creation
LIBERTAÇÃO-LIBERATION
Winged victory of Samothrace
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
© Marcos Fernandes
Creative &
Technical Team
Creation & Interpretation Maria Ana Diogo
Support in Process André Pinto
Soundscape Nuno Cruz
Direction & Edit Lucas Sadalla
Light Iolanda Rodrigues / Filipe Quaresma
Music original sound design from "Vissi d'arte“ (Giacomo Puccini), Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro Alla Scala; "Anjinho da Guarda", António Variações; "Muda de vida" (raw cassette recording), António Variações; "Muda de vida" (António Variações), Humanos
Premiere
Performances
April 29, 2025 - International Dance Day, Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi, Setúbal (Portugal)
May 3, 2025 - Young Choreographers showcase 2025, Fórum Municipal Luísa Todi, Setúbal (Portugal)
Duration
11 to 12 min
About
LIBERTAÇÃO - LIBERATION
For my Mother
“I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you”.
Walt Whitman, Song of Myself
We live in a deafening world. The accumulation of external and self-imposed pressures numbs our ability to discover and follow our essential Self. Each day, we make choices that intimately contradict our soul and slowly drain our will, pushing away what we recognize as our own.
Are we still open to receiving a chance of redemption? To be born from within? To listen, in the silence of ourselves, to our inner vibration?
© Cecília Fernandez
© Cecília Fernandez
© Cecília Fernandez
© Cecília Fernandez
The initial movement seed of this piece emerged in Berlin, through inspiring connections and compositional exploration, and was later developed in Lisbon.
LIBERTAÇÃO – LIBERATION presentation
The aesthetics are stripped down to the necessary elements: a wooden chair, a lamp, spaces outlined by light, and the intimate relationship between light and sound, movement and emotion. Each element with a purpose, carefully positioned and present.
Everything that revealed itself as essential to this solo resonated and expanded through significant collaborations with sound designer Nuno Cruz and video artist & film director Lucas Sadalla. This partnership also gave rise to the video work presented as the creation’s trailer.
The video was conceived as an ineffable window into two coexisting universes—internal and external—reflecting moments of our innate, unfolding journey. To mirror this duality, both stage and natural landscape were chosen as filming locations. The outdoor scenes were captured in a place deeply meaningful to me: Serra da Arrábida, the Mother Mountain (Serra-Mãe).
© André Pinto
© André Pinto
© André Pinto
© André Pinto
© André Pinto
© Lucas Sadalla
© Lucas Sadalla
© Lucas Sadalla
© Lucas Sadalla
© Lucas Sadalla
maria ana diogo
Teaching
Creation
Contact
maria.a.diogo@gmail.com