The Cine-Teatro Louletano receives, on the 17th (21:30 pm) and March 18th (16:00 pm), the premiere of the production “Paris, Hawaii beach”, under the network program «Movimenta-te Trajectories of cultural programming in network» , which involves the municipalities of Loulé, Faro, Olhão, S. Brás de Alportel and Tavira.
It is a spectacle that works like a beach, in it anything can happen – from humor to pleasure, from terror to the absurd, from joy to anguish of those who live in the Algarve, whether for a month or for a lifetime.
“In this show we live and look for an Algarve that is part of the world. The one that hides behind tourists, foreigners, burning dreams, long nights, the culture of the body and the murderous sun: an Algarve that looks at the sea, the Algarve forest, the barrocal in another way. A creation from the Algarve but also from the world that is rewritten today”, explain the producers.
For the production of “Paris, Hawaii beach”, which brings together music, theater and dance, three national artists were invited – Ainhoa Vidal and Madalena Victorino, choreographers, and Gonçalo Amorim, director – to imagine a show that had as its starting point the territory of the Central Algarve and each of its own cultures and traditions.
These breeders held a residency between January 2nd and March 6th in which they searched for elements of the cultures of these five places.
Local artists Ana Gabriel, Cláudia Ermitão, Luís Santos, Pedro Pires Pinto, Pedro Romeiras, Raquel Rua, Tomé Quirino and Victor Ortuño, who come from the areas of theater and dance, the interpreters and co-creators of this play, were invited to thinking and presenting a contemporary Algarve.
Musicians, dancers, actors and performers were invited to participate in a series of short labs – auditions and the end result is a heterogeneous group that can make very different realities appear on stage.
Artists were invited to intertwine local cultural heritage content and materials with their particular visions and ways of creating and building. The result is synergies that mix and fuse seemingly separate worlds that, in the end result, are connected and add something important to their original identity.
But in addition to these performers, the show will feature the participation of about fifty people from the local community, without any experience in the performing arts, but who have expressed interest and willingness to perform on stage in a project that speaks of their territory .
Invitations were launched for bikers, surfers and fishermen interested in venturing on stage and living a unique artistic experience.
The musical direction is in charge of Zé Eduardo, with Jorge Caeiro (accordion), Marco Martins (bass), Zé Eduardo (keyboards), Sónia “Little B” Cabrita (drums) and Javier Orti (tenor sax, soprano).
After this premiere in Loulé, the show will be presented in each city on the network, in different modalities: Faro, Teatro das Figuras, on the 24th (21:30 pm) and 25th (16:00 pm) of March; S. Brás de Alportel, Cine-Teatro Sambrasense, on March 31 (21:30) and April 1 (16:00 pm); Olhão, Municipal Auditorium, on the 7th (21:30 pm) and 8th (17 pm) of April; and Tavira, in a place to be announced, on the 00th (14:21 pm) and 30th (15:16 pm) of April.
Ticket price: 5 euros
“Conversas à 5ª” with Ainhoa Vidal, Gonçalo Amorim and Madalena Victorino
Before the debut of this creation, Ainhoa Vidal, Gonçalo Amorim and Madalena Victorino are the guests of another session of “Conversas à 5ª”, which takes place on March 15, at 21 pm, at the Cine-Teatro Louletano bar.
In this informal conversation with the three creators of the play “Paris, Hawaii beach”, the audience will have the opportunity to understand what is behind this production, and what is the philosophy underlying the artistic creation process.
The public will be invited to go to the concert hall and watch what will be “Paris, Hawaii beach”.
Admission is free.
Who is who?
Ainhoa Vidal
Ever since you can remember I wanted to be a dancer. Born in Barcelona, she went through competition gymnastics until she realized that what she really liked was creating and not competing.
That was the moment when dancing fully entered his life. He studied ballet, modern and contemporary dance techniques, yoga, tai-chi, butoh,… In Europe and Asia.
She currently lives in Lisbon because she loves the city and the country, working as an interpreter, costume designer and choreographer.
Gonçalo Amorim
He is an actor, director, teacher and a student of human nature. He was born in Porto in the seventies, son and grandson of anti-fascist resisters. It has reflected in its creations, about capitalism, Portugal's transition to democracy, sex, violence and otherness.
In its path it also counts on several collaborations in community projects.
Magdalene Victorino
Choreographer, teacher and programmer. He studied and graduated in contemporary dance, choreographic composition and arts pedagogy at The Place, London School of Contemporary Dance, Laban Centre/Goldsmith's College, University of London and Exeter University, in the 70s and 80s, in the United Kingdom.
Since then he has lived in Portugal and over the last three decades his work has been evidenced by the creation of many cultural and artistic projects with a community dimension, which are always aimed at bringing together artistic discourse and practice and society in general.
He is also interested in the young audience and creates at the Centro de Pedagogy and Animation of Centro Cultural de Belém, between 1996 and 2008, the first space in Portugal for international artistic fruition programming for a young audience. He teaches at several higher education institutions.
He creates multiple choreographic pieces that often involve people of very different ages and life experiences and professional performers. He has won several awards for his projects. His work is recognized for its humanistic charge.
He is concerned about the importance of artistic education for each and every person.
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