Nuno Lucas

[Portugal​]

I Could Write a Song

© Esther Quade

"We speak nothing more than about ourselves". This is the phrase of the French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan who has undoubtedly influenced this monologue of choreographer and performer Nuno Lucas.
This time he is alone on stage. But he summons characters that haunted and haunt him still, evoking them to the present. His grandmother, his parents, girlfriends, friends, co-workers, mates, strangers are all part of the universe of this Portuguese immigrant living in Paris. These are not just recitations of memories or personal facts but a poetic and playful plunge into the inner space of our emotions.
All of these experiences are converted into a semantic field of words creating a rhythm that might seem like a song ("I Could Write a Song"). A score of words that are a call to the interiority of each spectator. Nuno Lucas departs from simple situations, sometimes anecdotes, that cannot help but make the public revisit their own stories. In an attempt to create bonds of intimacy and closeness to something unknown to us.

Nuno Lucas

Born in Portugal, 1980. Currently lives between Paris, Lisbon and Seoul. Works as a choreographer, performer and teacher. Lucas began to show a comedic talent at the age of five, then proceeded to study at the conservatory of music (guitar and voice). He made his debut as a performer with the choreographer Miguel Pereira at the D. Maria II National Theater in 2001. In 2003 he was invited by João Fiadeiro to make his first choreographic sketches at LAB10. He got his degree in Economics from Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2004. By himself he then conceived "I Could Write a Song" (2015 - Théâtre de Vanves, France). And in collaboration: “Pongo Land” with Hermann Heisig (2008 - Théâtre L'usine, Switzerland) and “What comes up, must go up” (2009 - Tanz im August Festival, Germany); with Marcia Launches "Trompe le Monde" (2010 - Culturgest) and "Por Esse Mundo Fora" (2016 - Maria Matos Theater); with Pieter Ampe, Gui Garrido & Hermann Heisig "a coming community" (2012 - Kunstenfestivaldesarts). He presented his work in Portugal, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Estonia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Romania, Spain, Czech Republic, Argentina and South Korea. As an interpreter highlights his work with: Miguel Pereira, Joris Lacoste, Rita Natálio, Ivana Müller and Mala Voadora. Essential in his shaping were the courses of Research and Choreographic Creation in Forum Dança and ex.e.r.ce at CCN.Montpellier, under the direction of Mathilde Monnier and Xavier le Roy, where he received a grant through the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He regularly teaches composition/performance in a number of countries, for both adults and children.