Aguário

Aguário is an eminently musical and fluid show that delves into the relationship between human beings and water in all its forms. On a stage covered with tubs of different sizes, two figures (half magical, half real) move with an elegance that I can only admire from a distance.

This time, my presence is off stage, in a territory familiar to me from my years as a teacher: the control room. It is from there that I have the pleasure of managing the projections that come to life on an atmospheric balloon about four metres in diameter, and manipulating (almost like a director) what the hidden cameras capture. I feel this work is like a musical trio: a continuous dialogue in which my "instrument" produces no sound, but responds rhythmically to what my colleagues offer me on stage.

Of all the shows I have done with the Companhia de Música Teatral, this is perhaps the least narrative. Even so, it carries a crystal-clear message about the vital importance of water. In a way, it is part of what I consider to be CMT's "hidden trilogy", which began with O Céu Por Cima de Cá and concluded with Canção da Terra.

Aguário oscillates intelligently between the foolish and the transcendent, without ever settling too much on one end of the spectrum.