Nada do que dissemos até agora teve a ver comigo - to be continued
Rita Natálio
PT
Artistic residency / Performance

Artistic Residencies
Abril 12th to 16th
September 6th to 18th
Fundão

Presentation
October 7th
Fundão

Artistic direction - Rita Natálio
Image and co-creation - Luciana Fina
Performance and co-creation -  Carla Bolito, Cláudio da Silva, Nuno Lucas
Production - O Rumo do Fumo
Co-production - Culturgest/Festival Temps d'Image, Festival Escrita na Paisagem e Município do Fundão

Nada do que dissemos até agora teve a ver comigo (Nothing we’ve said by now is about me) was developed from a workshop on oral improvisation, started at SKITe/Sweet & Tender Collaborations (2008), and presented at Fundação de Serralves within the Cicle "DOCUMENTE-SE Registos na 1ª Pessoa" (2009). The work takes as its core concern the construction / narration of identity, applied to text improvisation. Nada do que dissemos até agora teve a ver comigo - to be continued (the second stage of the project that Rita Natálio develops at Escrita na Paisagem) follows the same research approach, proposing the construction of a theatrical and visual fiction, based on the dialogue with the visual artist and fimmaker Luciana Fina, on the filmed portrait.

The first stage of this work is hosted by the Festival Escrita na Paisagem in a partnership with the Municipality of Fundão. Pursuing the concept "performance of everyday life", by the sociologist Erwin Goffman, documentation and the encounter with people from different generations and various profiles will be the ground for a work on writin and experimentation with a group of three performers (Carla Bolito, Cláudio da Silve, e Nuno Lucas). A dialogue between documenation and the expasion of this into the theatrical sphere emerges based on the notions of portrait, autobiographic testimony. The project dives into a ré:pèrage of the social body’s orality and gestuality, to appear in a performance about different aspects of the performance of the self within the public space. A re:play that is a re:criation of the self, emerging from a research about the archive of autobiographic documentation. 

Rita Natálio was born in Lisbon. From her education she emphasizes her training in History (Universidade Nova de Lisboa [New University of Lisbon]) and Choreographic Arts (Universidade de Paris VIII [University of Paris VIII]). As performer, she attended the Program of Choreographic Studies and Research at Fórum Dança (2006), where she came to taught in various composition and improvisation workshops. She worked with RE.AL coordenating and assisting research and training projects on the method of Composition in Real Time. Since 2008 she develops her own autonomous work as creator. Her film “Looking back into the future” received a Honorable Mention at FICAP – Festival Internacional de Cinema de Artes Performativas (International Film Festival of Performing Arts). She integrates the international network SKITe. Currently she is working with Vera Mantero on the publication of an artist book and she is also participating on the project Línea de Fuga, organized by Catarina Saraiva, at Casa Encendida (Madrid) in the context of the MA Practicas Escenicas y Cultura Visual of Universidade de Castilla - La Mancha.