Casa das Virtudes is a cultural project that recently opened its doors in Faro. Its purpose is to welcome and promote Portuguese and Portuguese-speaking arts and artists based on a multifaceted program, such as circus, dance, music, plastic arts, among others.
They are specialist in Contemporary Circus (Novo Circo) and come from the best school in the country – Lisbon’s Chapitô (Portugals own Cirque du Soleil!). The space is amazing and the artists very talented.
As cultural agents, their main mission is to communicate with the community through the arts, spreading their liveliness, their interventionist, cultural and social aspects. A differentiated artistic product is defined as a programmatic and creative objective, which follows the premise of uniting various arts, with the added value of circus arts.
Based on the genesis of culture, it is essential to add several partners to the project, in order to develop a work in "network" with various cultural structures that already exist. We believe in working in partnership, strengthening the know-how of each partner in a joint objective.
Their new show, Memórías, opens on Friday April 23rd 2021 at 9pm, with sessions on Saturday and Sunday 24th and 25th at 11:30am, then the following weekend Friday April 30th at 9pm, and on Saturday and Sunday May 1st and 2nd at 11:30am.
Memórías Synopsis
We are the memory we have and the responsibility we assume. Without memory we do not exist, without responsibility we may not deserve to exist - José Saramago
In this utopian creation, two scribes that roam the mundane world collect the memories and experiences of the beings that inhabit it, invisible to the naked eye but where their presence is always remarkable. Being totally oblivious to human behavior, like children playing, in the course of writing their diaries, their curiosity to experience the entities they observed takes them on a journey of experimentation for the collected sensations, the good, the bad and, sometimes, the worse!
Will their discernment for human beings reside in love and compassion, or will they give up because of the actions that were able to collect through the memories of the various personas? They said that Man is the size of his dream ...
Maybe we all live in a nightmare.
Cast and Creative
Dramaturgy and Staging: Gérald Oliveira, Ricardo Morujo
Interpretation: Gérald Oliveira, Ricardo Morujo
Scenography: Gérald Oliveira, Ricardo Morujo
Costumes: Teresa Machado
Light design: Jean-Claude Branger
Photography: Jean-Claude Branger
Video: Jean-Claude Branger
Sound / Light Technician: Jean-Claude Branger
Production: Casa das Virtudes
Consulting: Rita SpiderSpider
Gérald de Oliveira
He started his journey in the development of several street theatre projects in Ponte de Lima, with several local companies. In the course of these initiatives, in 2005, he joined the Professional School of Performing Arts and Crafts (Chapitô), where he staged and produced his first show “O Quarto Mágico”, a children's theater play held in an abandoned chapel also in Ponte de Lima.
When he finished her studies in 2008, he joined the cast of the company “Schemetterling Companhia de Dança Aérea” and participated in several animation projects and shows at national and international level, at the service of several companies. He has carried out several projects in the social area, neighborhoods, institutions and prisons for minors, simultaneously with his work as a producer in several areas, such as animation, shows, events, street projects, television, among others.
In 2011, he started teaching circus techniques (aerial acrobatics) at the Professional School of Arts and Crafts of Spectacles, and is also the body coordinator and technical director. In addition, he collaborated on several international projects directly linked to circus arts, like CIRCA, EYE-Strasbourg and Circus For Inclusion, and represented Portugal in the study and creation of pedagogical manuals on formative and creative processes in circus arts schools.
He was coordinator of circus arts in the national fiction project Alma e Coração of SIC, responsible for the training of the cast, where he participated as a choreographer in events for the same television channel.
He is currently producer, artistic director and interpreter at Casa das Virtudes.
Ricardo Morujo
It was at the age of 18 that he began his professional life at the Maria Vitória Theater, where he performed two distinct plays “Humor Com Humor se Paga” and “Lisboa Amor Perfeito”. He did several television programs, such as “FactorX”, “Ídolos”, “Feitos ao Bife”, among others, as a dancer, and participated in the opening of the Golden Globes in 2013 and 2014.
After that television period, returns to the stage at the Teatro Politeama and Casino de Estoril, in “Portugal À Gargalhada”, “República das Banas”, “A Pequena Sereia” and “A Volta ao Mundo em 80 Minutos ”.
In 2017, he took part in a social inclusion show, “O Tempo Perguntou ao Tempo”, directed by Miguel Tira-Picos, participating as a dancer, actor and acrobat and, between 2018 and 2020, he ended up integrating the fixed cast of the tour of the singer Blaya, as a dancer, where he made several tours at national and international level.
As a choreographer, he participated in several musicals for the children's theater company II Acto; in the development of several projects with Gérald de Oliveira such as “R-Mar”, a performance exercise by Chapitô's EPAOE, with Rita Spider and the entire faculty of the school; “Alma e Coração”, the soap opera by SIC and several projects for the production of Chapitô; and Henrique Feist's show “Oiecem Oitecimento”.
He is currently producer, artistic director and interpreter at Casa das Virtudes.
CONTACTS
Email: producao.casadasvirtudes@gmail.com
T: +351 926 636 974
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/casadasvirtudesfaro/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/casa_das_virtudes
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/producao-casa-das-virtudes
Address: Estrada do Passeio Ribeirinho, nº8, 8000-537 Faro
