the essential
Lavelanet-Culture has programmed “Nobody is Pessoa” on Thursday, at 8:45 p.m., a tribute to the famous Portuguese poet.
Nico Pires, Franco-Portuguese artist, travels between his love for the new circus and writing poetry. This has accompanied him since adolescence, through slam, rap and the influence of his grandfather, an eternal lover of witticisms and witticisms.
Self-taught and professional since 2009, Nico has notably collaborated with 7 Doigts de la Main, Cirque du Soleil, created several long format shows for stage and street as well as numerous short forms. He regularly presents his texts in open slam scenes, and often mixes them with his circus performances.
His creations are modern, accessible, and invite us to introspection, while connecting to our child’s soul. In “Nobody is Pessoa”, Nico Pires pays homage to the journey of the famous and enigmatic Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa to the monumental work, creating bridges with his own path towards self-discovery, and his own Franco-Portuguese identity .
The figures of speech, rhymed or juggled, search for each other, get lost, collide, sometimes succeeding in articulating a few dreams, a few doubts and a farandole of emotions. Relying on his circus equipment (diabolo, balance, contact ball), and accompanied by the artists Leo Calvino, Solène Martins and Bruno Sousa, Nico takes us here on a journey through the words that have crossed his mind for years, and that he undertakes to inspire us with music, a cappella, under the benevolent presence of this identity questioner who was Fernando Pessoa.
-A major author of the 20th century, who left behind a trunk containing more than 27,000 texts, little known during his lifetime, Pessoa continues to be discovered today. A multifaceted personality, who wrote under several names which he called his heteronyms, he embodies introspection, reflection on identity.
His “other selves” had their own biographies, literary styles, conversed with each other… Like an inner dialogue that the author continued to have with himself until his death at the age of 47 in 1935. The play opens on one of these poems most revealing of its plurality: Autopsychographie.
A creation first initiated solo by Nico Pires, “Nobody is Pessoa” now takes a collective turn, at the crossroads of several artistic trajectories having in common lusophony, new circus and poetry.
