performance | SAGAPO

Created, Directed and interpreted by: Irene Michailidis and André Casaca

External look: Marina Abib

Production: Teatro del Respiro (FR/IT) Co-production: Teatro C’art (IT) and Casa do Movimento (BR)

Sagapó is love. Love for life.

Like a line drawn in reverse, Sagapò celebrates life from death.

Through a ritual of repeated gestures, essentiality was sought that leads to

clarity of emotions, emptying what is disorderly to rediscover the space

to feel simple and open to play and euphoria.

Essentiality that starts from the stage choice: Black and white. A man and a woman. Two chairs and a microphone. A guitar. A physical theater, at times comic and grotesque, poetic and absurd, where the word becomes gramelot, where music and sound on stage interact with movement. Two elegant characters chasing each other, waiting, dancing barefoot on a dry land. The voices of a funeral rite intertwine, the rebetiko rhythm of one party, the cheerful greetings of those who leave and those who arrive.