Stages of the week: from Yes music to Andermatt’s Muda | P2

An acrobatic body that Change

It summons the aesthetics of silent films, the flexibility of the new circus and the language of dance. It involves artists from various fields and origins, like “balancers on a knife’s edge” challenged to cross methods and codes “from the acrobatic body and its techniques”.

Clara Andermatt is directing, her name is Change and results from the intensification of the artistic relationship between the choreographer’s dance company and the National Institute of Circus Arts, directed by Bruno Machado.

“Humor is intertwined with tragedy, fantasy with reality, and violence with love”, they describe in the presentation of the show that is about to premiere in Aveiro. They also highlight their desire to take it to everyone across the country: Change It can live in a room, a tent or the street. And that’s what will happen on the national tour that they have already lined up until the end of the year.

Yes, finally

For progressive rock lovers, it’s time to exclaim “finally!” and make use of tickets that may already come from 2020. Four times postponed, the concert by Yes, pioneers and giants of the genre, takes place this Tuesday.

It has the sad tone of the farewell to drummer Alan White (1949-2022), but also the desire to catch up on a lot of music. In recent years, the English band has released two highly rated albums, The Quest (2021) and Mirror to the Sky (2023). Furthermore, it promises to extend the celebration of 50 years of Tales from Topographic Oceansthe first album with White.

It’s not an illusion, it’s Orkin

Ruth Orkin (1921-1985) in a “vivid panorama of her artistic career”. This is what the anthological exhibition in Cascais promises, the first in Portugal around the North American photographer to whom we owe American girl in Italy.

It is one of around 120 images gathered in Ruth Orkin: The Illusion of Timeside by side with records of your Bike trip (when he cycled across the USA, aged 17), the sequence Jimmy tells a story and portraits of figures such as Alfred Hitchcock, Lauren Bacall, Marlon Brando, Albert Einstein, Leonard Bernstein or Robert Capa.

Curated by Anne Morin – for whom Orkin’s photography is “a space that restores time and movement, taking photographic language beyond its limits until it gives way to the power of illusion and magic” –, the panorama is completed with correspondence, clippings, passages from his diary and other documents and objects.

From home to back

In 1946, Argentinean Julio Cortázar had a dream (or nightmare) that inspired a short story: Casa Tomada, the story of two brothers tormented and chased away from home by undefined entities. In 2024, this tale resurfaces “as a scenic poem” around the drama of refugees, in the 78th creation of Escola da Noite.

In this reading, four actors represent “the daily lives of these destitute beings, captured in the scene between the precarious stay and getting moving again, without knowing exactly their destination”, explains the Brazilian Silvana Garcia, the director invited by the company.

Tasty to the letter

Hélia Correia, Inês Pedrosa, Jaime Rocha, Júlio Machado Vaz and Tiago Guedes are among the more than 20 authors who responded to the call of another FLiD – Douro Literary Festival and come together to talk about letters in São Martinho de Anta, the land of Miguel Torga.

Alongside round tables, meetings with writers, conversations, debates, exhibitions and a book fair, the sixth edition hosts a show by Peripécia Teatro sobre Torga, the viewing of Dialogues After the End performed by Guedes and, in the finale, the voice of Janita Salomé in the concert Blue Bird.