After a jazz concert, Marlene Monteiro Freitas drew a little character, naming it »guintche«. In her native language, Cape Verdean Creole, this word refers to a bird, a female sex worker or an attitude. In 2010, the choreographer brought this hybrid image, a product of her imagination, to life in a solo. With gurning face, bulging eyes, tongue out, swaying goofily, dressed as a wrestler or a begloved dancer, she electrified the stage. Now revived and augmented by the live energy of two completely unrestrained drummers, the piece condenses the world of an artist who has made the grotesque, the carnivalesque and the fusion of opposites her hallmark.

Choreography and performance: Marlene Monteiro Freitas Live music: Henri »Cookie« Lesguillier, Simon Lacouture (drums), Light: João Chicó, Sound: Tiago Cerqueira, Music: Johannes Krieger (trumpet), »Rotcha Scribida« de Amandio Cabral, Cookie (drums), Otomo Yoshihide (excerpt of a guitar solo), Anatol Waschke (shrapnel), Costume design: Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Catarina Varatojo

Production: P.OR.K (Carolina Goulart, Janine Lages - Lisbon, PT), Distribution: Key Performance, Co-production: ZDB-Negócio, Lisboa, Artistic Residencies: O Espaço do Tempo (Montemor-o-Novo, PT), Alkantara Festival (Lisbon, PT), With the support of Re.Al (Lisbon, PT), Forum Dança (Lisbon, PT), Bomba Suicida (Lisbon, PT), Acknowledgements: Avelino Chantre, Pedro Lacerda, João Francisco Figueira, Anatol Waschke, Artistic Production Management Ruhrtriennale: Sarah Heinrich Technical Project Management Ruhrtriennale: Helmut Schandl, Technical Ruhrtriennale: Ralf Mittag, Adam Petrenko, Len Pichler, Marcel Reidock, Costume Ruhrtriennale: Asena Yesim Lappas