Margem
Event
Brecht said that margins are as "violent" as the violence of the "river that drags everything" because they confine it. Margin, directed by Victor Hugo Pontes, tell us of a similar violence, associated with young people at risk in the periphery of life, like the characters in Jorge Amado's Captains of the Sands (1937), a book that inspired him and was a “guide”, here deconstructed and reconstructed here by Joana Craveiro’s writing. The dialogue between Victor Hugo Pontes’ choreographic language and the book a second layer was laid, that of the life stories, collected in a previous research, of children living in institutions such as Casa Pia and Instituto Profissional do Terço, and also a third one, consisting of the memories and experiences of the performers themselves and the process of creating the show - all these layers interweave in the original text behind this performance. A cast of kids, aged from 14 to 20 years (plus a dancer and a professional actor) inhabit the stage-house-shelter, mattresses scattered across the floor, the (dreamed?) oasis of a palm tree, as a vital space for the preservation of oneself in a group, a family, even. Margem, a production midway between dance and documentary theatre, moved by an urgent and tribal soundtrack, is admittedly a "very political" work. Racism, sex, revolution and death also appear, but there is a vibrant energy running through Margem, and that energy persists and endures.
