City Maquette

16th & 17th May, 2012
Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (PT)

MEZZANINE in co-production with Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, 
invited Mathilde Monnier to present City Maquette at Guimarães.

In 1996, Heiner Goebbels composed Surrogate Cities, one of his most virtuoso operas. The theme of this opera is an attempt at different inroads to the city: narrating something about cities, exposing oneself to cities, keeping a close eye on cities. City Maquette is a show which involves amateurs who come from various communities of each city where it is performed. More than 60 people of all generations share the stage and their fantastic imagination about the city.

CITY MAQUETTE

world premiere 17th & 18th november 2007 within the framework of the program hors-séries 07 - ccn of montpellier

Choreography Mathilde Monnier

Music Heiner Goebbels

Choreographic Adaptation Florian Bilbao

Choreographic Assistant Jorge Gonçalves

Stage Design Annie Tolleter

Light Design and Technical Director Thierry Cabrera

Stage Manager, Sound and Video Luc David

with the participation of Agrupamento de Escolas Professor João de Meira, Asas de Palco - Escola de Artes Performativas, Associação Juvenil de Karaté Portugal, Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Locais, Grupo Folclórico de S. Torcato, M4M - Movement for the Music e Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Guimarães

Production Management Anne Fontanesi 

Production Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon - Programme Hors Séries - Zukunft@BPhil - The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Educative Department. zukunft@bphil is supported by the Deutsche Bank

Duration of the show 60'

City Maquette was in artistic residence at Guimarães during the period of one month and a half, the first period at the space of the local communities participants and, the second one, at the Factory ASA.

MEZZANINE

Artistic Direction and Production Management Ana Rocha and Jorge Gonçalves

Executive Production Pedro Fonseca

Co-Production MEZZANINE and Guimarães 2012 Capital Europeia da Cultura | Fundação Cidade de Guimarães

Funded by Presidência do Conselho de Ministros - Secretaria de Estado da Cultura/Direcção Geral das Artes

Support Instituto Francês, Câmara Municipal de Guimarães, Hotel Fundador, Centro Cultural de Ílhavo, Fnac GuimarãeShopping, Universidade do Minho and Vieira de Castro

Thanks Ana Araújo, António Matos, Elisabete Paiva, Isabel Machado, José Carlos, Pepe Garcia, André Delgado, Sofia Parente, Maria Manuel Oliveira, Rui Oliveira, Domingos Salvador and everyone that was involved in making this project possible.

PARTICIPANTS

Agrupamento de Escolas Professor João de Meira
Agostinho José Camelo, Ana Francisca Almeida, Ana Francisca Cunha, Ana Luísa Azadinho, Ana Margarida Costa, Ana Sofia Martins, Andreia Filipa Costa, António José Abreu, Bárbara Fernandes Silva, Francisco Alexandre Marinho, Gonçalo Almeida Freitas, Joana Novais Fernandes, João Afonso Boas, José Augusto Silva, Juliana Ferreira Silva, Laura Guimarães Arantes, Mafalda Carolina Magalhães, Mafalda Manuela Costa, Margarida Correia Silva, Maria Cecília Lopes, Miguel Ângelo Machado e Rui Miguel Baptista

Asas de Palco - Escola de Artes Performativas
Mafalda Silva, Sofia Baptista, Teresa Coimbra, Sofia Queiróz, Cláudio Lopes, Ana Araújo, João Abreu and Pedro Pereira

Associação Juvenil de Karaté Portugal
Filipe Ferreira, Helena Rodrigues, Isabel Rodrigues, Marília Oliveira, Ivan Monteiro, Daniela Cunha, Eunice Cunha, Pedro Sousa, Soraia Ferreira, Bruno Teixeira, Ricardo Silva, Vítor Marques, Pedro Campos, Adriano Araújo, Cátia Costa, Miguel Neves, Carlos Castro and Bruno Macedo

Associação para o Desenvolvimento das Comunidades Locais
Camila Martins, Delfina da Silva Castro, José Freitas Abreu, Josefa Silva Matos, Maria Laura de Matos and David Meireles

Grupo Folclórico de S. Torcato
Alberto Gabriel, Adozinda Pinheiro, Augusta Carvalho, Teresa Gabriel, Conceição Ferreira, José Fernandes, Maria da Conceição Araújo, Maria Pinheiro and Maria do Céu Martins

M4M - Movement for the Music
André Alves, Gisela Freitas, Susana Oliveira, Rita Fernandes, Ana Ferreira, Ruth Ferreira, Francisca Rodrigues, Afonso Neto, José Pedro Ferreira, Rita Miranda and Ana Rodrigues

Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Guimarães
Manuel António Ribeiro, Maria de Freitas, Maria Gorete Nogueira Cunha and Maria Amélia Pereira Teixeira