Portuguese dancer and choreographer working on the tension between choreography, sonority and relational space
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
One or to bodies; six at most.
It’s a long yesterday is an exercise on desire, fracture and multiplication.
For this project we are driven by the personal and intimate purpose of working on our condition of twin sisters - and what that means for us - as a research tool to reflect on the potentiality of an imprecise and multiple body. Therefore, we start from a concept that is always present in our biographical universe – resemblance. A dubious concept in itself, since what is similar is neither the same nor different, but is placed in an intermediate space between the two opposites. Resemblance is nothing more than a space of indefiniteness, of anonymity, and for that very reason it is an open space to multiple senses and meanings. "It’s a long yesterday” is located in that intermediate place: between the same and the different, between the one and the multiple, between a gesture of love and a gesture of hate.
Creation and performance
Carminda Soares and Maria R Soares
Original music
Antonio Marotta
Lighting design
João Abreu
Video
Alberto Seixas
Artistic consulting
Cristina Planas Leitão, Lara Russo, Rogério Nuno Costa and Susana Otero
Coproduction
Instável - Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto
Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Residency support
Instável - Centro Coreográfico, Visões Úteis, TUP - Teatro Universitário do Porto, Circolando, Associazione Culturale Alchemilla (IT)
Administration
Sekoia - Artes Performativa


Venue
Country
Performance
Date
5 Aug 2023
típica festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
27 May 2023
Babylon Europa, ufa Fabrik
Germany
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
9 Dec 2023
Portugal
Teatro Ribeiro Conceição
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 May 2023
Portugal
Inestética
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
22 June 2022
Portugal
Theatro Circo
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 April 2022
Portugal
CineTeatro Alba
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
Portugal
Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
1 April 2022
Portugal
Festival contraDANÇA
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
18 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021
Portugal
GIRO Dance Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 August 2021
Traffic Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
Italy
24 June 2021
Portugal
GrETUA
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
8 May 2021
Portugal
MIRA Artes Performativa
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
31 March 2021
Portugal
Teatro Municipal do Porto
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
12 May 2022
Portugal
Traffic Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY-
12 May 2022
Portugal
GIRO Dance Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY-
25 June 2022
Portugal
III edição Vale d-artes
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
29 October 2022
Portugal
Favo das Artes
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
27 April 2022
Portugal
Paços da Cultura
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
14 March 2026
Portugal
Teatro Virgínia
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
UPCOMING
28 June 2025
CC Macedo de Cavaleiros
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
Portugal








IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
One or to bodies; six at most.
It’s a long yesterday is an exercise on desire, fracture and multiplication.
For this project we are driven by the personal and intimate purpose of working on our condition of twin sisters - and what that means for us - as a research tool to reflect on the potentiality of an imprecise and multiple body. Therefore, we start from a concept that is always present in our biographical universe – resemblance. A dubious concept in itself, since what is similar is neither the same nor different, but is placed in an intermediate space between the two opposites. Resemblance is nothing more than a space of indefiniteness, of anonymity, and for that very reason it is an open space to multiple senses and meanings. "It’s a long yesterday” is located in that intermediate place: between the same and the different, between the one and the multiple, between a gesture of love and a gesture of hate.
Creation and performance
Carminda Soares and Maria R Soares
Original music
Antonio Marotta
Lighting design
João Abreu
Video
Alberto Seixas
Artistic consulting
Cristina Planas Leitão, Lara Russo, Rogério Nuno Costa and Susana Otero
Coproduction
Instável - Centro Coreográfico and Teatro Municipal do Porto
Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
Residency support
Instável - Centro Coreográfico, Visões Úteis, TUP - Teatro Universitário do Porto, Circolando, Associazione Culturale Alchemilla (IT)
Administration
Sekoia - Artes Performativa

Venue
Country
Performance
Date
5 Aug 2023
típica festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
27 May 2023
Babylon Europa, ufa Fabrik
Germany
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
9 Dec 2023
Portugal
Teatro Ribeiro Conceição
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 May 2023
Portugal
Inestética
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
22 June 2022
Portugal
Theatro Circo
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 April 2022
Portugal
CineTeatro Alba
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
Portugal
Teatro Cine de Torres Vedras
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
1 April 2022
Portugal
Festival contraDANÇA
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
18 Oct 2021
5 Oct 2021
Portugal
GIRO Dance Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
21 August 2021
Italy
Traffic Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
24 June 2021
Portugal
GrETUA
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
8 May 2021
Portugal
MIRA Artes Performativa
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
31 March 2021
Portugal
Teatro Municipal do Porto
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
12 May 2022
Portugal
Traffic Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY-
12 May 2022
Portugal
GIRO Dance Festival
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY-
25 June 2022
Portugal
III edição Vale d-artes
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
29 October 2022
Portugal
Favo das Artes
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
27 April 2022
Portugal
Paços da Cultura
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY
14 March 2026
Portugal
Teatro Virgínia
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY -
UPCOMING
28 June 2025
Portugal
Centro Cultural Macedo de Cavaleiros
IT'S A LONG YESTERDAY



