LEBRE – Lances de Hermes
Alexandre Pieroni Calado e João Ferro Martins
2022

Is a performance of the word as image-time, of philosophical hip-hop, of cabaret theater for digital citizens. The project takes as its starting point the idea that we are in an age of speed and communicability, which are attributes of the mythological figure of Hermes; from another perspective, it assumes a diagnosis of hermetic inflation, insofar as contemporary Western culture suffers from the manipulation of information, the dissolution of values, the commodification of culture and the arts. In this project, Alexandre Pieroni Calado, João Ferro Martins and José Miranda Justo deepen their reflection on the present time by revisiting the Greco-Latin tradition, as they have already done in O Declive e a Inclinação – Fragmentos do mito de Sísifo and A Morte nos Olhos – about the myth of Perseus and Medusa. Now, Lebre – Lances de Hermes is an oratorio-downtempo that creatively investigates the ambiguous ascendancy of Hermes in our time, especially the compulsive dynamism and accelerated dispersion of regimes of truth”.

Conception/Dramaturgy/Staging/Interpretation/Voice : Alexandre Pieroni Calado
Conception/Plastic Creation/Musical Direction/Interpretation/Drums+Electronics : João Ferro Martins
Original Text: José Miranda Justo
Musical Co-Creation/Interpretation/Teletones/Voice/Bass: Raquel Pimpão/Sofia Queiroz
Voice Off: José Miranda Justo/José Smith Vargas
Outer sight: Sandra Hung
Technical Direction: Sandro Esperança
Communication Design: Miguel Pacheco Gomes
Graphic Design (Video/Book): Ilhas Studio – Catarina Vasconcelos/Margarida Rêgo
Costume design: Marisa Escaleira
Executive Production: Marta Frade