Manuel's actual structure: a performative project
Born in Lisbon, in 2000, and after a first childhood as an art piece and an intense adolescence as an acoustic play, Manuel is now a young adult who does not hesitate to use any media or language to express himself.
His first performative steps where meant to present himself and his acoustic phase and obliged him to embody into physical people.
This happened for the first time in Lisbon (2005) with Leopold von Verschuer & Alínea B. Issilva, in the Goethe Institut, he was Manuel unterüberzetzung, spoken mainly in German and Portuguese. His recorded self, Manuel's radio trilogy, was spoken in dozens of languages, including middle Egyptian.
Some time latter, in Berlin, in 2006, at the Mustermesse of TheaterDiscount, the three "Manuels" (Alínea, Leopold & Alvaro) with the complicity of some more friends produced a 4 hours long multilingual performance Manuel in Kreutzberg. Besides the radio play and the actors, this performance included also : music, talk show and graphic arts. In 2007 a similar model was used to present another of Alvaro's radio plays "Corpus Delicti" in the Akademie der Kunste where Mattias Breitenbach joined Alínea, Leopold & Alvaro, there was also the introduction of another visual element: a very animated power point.
Finally, in 2008, with Arnaud Churin and Emanuela Pace, Alvaro and Alínea define Manuel as a performative format, polyphonic, multilingual, with a variable number of interpreters and media. Manuel oficially becomes Manuel on Stage for the first time in Lille under the form of a quintet, at the Théâtre Le Prato. The following year (2009) Manuel went to Paris where he performed with 8, 11 and 23 interpreters at the Maison de la Poésie and then in Lisbon, at the Teatro Taborda (quintet).
Up to now have participated to this authentic Manueliade : Wénic Dominique Pierre Béaruné (New Caledonia), Alínea Berlitz Issilva (Portugal), Luciana Botelho (Brasil), Matthias Breitenbach (Germany), Arnaud Churin (France), Yaël Elhadad (Israel), Rocco Giordano (Naples), Zakariya Gouram (France), Oliver Grajewski (Germany), Daniel Kientzy (France), Felhyt Kimbirima (Congo Republic), Johanna Korthals Altes (Holande), Marie Kraft (Suède), Millaray Lobos (Chile), Elizabeth Mazev (Bulgaria), Maria de Medeiros (Portugal), Emma Morin (Colombia), Emanuela Pace (Italy), Dominique Parent (France), Eric Pessan (France), Denis Podalydès (France), Sophie Plattner (Switzerland), Myrto Procopiou (Greece/Egypt), Denis Pourawa (New Caledonia), Guillaume Rannou (France), Yves Rousguisto (France), Nicolas Struve (France/Russia), Leopold von Verschuer (Germany), Bo Wiget (Germany), Liu Yan (China).
Manuel born as a piece of art that became acoustic before jumping on stage is essentially multidisplinary and willing to absorb every available element, audio and/or video tools, as well as any other tool, object or device suitable to each specific performance.
Manuel expects that his maturity will be a literary one...
Manuel on Stage already manualized... :
I) Manuel on Stage at the Théâtre Le Prato, Lille, 4th march 2008
with : Arnaud Churin, Millaray Lobos, Dominique Parent, Emanuela Pace, Alínea B. Issilva and : ukelele, radio, microphone, cleaning tools and some other musical instruments/objects.
II) Manuel on Stage at the Maison de la Poésie, Paris, 8 may 2009
with : Myrto Procopiou, Emanuela Pace, Alínea B. Issilva, Leopold von Verschuer, Dominique Parent, Arnaud Churin, Guillaume Rannou, Wénic Dominique Pierre Béaruné, Yves Rousguisto and his acoustic pumpkins as well as ukelele, cleaning tools and some other musical instruments/objects.
Screening of the film " InfraAction" with Elizabeth Mazev
III) Manuel (on Stage) de sol et tubes at the Maison de la Poésie, Paris, 9 may 2009
with [Myrto Procopiou, Emanuela Pace, Alínea B. Issilva, Leopold von Verschuer, Dominique Parent, Arnaud Churin, Guillaume Rannou, Wénic Dominique Pierre Béaruné, Maria de Medeiros – special guest star, Yves Rousguisto and his acoustic pumpkins, Daniel Kientzy and his saxophones, ukelele and microfone.
Screening of the film "O Cara é K" with Denis Podalydès
IV) Feu Manuel (on Stage) Vive l'artifice at the Maison de la Poésie, Paris, 10 may 2009
with Alínea B. Issilva, Luciana Botelho, Wénic Dominique Pierre Béaruné, Arnaud Churin, Yaël Elhadad, Rocco Giordano, Zakariya Gouram, Felhyt Kimbirima, Johanna Korthals Altes, Marie Kraft, Emma Morin, Emanuela Pace, Dominique Parent, Eric Pessan, Sophie Plattner, Denis Pourawa, Myrto Procopiou, Guillaume Rannou, Nicolas Struve, Leopold von Verschuer, Liu Yan, Yves Rousguisto and his acoustic pumpkins, Daniel Kientzy and his saxophones.
V) Manuel on Stage in Lisbon, crossroad of worlds, Teatro Taborda, 23rd and 24th may 2009
with : Arnaud Churin, Myrto Procopiou, Dominique Parent, Emanuela Pace, Alínea B. Issilva and : ukelele, radios, microphone, and other small instruments.
Manuel (sur Scène) de sol et tubes at the Maison de la Poésie, Paris, 9 may 2009 with Myrto Procopiou, Emanuela Pace]], Alínea B. Issilva, Leopold von Verschuer, Dominique Parent, Arnaud Churin, Guillaume Rannou, Wénic Dominique Pierre Béaruné, Maria de Medeiros - special guest star, Yves Rousguisto and his acoustic pumpkins, Daniel Kientzy and his saxophones.
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