most important. “At first, I didn't understand anything, but then I understood and it went deep,” commented Donell, one of the students, with a smile.
João, another member of the group, a hip-hop-style image of his idols, is sparse in words when it comes to talking to the report from Sul Informação. But colleagues and teachers say he is much more eloquent with his music. About what he saw in Tempo, he only comments: “it was cool, I enjoyed it”.
What they saw that night served to, during the last two weeks, put a few more touches on their own performance. “They saw above all that, in the dark, people see much more than they think,” said Fátima Mártires.
Since the beginning of the school year, the group has been working, and not only within the scope of the Theater Workshop or the Arts Workshop. «They have also been working in other subjects, such as Mathematics, learning to make a budget for the cake recipe, in Physical Chemistry, when talking about sound, in Physical Education, working with movement», explained the teacher.
Mariana, Irina, Cristina, Rita, Ana, Martim, Miguel, João, Filipe, Iuri, Ítalo, Donell will be on stage ("with one ene and two of them", he explains , with his usual smile), Cristiano, the other Miguel, Ãz-Eddine, Ricardo and Núria.
And what are you going to do? “We are going to present a recipe”, explains Núria. "Let's talk. Well…it's not quite talking, it's more singing», adds Donell. "And in the middle we're going to do a few more things," he says. João, for example, is going to improvise, very much in the way of hip-hop, Donell will help with the sounds he can make only with his mouth and which are called «beat box». And everyone will participate, singing, talking, making sounds, shouting.
O Sul Informação You've already seen a small sample and you can guarantee that these recipes from the students of the PCA at Escola D. Martinho Castelo Branco are really mouth-watering. And salivating with such creativity.
The group takes the stage of the Teatro Municipal's small auditorium this Thursday, November 24th, at 21:30 pm, in the session that closes the Festival Tell's passage through Portimão.
Before them, the performances of this last day will be in charge of Inês Vicente, Joana Craveiro, Joclécio Azevedo, David dos Santos, Migas and Nuno Aires (yes, that same one, the vice-president of Turismo do Algarve).
And on Friday, in Faro, at Teatro Lethes, instead of young people from Portimão, the stage will be occupied by theater students from Escola Secundária Tomás Cabreira. O Sul Informação will also come back to this.
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