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Paint Me – insights

My camera is damaged and now I have to steal photos from others.. This flash movie was stolen from VISAO, great photos!! The photos below were taken by Luis Tinoco:

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Paint Me @ Culturgest

My idea in writing Paint Me was to bring together six characters, all of whom have a prolific imaginative interior life, and to explore what they would make of each other in the confines of a railway compartment. The model for my libretto is Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. The travellers in Paint Me are [...]

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Einstein’s Dreams

The premiere went smoothly at the Goteborgs Opera! It was one of the most great experiences I had ever had in the last times. I’ve returned to Portugal with great memories of all the opera crew, dancers and of course my great team Rui Horta and Tiago Cerqueira.

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Flowering Tree (from sketch to the real world)

This all started with Rui Horta’s idea of having a physical tree on stage that would support my visual projections. Rui Horta came up with a drawing and I quickly put it to 3D and sent to the great artist and set designer João Paulo Araújo who made this great master piece! After the tree [...]

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Flowering Tree (photos)

Flowering Tree Click here if you want to know more about the software that played the projections. Rehearsals: After the performance, there was a fantastic dinner with plenty of indian flavours and music and the tree was moved to the outside garden:

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Flowering Tree by John Adams

A Flowering Tree by John Adams, inspired by Mozart’s Magic Flute. This performance, previously presented in March at Cité de la Musique in Paris, in the context of a festival dedicated to John Adams, and conducted by Joana Carneiro, in Lisbon will involve the scenic intervention of Rui Horta.

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Einstein Dreams and The Guest House

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LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC

RUI HORTA – LOCAL GEOGRAPHIC // Local Geographic, Rui Horta’s third and last creation while Associate Artist of the Season, is a reflection on identity, a study of a “personal geography “, using the body as a tool to discover the world. 11, 12 and 14 May 2010 – 9:00 PM 15 and 16 May [...]

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4’33″ Insights

I can’t exactly describe the felling of having creating visuals to this piece.. it was huge, massive and exaustive creative process. After arriving home, I was sleeping for two days, and even today I feel that I need to sleep more 200 hours to completely recover.. :)

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+ 4’33” (Tributo a John Cage)

Terça | 23 Março 2010 19:30, Sala Suggia + 4’33” (Tributo a John Cage) John Cage chocou o mundo quando em 1952 apresentou a sua peça para qualquer instrumento solista ou grupo instrumental na qual os músicos permanecem em silêncio absoluto durante 4 minutos e 33 segundos. No total, são três andamentos de silêncio com [...]

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