“ Porto Seguro was a 52-minute, one-off stage performance that existed in the fragile space between the speakable and the unspeakable. The piece attempted to blur the boundaries of Dance-Theatre, Fine Art, and Performance Art.
Porto Seguro was a process, a one-off process. A process of possibilities, potentialities, and actual realities. It was time. Time shattered into one single piece of defective nature. And, finally, it was uncertainty. Uncertainty of the importance of each moment. Any absence in the piece was itself a presence. A presence of something that could not be seen, spoken or listened to, but could be felt. A presence of a nothing that became everything. A past that was itself a present and a future.”
--Carlota dos Santos
Running Time: 52 mins
Platform Theatre
London, UK
conception & direction
Carlota dos Santos
cast
Celine Clark, Cornelis Joubert, Georgie Earnshaw,
Itching Tian, Kenny Lai, Luca Demetriou, Nefeli Kentoni,
Tomio Shota, Yagmur Taçar
set design
Carlota dos Santos
sound design
Hyun Jang
lighting design
Sanli WANG
shadow design
Hyun Jang
stage management
Wenfei Jia
costume design
Sally Yeung, Grace Carolan
costume design assistance
Matthew Howard
play writing
Carlota dos Santos, Celine Clark
photography
Inês Araújo, Justin Atkins, Shouan Chiang
videography
Pablo Temboury
video editing
Carlota dos Santos, Inês Araújo
graphic design
Carlota dos Santos
Track ids
Sweet Dreams by Simon Boswell
Hålsingland by The Haxan Cloak
The House That Hårga Built by The Haxan Cloak
Frá by Hildur Guðnadóttir
Strokur by Hildur Guðnadóttir