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

mariarsoares@proton.me
mariarsoares@proton.me
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

mariarsoares@proton.me

© Maria R. Soares

mariarsoares@proton.me

© Maria R. Soares