The stage as a place of union, struggle, and utopia. And before anything else, the sound. Music always as a driving force: acting, reacting, resisting, re-existing. To stay in the present and to rehearse the desire for a new world and new ways of coexisting. To accommodate the discomfort, to embrace the risk of failure. To sing, to dance, to dare to communicate in the way that best serves a collective intent for change. To reject discrimination and the persisting social injustices that loom large in the wake of yet another crisis. To rebuild, to restore, to rehumanize.

In a nocturnal time of (im)possibilities, Sílvia Real decided to delve into her memories of her three-decade-long artistic repertoire, a universe saturated with eclectic musical references, outstanding female characters, and ghostly costumes. An intimate dive from which words and songs emerged with renewed brilliance, which, having once been familiar, are now appropriated by a band in (de)construction to give voice to what is mostly needed to be set in motion: empathy, cooperation, a living idea of ​​revolution.

Such is Concert No. 1 for Laura, a wake-up call and a plea to action, for which Sílvia Real summoned her long-time accomplices, the choreographer Francisco Camacho, the musician Sofia Sequeira, the researcher Simone Longo de Andrade, the dancer and co-creator Beatriz Valentim and the dancer and co-creator Magnum Soares.

This show is dedicated to the memory of musician Pedro Gonçalves (1970–2021)