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. 

Choreography Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Choreography assistance Francisco Rolo
With Ben Green, Henri “Cookie” Lesguillier, Joãozinho da Costa, Mariana Tembe, Marie Albert, Miguel Filipe, Rui Paixão, Tomás Moital
Set design Yannick Fouassier, Marlene Monteiro Freitas
Lights and technical direction Yannick Fouassier
Costumes Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Marisa Escaleira 
Sound Rui Antunes
Stage management Ana Luísa Novais
Special stage prop Cláudio Silva
Set design internship Emma Ait-Kaci
Artistic consultancy João Figueira, Martin Valdés-Stauber
Production P.OR.K
Diffusion Key Performance

Coproducers Festival d’Avignon (Avignon, FR); Berliner Festspiele (Berlin, DE); International Summer Festival Kampnagel (Hamburg, DE); Culturgest - Lisboa (Lisbon, PT); MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble - Scène nationale (Grenoble, FR); Le Quartz - Scène Nationale de Brest (Brest, FR); La Comédie de Clermont- Ferrand scène nationale (Clermont-Ferrand, FR); Maison de la danse, Lyon – Pôle européen de creation (Lyon, FR); La Villette - Paris (Paris, FR); La Comédie de Genève & La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Geneva, CH); Onassis STEGI (Athens, GR); Teatro Municipal do Porto (Porto, PT); Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE); PACT Zollverein (Essen, DE).
Residencies support O Espaço do Tempo; Alkantara; OPART, E.P.E./ESTÚDIOS VICTOR CÓRDON; Onassis AiR; MC2: Maison de la Culture de Grenoble - Scène nationale; International Summer Festival Kampnagel
Institutional support Dançando com a Diferença
With the support of Fondation d'entreprise Hermès, Ammodo Art
This project is supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation – Delegation in France, which co-funded it as part of the GULBENKIAN EXHIBITIONS program aimed at supporting the Portuguese art scene within French artistic institutions.
Acknowledgements Carlos Duarte, Atelier MC2 Grenoble
The dramaturgical research of NÔT was supported by Onassis AiR in 2025
Captation with France Télévisions