A MORTE DO ARTISTA / NOT MY CUP OF TEA

MARA ANDRADE

2019 Portugal Performance 20 '

Because it’s here and now that everything happens. Between us. From me to you and from you to me. We are present bodies, occupying word and space. Survivors. Forever. Not my cup of tea is an act in progress, part of “Here and Now”. Intimately, will be offered a story, a dance, a song and a tea.

biografia

Between Medicine, Dance and Performance, she is inspired by the physicality of emotional states and how they are transformed on each other. In 2012, she created Uma Pequena Morte e Psicanálise (A Small Death and Psychoanalysis). In 2013, with Oxytocin, she represented Portugal at the Sixth Young Artists Biennial, Salvador da Bahia, and co-created Through my most grievous fault with Marco da Silva Ferreira. From 2014 to 2015 she created the solo Um Triste Ensaio sobre a Beleza (A Sad Essay about Beauty) that debuted on 2015 at the Campo Alegre Theatre, in Porto. On April 2018, with The Lonely Tasks, she started a performance project with the intention to experiment and document her own body’s performative utility.

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