Plot

Inspired by Franz Kafka's literary classic The Metamorphosis, the show Metamorfose forms part of the repertoire of the Núcleo de Criação Gustavo Silvestre and emerges from the intersection of dance, theatre and audiovisual art to construct a powerful and original scenic experience.

On stage, the body experiences states of pressure, urgency and suspension, revealing a process of transformation that takes place in cycles of tension, rupture and reorganization.

The work investigates the contemporary experience of living under constant demands, addressing issues such as exhaustion, overload and the difficulty of sustaining stable forms in the face of a permanently changing world. Metamorphosis is no longer merely a symbol and comes to operate as a condition: a body that deforms, resists and seeks to reinvent itself.

Between drama and movement, the show invites the audience to recognise, in the layers of the body on stage, aspects of their own experience — their anxieties, displacements and attempts at reconstruction.

Synopsis

Waking up and not recognising your own body. Losing shape, language, control.
Inspired by Franz Kafka, Metamorfose reveals a body in exhaustion and overload, pierced by ruptures and attempts at
reorganisation.
Between collapse and permanence, transformation ceases to be an event — it becomes a condition.

SPECIFICATIONS
Duration: 40 mins
Certificate: 12
Proscenium stage

Cast and crew

Creation, choreography and performer GUSTAVO SILVESTRE

WANDERSON GASPAR Production and Legal Advisory

Staging and Lighting Designer JOÃO BOSCO AMARAL

Director of Photography LARRY MACHADO

Original Soundtrack RODRIGO FLAMARION

CLÁUDIO LIVAS costumes

IZABELLE ELEONORA makeup

Photo: Publicity LU BARCELOS, RUBENS NETO, ANDRÉ MIRANDA AND MARCELLA LANDEIRO

MARCELLA LANDEIRO Communication

Press Office LUMIEIRA AGENCY

ROOSEVELT SAAVEDRA Lighting Designer

LINO ARAÚJO Scenario

Filming Assistants RUBENS NETO, BRUNA CHAMELET, ELAYNE SANT, WESLEY REZENDE


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