PROGRAMME

DANCE COMPANY
QUORUM BALLET

Daniel Cardoso: artistic director
Paulo Correia: technical director
Maria Dolores Espírito Santo: marketing
Raquel Vieira de Almeida: production
Ana Cristina Bernardino: administration

Two Centuries

Daniel Cardoso: artistic director, choreography
Pedro Alves: dramaturgy
Theresa da Silva C., Filipe Narciso, Elson Ferreira, Mathilde Gilhet, Inês Godinho, Inês Pedruco, Gonçalo Andrade: dancers
Miguel Simões: actor
Jorge Silva: original music
Vítor Cândido: lighting designer
Bruno Oliveira: sound designer
Fauze El Kadre: costume designer
Hugo F. Matos: set designer
António Cabrita: original vídeo and image
Paulo Correia: technical director
Hugo Matos: technical assistant

Audience target: From 6 years old
Duration: aprox. 65 minutes

Two centurys - Synopsis

”I have arrived too late on too old a century”, said Manuel Teixeira Gomes, marketer, writer and politician, born in 1862 in Lagos, Algarve. Cultured man, modern and refined personality, fascinated by the beauty of Art and Women, Teixeira Gomes lived between two centuries, one of the most agitated times of the Portuguese nation. Manuel Teixeira Gomes would take over as President of the Republic on October 5, 1923. However, always passionate about life, frequenter of the biggest and best museums and theatres in Europe, he would consider the politics an "inglorious sacrifice" and would eventually depart from his beloved homeland, exiled in Bougie, Algeria, giving us an extraordinary work.

Through the language of dance, theatre, poetry, music and arts, the Quorum Ballet celebrates the centenary of the establishment of the Republic, while simultaneously promoting a renewed encounter with the life and work of one of the greatest personalities of the History of Portugal. An encounter which will make us eager to speak Portuguese.