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Residency of Isabel Costa

hosted by Fast Forward, European Festival for Young Stage Directors at Staatsschauspiel Dresden
Participating countries:
  • France
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Portugal
  • Theatre
© Leonor Fonseca

Period

  • From 10-06-2024 to 28-02-2025
Generation #3

Website

Address

Dresden

Project summary

Isabel Costa’s site-specific performance MANIFESTOS PARA DEPOIS DO FIM DO MUNDO offers an immersive artistic encounter treating an issue of increasingly relevance: Seven actors perform excerpts from seven manifestos written after 2000, that formulate analyses of the existing and drafts for a future society. Walking through an empty building small groups of spectators encounter each performer individually. Taken away from common gestures of political activism the manifestos are given voice in an intimate setting between individuals who are invited to let them resonate. The residency aims to explore artistic options to make the project accessible for international audiences of different backgrounds and to intensify the artistic practice by developing the reach of the performance.
© Telmo Pereira

Artist

Isabel Costa

Biography: Isabel Costa is an actress and theatre director working in theatre, cinema and as curator. She holds a degree in theatre at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema and a Master in Cultural Narratives at Eramus Mundus Crossways, after studies at universities in Lisbon, Warwick (UK), Rio de Janeiro, Perpignan and Guelph (Canada). Since 2014 she is part of the theatre company Os Possessos. 2017 she made her debut as a director with ESTUFA-FRIA-A CAMINHO DE UMA NOVA ESFERA DE RELAÇÕES followed by MARATONA DE MANIFESTOS and SALÃO PARA O SÉCULO XXI in 2019. In 2021 she was awarded the BPI La Caixa Foundation Espaço do Tempo Creation Grant for SOM E FÚRIA which she staged at Teatro do Bairro Alto in March 2023. In June 2023 she created MANIFESTOS PARA DEPOIS DO FIM DO MUNDO at Culturgest foundation in Lisbon.
Contact: isabelrocosta@gmail.com
Website: https://www.ospossessos.com/
Social media: https://www.instagram.com/ospossessos/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/isabelrodriguescosta/?hl=en
Work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSCOMhL_drg&t=1266s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iETA7HpVZI

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