On 16 October, at 9:30 p.m., Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente (TAGV) will host BLUE, a performance by Margarida Montenÿ.
BLUE is an aerial acrobatics project built around a reflection on affection and friction, intimacy and exposure, individuality and collectiveness. Throughout this contemplative and introspective piece, a series of fleeting, fragile landscapes are created, testing the durability, tension and resistance of the four bodies on stage.
Aerial acrobat and performer Margarida Montenÿ uses a transdisciplinary approach in her research and choreographic practice. Her creations explore models and frameworks that question space and the audience’s passive interaction with performances, delving into states of intimacy, strength and vulnerability. In 2024, she was awarded the Young Artists Prize – Coliseu Porto Ageas in the field of circus arts. Among her works are BLUE (2023), a performance exploring affection and friction, and Simulacro (2022), created in partnership with Carminda Soares — an exercise in listening and intimacy between queer bodies. She has also collaborated as a performer with several creators and companies. She is currently developing Clamor, a new project set to premiere in December 2025.
BLUE is an intimate performance that invites the audience into the scenic space. It creates an ethereal atmosphere that evokes ideas of feminine strength and resilience. Visually, the project plays with perceptions of height and fall, balance and counterbalance, delicacy and power, through the construction of ephemeral landscapes. At the same time, it revisits one of the oldest and most traditional circus techniques — the vertical rope — with a contemporary and experimental approach.
The performance unfolds from a suspended body on a vertical rope supported in counterweight by three others. These three bodies not only handle the rigging of the suspended performer but also drive all the movements on the ground, in a play of order, rhythm and space. The piece therefore develops two simultaneous performances: one of suspension — light, slow and subtle — and another of collective movement — raw, fast and resistant. BLUE thus questions the idea of collectiveness, challenging and stretching the concept of a “solo” performance.
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