The public presentations of the project “Corações ao alto”, a show described as “an experience of singing and listening”, by Margarida Mestre, will take place at the Igreja da Misericórdia in Aljezur, on Saturday, May 28, at 17:30 pm, and on Sunday the 29th at 11:30 am. Admission is free.
“Corações ao alto” is a set of vocal pieces, originally built from the experience of listening to religious celebrations that take place in the city of Lisbon.
Margarida Mestre, the choir supervisor, went to watch these practices and then, with great care and musical sense, will build with the group of participants the musical score that makes up the piece.
«In general, we do not understand the words, but we feel how the sound of the voices spreads harmoniously in the space and each theme draws the essence and intention of each prayer», explains Tertúlia Associação Sócio – Cultural de Aljezur, which produces the show to be presented in Aljezur.
To reach these two presentations to the public, since Monday, May 23rd, and until the 27th, workshops/daily rehearsals of sound, listening and singing have been taking place, with the open participation of people from the community. signed up.
This piece for choir, with about 30 minutes, will be performed by people living in the municipality of Aljezur or neighboring people who want to participate, musically celebrating a meeting of cultures, which will involve experiencing the religious sense of a place.
Participants are all those who like to sing: adults, young people and children over 8 years old, to give voice to an original musical score (vocal and physical scores).
With this piece, explains Margarida Mestre, «the intention is to musically celebrate a meeting of cultures that has greater expression in their religious practices». The themes are inspired by religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism and Sufism.
“Corações ao Alto” premiered in September 2013, as part of the Todos em Lisboa Festival, and was reinstated in February 2016, in the VÃO program, at Igreja de São Cristóvão, also in Lisbon.
Aljezur, like other places in the Algarve, was the confluence of various cultures (the confluence of East and West, Islam and Christianity). It is still so today with a very large resident and non-resident foreign population and with different creeds.
Who is Daisy Master?
Margarida Mestre has a degree in Kindergarten Educator (Maria Ulrich Superior School of Kindergarten Educators), Sound Design (IFICT) and Dance from Fórum-dança (technique and composition) and has a Master's degree in Performing Arts- Theater of movement - from ESTC Lisbon .
He has supervised, in Lisbon and other cities in the country, several workshops in the field of body and voice, resulting from his research and practice as performer and his experience of crossing arts and pedagogy. She has been one of the invited artists for the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's 10X10 project.
After extensive training and interpretation work with national and international choreographers, she received a scholarship in New York, where she studied dance at the Movement Research and began his learning and experience around voice work, in the LOOP laboratory of the VoiceLab from Lynn Book, where he began his authoring work around the body and the voice.
He worked in the area of guidance or vocal composition with choreographer Marina Nabais, in the pieces “Avesso” and “Por um rio”; in the play “Duas sem Três”, with the company Raiz di Polón; or in the play “Íman” and “Força” (Major Company), both by Filipa Francisco.
She has developed a work of Artistic Creation in the area of voice/choir with specific communities, such as the “Coral Bestial” in Viseu; the Grupo de Cantares de Espinheiro, Alcanena; the play “Oxalá”, created within the scope of the Circular Festival in Vila do Conde (with 6 concert artists and a group from Corpo); the lecture/concert “Alento”, in Ferreira do Alentejo; the proposal “Corações ao alto”, based on sounds from various religions, integrated in the Todos festival, 2013, in Lisbon; or even the “Popular Recital”, Festival Silêncio, 2015.
She studied voice with Shelley Hirsch and Lynn Book (both in New York), David Moss, Japp Blonk, Miriam di Palma, Valérie Marestin, Amélia Cunni, Nona Hendrix, Chris Mann, Michiko Hirayama, at Institute for the Living Voice, and with Phil Minton at the “Pheral Choir”- Festival CO-Lab, Porto.
In 2008, he participated in the three-week intensive workshop: “The creative voice”, supervised by Kaya Anderson, Susanne Weins, Albino Bignamini and David Goldsworthy, at Roy Hart International School, Malerargues, France.
And in 2010, at the same location, he participated in the workshop of Jonathan Hart Makwaia and Rosemary Quinn.
It develops research and experimentation work around the intersection of text, body and voice languages.
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