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(This is not a love story. This is A & B + CRYING CYCLE 3)
Nowadays, everyday life is an ode to despair.
B is brutally manipulated, feels herself coming and going. She does not understand the pain but accepts it. A is an interruption of B. B accepts it, allows herself to be interrupted. Allows herself to be corrupted. They seem whole to one another, but they are not. They seem attentive, but they are not. It seems sexual, but it is not. They learn the game from one another, transforming themselves in the process. Saturated with everyday life, with repetition. A and B are defence mechanisms against themselves and against what surrounds them. They are power games. They collide, they shift, they stir. And power falls. There is no longer any power, only revolt. B has always manipulated A into manipulating her
The relationship between A and B is superficially warm and deeply cold.
Maurícia Barreira Neves (Portimão, 1989) Choreographer and performer, also venturing into music, costume and lighting design in her creations.
In 2025, she focuses on her latest creation, "sensível", with Ana de Oliveira e Silva, Jo Castro, Mara Nunes and Vera Martins, which premieres in April 2026 at Cineteatro Louleano, followed by a presentation at Festival DDD in Porto.
In 2024, she focuses on the research project “Uma pesquisa ainda à procura de título.”
She created the pieces “WHAT TOOK YOU so long?” (2023); “FODAM-ME TUDO menos o coração!” (2021/2023); “and STILL we MOVE”, in collaboration with Joana Castro (2021); “anesthetize” (2019); “This is not for sale e é um manifesto” (2018); “I can’t see the sea” (2018); “We are NOT so pretentious”, in collaboration with António Torres and Barbara Carlos (2017); “The power of unknown CHAOS” (2016); “WE WILL USE SMOKE MACHINES” (2016); “I’m not comfortable talking to you from up here” (2015); “This is not a love story. This is A and B” (2015); “This is not entertainment” (2013); “KITSCHCAMP - JUÍZO FINAL”, in collaboration with Jhonny Aguiar, Tomé Simão Dionisio, Francisco Leston and Mauro Lampreia (2010); “(des)encaixada” (2009).
She works/has worked with RADAR 360; Martim Pedroso; Ana Borralho e João Galante; João Sousa Cardoso; Joris Lacoste; Collectif Jambe; André Uerba; Gustavo Ciríaco; Lígia Soares; Bruno Humberto e Rui Paiva; Jo Castro, Tiago Viera, Amarelo Silvestre, Thamiris Carvalho, António Lago, Sofia Sarmento, Hotel Europa, Margarida Mestre, Xana Novais, Ana Rita Xavier and Daniel Conant, Eric Santos, Diana Niepse and Renata Portas.
She has presented her creations in Portugal, Lithuania, Romania and Germany.
Concept, choreography and costumes
Maurícia | Neves
Performance
António Torres and Barbara Carlos
Lighting design based on the original version
Joana Mário
Music
Says by Nils Frahm, Little Smoke by This Will Destroy You
Live sound operation
Jo Castro
Video and photography
Catherina Cardoso and João Catarino (Duck.production)
Co-production
CCB
Residencies
Alkantara, O Espaço Do Tempo, EIRA, Jazzy Dance Studios and Musibéria
Rehearsal spaces
Rumo do Fumo and Teatro da Voz - Real Pelágio
Duration
40 min.
16+
