“The Blood of All Colours - Africa in Us” is the name of the multidisciplinary show by Companhia João Garcia Miguel, which will be on stage at Espaço Damas on Tuesday.
The author of the text and artistic director, João Garcia Miguel, told Lusa news agency that he came across part of this poem during one of his visits to Mozambique, which led him to want to get to know not only this poem, but also the work of Noémia de Sousa.
The poem was combined with his desire to “work on something that has a lot to do with performers, African bodies, the relationship with Africa” and the relationship with “bodies, performers, the African actor, the African dancer, African performative expression”.
For the stage, João Garcia Miguel brought the nonconformity that Noémia presents in her poetry, relating travel, slavery, the slave trade, and Africa’s relationship with Brazil.
“We linked this idea very much to Brazil, this idea of black blood that also travelled all over the world and created, in essence, a culture with various forms of expression”, he added.
And he added: “The audience will find a show that is a kind of popular assembly, very close to the audience, very intimate, that invokes the idea of public space, of gathering, of expression of fraternity and solidarity, that leads people to confront this idea between what each person is with their life dream and the idea that the life dream is only possible if we also nurture something that is collective”.
“The poems are used because, in essence, we created, just like Noémia, a dream of utopia, of the birth of a new, renewed democracy, that speaks about this blood of all colours, that speaks about this world that, in some way, we all dream and imagine”, he added.
Edmundo Sardinha, José Trassi, Leo Emílio, Mai Júli Machado, Preta Ferreira, Ramadane Matusse are the actors who give life to this “Black Blood”.
