Guintche (Live Version)

Dance

13.9.-14.9.2024

PACT Zollverein

An eye-catching solo with gurning faces and highvoltage hips

While leaving jazz concert, Marlene Monteiro Freitas drew a little character, naming it “guintche”. In her native language, Portuguese-based Cape Verdean Creole, this word refers to a bird, a female sex worker or an attitude, – switching randomly between two unconnected subjects. In 2010, the choreographer brought this hybrid image, a product of her imagination, to life in a solo. With gurning face, bulging eyes, tongue out, swaying goofily, dressed as a wrestler or a begloved dancer, she electrified the stage. This uppercut of a piece made her famous. Now revived and augmented by the live energy of two completely unrestrained drummers, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier and Simon Lacouture, Guintche (Live Version) condenses the world of an artist who has made the grotesque, the carnivalesque and the fusion of opposites her hallmark.

Production by P.OR.K Associação Cultural. P.OR.K Associação Cultural is funded by the Portuguese Republic - Ministry of Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts.

The artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas looks wide-eyed into the camera, her face and hands painted in colour. — Guintche (Live Version), Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Ursula Kaufmann, Ruhrtriennale 2024

The artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas stands on a stage in a red top and a blue feathered skirt. — Guintche (Live Version), Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Ursula Kaufmann, Ruhrtriennale 2024

The artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas stands on a stage in a red top and a blue feathered skirt, with her hands raised and her back turned. There are two drums to the left and right of the stage. — Guintche (Live Version), Marlene Monteiro Freitas, drums: Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Simon Lacouture © Ursula Kaufmann, Ruhrtriennale 2024

The artist Marlene Monteiro Freitas stands on a stage wearing a red top and a blue feathered skirt. — Guintche (Live Version), Marlene Monteiro Freitas © Ursula Kaufmann, Ruhrtriennale 2024

Cast

Choreography and performance
- Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Live Music
- Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier ,
- Simon Lacouture (Drums)
Light
- João Chicó
Sound
- Tiago Cerqueira
Music
- Johannes Krieger (Trumpet) ,
- "Rotcha Scribida" de Amandio Cabral ,
- Cookie (Drums) ,
- Otomo Yoshihide (Excerpt from a guitar solo) ,
- Anatol Waschke (Shrapnel)
Costumes
- Marlene Monteiro Freitas ,
- Catarina Varatojo
Production
- P.OR.K (Carolina Goulart, Janine Lages – Lisbon, PT)
Distribution
- Key Performance
Coproduction
- ZDB-Negócio, Lisboa
Artistic Residencies
- O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, PT) ,
- Alkantara Festival (Lisbon, PT)
With the support of
- Re.Al (Lisbon, PT) ,
- Forum Dança (Lisbon, PT) ,
- Bomba Suicida (Lisbon, PT)
Acknowledgements
- Avelino Chantre ,
- Pedro Lacerda ,
- João Francisco Figueira ,
- Anatol Waschke
Production Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Sarah Heinrich
Technical Project Manager Ruhrtriennale
- Helmut Schandl
Technician
- Ralf Mittag ,
- Adam Petrenko ,
- Len Pichler ,
- Marcel Reidock
Dressing, collaboration costumes
- Asena Yesim Lappas

Visit

Language

English
Run time

50 min
Artist Talk

Following the performance on Saturday, 14 Sept, we invite interested people to an artist talk with participants of the production. The talk will be held in Englisch language.