Nôt

Marlene Monteiro Freitas

9:30 p.m. Main Room

12€ / Pentágono Card 6€ Ages 12+

NÔT — which means ‘night’ in Cape Verdean Creole — brings us through a nocturnal, uncertain and unstable realm where dreams and nightmares, desire and violence, sleep and insomnia blur into one another. Premiered in July 2025 at the Festival d’Avignon in France, this latest creation by Marlene Monteiro Freitas is inspired by The Arabian Nights, not to adapt its tales but to invent her own night, populated by images and situations that oscillate between the burlesque and the macabre.

In this journey, dance, music, and theatre intertwine in a succession of gestures, images, and events – both comic and unsettling – in which precision coexists with chaos. NÔT explores the power of the imagination and the urgency of storytelling as a form of resistance and survival. Between the real and the imaginary, each image gives way to the next, on a night that seems to stretch on into infinity.

Credits

Choreography Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Choreography assistance Francisco Rolo
Cast Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Joãozinho da Costa, Mariana Tembe, Marie Albert, Miguel Filipe, Rui Paixão and Tomás Moital
Set design Yannick Fouassier and MMF
Lighting and technical direction Yannick Fouassier
Lighting operation João Chicó
Costume design Marlene Monteiro Freitas and Marisa Escaleira
Sound Rui Antunes
Sound operation João Bento
Stage direction Ana Luísa Novais
Artistic consult João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber
Production and distribution P.OR.K
Co-production Festival d’Avignon, Berliner Festspiele, International Summer Festival Kampnagel, Culturgest, MC2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble Scène nationale, Le Quartz Scène nationale, La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Maison de la danse Lyon Pôle européen de création, Parc de la Villette, Teatro Municipal do Porto, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, PACT Zollverein, Comédie de Genève, La Bâtie de Genève
Support Dançando com a Diferença and Fondation d’entreprise Hermès
Residencies O Espaço do Tempo, Alkantara and OPART/Estúdios Vítor Cordon

NÔT’s dramaturgical research was supported by Onassis AiR in 2025.

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Support Portuguese Republic – Culture, Youth and Sport / Directorate-General for the Arts / Portuguese Contemporary Art Network (RPAC) / Portuguese Network of Theatres and Cineteatros (RTCP) | BPI ‘La caixa’ Foundation