ondamarela

This year ondamarela is working in Esposende, for Resonances, by PARTIS & Art for Change – Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and La Caixa Foundation. At the invitation of the incredible Rio Neiva, we are starting a project with students from the Henrique Medina secondary school, which will take us along the paths of water, the waters of the region and awareness of sound, the environment, and the surroundings.
It’s been really cool!

In 2025 we will return to places where we were happy, in very beautiful projects. We will be working again with Tim Steiner, with Reece Delia, in Malta and Spain and on mental health. What more could we ask for? Follow this European project, it will be worth it!

More here.

We couldn’t start 2025 in a better way!
This Saturday, January 4th, join us and the Moreira de Couros community!
“I looked at my feet (to see where I was)” is the show co-created with these people, in this place.
Show up! Saturday, January 4th, at 9:30 pm, at the Parish Center of Moreira de Cónegos.

Will be missed.

We spent the last few days leading “Participation Projects and Workshop Techniques” in Luxembourg for the very noble ASTM Luxembourg It was so great!

https://youtube.com/shorts/cE8aI9O8dV0?si=oy9IhidWTYzggnvx

Merci, ASTM Luxembourg!
Muer gëtt et méi. 💛

In Sever do Vouga we present “Freedom, Memory and Art”, a performance created with the local population, as part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the 25th of April. Based on a very interesting reflection on the specific and generic aspects of Freedom issues, in the present and in the past. The public and participants were invited to wish futures for themselves and for everyone. It was very intense and very special, once again, to be in Sever do Vouga with such beautiful people.
As a memory of this beautiful days, we leave you with a poignant poem, created for the show by Lurdes.

Always the water
The water always sang to me on the tiles
I live where its spouts
Their mouths gushem
The words that the night collects in the jar
And drinks with pleasure
They taste like dirt because they are mine
I’m not from here and I don’t owe you anything
No one can deny the evidence of being flame
Or water,
To flow instead of being stone
Forgive me for being transparent
Maria de Lurdes Costa

Thank you all, and also to our Patrícia Costa and our Miguel Ramos, for their talent and contribution, always full of love and determination.

Ondamarela was once again on the MAPAS – Torres Vedras festival, this time developing a creation with the Sociedade Filarmónica Ermegeirense and the incredible Visual Impairment Support Office. We also had the participation of a group of “random” people who joined us and took the performance to a completely crazy place. It was the “Corrente D’ar” project that was presented on the 1st and 3rd of November, directed by Ricardo Baptista and Artur Carvalho. It was also the first time we had skaters in the spotlight in one of our performances. We leave Torres Vedras once again with a warm heart! Thank you all!

Ondamarela spent the last week in Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, on an artistic residency for the incredible Festival Keroxen. Working with an incredible group of people from Funcasor, the Conservatório and who joined us in an Open Call, we created a performance that spoke about the island, the people, the sound, the differences in level, about opening doors and letting people in!
Thank you to the festival for the wonderful invitation, thank you to all the friends we made, for the learning, for the dedication, for the love.

 

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Ondamarela promoted, for the Vapor Festival, in Entroncamento, the performance “Nuvem de Futuro”, with around 3 dozen people of all ages, from this city. Based on the idea of ​​”Fantasizing the Future”, phenomena, doubts and certainties, questions and myths were discussed. The city, its characteristics, needs, and the desires of its inhabitants now and for a long time were also discussed. Children from “Sports Holidays” also participated in the construction phase, creating news of the future and the musical basis for one of the themes.

The cloud, the lack of definition, the “maybe…”, the “not knowing”, with the motto of Fernando Pessoa’s Desassossego Book, were the mainstay of the entire performance, which took place on the last day of the Festival, the 29th, throughout from the Festival site, but ending at the Telheiro Stage. A very beautiful process, of great learning, with an amazing group of people. Thanks everyone.

Mist or Cloud? Did it ascend from the earth or descend from the sky? It wasn’t known. It was more like a disease of the air than a descent or an emanation. Sometimes it seemed more like a disease of the eyes than a reality of nature.

Whatever it was, there was a restless feeling throughout the landscape.
blurred tion, made of forgetfulness and attenuation. It was as if the silence of the sun took over an imperfect body. One would say that something was going to happen and that everywhere there was an intuition by which the visible was veiled. It was difficult to tell whether the sky had clouds or rather mist, it was a dull torpor, an imponderably yellowish greyness, except where it faded into false pink or where it stagnated, turning blue, but then it was also impossible to distinguish whether it was the sky that was revealing itself, if it was another blue that covered it.

Nothing was defined or indefinite. That’s why one felt like calling the mist a cloud because it didn’t look like a mist or asking if it was a mist or a cloud because one couldn’t understand what it was.

Bernardo Soares (Fernando Pessoa) Book of Disquiet

Photos by João Roldão