Postponed Performance Of Tiago Rodrigues's BY HEART Will Take Place in October

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously announced performance dates for Tiago Rodrigues's By Heart are postponed to October 12-October 17, 2021.

Presented by BAM, By Heart is a hymn to the power of poetry, memory, and freedom by the Portuguese artist Tiago Rodrigues, newly appointed director of the renowned Avignon Festival. In this performance, Rodrigues invites 10 audience members to join him in a deeply personal poetic experiment. What appears as a relatively simple task-memorizing a poem-quickly unfolds into something more expansive, as improbable connections emerge between Boris Pasternak, Ray Bradbury, and a cook from the north of Portugal. With curiosity and wit, Rodrigues guides us on a moving journey to illuminate the places forbidden texts have found in our minds and hearts throughout history, as safeguards of humanity no tyrant or government can eradicate.

Tiago Rodrigues is the artistic director of Teatro Nacional D. Maria II in Lisbon. He is an actor, playwright, and director whose subversive and poetic theatre has made him one of Portugal's leading artists. After working with the Belgian company tg STAN, in 2003 he created, with Magda Bizarro, the company Mundo Perfeito. The company's work has been produced by renowned festivals such as Festival d'Automne à Paris, METEOR Festival in Norway, Theaterformen in Germany, Festival TransAmériques in Canada, and kunstenfestivalsdesarts in Belgium. Rodrigues has collaborated with artists from Belgium, Lebanon, the Netherlands and Brazil, teaching for Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's contemporary dance school PARTS, Brussels, and curating community art projects. In 2018, he was awarded the XV Europe Prize Theatrical Realities. Deeply rooted in a collaborative theater tradition, his recent works manipulate documents with theatrical tools, challenging our perception of social or historical phenomena. He was awarded the Prémio Pessoa in 2020, one of the most prestigious Portuguese awards for Arts and Science. Rodrigues will serve as director of the Avignon Festival presenting his first season in July 2023.