works

2020
A solo performance project devised, written and performed by Marianne Tuckman
produced by João Maio
sound design by Marcelo Schmittner
mentored by Prof. David Britton (Swansea University) and Cristina Mackerron
A woman's home has mysteriously become very dirty. Filthy in fact. Terrified, she calls her cleaner, a punk about to be evicted, to come round and help, but despite all their efforts, the house just gets dirtier and dirtier...

2020
Concept/artistic direction/choreography: Jo Parkes
Choreographic collaboration: Viviana Defazio, Kaveh Ghaemi
Music/sound design: Marcelo Schmittner
By and with: Aymara von Borries, Viviana Defazio, Toby Foerster, Ziv Frenkel,
Kaveh Ghaemi, Hannah Pirot, Marcelo Schmittner, Maria Wollny
Setting and costumes: Nora Jentzsch
Production management: Imma Scarpato
Dramaturgical support: Gabi dan Droste
Supported by the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa as part of the series KIPPPUNKTE
FELD THEATER FÜR JUNGES PUBLIKUM in partnership with MOBILE DANCE

2020-2021
Creation and Performance: Telmo Branco
Artistic Assistant: Rachael Mauney
Videography and Photography: Rachael Mauney and Telmo Branco
Sound Design: Marcelo Schmittner and Telmo Branco
Premier: 26th March 2021, AckerStadt Palast, Berlin.
With the collaboration and support of: Lake Studios and SCOPE BLN, Berlin.

"The Tradition" is a performance piece that fuses the disciplines of theater, dance, soundscape, and film/documentary to explore the aftermath of systematic oppression.
Oppression has been a systematic endeavour carried out through generational lineages. It has been inflicted, recreated, normalized, and internalized, throughout the curve of time, throughout my curve of time. "The Tradition" will bring into evidence the emotional and psychological consequences of this internalized oppression.
"The Tradition" deconstructs and juxtaposes personal and historical facts, in order to address the individual and collective implications of oppressive social and political systems and their roots. It addresses how the oppressive practices of my hometown have affected me as a cis-gender homosexual male, and relates this practices with the current cultural affairs of other European countries.
"The Tradition" will interpolate film/documentary excerpts recorded in Elvas. This community serves as the empirical example of how history and its adjacent wounds are transmitted and remembered.

2021
Bath Mindfulness Trail is a week-long event in January aimed to provide a day for people to spend alone with themselves, their thoughts and feelings, and activate their senses through simple mindfulness exercises.
To take part people will need to register for a free ticket, receive an online map, pick a trail and bring along their smartphones with access to data and a set of headphones. There will be 3 trails available altogether with 5 stopping points for each trail. At each point there will be a QR code that will lead to a link for the audio guided mindfulness exercise dedicated to a specific sense. In addition trail takers will have an opportunity to enjoy a specially designed soundscape to accompany the walk.
There is no limit of age and abilities, and no previous experience in mindfulness is needed. The trail takers can choose to take one or all three of the trails one or more times. Once registered, the participants will have access to the map of locations throughout the week.

2017
Fluídos Sudakas es un esfuerzo co-creado. El resultado de un taller llevado a cabo en Berlín, dirigido a Sudakas y personas no-occidentales para conversar y co-crear una peli porno bajo los términos de les participantes. Personas con y sin experiencia se reunieron y contribuyeron delante y detrás de cámara, donde la dinámica de taller facilitó acciones de auto-conocimiento sexual, agencia y control total sobre cómo les protagonistas se mostraron frente a la cámara, en tanto a su condición de criaturas sexuales. El corto también muestra la ira y frustraciones sobre vivir en Europa a través de acciones de auto-cuidado colectivo elevado a táctica de auto-defensa.

2021
Direction & Choreography João Cidade Co-creation & Performance Marie Hanna Klemm and Sofia Sarmento Lighting Design Emese Csornai Music Marcelo Andres Schmittner Assistance Manon Santi
In co-production with Ehemaliges Stummfilmkino Delphi Berlin
Supported by Tanzzentrale der Region Nürnberg e.V. (DE), Acker Stadt Palast (DE), De Figuranten (BE).

Struggling to cope with the fast pace of climate change, two mammals open a dialogue in hopes to save the world.
There is unequivocal scientific evidence that the problem is real - climate change is not a hoax. And given the speed at which it is expanding, the metaphorical idiom ‘the elephant in the room’ seems to lose accuracy when addressing this issue. Perhaps using the biggest animal that ever lived on the planet will make more sense, becoming then The Whale in the Room.
Trying to reach harmony in what could be a last song, the two performers enter a colossal mayhem that takes place above as well as underwater.

2017-2018-2019
Direction & Choreography João Cidade Co-creation & Performance Marcelo Andres Schmittner, Isabella Daffara, Erik Elizondo, Marie Hanna Klemm, Rodolfo Piazza Pfitscher da Silva, Telmo Queimado Branco, Sofia Sarmento and Marianne Tuckman Music Marcelo Andres Schmittner Lighting Design Elliot Bursch and Emese Csornai Production Assistance Manon Santi
In co-production with Acker Stadt Palast (DE)
Supported by Theaterhaus Berlin Mitte, Lake Studios Berlin, Zawirowania Dance Theatre (PL), City of Warsaw

While the Others Go Wild is a compilation of several attempts to achieve something together, something greater. The choreographer’s as well as the performers’ perspectives on the term collaboration are turned into isolated ideas which are then, under Cidade’s directions, orchestrated by the performers themselves.