Four walks by the borders of Lisbon: Algés-Pontinha; Pontinha-Charneca do Lumiar; Prior Velho-Terreiro do Paço; Terreiro do Paço-Algés. This is the proposal of the Teatro do Silêncio and Teatro do Bairro Alto initiative, which proposes, through art, to discover the geographical particularities of the city limits.
Four walks along Lisbon's borders: Algés-Pontinha; Pontinha-Charneca do Lumiar; Prior Velho-Terreiro do Paço; Terreiro do Paço-Algés. This is the proposal of the initiative Theater of Silence and the Teatro do Bairro Alto and which, through art, aims to discover the geographical particularities of the city limits.
The walks aim to make visible some of the physical and political boundaries that delimit Lisbon. Borders will be revealed as participants walk and immerse themselves in the territory. Artistic provocations will be carried out that focus on the processes of formation, alteration and management of borders by communities and power agents. This will be the indispensable methodological tool for the four walks.
The walks will take place on September 11, September 25, October 2 and October 16. Registration for the first walk, which will cover a distance of 11 km between Algés and Pontinha, ends on the 2nd of next month. The walks are of an easy to moderate level. Each walk costs 3 euros; all four cost 10 euros.
September 11th, 10 a.m.
Registration until: September 2nd
Route: Algés - Pontinha
Distance: 11 km
Duration: 5 hours approx.
Difficulty: Easy
September 25th, 10 a.m.
Registration until: September 16th
Route: Pontinha - Charneca do Lumiar
Distance: 9 km
Duration: 5 hours approx.
Difficulty: Moderate
October 2nd, 10 a.m.
Registration until: September 23rd
Route: Prior Velho - Terreiro do Paço
Distance: 13 km
Duration: 5 hours approx.
Difficulty: Easy
October 16th, 10 a.m.
Registration until: October 7th
Route: Terreiro do Paço - Algés
Distance: 10 km
Duration: 5 hours approx.
Difficulty: Easy
Maria Gil will mediate the walks with Clara Marchana (September 11), Catarina Câmara (September 25), Susana Guardado (October 2) and Joana Pupo (October 16). The duration of each walk is approximately 5 hours, so starting at 10 am you should finish by 3 pm.
Tickets can be purchased at through BOL. More info here.
O Theater of Silence é a creative structure run by Maria Gil and Miguel Bonneville, which develops projects based on research and experimentation. The project is funded by the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGA) and the Carnide Parish Council.
Catarina Câmara was born in Lisbon in 1975. She finds herself at the crossroads between artistic practices, education and social and community intervention. She has a degree in law from the Faculty of Law in Lisbon, a degree in dance from the Lisbon School of Dance and a course in Gestalt psychotherapy from the Portuguese-Spanish Gestalt Psychotherapy Society in Lisbon. As a performer/dancer, she has worked with the Olga Roriz Company since 2003. She gives dance/movement training to performing arts professionals and the general public. Her career includes various artistic creations and movement support for theater and dance. She does most of her work in the field of art education, having been part of different multidisciplinary projects. Since 2019, she has been the artistic and social coordinator of CORPOEMCADEIA (PARTIS project - artistic practices for social inclusion), supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.
Clara Marchana has a degree in Dance from the Escola Superior de Dança de Lisboa and a degree in Theater from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. She is currently completing a Master's Degree in Choreographic Arts at Codarts University of Arts Rotterdam and Fontys School of Fine Arts Tilburg, in the Netherlands. She completed the Professional Course in Circus Arts at the Professional School of Performing Arts and Crafts at Chapitô. She attended the Therapeutic Chi Kung Course at the Lisbon School of Traditional Chinese Medicine. She is the founder and artistic director of the Madrasta Dance company. In 2020-2021 she received a scholarship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Gulbenkian Scholarships in Visual and Performing Arts). As a performer, she has worked with various choreographers and directors. As a choreographer, she created, among others, the solo Lost and Found for a dancer, as part of the Best Performer Competition launched by IPL, winning the Honorable Mention prize.
Joana Pupo has a career as an actress, creator and researcher of movement, applied to creation and pedagogy. With a background in Theater, Philosophy, Movement and Contemporary Improvisation, she has developed her research over the last decade, articulating the Suzuki and Viewpoints Methods with other tools for scenic creation, where the body and interdisciplinary research always seek a dramaturgy of their own in each creation. She has collaborated with several companies in Portugal, Spain and Italy and is currently on stage with pieces by Marina Nabais Dança and Ritual de Domingo/Sónia Barbosa. In 2020, she created the company Mente de Cão with Pepa Macua and Catarina Sobral, which will premiere its first play "A Gravidade de Um Pássaro", in September 2021.
Maria Gil creates stripped-down shows based on words, establishing a direct and close relationship with the audience; her dramaturgies are based on autobiographical premises and stories of people and places, which she collects, cross-references and fictionalizes in order to construct a poetics of everyday life. Her works evoke the periphery and the margin, but also disappearing people and places. She regularly collaborates with creators from various artistic fields, including dance, music, visual arts and cinema. She works with various public and private institutions, designing, developing and carrying out educational activities and strategies that articulate imagination and thought.
Susana Guardado has a background in visual arts. She currently divides her time between Brazil and Portugal, and her projects are often about contact with the basic elements of life: dancing, eating, exchanging, talking, listening, loving, touching and dreaming. She wants to create collective experiences, breaking the passivity of the spectator and also of her partners, who she wants to be her co-creators. Her proposals seek to meet the current social and political scenario in which she finds herself, and seek the possibility or dream of the annulment of a fixed identity, by merging several apparently incompatible worlds into a new universe. Their projects are fertile ground for collective encounters, always based on the premise that Pleasure is Power.
