matéria leve is a training project in scenic lighting coordinated by Leticia Skrycky with assistance from Carolina Campos. The project is aimed at cisgender women, non-binary people and transgender people, and is free to access.

Based on a collective learning space that converges on three fundamental pillars: research, experimentation and technique, its main objective is to share a set of fundamental tools for the professional development of the discipline, accompanying participants in the artistic practice of stage lighting, encouraging research and collaboration.

​In progress since May 2, 2024, the group is made up of:

Ana Luisa Novais

Bee Barros

Gabriela Claveria

Josefa Pereira

June João Abreu

Naiana Padial

Priscila Altivo

Ska Batista

Support:

Alkantara - Cultural Association; REAL; Graner - Dance creation center for live arts; Gaivotas Cultural Center l Boavista

Working at Espaço Alkantara since May, the group light matter 2024 wanted to share its space for experimentation and collective reflection around stage lighting with everyone who wants to participate in an open work session.

It took place on Wednesday, July 31st, at 7pm, at Espaço Alkantara.

We shared with the public the affections that mobilize our project, some of the questions we have been working on in our first three months of practice, our desires and attempts.

A study group interested in scenic design as a performative language watches pieces presented at the Alkantara Festival, analyzing the particular situations of each work.

Starting from the principle that scenic pieces are, first and foremost, a situation of attention, we will ask ourselves about the relational architecture that hosts them, enabling unique ways of seeing and listening. We will approach this dimension where a play takes place as a territory that invites us to enter. 

From the perspective of languages commonly used in the performing arts such as lighting, sound, scenography, etc., we want to ask the following questions: What place does this work create? What senses does it open? What gaze and listening does this piece propose? Which relations do we find? What operations could nourish them? To what are we being invited?

The Study Group is composed by:

Admila Cardoso

Carolina Campos

Beatriz Santos

Bee Barros

Bobby Brim

Gabriela Valenzuela

Josefa Pereira

Leticia Skrycky

Madalena Wallenstein de Castro

Maura Grimaldi

Working period: 

November 12th to 15th and 17th to 20th 2023

Lisbon, Portugal