Portfolio

2022

bela_adormecida, developed by Diana de Sousa, is the name that encompasses the creation of shows and performances with the same theme, explored in different formats, methods and relationships with the audience.

bela_adormecida conjugates the tale of popular tradition and its insidious connection with somnophilia, calling upon other literary references, but also devices evoking protocols of submission and domination. As “Sleeping Beauty” is an extraordinarily polysemic tale, we seek the marks of female maturation in a context of enchantment and eroticism. An association that serves to summon the relationship of established powers (traditionally, patriarchal), with the prevailing (traditionally, phallic) surveillance culture, and that focuses on how art and technology (“surveillance art”) can serve to dismantle, unmask, and subvert. Evoking an aura of fragility, exposure, perversion and voyeurism, they interrogate the ways in which power is established, and how it is negotiated, between who’s watching and who is being watched, between the guest and the sleeping beauty.”

Diana Sousa

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS

Concept and artistic direction
Diana de Sousa

With
Andresa Soares
Joana Petiz
Rita Só
Vânia Rovisco
Constança de Jesus
Inês Cóias

Design and artistic support
Daniel Martins (AALTAR)

Plastic Arts
Diana Barra

Sound design
Cláudio Oliveira

Light design
Daniel Worm

Video
Vasco Mendes

Communication
Catarina Freire

Administrative Production
Produção D’Fusão

Supports
Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Vast Vistas
Karnart
Pico do Refúgio
Campus Paulo Cunha e Silva
Self-Mistake

Institutional Support
Portuguese Republic – Culture / General Directorate of Arts