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 and 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" Registo 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 follows the same research approach, proposing the construction of a theatrical and visual fiction based on a dialogue between the work of the visual artist and film director Luciana Fina about the filmed portraid.

The first stage of this work's creative process 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. The documentation and encounter betwee people from different generations and with different profiles will be the grounds to develop a work of writing and experimentation with a group of three performers (Carla Bolito, Cláudio da Silva e Nuno Lucas). Based on the notions of portrait, autobiographic testimony, as well as on the relationship with the audiovisual material previously recorded, a dialogue between documentation and its expansion into the theatrical realm emerges. 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 takes part 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 at Universidade de Castilla - La Mancha