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Clamor reimagines the cultural and sonic legacy of bells, merging traditional manual ringing with contemporary movement and percussion. By intertwining heritage with experimentation, its aim is to create evocative and environmentally sensitive performances that connect with memory and rituals, inviting the audience to reflect on the impact and power of ringing, both on a sensory, sonic and symbolic level.

Winner of the 2024 Young Artist Award – Circus Arts from Coliseu Porto Ageas, Margarida has collaborated with leading contemporary circus and performance creators and companies. Her artistic practice maintains a constant dialogue with a transdisciplinary approach, exploring states of intimacy, strength and vulnerability.

Clamor is an interdisciplinary creative project that intertwines the traditional art of manual bell ringing with contemporary practices rooted in percussion, movement, and vertical string. By merging bell ringing with circus techniques, the project constructs a performative device, similar to an installation, that reimagines the historical and cultural significance of bells, not as exclusively sacred objects, but as elements with a broader cultural resonance and as witnesses to collective memory.

Margarida Montenÿ is a Portuguese artist whose practice develops at the intersection between movement, perception and identity. Rooted in aerial performance, her work explores intimacy, weight and resonance, creating performances that blur the boundaries between body, object and environment, operating in a fluid space between the public and the private.

Guided by a sensory and research-based approach, Margarida creates immersive atmospheres that invite the audience into spaces of presence and connection. Among her works are ‘BLUE’ (2023), a performance between affection and friction that challenges the concept of solo; and ‘Simulacro’ (2022), in collaboration with Carminda Soares, a performance that explores intimacy between queer bodies.