DARKTRACES glimpses of a spectrum

“To be haunted by a ghost is to remember something you’ve never lived through, to have the memory of what has essentially never been present.”

Jacques Derrida

A dance in the disappearance of its own trace. Without belonging. What was and is no longer materializes in bodies that give way to their multiple existences, ghosts of themselves, already extinct or to come, that belong to matter as well as to memory, to imagination and perceived reality, to the visible and the occult.

They share an existential solitude between life and death.

Concept, artistic direction, set and soundscape
Joana Castro

Co-created and performed by
Ana Rita Xavier, André Mendes, Maurícia | Neves e Thamiris Carvalho

Light design
Mariana Figueroa

Co-creation of soundscape
Rafael Maia

Costumes and make-up
Silvana Ivaldi

Creation support and artistic residencies
Balleteatro, CAMPUS Paulo Cunha e Silva, Devir Capa, Pro.dança, Visões Úteis,
Reitoria da Universidade do Porto, Teatro de Ferro, Companhia Instável and Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea

Co-production residency
O Espaço do Tempo

Financial management support
Produções Independentes

Supported by
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian

Co-produced by
Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Self-Mistake/Self-Curating and Cine-Teatro Louletano

Self-Curating has as Institutitional Partner: República Portuguesa – Ministério da Cultura (Garantir Cultura - Fundo Fomento Cultural)