Based on MAURICE ACCOMPAGNÉ, the first part of a trilogy by Paulo Ribeiro that spans different eras and composers, the piece MAURICE ACCOMPAGNÉ - MIROIRS isolates a musical passage by Maurice Ravel and brings it to life, evoking the early 20th century in which it was set. Music is always a breath of time, of the constraints and hopes of the years that were lived then.
The Paulo Ribeiro Company is one of the main Portuguese contemporary dance companies, with national and international artistic recognition. Founded in 1995 by Paulo Ribeiro, one of the main faces of the transformative New Portuguese Dance movement, it emerged following several years of work with some of the most prestigious European companies and to give space to his artistic voice. Over the past thirty years, the company's diverse work has been a regular presence in the main national performance venues, as well as throughout Europe, Brazil and the United States of America.
A trajectory that includes around 40 productions and whose contemporary language has been recognised with some of the most important national and international awards in the field of dance.
Between 1998 and 2022, the Company was based at the Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, whose project it created and implemented and which Paulo Ribeiro directed for almost twenty years. At the same time, the company has been responsible for an important training and production project for educational activities for school audiences in the field of dance. In January 2023, the structure will be based in Cascais, to continue its mission of research, artistic creation and circulation of shows, as well as training and programming with links to the local community and its institutions.