Dance
NÔT
Marlene Monteiro Freitas
As part of Tanz im August
37th International Festival Berlin
presented by HAU Hebbel am Ufer
German Premiere in cooperation with Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel (Hamburg)
NÔT © Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery & Nicolas Henri Jacob
In her work, choreographer Marlene Monteiro Freitas explores metamorphosis as a space where identity and alterity blur. With a desire to unravel the boundaries of the fixed and the familiar, she invites the audience into shifting terrains of perception. Her new piece, “NÔT”, (Cape Verdean Creole for ‘night’) draws from “1001 Nights” to create a fable-like structure built on accumulation, interruption and suspense. Tales of love and war, imprisonment and freedom, vice and virtue unfold in layered succession. “NÔT” becomes an artefact of survival and imagination, where, as Freitas writes, “night after night, the stage becomes an onion.”
Artistic Team
Marlene Monteiro Freitas – Choreographer
Francisco Rolo – Assistant choreographer
Yannick Fouassier, Marlene Monteiro Freitas – Set designer
Yannick Fouassier – Lighting designer & technical director
João Chicó – Light operator
Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Marisa Escaleira – Costume design
Rui Antunes – Sound design
Ana Luísa Novais – Stage management
Cláudio Silva – Special stage prop
Emma Ait-Kaci – Set design internship
João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber – Artistic consultancy
Key Performance – Diffusion
With
Marie Albert, Joãozinho de Costa, Miguel Filipe, Ben Green, Henri ʻCookieʼ Lesguillier, Tomás Moital, Rui Paixão, Mariana Tembe
Production: P.OR.K. Co-production: Festival d'Avignon, Berliner Festspiele, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel, Culturgest, MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale, Le Quartz – Scène National de Brest, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand scène nationale, Maison de la Danse Lyon – Pôle européen de création, La Vilette, Comédie de Genève & La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, Onassis STEGI, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, PACT Zollverein. Residencies support: O Espaço do Tempo, Alkantara, OPART, E.P.E. / ESTÚDIOS VÍTOR CORDON. Onassis AiR, MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble – Scène nationale, Internationales Sommerfestival Kampnagel.
Institutional support Dançando com a Diferença
Acknowledgements Carlos Duarte, Atelier MC2 Grenoble
The dramaturgical research of NÔT was supported by Onassis AiR in 2025
With the kind support of CAMÕES BERLIM.
In cooperation with Berliner Festspiele
Organiser Tanz im August / HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Tanz im August is a festival of HAU Hebbel am Ufer, supported by means of the Capital City Cultural Fund.
www.tanzimaugust.de