We are one step away from celebrating ten years of the Festival, and that is no small feat. With the approximation of the first decade’s ephemeris, we built up the program for this ninth edition with a clear emphasis on the repertoire and the rewriting of a variety of shows that were performed in previous editions, as well as in other contexts of the national programming. An exercise that is shared by a number of artists who have dedicated themselves to rewriting their works, and who are now revisiting us with the result of these reflection processes. This is the case of the English company Gandini Juggling, which brings us a public space version of its acclaimed show Smashed, or the show Solos a 180º, by the company Radar 360º, whose motto for this new creation is the scenographic structure of a previous show. Also, the Belgian En Chantier(S), which performs with TRUEL DESTIN! A sweat of hope…, a renewed version of a show presented in our first edition in 2014.

Aware of geopolitical and social tensions, accentuated by the great challenge presented by the climate crisis, we turn to dramaturgies based on the great challenges presented to us by the state of the world. Runa – by Catalan artist of Syrian descent, Amer Kabbani, explores the contradictions of the privileged bubble in Europe. As a racialized European, he is part of this world, but as a Syrian, he belongs to this other part of the world that is constantly in war. On the other hand, the company, Circus Katoen, brings us Grasshoppers, a piece that focuses on the resilience and vulnerability of nature and the role that we, as humans, play in it.

These are just a few examples of what can be seen over four days, in four cities simultaneously, in a vast artistic diversity made up of shows, training workshops, and a parallel program dedicated to artists, students and national and international cultural agents. In this ninth edition, we think about the repertoire and observe the world from that democratic and plural space that is the public space. A space to wage fights and defend utopias.

Bruno Martins and Cláudia Berkeley
Artistic Direction and Programming

Credits

Artistic Direction & Programming: Bruno Martins & Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction: Marta Lima & Raquel Passos
Technical Direction: Valter Alves
Graphic Design: Joana Cruz
Vídeo: Eduardo Breda
Photography: Susana Chicó
Press: Central de Informação
Organization: Teatro da Didascália
Co-production: Teatro da Didascália, Município de Barcelos, Município de Braga, Município de Guimarães e Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

To freely inhabit the public space is a right acquired over time within democratic societies, and which, particularly in Europe, was taken for granted. The shock that the pandemic crisis brought to the free movement of people between countries, and the various periods of mandatory but necessary confinement to contain the spread of the virus, alert us to the privilege that we all have a responsibility to maintain and care for: free thought in public space, whether artistic or political? if it is possible to dissociate them.

The recent war in Europe deepens the discussion. In Ukraine, women and children are fleeing in haste to seek shelter in other countries, men, forced to stay and face the invader. The streets are no longer a safe place to circulate and are now the stage for constant bombings and hand-to-hand confrontations in a war as absurd as any other. In Russia, anti-war protesters are arrested for speaking out against the government’s narrative. The same country that ten years ago (2012), arrested, tried, and sent to a prison in Siberia a feminist punk rock collective – Pussy Riot – for singing in the street. We repeat: for singing in the street.

This is not, by the way, as we know, a reality exclusive to the current war in Europe. Freedom of movement in the public space is forbidden every day to people all over the world, be it due to war, to authoritarian policies of oppressive regimes, or to the insecurity that turns the streets into a place that is not recommended.

For all these reasons, thinking about the programming of a festival in a public space takes on an added responsibility. The privilege of being able to freely coexist in the streets and thus share ideas and collectively imagine social, political and artistic utopias should make us think about the practices and discourses to be taken into account when we think about the programming of our cities, and, in this particular case, a festival that has the public space as its privileged stage. It was from this principle of great responsibility that we developed a program that this year emphasizes wandering, through artistic works that will make the audience wander through the urban perimeter of the cities, but also, between them, through paths, shortcuts and alleys that connect the cities of Barcelos, Braga, Famalicão and Guimarães. The French company Collectif Protocole, through its project, Kilometer 97,1, will set out on a four-day performance journey, connecting the territories in a long performance that will take place simultaneously in the urban space of the cities, but also on the paths that connect them with a series of interventions throughout the day, calling for the unusual encounter of this collective of French jugglers with the passers-by of the cities, towns and villages of the four municipalities that host the Festival.

Alongside this great drift, we have summoned for this eighth edition of Vaudeville Rendez-Vous, the absurd comedy of clowns. These characters who humorously comment on our daily lives and make us laugh at our own tragedy, observing the world with a biting irony, putting our social organization and power relations into perspective. This is the case with the show MDR – mort de riure, by the Catalan company Los Galindos, where three clowns face an unexpected conflict: a spectator died laughing in the previous session. It will be necessary to find out the responsibility and the clown guilty for this crime. A show that questions the arbitrariness of justice, through an intelligent and caustic humor.

In this year’s edition we continue the Festival’s commitment to support creation, fundamental to the progressive structuring and sustainability of circus in Portugal, to which Vaudeville Rendez-Vous has strongly contributed since its inception. We co-produced the creations of the artists Alan Sencades, with his Do ferro à ferrugem; and the most recent creation of the Oliveira&Bachtler company – Cir-k. Also of note among the national productions are Silêncio do Corpo, by the company Erva Daninha and directed by João Paulo Santos; the show Vinil by the company Quando sais à rua, and the new creation of Portuguese clown Rui Paixão – Kinski.

Over four days we will have a total of 29 performances of the 11 scheduled shows, of which – 5 are national premieres and 2 co-productions. As in the previous edition, the Festival will start with four creative workshops aimed at specific audiences in each city and will extend throughout the program, with a conference for students, professionals, or simply curious about the performing arts, led by Los Galindos, about their creative process.
This will be an edition to return to inhabit and create freely in the public space. To be surprised by the different look that others have of the territory we daily inhabit. Let’s also deconfine the look.

Bruno Martins and Cláudia Berkeley
direction and programming of
International Festival Vaudeville Rendez-Vous

Creative Team
Artistic Direction Bruno Martins
Programming & Direction Bruno Martins e Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction Eduardo Maltez e Marta Lima
Technical Direction Valter Alves
Mediation program Vera Santos
Production Assistant Raquel Passos
Communication Anaïs Proença
Graphic Design Rui Verde
Video Os Fredericos
Photography Susana Chicó
Press Central de Informação
Organization Teatro da Didascália
Co-production Teatro da Didascália, Município de Barcelos, Município de Braga, Município de Guimarães e Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

We are back. It was a long but necessary stop. To make up for the wait, we are back with a program that puts us back to feeling this common space of sharing and meeting with the other, here and now. Socially present, perhaps a little physically distant, but still close enough to once again feel the collective joy of watching live performances.

Four cities, and in each one of them, spaces properly reserved and prepared to receive the public safely. The festival continues to take place outdoors, but this time tickets will be needed to control the entrance and the capacity will be considerably reduced. The good news is that entry remains free. The other good news is that the festival maintained it’s usual boldness – over four days of intense programming, we will have 28 performances of the 13 scheduled shows, of which 5 national premieres and 2 absolute premieres. As it is the year of reactivate contact with the Festival’s audiences, we have muscled up the mediation activities that include 4 creative workshops aimed at all audiences, 2 masterclasses for arts professionals, 1 workshop for jugglers and skaters, and 1 pitching session between creators and programmers.

This will also be the edition to publicly present an European cooperation project that we have been developing over the past two years – CircusLink. It is in this scope that we will host the absolut premiere of the show Váld, by the Swedish company Right Way Down, and it is also from this project that we will tour internationally the show Otus, by the Portuguese company Oliveira&Bachtler.

Artistic Direction
Bruno Martins
Programming & Direction
Bruno Martins, Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction
Eduardo Maltez
Technical Direction
Valter Alves
Mediation Activities Coordination
Vera Santos
Production Assistant
Raquel Passos
Graphic Design
Rui Verde
Video
Os Fredericos
Photography
Susana Chicó
Communication
Anaïs Proença
Press
Central de Informação;
Organization
Teatro da Didascália;
Co-production
Município de Barcelos
Município de Braga
Município de Guimarães
Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

7th Edtion of Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival | POSTPONED

Given the undeniable uncertainty regarding the current and coming months’ situation, caused by the coronavirus outbreak, Teatro da Didascália, together with the co-producing municipalities of the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival – Barcelos, Braga, Famalicão and Guimarães and Quadrilátero Association, is forced to postpone the festival’s 7th edition, initially scheduled for this year’s 22nd to 25th of July.
This year, for everyone’s safety, our meeting point has been barred. The public space where we intervene and that every year encourages us to look for new ways to subvert it, needs to be secluded for a while, to enter its fallow period. We shall let it rest and prepare the future ground where we can sow the seeds for the challenging times ahead.
Teatro da Didascália, together with companies and artists scheduled for 2020, will do everything to reschedule their performances in 2021. In the coming months, along with our partners, we will continue to prepare the 7th edition of the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival, which will take place between the 21st and 24th of July 2021. For now you will not find us outside, but we will be here, just a click away.

Artistic Direction
Bruno Martins
Programme and Direction
Bruno Martins e Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction
Marta Lima
Technical Direction
Valter Alves
zOOM: Ver Melhor Coordination ​
Vera Santos
Production Assistent
Raquel Passos
Graphic Design
Rui Verde
Press
Sara Rosa Oliveira
Organization
Teatro da Didascália
Co-production
Município de Barcelos
Município de Braga
Município de Guimarães
Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

For the sixth edition, the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival transforms a triangle into a quadrilateral. It is not illusionism nor a trick of juggling. It is the result of a deep work that the Teatro da Didascália has developed over the last years with the cities of Braga, Famalicão and Guimarães, which now joins the city of Barcelos, putting this great urban network of the region of Minho to think of together in the contemporary circus. It is a Festival that is set in a region made up of cities with such distinct cultural routes, that embraces this diversity and puts it to speak with a single voice when we speak of circus. It is a festival that takes place in a regional context so rich artistically, through its agents, equipment, heritage and cultural events, which can be affirmed as the second cultural center of the country just after the capital. It is a Festival that, due to the privileged context in which it is inscribed, can not be alien to the construction of an artistic program that lives up to the high standards of excellence established in an increasingly cosmopolitan region. The program we are presenting this year translates all this and more into an agenda full of proposals that reflect the freshness of the best of what ́s being produced nationally and internationally at the contemporary circus level.
Over four days of intense programming simultaneously in the four cities, there will be plenty to see, hear and experience in more than 40 public activities – 28 performances of the 13 programmed shows, including 3 world premieres and 6 national premieres, and a series of parallel activities consisting of 3 training workshops for the general public, 1 creation laboratory for contemporary circus dedicated exclusively for students and professionals of the performing arts, 1 showcase for national and international programmers and 1 debate on artistic cooperation networks.
This year’s edition stands out for its diversity. A program rich in latitudes and a renewed approach brought to the contemporary circus promoted by these different geographies. We first received the Australian acrobats from the Company Gravity & Other Myths, which opens the Festival with the show A Simple Space, and the Sigma show of the English Company Gandini Juggling, which brings us a piece of juggling performed by jugglers of English and Indian origin, in a cultural mix that crosses the traditional Indian dances with juggling and confirms the idea that Brexit is nothing more than a great misunderstanding.
After last year’s edition, we attributed our first Creative Scholarship to Elvis Mendes, INAC’s final student, this year the Festival will be hosting its first ever show, a result of its creation grant – Fábrica da Mentira.
Attending to the increasing presence of professionals who travel to the region during the Festival, we invite the circus director Roberto Magro to lead a Creative Circus Laboratory, which for three days will share its experience in a training action directed at artists and students of performative arts.
This year even the “Galo de Barcelos” (Cock of Barcelos) will appear. Join us too in this circus party.

​Bruno Martins ​| Artistic Director Vaudeville Rendez-Vous Internacional Festival
Artistic Direction ​
Bruno Martins
Programming & Direction ​
Bruno Martins e Cláudia Berkeley
Production Directior ​
Marta Lima
Technical Directior ​
Valter Alves
Parallel Activities Coordinatior
​Vera Santos
Production Assistant
Raquel Passos
Graphic Design ​
Rui Verde
Photography & Video ​
Os Fredericos
Press
​Central de Informação
Organization
​Teatro da Didascália
Co-production
​Município de Barcelos
Município de Braga
Município de Guimarães
Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

Five editions is still halfway to a round number. The round numbers have a certain tendency to make us walk in circles: like wanting to move forward with our eyes still looking to the beginning of the path. The round numbers always remind me of a circus arena. But we are still in the middle of this enigmatic place and that’s why these five editions of Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival make us analyze the present with a broader look at the territory and the consequences of a project that has, still, a long way to go.
The region has been witnessing in the last years a strong dynamics related to the Contemporary Circus that, in an unusual national level, gathers a systematic thinking on this language, demonstrated in the regular circus’ programming by its main theaters (Casa das Artes de Vila Nova de Famalicão, Centro Cultural Vila Flor and Theatro Circo) and a privileged context in terms of training, with the creation, in 2017, of a circus specialization course by INAC – National Institute of Circus Arts. In 2018, this same Institute, in partnership with ACE – Contemporary Academy of Performing Arts, developed in Famalicão the first professional circus course in the Northern Region, and the second of its kind in the country. Thus, an important circle of a value chain closes up and places the region at the centre of the Contemporary Circus’ development in Portugal.
Four years after its first edition, the context is more and more stimulating and the Festival’s action increasingly relevant. Teatro da Didascália, together with the co-producing municipalities of the festival – Braga, Guimarães and Vila Nova de Famalicão – are in the middle of this circle. We return to the round numbers. We return to the circus.
Over four days of intense programming, the festival will make 21 presentations of the 10 programmed shows; among them, 3 co-productions in absolute premiere and 4 national premieres.
In this edition, we continue to co-produce the final project of the students of the 1st year of the circus specialization course of INAC, the show “Esboço para Paraísos (Sketch for Paradises)”, maintaining the strong partnership the Festival has been building with this training organization. Also noteworthy are the co-productions with Oliveira & Bachtler with its show “Kadok”, and the co-production with Radar 360º, which premieres in the Festival the third act of “Arquétipo (Archetype)”.
Training and awareness-raising activities
In order to turn the cities upside down, for three days the Festival community will be able to take in an initiatory journey through the three essential pillars of the circus – juggling, balance and aerial acrobatics – through the various workshops that will take place in the three cities, opening these languages ​​for curious people of all ages.
Focusing on the new artists that are beginning to emerge in the national context and looking at those that are starting their career due to a favorable conjuncture in the regional context with the creation of the mentioned circus’ training courses, we propose a debate on the theme “What to do with this new wave?”, as a starting point for a reflection that is urgent between emerging creators and labour market.
Internationalization
Continuing with the work of internationalization of the Festival started in its previous editions, we will have four international programming institutions linked to the Contemporary Circus programming. This will allow a privileged networking opportunity between international programmers and national artists showed at the Festival. So, the 3rd edition of the “Showcase” will enable artists to promote their projects more closely and informally amongst the invited programmers: Thomas Renaud – Maison des Jonglages (France), Steven De Jonge – Miramiro Festival (Belgium), Alfred Konijnenbelt – Spoffin Festival (Holland) and Isabel Joly – FEDEC – European Federation of Professional Circus Schools (France).
There is so much to see, discuss and experience. Shows that occupy the streets and confront the heritage of the three cities: museums, galleries and monuments that, through the parallel programme – “Visit as Well” – open its doors to the Festival audiences.
In July, there is a Festival that revolutionizes the daily life of cities.

Artistic Direction
Bruno Martins
Programming & Direction
Bruno Martins e Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction
Jonathan da Costa
Technical Direction
Valter Alves
Parallel Activities Coordination
Patrícia Amaral
Production Assistants
Joana Mont’Alverne, Mariana Dixe
Technical Assistant
Cárin Geada
Technical Team
Eduardo Pousa, Hélio Pereira, Igor Pittella, João Abreu, João Teixeira, Miguel Dias
Graphic Design
Rui Verde
Photography & Video
Os Fredericos
Press
Central de Informação
Organization
Teatro da Didascália
Co-production
Município de Braga, Município de Guimarães, Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

The Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival is now in its 4th edition with a rich and vibrant artistic programme, organised by Teatro da Didascália, which is putting the cities of Braga, Guimarães and Vila Nova de Famalicão in the centre of the development of, and reflection on, the contemporary circus.
This festival is the biggest and most influential contemporary circus festival in the North region, and it welcomes, for four consecutive days, 21 presentations of the ten programmed shows, among which are two co-productions in absolut premiere and six national premières.
This year’s edition presents artistic proposals that point to finding new forms, and reinvent the aesthetic patterns that we usually link to circuses, through hybrid shows, which subvert the traditional apparatus and techniques in an innovative way.
Some of these provocative works come to us by the hand of four laureate projects by one of the most important international platforms for the support and monitoring of emerging artists in the field of contemporary circus – CircusNext. Teatro da Didascália is an associated partner of this international platform, which is co-organised by Centro Cultural Vila Flor.
Under the scope of the work that the Festival has been doing in supporting the development and internationalisation of the contemporary circus in Portugal, we are promoting for the first time a cross-border co-production in partnership with the Italian association Sarabanda, where three Portuguese performers participate under the direction of Boris Vecchio. The show Sentido will be developed in-residence for the Festival, where it will make its world première. It will then tour in Turin and Genoa, Italy.
An additional highlight is the presentation of Demudar, another of the Festival’s co-productions, with the artistic direction of Hugo Oliveira and performed by the first-year students of INAC – Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo (National Institute of Circus Arts). This is the first result of a strong collaboration between the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival and INAC, a training structure in the area of circus arts that has recently been implemented in the North of the country.
Workshops and Awareness Sessions
Alongside the presentations, the festival promotes a series of workshops with the aim of raising the awareness of the local community about the complexity of circus languages. Three workshops will be held, one for each of the three main pillars of circus arts: juggling, balance and aerial acrobatics.
Still under the scope of parallel actions, it is important to highlight the 2nd edition of Cabaret Showcase, a moment that we consider to be essential for the continuity of the work we have been developing in promoting and disseminating national artists, together with Portuguese and international programme makers.
Wanting to raise awareness for the new forms of supporting the contemporary circus, we are holding a debate to look at the panorama of the different support models developed by the five guest institutions of this 4th edition – La Central Del Circ (Barcelona), Biennale Internationale des Arts du Cirque (Marseille), Circus Centrum (Gent), CircusNext (Europe) and Circus City (Bristol).
Inhabit the City
Taking advantage of the rich cultural heritage of the three cities involved, we have challenged the audience to visit the cultural facilities of this territory, through the Visite Também (Also Visit) programme, with several suggestions associated with each presentation.
July is ever more a synonym of circus in the streets and squares of this triangle where, for two editions now, this International Contemporary Circus Festival has been balancing itself.
Come out into the streets and experience your city upside down!

Artistic Direction
Bruno Martins
Programme and Direction
Bruno Martins e Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction
Mariana Vitale
Technical Direction
Valter Alves
Graphic Design
Rui Verde
Photography and Video
Os Fredericos
Translation
Susana Ferreira
Press
Central de Informação
Organization
Teatro da Didascália
Co-production
Município de Braga
Município de Guimarães
Município de Vila Nova de Famalicão

The 3rd edition of the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival presents this year with redoubled force, we can even say triplicated. The number 3 wins a special importance in this 3rd edition of the festival. The number 3, famous for its symbolic character of unity and balance, also symbolizes here the joint effort and strategy of the three cities that host and coproduce along with the Teatro da Didascália, this 3rd edition: Braga, Guimarães, Vila Nova de Famalicão.
This joint campaign is a reflection of a strong cultural commitment, in a concerned territory that wants to add to their vast historical and cultural heritage a programming thought for the public space, able to differentiate itself for its specificity and artistic quality, following what is the emergence of a new and increasingly vibrant and promising national production in the field of street arts and contemporary circus.
In this 3rd edition, the Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival presents itself as the largest and most important street arts and contemporary circus festival in the northern region of the country, hosting some of the most representative projects of national and international scene over 9 consecutive days, a total of 18 performances of 12 shows, including 2 co-productions in absolut première and 6 national premieres.
Note that the festival will also schedule some of the national artists, emerging and consolidated, more relevant in these areas, continuing the work that has been developing in an appreciation of national creation in the areas of contemporary circus, physical theater and transdisciplinary ways.

To live and dialogue with the city
Beyond a programm with nightly shows, we will make an appeal to the public so that it will came to live and think the city in the late afternoon, where we will present a series of spectacles which are directed to all audiences. The shows scheduled in these areas intend to project in the audience, new perspectives on the urban landscape of the cities and the relationship between its cultural and architectural heritage with contemporary performing arts. Parallel to the presentation of performances, the festival program also invites the public to visit and experience the museums and other cultural equipment of the 3 cities, knowing the vast heritage of this territory.

Training and Parellel Actions
In order to improve the critical sense of the public and to establish a common vocabulary between the artists and the surrounding community, the festival promotes a series of workshops by creators programmed in the festival. We believe that the promotion of these workshops is crucial to a better understanding of the complexity of performing arts related to the public space, contributing simultaneously for a process of growth and improvement of artistic excellence, able to meet the expectations of an audience which is each time more demanding.
Taking advantage of the unique opportunity that the festival offers of sharing and cross between the different creators and programmers present at the festival, we will organise a set of parallel actions such as debates, showcases and round tables, which aim to contribute to the reflection and enrichment of the discourse linked to the languages of circus and street arts. These meetings prove to be of enormous importance for artists, constituting a privileged space in sharing of frustrations, desires and ideas, helping to redefine common strategies for the future.
The circus came to town(s)!

Artistic Direction
Bruno Martins
Programme and General Direction
Bruno Martins, Cláudia Berkeley
Production Direction
Ludmila Teixeira
Technical Direction
Valter Alves
Communication Design
Video and Photography
Visual Kitchen
Press
Central de Informação
Organization
Teatro da Didascália
Co-production
Braga City Council;
Guimarães City Council;
Vila Nova de Famalicão City Council;
Acknowledgements
A Oficina / CCVF; Álvaro Santos; Boris Vecchio;
Bruno Carvalho; Cia Radar 360; Claudia Leite; Daniel Lima;
Edgar Ferreira; Fernando Oliveira Viana; Francisco Jorge;
Frederico Queiroz; Giacomo Scalisi; Isabel Pinho; Isaura Costa;
Jorge Rui Martins; José Agostinho; José Bastos; Junior Perim;
Luísa Moreira; Lídia Dias; Nelson Pereira; Paula Garcia; Paulo Brandão;
Ricardo Carneiro; Rui Torrinha; Sílvia Faria e Vinicius Daumas

The Vaudeville Rendez-Vous International Festival invades the urban centre of Vila Nova de Famalicão again with theatre and circus shows, workshops, exhibitions, concerts and cinema sessions with breakfast, in an intense weekend with a programme for all audiences.
The festival starts with the première in Portugal of the Spanish circus company Atempo Circ, continuing all through the weekend with shows from the Nuvem Voadora, Peripécia Teatro, Rei Sem Roupa companies and with the première of the vertical dance show from UMPOR1 company.
The programme includes, as in the previous year and aiming to keep an increasingly deeper relationship with the city’s artistic institutions, exhibitions, concerts and cinema sessions, developed in collaboration with institutions like Casa Ao Lado – School of Plastic Arts, Arteduca – V. N. de Famalicão Conservatory of Music, and Joane Cineclube.
The festival’s programme, completing its second edition this year, focuses on the physical theatre and circus languages. With a programme taking place mainly in the urban area of V. N. de Famalicão, it looks for a dialogue between arts and the public space, helping to think and change the way we sense the everyday urban life.
It is often essential to put ourselves “upside down” to better understand life and the world. The “world is upside down”! Who better than a trapeze artist or a clown to help us understand that world?

Artistic Direction: Bruno Martins
Programme and production: Bruno Martins and Cláudia Berkeley
Support for production: António Alves Vieira
Technical team: Valter Alves (direction); Nuno Tomás; Filipe Cardu
Graphic design: Beatsly Beast
Photography and video: Mário Macedo and Indian Productions
Acknowledgements:
Nelson Pereira; Ricardo Carneiro; Edgar Ferreira; João Teixeira; Luísa Moreira; Maria de Lurdes Martins; Fundação Cupertino de Miranda; António Gonçalves; Peripécia Teatro

Vaudeville Rendez-Vous is an international festival of performing arts with unique characteristics, solely dedicated to the universe of physical theatre, circus and cabaret.
The festival, organised by Teatro da Didascália together with the municipality of V. N. de Famalicão, is going to invade the city with different types of shows, including theatre, circus and cabaret shows, concerts, cinema sessions with breakfast, exhibitions, talks and workshops.
The festival aims to establish itself in the national scene for its specific programme, helping to project these expressions in the performing arts field in Portugal.
As such, we were careful to schedule a few of the most important national creators in these fields, as it is the case of Companhia do Chapitô, Peripécia Teatro, ESTE, Radar 360, Circolando, among others…
The goal is to stimulate the local artistic creation and the inclusion of the various artistic teaching establishments in the municipality. From theatre to music, through cinema and plastic arts, synergies have been created to embrace this critical mass, challenging the community to develop projects specifically made for the festival.
These actions aim to hold the local population and young artists accountable for organising and improving the event, making it a cultural manifestation thought to be eminently popular and participative.
On the other hand, integrating the festival in an urban context will allow promoting the city’s architectural heritage, allowing benefiting from art in free access public spaces, seeking to maintain a direct correlation between the show and the space where it takes place.
You are all invited to embark on this adventure and transform the city of Famalicão in a huge open-air stage, but the entrance is not free, you will have to applaud as a payment!