Atempo Gato Blanco Gato Negro [AR]

Circus / Clown

3+ | 40′

May 22nd | 05:30 PM
Rossio

May 22nd | 10:15 PM
May 23rd | 05:15 PM
Rua dos Descobrimentos

May 23rd | 07:45 PM
Praça Dr. Gaspar Moreira

Portuguese premiere
MAIS IMAGINARIUS

The world insists on alignment, efficiency and composure. Atempo does the opposite. It opens a crack where the ridiculous gains the right to exist and difference no longer needs to apologise. Two clowns, extravagant and unequal, enter the scene as if stepping into a square to turn the game upside down. One pushes the other out of the obvious, and from this misalignment a new logic emerges, unstable, yet contagious.

Everything happens without words, because here the language is another one: that of impulse, failure, obstinacy, of small risks that suddenly grow. Time does not move in a straight line, it stumbles, accelerates, stops, rewinds, invents shortcuts. With every attempt, they reinvent the world to their own measure, with the joy of those who refuse to function “as they should”, and with the precision of those who know that laughter also demands rigour.

Atempo is raw energy, play as method, resistance as celebration. There is no moral, only luminous disobedience. And when the audience finds itself laughing, it realises it is not merely watching, it is taking part in this brief suspension of rules, in this instant community that forms when someone dares to fail without shame and persist without asking for permission.

Concept, direction and production
Gato Blanco Gato Negro

Assistant director
Raul Bruschini

Creation and performance
Paula Zapata
Javier Casali

Costumes
Cristian Ayala
Liant La Tela

Make-up
Joaquin Etchett

Web design
Mariana Lescano

Video / trailer
Soy Bandi Audiovisual