Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe

Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe

Cantar

Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti & um cavalo disse mamãe

Cantar

Eight people embark on a great journey on foot. They are part of the same family or a caravan of traveling performers on tour or a pod of whales making the crossing from the coasts of the Colombian Pacific to the cold waters of Antarctica. We do not know where they came from or where they are going. They travel to avoid the announced catastrophe. And they sing.

They sing to ward off their ills, to find relief. They sing to escape death. They sing because they do not know what to say or because singing is the best way to express all they have to say. They sing like Gal Costa in the album Cantar (Sing), released in 1974, at the height of the military dictatorship in Brazil. A song that is a cry for freedom, in times of wars, religious intolerance, and extreme violence, where societies and their States rehearse a return to authoritarian policies, silencing, and deaths. They sing as a form of resistance. They sing even if the structures shake, the circus loses its tent, the sea invades the cities, or humanity forgets how to love.

According to Greek mythology, on the star Tau Ceti (in the constellation Cetus), 12 light-years from Earth, there exists a miraculous remedy capable of curing humans of sadness. Perhaps that’s where they are headed.

Montagem de Mayara Baptista. Fotografias de: © Walesca Timmen, Sara Giraldo e Piero Ramella .

21 NOV 2025
FRI 21:00

22 NOV 2025
SAT 19:00

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Emílio Rui Vilar Auditorium
14€ (discounts)
Duration 1h20
M/12

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22 NOV
SAT

Stage recognition for people with visual impairments (blind and low vision) at 6.00pm.

Part of Alkantara Festival

Alkantara Festival

Creation, performance and direction

Francisco Thiago Cavalcanti

Co-creation and performance

Bárbara Cordeiro, Francisca Pinto, Mayara Batista, Piero Ramella, Sara Paternesi, Yaw Tembe

Assistant director

Francisca Pinto

Original music

Yaw Tembe

Lighting design and technical direction

matéria leve 

Creation

Ska Batista e Josefa Pereira

Support and mentoring

Leticia Skrycky

Writing about the lighting project

Naiana Padial

Documentation and social networks

Walesca Timmen  

Photos

Walesca Timmen, Sara Giraldo

Executive production

Sinara Suzin (Alkantara)

Production

Alkantara e Culturgest 

Co-production

Teatro Municipal do Porto

Support for Creation

OPART, E.P.E./Estúdios Victor Córdon

Co-production residency

O Espaço do Tempo

Support

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Goethe Institut - Culture Moves Europe, La Caldera, Companhia Instável, PAF (Performing Arts Forum), Forum Dança, Centro Cultural da Malaposta, Ilê do Mestre Peixinho, N´goma Capoeira Angola

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