INSIDE³

— Everything is so well explained but I can´t understand a thing.
— I may look at a square and never see that behind it there’s always been a cube.

This cube aims to speak from within. Like art, it waits patiently to grow inside those who see it, unfolding unexpected memories and feelings. The tree doesn’t control where its seeds will fall, but it trusts the ground to be fertile. This performance is about the artistic manifestation of the human spirit, simultaneously translator and creator of the most unspeakable things.

A play for children created by Ana Catarina Santos and Sílvio Vieira. First performed on 5 February 2019 at Fábrica das Artes — Centro Cultural de Belém.

3 December 2023 at Contrapeso Festival, Loulé
21 - 26 June 2022 at Bairro em Festa Festival, Lisbon
5 - 10 February 2019 at Fábrica das Artes CCB, Lisbon

video and rider • available for touring

created and performed by Ana Catarina Santos and Sílvio Vieira
text Sílvio Vieira
sound mixing Ana Catarina Santos
photography João Leão, Bruno Simão and Ivo Rodrigues
production outro

commissioned by CCB Fábrica das Artes (2019)

acknowledgements Fernando Leitão, Vanda Rodrigues

35 min M6

“The girl learned to lie when she realized he was looking at her.

— Did you put me in this dress? (pause, the boy stays silent) Are you telling the truth? (the girl places the mask over his mouth) How about now? (places the mask over his eyes) Are we alone? Why do I cover my feet? Have you learned how to feel yet? Can you dance?

The girl leaves the cube, and the boy stays. The girl looks at the writing on the wall: “WHY DO I COVER MY FEET WHEN I SEE YOU” as if it were a landscape. She starts dancing, following the lines of her self-portrait, while drawing other lines. She climbs the cube and lies on top of it. The boy remains inside. She looks at the people in the audience, confronting them.

At some point, she goes to the window and draws the curtain, letting light invade the room. We see her leaving.”