NÔT

Once betrayed, the sultan swears to have every new wife executed the following morning. To stop the cycle, Scheherazade marries him and tells a story every night, always leaving its ending unfinished by morning to postpone her fate. In One Thousand and One Nights, a masterpiece of Arabic literature, Marlene Monteiro Freitas sees an act of survival. Rooted in oral tradition, these tales retain the energy of stories that constantly circulate and are always reinvented. The Cape Verdean choreographer translates this flow of words – interwoven, contradictory, unceasing – into movement, turning the stage into a space where vice and virtue, the great and the small, and desire and its shadow all collide. In the Cour d’honneur of the Palais des Papes, NÔT adds one more night to infinity. 

 ترى مارلين مونتيرو فريتاس في قصص شهرزاد ذوات النهاية المتأخرة، امتحان بقاء. مترجمةً دفق الكلام بالحركات، تضيف مصممة الرقصات ليلةً إلى اللانهاية. 

With Marie Albert, Joãozinho da Costa, Miguel Filipe, Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Tomás Moital, Rui Paixão, Mariana Tembe
Choreography Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Choreographic assistant Francisco Rolo
Advisor João Figueira
Set design Yannick Fouassier and Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Lighting Yannick Fouassier
Sound Rui Antunes
Production Janine Lages
Administration, production P.OR.K
Tour management Key Performance

Production P.OR.K
Coproduction Festival d’Avignon, Berliner Festspiele, International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg), Culturgest (Lisbon), MC2 Maison de la Culture de Grenoble Scène nationale, Le Quartz Scène nationale (Brest), La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand Scène nationale, Maison de la danse Lyon Pôle européen de création, Parc de la Villette (Paris), Teatro Municipal do Porto, Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), PACT Zollverein (Essen), Comédie de Genève, La Bâtie de Genève
With the support of Dançando com a Diferença, Hermès Foundation
Residencies O Espaço do Tempo, Alkantara Associação Cultural, Estúdios Vítor Cordon, La FabricA du Festival d’Avignon
Marlene Monteiro Freitas is an Onassis Air Fellow 2025
Captation with France Télévisions