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There is an old Portuguese saying, “The morning is the day”, which refers to the daily life of the rural world, when farmers got up at dawn to go to work the land. This (and next) weekend, this practice should be extended to the urban world for anyone who wants to take advantage of Saturday and / or Sunday to facilitate the lockdown, the anti-covid-19 measure that the Government has reinforced. this Thursday expanding it to 77 new municipalities, adding to the 114 initially referenced.
“It really is for people to stay at home,” warned António Costa. Therefore, there are the mornings (from 5 to 13) for those who do not want to spend two long days (and three nights) confined to family and gastronomy, reading, television and transmission, or simply the solitude of its walls.
If visits to parks, gardens and museums (Gulbenkian, in Lisbon, or Serralves, in Porto, to name two emblematic examples) are habits that are already ingrained in urban centers, on weekends, for many people, it is worth noting. like many cinemas, theaters, and other venues across the country, they were quick to adjust their program schedules to the current situation. A form of resistance, through the cultural offer, but also an attempt to alleviate the effects of the pandemic in the crisis that is going through the entire sector, without seeing any light (or practicable vaccine) at the end of the tunnel.
Although it is recommended that the reader confirm the respective schedules, PUBLIC aligns itself by following a dozen suggestions, mainly in the area of performing arts. – Not forgetting the masks! Although many cinemas also tried to schedule morning sessions -among them, the rooms that host the LEFFEST – Lisbon & Sintra Film Festival, whose calendar was trapped on the pandemic website, and which was rescheduled for the mornings of this Saturday and middle Sunday. dozen sessions, including those in honor of Paul Thomas Anderson or the trailer for the long-awaited film by Gia Coppola, Conventional (Olga Cadaval Cultural Center; Sunday, 10:00).
Dance, theater and music
In Porto, there are two programs that have long been profiled as events not to be missed on the dance and show calendar. At the Rivoli Theater (Saturday, 10:45 am), the show of the previous day is repeated, with the Lorraine Ballet, the National Choreographic Center of Nancy, France, premiering among us a program that marked the centenary of Merce Cunningham (1919 -2009), the greatest reference in dance of the 20th century. Jungle (1968), created in collaboration with Andy Warhol, and Sound dance (1975), in partnership with David Tudor, are two of Cunningham’s pieces, to which Peter Jacobsson, head of the show, adds By four walls (2019), performed in partnership with Thomas Caley for the Lorraine Ballet, with music by John Cage, another Cunningham contributor.
In Serralves, on the occasion of the last weekend of the exhibition Yoko Ono – The Garden of Learning Freedom, you will be able to witness (Saturday and Sunday, 10 am), a series of performances inspired by events and creations from the 60s to 70s by the artist who was always more than John Lennon’s wife, as documented in his exhibition. Cut piece, Voice piece for soprano, Piece of Heaven to Jesus me Painting to shake hands are some of the pieces that Thamiris Carvalho, Carla Cruz, Xana Novais, Joana von Mayer Trindade, Gil Mac, Dori Nigro, Xavier Paes and Bruno Senune will perform.
In Lisbon, the Alkantara Festival, which started this Friday, also adapted the original program to the restrictions of the pandemic, rescheduling for this weekend (Culturgest; Saturday and Sunday, 11 am) the creation I keep dancing for nothing. It is a piece by the Hungarian Eszter Salamon, a recurring presence on Portuguese stages, who here challenges the Portuguese dancer Vânia Doutel Vaz to participate in this choreographic score that also had the music of Cage in its origin.
Back in Porto, the Carlos Alberto Theater (TeCA; Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.) performs the last recital of Rachel’s death, with which the playwright and stage director Raquel Castro stages her own funeral, “as if it were a show.” Premiered at the São Luiz Theater in February, Rachel’s death it is a preview, between what is feared and what is desired, of a life that is still expected to be long, almost a hundred years old … With Joana Bárcia, Nuno Nunes, Raquel Castro and Rita Morais.
In music, the continuation of Guimarães Jazz, this year in a mostly Portuguese version, also with two concerts in the mornings: the group of saxophonist César Cardoso presents the album Tenor dice, recorded in collaboration with the pianist Óscar Graça and the drummer Marcos Cavaleiro (Gran Auditorium of the Vila Flor Cultural Center; Saturday, 10:30 am); and the Porta-Jazz Project, this time in a quartet version by the pianist Hugo Raro, in a concert set in real time by the plastic artist JAS (Caja Negra of the José de Guimarães International Art Center; Sunday, 10:30 am) .
In Braga (Theatro Circo; Saturday, 11 am), Tiago Sousa also plays his new album, Oh sweet loneliness, in “wandering around the piano.” A recently recorded work that brings together nine compositions, opening with Angel of despair.
In this year commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Beethoven (1770-1827), the Casa da Música, in Porto, proposes to the youngest “a fictitious meeting” between the composer and Napoleão, to whom it began by dedicating its 3rd Symphony, replacing it, after realizing the imperial intentions of the French general, with the title Heroic (Rehearsal room 2; Saturday, 10:30 am).
And you can still hear Beethoven in Lisbon (Centro Cultural de Belém; Sunday, 11 am), with the Melleo Harmonia orchestra, conducted by Joaquim Ribeiro, performing Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and the Piano and Orchestra Concerto No. 5, Emperor, with Marta Menezes as soloist.
The D. María II National Theater also anticipated for Saturday morning (Salão Nobre Ageas, 11h00) the show for children premiered this week, Where is the war, a deconstruction of the military imagination in a world where more and more walls are being built.
Still in the capital, and for a wide and family audience, the recently reactivated María Matos Theater is still on stage Avenue Q (Saturday and Sunday, 10 AM), a kind of “Sesame Street on steroids, which adds to the Muppet aesthetic a language so mature that it only works because life is a long march from boredom to the grave. ” But, before that inescapable ending – after the end of the show, we want to say – Maria Matos greets with a suggestive “show package +late breakfast”, To be completed in the restaurant of the neighboring Hotel Lutécia.
Then go home.
